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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 1979
Filed:
Oct. 18, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:
Adrian L Mears, Cheltenham, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
361380 ; 361413 ; 339 / ;
Abstract
The invention concerns an edge connector for mounting on the edge of flat panel displays, e.g. liquid crystal or electroluminescent display panels, arranged in matrix format. The edge connectors have mounted therein drive electronics, e.g. serial input parallel output shift registers. Two series of conductors are carried by the edge connector body, one series of conductors connect with external control circuits and the other series of conductors connect with addressing electrodes on a display panel. Faulty drive electronics are easily replaced by unclipping the edge connector from the panel and substituting a new edge connector complete with new drive electronics.