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Patent: 3766431

Lighting Control System Including an Analogue to Digital Converter

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Patent Number: 3766431 
Title: Lighting Control System Including an Analogue to Digital Converter 
Abstract: A lighting control system for stage and studio lighting applications wherein the system includes a digital to analogue converter connected to a digital store, a second store containing brightness control information for a plurality of lamps and an analogue to digital converter connected to the digital store for providing thereto a cyclic series of discrete signals of differing constant magnitudes.  
Country of Issue: US 
First Named Inventor: Isaacs 
Assignee: Thorn Electrical Industries 
Continuation or Divisional of: 3624639 
International Classification: H05B 37/02 
US Classification: 315/292 
Issue Date: 10-16-1973 
Filing Date: 05-19-1971 
Application : 144850 
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Link to Patent at freepatentsonline.com: 3766431 at Freepatentsonline 
Link to World Patent Family1: World Patent Family at European Patent Office 
Link to Google Patents1: 3766431 at Google Patents 

 

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