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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 27, 1996
Mark F Pleso, Sharon, PA (US);
Telxon Corporation, Akron, OH (US);
Abstract
A circuit for energizing an electroluminescent panel of a portable data collection device is disclosed. The circuit includes voltage step up circuit and a switching circuit. The voltage step up circuit converts a +5 volt DC signal output from power regulation circuitry of the portable data collection device to a +100 volt essentially constant DC signal. The voltage step up circuit includes a switching regulation integrated circuit chip coupled in series to a toroid inductor. The inductor is coupled through a diode to a smoothing capacitor. The switching circuit converts the +100 volt DC signal to effectively a .+-.100 volt (200 volts peak-to-peak), 500 Hertz (Hz) signal across electrodes of the electroluminescent panel. The switching circuit includes a 555 IC timer chip coupled to an H bridge configuration of switching transistors.