公开(公告)号：US3911422A

公开(公告)日：1975-10-07

申请号：US44759574

申请日：1974-03-04

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： MCDOWELL ALLEN W ,  LAY FRANK M

IPC: G09G3/29 ,  H01J17/49 ,  G06F3/14

CPC classification number: H01J17/495 ,  G09G3/28 ,  G09G5/28

Abstract: A gas panel arrangement for storing, displaying and selectively shifting information from one place therein to another includes an envelope filled with an illuminable gas, a plurality of vertical conductors disposed in parallel on one side of the envelope, a plurality of horizontal conductors disposed in parallel on the opposite side of the envelope with the regions of illuminable gas in the vicinity of the coordinate intersections of the vertical and horizontal conductors defining gas cells, a writing arrangement which inserts binary information in a given portion of the envelope by igniting or not igniting the illuminable gas cells to represent binary ones and zeros, a shifting arrangement which includes a first sequence of signals repetitively supplied to the vertical conductors to shift binary information horizontally, and a sustain mechanism which supplied a second sequence of signals repetitively to given vertical conductors thereby to increase the number of ignited gas cells and accordingly increase the light intensity to render brighter letters, numbers, characters and the like which are illuminated on the face of the display device.

Abstract translation: 用于存储，显示和选择性地将信息从其中一个位置移动到另一个位置的气体面板装置包括填充有可照明气体的信封，在外壳的一侧平行设置的多个垂直导体，并行设置的多个水平导体 在封套的相对侧，具有限定气体单元的垂直和水平导体的坐标交叉点附近的可照明气体区域的写入装置，其通过点燃或不点燃封装在封套的给定部分中插入二进制信息 可照明气体单元，用于表示二进制和零;移位装置，其包括重复提供给垂直导体的第一信号序列以水平移位二进制信息;以及维持机构，其向给定的垂直导体反复提供第二信号序列， 增加点燃的气体细胞数量 相应地增加了光强度，使得在显示装置的表面上照亮的更亮的字母，数字，字符等。

公开(公告)号：US3611134A

公开(公告)日：1971-10-05

申请号：US3611134D

申请日：1969-04-30

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： MCDOWELL ALLEN W

IPC: G04F10/04 ,  G04F10/10 ,  G04F9/00 ,  G04F11/06

CPC classification number: G04F10/105

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring a time interval between first and second pulses includes a counter which counts pulses from a first oscillator which is turned on by the first pulse. When the second pulse occurs a second oscillator operates a second counter to determine the fractional time interval, if any, resulting whenever the second pulse occurs between pulses of the first oscillator. A coincidence detector arrangement determines when the first and second oscillators are in phase. At such time the second oscillator is stopped for a fixed period of time, and then it is connected to a third counter for another vernierizing operation. Successive vernierizing operations may be performed by connecting the second oscillator to successive counters in turn under control of the coincidence detector arrangement.