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US 2011/0057962 A1Published application
Display device
AssigneeVEGA Grieshaber KG
InventorsSiegbert Wöhrle, Daniel Schultheiss, Josef Fehrenbach, Thomas Deck, Michael Fischer
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Abstract
Display device, with a plurality of display elements arranged in the shape of a bar, wherein each display element can represent at least one first display state (off) and one second display state (on), and a value being shown can be indicated by the second display state (on) of at least one display element assigned to the value, so that an intermediate value between the value being displayed and a succeeding or preceding value can be represented by activating the preceding or succeeding display element.
Claims21
A display device, said display device further comprising:
- (a) a plurality of display elements arranged in the shape of a bar, and wherein each one of said plurality of display elements can represent at least one first display state and one second display state;
- and
- (b) a value being shown by said display device can be indicated by said second display state utilizing at least one display element assigned to said value, and an intermediate value between said value being displayed and a succeeding or a preceding value can be represented by activating a corresponding preceding or a corresponding succeeding display element.
A display device, said display device comprising:
- (a) a plurality of display elements arranged in the shape of a bar, wherein each of said plurality of display elements can represent at least one first display state and one second display state;
- and
- (b) a value being shown can be indicated by said second display state of at least one display element assigned to said value, and wherein:
- (i) an intermediate value between said value being displayed and at least one of a succeeding or a preceding value can be represented by activating said preceding or said succeeding display element;
- and
- (ii) a third display state can be represented by said each display element to display a corresponding intermediate value.
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A display device comprising a plurality of display elements arranged in the shape of a bar;
- and, wherein:
- (a) each display element of said plurality of display elements can represent at least one first display state and one second display state;
- (b) a value being displayed by said display device can be indicated by said second display state of at least one display element assigned to said value;
- (c) an intermediate value between the value being displayed, and at least one of a succeeding value or a preceding value, can be represented by activating a corresponding preceding or a corresponding succeeding display element;
- (d) a third display state can be represented by said each display element to display each of said intermediate values;
- and
- (e) said value being displayed can be represented by said second display state of said assigned display element and each of said corresponding preceding display elements, and
- (f) said intermediate value to said corresponding succeeding value can be represented by said second state of said assigned display element and each of said corresponding preceding display elements, as well as said third state of said corresponding succeeding display element.
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A display device comprising a plurality of display elements arranged in the shape of a bar;
- and, wherein:
- (a) each display element can represent at least one first display state and one second display state;
- (b) a value being shown can be indicated by said second display state of at least one display element assigned to said value,
- (c) an intermediate value between said value being displayed and at least one of a corresponding succeeding or a corresponding preceding value can be represented by activating said corresponding preceding or said corresponding succeeding display element;
- and
- (d) said value being displayed can be represented by said second state of said assigned display element and each of said preceding display elements, and said intermediate value to said corresponding succeeding value can be represented by said second state of said assigned display element and each of said preceding display elements, as well as said third state of said corresponding succeeding display element.
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A display device comprising a plurality of display elements arranged in the shape of a bar;
- and, wherein:
- (a) each one of said plurality of display elements can represent at least one first display state and one second display state;
- (b) a value being shown can be indicated by said second display state of at least one display element assigned to said value;
- (c) an intermediate value between the value being displayed and at least one of a corresponding succeeding or a corresponding preceding value can be represented by activating said corresponding preceding or said corresponding succeeding display element;
- and
- (d) said value being displayed can be represented by said second state of said assigned display element, and said intermediate value to said corresponding succeeding value can be represented by said second state of said assigned display element and of said corresponding succeeding display element.
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A display device comprising a plurality of display elements arranged in the shape of a bar;
- and, wherein:
- (a) each display element of said plurality of display elements can represent at least one first display state and one second display state;
- (b) a value being shown by said display can be indicated by said second display state of at least one display element assigned to said value;
- (c) an intermediate value between said value being displayed and at least one of a corresponding succeeding or a corresponding preceding value can be represented by activating said corresponding preceding or said corresponding succeeding display element;
- and, wherein
- (d) said value being displayed can be represented by said second state of said particular display element and said intermediate value to said corresponding succeeding or said corresponding preceding value can be represented by said third state of said corresponding succeeding or said corresponding preceding display element.
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A method of using a display device, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a display device with a plurality of display elements arranged in the shape of a bar, wherein each display element can represent at least one first display state and one second display state;
- (b) displaying a value which can be indicated by the second display state of at least one display element assigned to the value;
- and
- (c) activating at least one of a preceding or a succeeding display element so as to represent an intermediate value between the value being displayed and said succeeding or said preceding value.
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An actuation circuit for a display device, said actuation circuit comprising:
- (a) a plurality of display elements arranged in the shape of a bar, wherein each one of said plurality of display elements can represent at least one first display state and one second display state;
- and
- (b) a value being shown can be indicated by said second display state of at least one display element assigned to said value,
- (c) an intermediate value between said value being displayed and at least one of a corresponding succeeding or a corresponding preceding value can be represented by activating said corresponding preceding or said corresponding succeeding display element;
- and, wherein
- (d) said actuation circuit being configured so that said first state of said display device is actuated by a first current strength, said second state is actuated by a second current strength, and said third state is actuated by a third current strength, while said third current strength lies between said first current strength and said second current strength.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.