Pentel Kabushiki Kaisha

Genichi Tagata

Kiyomi Abe

Tadaaki Sugino

Yoshiharu Yamashiro

Koich Tanaka

Yoshio Shishido

A response analyzing device comprises a discriminating device and a plurality of answering devices connected in parallel to a plurality of lines extending from the discriminating device. Each of the answering devices are provided with resonance circuits having mutually different resonance frequencies and a selective switch for connecting the resonance circuits with these lines. The discriminating device is provided with a sweep oscillator for impressing outputs to these lines and has a variable range which permits the sweeping of the entire range of the resonance frequencies and circuitry for detecting the variation in impedance due to the resonance phenomenon created in the resonance circuit.

Response analyzing device

A capacitively coupled tablet for use with an electrically conductive pen comprises segments each including at least one lattice point of a matrix which comprises groups of spaced conductors which are disposed along coordinate axes. The segments are mutually electrically isolated by an electrically conductive shield layer having apertures which correspond to the surface area of the respective segments, and are marked with corresponding characters to serve as keys. An electrically insulating layer is disposed between the shield layer and the groups of conductors, and a similar surface layer is disposed on the shield layer.

Tablet for use in a coordinate digitizer

A response analyzer simultaneously receives multi-frequency signals transmitted from a plurality of answering devices and forms time divided pulses, which are counted to provide an indication of the number of answering devices which made responses. A plurality of AND gates are each associated with one of the multi-frequency signals, and operate to sample the time divided pulses in order to determine which of the answering devices made responses. Formation of time divided pulses from the simultaneously received multi-frequency signals takes place through mixing the respective multi-frequency signals with a local oscillator signal having a frequency which is continuously and periodically varied, to thereby convert the signals into their intermediate frequency versions, from which a fixed frequency component is extracted.

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