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Entry error elimination for data systems
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Inventors: Larson, Willis A.;
Assignee: AMP Incorporated (Harrisburg, PA)
Primary Examiner: Rowland; James L.
Assistant Examiner: Rittmaster; T.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Raring; Frederick W.
Switch assembly, such as a keyboard switch assembly, comprises a plurality of polled conductors, a plurality of scanned conductors, and switch sites, each of which has an associated scanned conductor and polled conductor adjacent thereto. When a switch at each switch site is closed, the associated polled conductor is connected to the associated scanned conductor and closure of the switch is determined by a polling and scanning means. Each switch has a switch resistor in series therewith and each scanned conductor has a scanned conductor resistor between the scanned conductor and one side of the power supply. The analyzer associated with the switch assembly has the ability to determine whether a signal indicating that a particular switch is closed is a true signal caused by actual closure of the signal or alternatively is a phantom signal caused by the closure of a group of switches in the switch matrix. The determination is made on the basis of the difference in voltage detected when a true switch closure is made and when a phantom switch closure is indicated. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION I claim: 1.
A keyboard switch assembly of the type comprising a power supply, a polling means, a scanner, a plurality of polled conductors which are connected to the polling means, a plurality of scanned conductors which are connected to the scanner, and a plurality of switch sites, each switch site having an associated polled conductor and an associated scanned conductor adjacent thereto, an individual switch at each switch site for connecting the associated polled conductor to the associated scanned conductor, each switch having first and second conditions, one of the conditions being closed and the other condition being open, and an analyzer which determines the condition of each switch during polling scanning, the switch assembly being characterized in that: each individual switch has a dedicated individual switch resistor in series therewith and each scanned conductor has a scanned conductor resistor between the scanned conductor and one side of the power supply, the analyzer has the ability to determine, when a signal is received indicating that a predetermined individual switch is in the first condition, whether the signal is a true signal which passed through the predetermined individual switch and is effected by the dedicated individual switch resistor of the predetermined individual switch and scanned conductor resistor of the associated scanned conductor of the predetermined individual switch or alternatively the signal is a false signal which passed through a group of other individual switches which are in the first condition at the instant of scanning and the false signal is effected by the dedicated individual switch resistors of the group of other individual switches the switch assembly comprising a substrate and a flexible membrane which extends parallel to, and is spaced from the substrate, the flexible membrane and the substrate having opposed surfaces on which the polled conductors, the scanned conductors, the individual switches, the dedicated individual switch resistors, and the scanned conductor resistors are provided, the scanned conductors, the polled conductors, the individual switches, the dedicated individual switch resistors, and the scanned conductor resistors are of conductive ink
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