Class 377 | ELECTRICAL PULSE COUNTERS, PULSE DIVIDERS, OR SHIFT REGISTERS: CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS |
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1 | APPLICATIONS |
2 | Control |
3 | Counting on an object, areas having alternating physical properties (e.g., counting lines on grid, teeth on gear, windings on coil) |
4 | Betting on the outcome of an event; Totalizers |
5 | Game or sport |
6 | Counting animate or inanimate entities |
7 | Coins |
8 | Flat articles (e.g., sheet, bill, ticket) |
9 | Vehicles |
10 | Field of view contains plural entities or entities scanned plural times (e.g., microscopic particles) |
13 | Registering counts for different categories (e.g., accounting) |
15 | Counting based on number of times machine or apparatus operates |
16 | Determining machine or apparatus operating time or monitoring machine, apparatus or operation |
17 | Position determining |
19 | Measuring or testing |
20 | Time combined with measurement of another parameter |
21 | Fluid flow |
22 | Weight |
23 | Acceleration |
24 | Dimension |
24.1 | Distance and Powered Vehicle (e.g., odometer) |
24.2 | Distance and Human Activity (e.g., pedometer, nonpowered golf carts) |
25 | Temperature |
26 | Including memory |
27 | SYSTEMS |
28 | Identifying or correcting improper counter operation (e.g., error checking, monitoring; preventing or correcting improper counter operation) |
29 | Testing or calibrating the counter |
30 | Preventing an inaccurate count as a result of an external condition |
33 | Using particular code or particular counting sequence |
37 | Sequential readout of plural counters or sequential sampling of inputs to a counter |
38 | Plug in counter |
39 | Comparing counts |
40 | Nonsignificant zero elimination |
41 | Complementing a count |
42 | Converting input or output signal from or to an analogue signal |
43 | Having phase shift |
44 | Counter controlled counter |
45 | Including reversible counter |
46 | Including ring counter |
47 | Pulse multiplication or division |
49 | Counter includes circuit for performing an arithmetic function |
50 | Compensation for excess or shortage of pulses |
51 | Including structure for detecting or indicating overflow condition |
52 | With programmable counter (i.e., with variable base) |
53 | With photoelectric sensor |
54 | Using shift register |
55 | Particular input circuit |
56 | Particular output circuit |
57 | CHARGE TRANSFER DEVICE (E.G., ANALOGUE SHIFT REGISTER, CCD, BUCKET BRIGADE DEVICE) |
58 | Compensating for or preventing signal charge deterioration |
59 | With feedback |
60 | Particular input or output means |
61 | Direction and/or path flow control (e.g., by clocking or biasing, by charge splitting) |
63 | Charge-coupled device |
64 | SHIFT REGISTER |
65 | Using electromechanical relays |
66 | Asynchronous |
67 | Multirank (i.e., rows of storage units form a shift register) |
68 | Compensating for or preventing signal deterioration |
69 | Shift direction control |
70 | Particular input circuit |
75 | Particular output circuit |
77 | Particular transfer means |
82 | ELECTROMECHANICAL COUNTER |
83 | Counting or dividing chains using relays |
84 | Programmable (i.e., with variable base) |
85 | Reversible |
86 | Particular input means |
87 | Particular output means |
88 | With resetting |
89 | Rotary magnet |
90 | Stepping switch |
91 | Clutch or escapement |
92 | Pawl and rachet |
93 | WITH SUPERCONDUCTIVE ELEMENT |
94 | COUNTING OR DIVIDING IN INCREMENTAL STEPS (I.E., STAIRCASE COUNTER) |
95 | Charge storage (e.g., capacitor without polarization hysteresis) |
97 | Hysteresis storage (e.g., counters using saturable magnetic core elements) |
98 | DEVICES HAVING MORE THAN TWO STABLE STATES |
99 | Beam type tube (e.g., magnetron, cathode-ray tube) |
100 | Multi-cathode gas discharge tubes |
101 | USING BISTABLE MAGNETIC CORES OR FERROELECTRIC CAPACITORS |
102 | USING BISTABLE ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICES |
103 | COUNTING OR DIVIDING CHAINS USING GAS-FILLED TUBES |
104 | PHASED CLOCKING |
106 | PARTICULAR PARALLEL GATING OR CLOCK SIGNAL |
107 | STARTING, STOPPING, PRESETTING OR RESETTING THE COUNTER |
111 | PARTICULAR INPUT CIRCUITS FOR COUNTER |
112 | INDICATING MEANS |
114 | PARTICULAR OUTPUT CIRCUITS FOR COUNTER |
115 | PARTICULAR TRANSFER MEANS (E.G., MASTER-SLAVE) |
118 | PULSE COUNTING OR DIVIDING CHAINS |
119 | Using bistable regenerative trigger circuits |
120 | Using only semiconductors having at least three electrodes |
124 | Ring counter |
125 | Reversible counter |
126 | Ring or reversible counter |
127 | Using bistable semiconductors having at least three electrodes or analogous complementary transistor circuits (e.g., avalanche transistor, SCR's) |
128 | Using bistable semiconductors having only two electrodes (e.g., tunnel diode, multilayer diode) |
129 | PULSES CONTINUOUSLY CIRCULATED IN A CLOSED LOOP |
130 | MISCELLANEOUS |
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