公开(公告)号：US4888748A

公开(公告)日：1989-12-19

申请号：US272638

申请日：1988-11-17

申请人： Lyle E. Lagasse ,  Dennis D. Andrews

发明人： Lyle E. Lagasse ,  Dennis D. Andrews

IPC分类号： G04B37/00 ,  G04G9/12 ,  G04G99/00

CPC分类号： G04G99/00 ,  G04B37/0066 ,  G04G9/126

摘要： A dual mode clock and timer unit includes a housing and a plurality of displays mounted on the housing for facilitating the viewing of time-related data from different directions. The housing has top, bottom, and side surfaces defining the exterior of the housing in a generally truncated pyramidal shape. The displays are mounted on the housing side surfaces and angularly displaced from one another. Switches are mounted on the top and bottom housing surfaces and are actuable for selecting one or the other of dual clock and timer operating modes and, after one or the other of the dual modes have been selected, for causing different functions to occur in one of the modes than in the other of the modes. Also, a circuit, such as microcomputer-based circuit, is provided in the housing electrically connected between the switches and each of the displays for currently carrying out operations in clock and timer modes and for causing indications of time-related data on the displays relating to one or the other, but not both concurrently, of clock and timer modes in response to selected actuation of the switches.

摘要翻译： 双模式时钟和定时器单元包括壳体和安装在壳体上的多个显示器，以便于从不同方向观看时间相关数据。 壳体具有限定壳体外部的顶部，底部和侧面，其大致截头锥形。 显示器安装在壳体侧表面上并且彼此成角度地移位。 开关安装在顶部和底部壳体表面上，并且可以用于选择双时钟和定时器操作模式中的一个或另一个，并且在已经选择了一个或另一个双模式之后，用于使不同的功能发生在 模式比其他模式。 此外，在壳体中设置电路，例如基于微型计算机的电路，电气连接在开关和每个显示器之间，用于当前在时钟和定时器模式下执行操作，并且用于使显示器上的时间相关数据的指示相关 响应于选择的开关的致动，到时钟和定时器模式中的一个或另一个，但不是同时地。