Integrated vote by mail processing system
    1.
    发明授权
    Integrated vote by mail processing system 有权
    邮件处理系统综合投票

    公开(公告)号:US08740058B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-06-03

    申请号:US11820787

    申请日:2007-06-20

    IPC分类号: G07C13/00

    CPC分类号: G06K13/02 G07C13/00

    摘要: A modular integrated software and hardware suite can accept data exported from a voter registration database corresponding to requests for mail ballots, sort the data as necessary for ballot preparation, create a road map for ballot mailing preparation, provide for mail presorting, scan returned ballot envelopes using a ballot envelope scanner, and accept data from the scanner. The scanner uses a passive feed system, a separator brush, and a variable speed straight paper path to minimize jamming through the ballot envelope scanner. The scanner can work with a workstation application to interpret a barcode, store an image of the ballot envelope signature in association with a specific voter, print an endorsement on each verified ballot envelope, and store the endorsement with the signature image. The scanner can divert ballot envelopes with unrecognizable or unmatched barcodes to a separate tray for manual processing.

    摘要翻译: 模块化集成软件和硬件套件可以接受从选民登记数据库输出的数据,这些数据库对应于邮件投票请求,根据需要对选票准备进行排序,创建选票邮寄准备的路线图,提供邮件预分配,扫描返回的投票信封 使用投票信封扫描仪,并接受来自扫描仪的数据。 扫描仪使用无源进纸系统,分离器刷和可变速直线纸通道,以最小化通过投票信封扫描仪的卡纸。 扫描仪可以与工作站应用程序一起解释条形码,存储与特定投票者相关联的投票信封签名的图像,在每个经过验证的投票信封上打印背书,并存储签名图像的背书。 扫描仪可以将不可识别或无与伦比的条形码的投票信封转移到单独的托盘进行手动处理。

    Multiple signal audible oscillation generator
    3.
    发明授权
    Multiple signal audible oscillation generator 失效
    多信号可听振荡发生器

    公开(公告)号:US06310540B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-10-30

    申请号:US08768758

    申请日:1996-12-17

    IPC分类号: G08B310

    CPC分类号: G08B3/10

    摘要: A microcontroller is used to drive a piezoelectric transducer. Certain pins on the microcontroller are indicative of selection signals. The selector can be activated either by a user directly (e.g., by pushing buttons), by an offboard actuator (e.g., another microcontroller), or by any method known in the art for activating switches. In one embodiment, an output pin of the microcontroller acts as output for a high-low oscillator. The oscillation amplitude toggles between 0 and 5 volts in a square wave fashion. The output pin is coupled to the base of a bipolar junction transistor so that the transistor turns on and off as a switch in response to the high-low oscillations. As the transistor turns on and off, supply voltage is routed through a network of logic inverters, after first passing through a current limiting impedance means such as a resistor, to the piezoelectric transducer in a manner designed to provide a voltage swing at the transducer on the order of two times the supply voltage for each oscillation. In another embodiment, instead of using a single pin on the microcontroller to alternately forward and reverse bias a single transistor, the microcontroller actuates predetermined pins that are connected to different RC oscillators. The RC oscillators are then connected to the driving circuit. The circuit includes a voltage regulator connected at an input to the supply voltage and at an output to the power supply pin of the microcontroller.

    摘要翻译: 微控制器用于驱动压电换能器。 微控制器上的某些引脚指示选择信号。 选择器可以由用户直接(例如通过按下按钮),通过非标准致动器(例如另一个微控制器)来激活,或者通过本领域已知的用于激活开关的任何方法来激活。 在一个实施例中,微控制器的输出引脚用作高低振荡器的输出。 振荡幅度以方波方式切换在0和5伏特之间。 输出引脚耦合到双极结晶体管的基极,使得晶体管作为响应于高 - 低振荡的开关导通和截止。 当晶体管导通和截止时,在首先通过诸如电阻器的限流阻抗装置之后,电源电压通过逻辑反相器网络被路由到压电换能器,以便在传感器上提供电压摆幅 每次振荡的电源电压的两倍。 在另一个实施例中,微控制器不是使用微控制器上的单个引脚来交替地对单个晶体管进行正向和反向偏置,而是驱动连接到不同RC振荡器的预定引脚。 然后将RC振荡器连接到驱动电路。 该电路包括一个电压调节器,它连接到电源电压的输入端和微控制器的电源引脚的输出端。

    Piezoelectric transducer having directly mounted electrical components
and noise making device utilizing same
    4.
    发明授权
    Piezoelectric transducer having directly mounted electrical components and noise making device utilizing same 失效
    压电换能器具有直接安装的电气部件和利用其的噪声制造装置

    公开(公告)号:US5872506A

    公开(公告)日:1999-02-16

    申请号:US832924

    申请日:1997-04-04

    IPC分类号: B06B1/06 G10K9/122 G08B3/00

    CPC分类号: G10K9/122 B06B1/06

    摘要: The invention is an improved noise-making device using a piezoelectric transducer where electrical circuit components are mounted directly on the transducer itself rather than being mounted on a separate printed circuit board. Directly mounting the components eliminates the need for a separate circuit board and eliminates a third terminal from a three-terminal device. As a result, the entire device requires less material and labor, and is therefore less expensive. The elimination of the circuit board also can contribute to a reduction in size of the noise-making device.

    摘要翻译: 本发明是一种使用压电传感器的改进的噪声制造装置,其中电路部件直接安装在换能器本身上,而不是安装在单独的印刷电路板上。 直接安装组件消除了对单独电路板的需要,并从三端设备中消除了第三个终端。 因此,整个设备需要更少的材料和劳动力,因此更便宜。 消除电路板也有助于减小噪音产生装置的尺寸。

    Integrated vote by mail processing system
    5.
    发明授权
    Integrated vote by mail processing system 有权
    邮件处理系统综合投票

    公开(公告)号:US07240835B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-07-10

    申请号:US11183563

    申请日:2005-07-18

    IPC分类号: G06F17/60

    CPC分类号: G06K13/02 G07C13/00

    摘要: A modular integrated software and hardware suite can accept data exported from a voter registration database corresponding to requests for mail ballots, sort the data as necessary for ballot preparation, create a road map for ballot mailing preparation, provide for mail presorting, scan returned ballot envelopes using a ballot envelope scanner, and accept data from the scanner. The scanner uses a passive feed system, a separator brush, and a variable speed straight paper path to minimize jamming through the ballot envelope scanner. The scanner can work with a workstation application to interpret a barcode, store an image of the ballot envelope signature in association with a specific voter, print an endorsement on each verified ballot envelope, and store the endorsement with the signature image. The scanner can divert ballot envelopes with unrecognizable or unmatched barcodes to a separate tray for manual processing.

    摘要翻译: 模块化集成软件和硬件套件可以接受从选民登记数据库输出的数据,这些数据库对应于邮件投票请求,根据需要对选票准备进行排序,创建选票邮寄准备的路线图,提供邮件预分配,扫描返回的投票信封 使用投票信封扫描仪,并接受来自扫描仪的数据。 扫描仪使用无源进纸系统,分离器刷和可变速直线纸通道,以最小化通过投票信封扫描仪的卡纸。 扫描仪可以与工作站应用程序一起解释条形码,存储与特定投票者相关联的投票信封签名的图像,在每个经过验证的投票信封上打印背书,并存储签名图像的背书。 扫描仪可以将不可识别或无与伦比的条形码的投票信封转移到单独的托盘进行手动处理。