Abstract: A quick change device for earth moving vehicles for changing working implements and separably connected to the vehicle via an adaptor pivotable about a horizontal axis and provided on a jib of the earth moving machine, the adaptor having displaceably mounted coupling members rigid with the housing and with which there are on the working implements coupling members rigid with the housing, the displaceably mounted coupling members of the adaptor being locking bolts which have conical coupling surfaces and with which there are associated on the working implement coupling members which have conical surfaces and which are constructed in supporting fashion only over a range of 180.degree. with the corresponding conical surfaces of the associated coupling members of the working implement which are rigid with the housing.

Abstract: A thread cutting arrangement for sewing machines including an arrangement in which the tension of the thread is released in both directions of movement of an axially moveable drive mechanism such that the thread tensioning mechanism is opened when the needle thread is caught. The movement of the drive mechanism is transmitted via a one-way coupling so that the opening of the thread tensioning mechanism is limited to the duration of the after pawal of the needle thread.

Abstract: An activation module for multiplex passive displays integrates the output drivers of the module into two groups which, independently of one another, can be connected either to the columns or to the rows of an electrode matrix. The four pulse voltages necessary for this purpose are internally formed. Preferably, the switching unit has driver groups with 10 or 35, respectively, output drivers and can thus activate a 10-position data row with 5.times.7 matrices. The component can be constructed with known elements of CMOS technology. The proposed multiplex driver finds use, above all, in medium-to-high information liquid crystal displays.

Abstract: A device for capturing, guiding and concentrating light for coupling out of an outlet window comprising at least one flexible foil of synthetic material containing a fluorescent substance for converting ambient light into fluorescent light and means for forming an outlet for the fluorescent light. The device can include a second and/or a third flexible foil so that light going to the outlet windows passes through the second and third foils. In one embodiment, a pair of foils are arranged behind a liquid crystal display and each foil contains fluorescent material having a polarization plane extending at right angles to each other, an optical active layer is placed between the two foils which will rotate the direction of polarization and the means for forming an outlet is disposed on the outer surface of the one foil opposite from the liquid crystal cell so that a viewer sees the light modulated by the cell.

Abstract: A gas-discharge display device for a flat and fluorescent screen is provided with at least one grid electrode between the matrix-driven control disc and the anode of the fluorescent screen for the specific field distribution in the acceleration space, the grid electrode or electrodes being connected to a respective fixed potential.

Abstract: An electro-optical display device for representation of an item of information such as digits, the display device including a front and rear plate spaced apart to form a cavity for receiving a switchable medium, the front plate on a surface facing the medium being provided with at least one segmented electrode having segments and the rear plate on a surface facing the front plate and the medium being provided with a rear electrode assembly for each segmented electrode, the segments of the segmented electrode and the rear electrode assembly being energized to switch the optical properties in the medium characterized by front control electrodes being disposed on the front plate and electrically connected with selected one of the segments of each segmented electrode and a back control electrode disposed on the rear plate overlying the front control electrode so that an indication is made by one of the front control electrodes and the back control electrodes when the associated segment should be energized.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process and display for producing an image in front of an optically contrasting background. The display installation is characterized by a preferably but not necessarily, plate-shaped body having exit windows for emitting light in given areas and light valves associated with each of the exit windows for controlling the light being emitted therefrom. The light valves include filters which have an absorption frequency range and the plate member emits light from the exit windows in an emission frequency range. One of the members, either the filter member or the plate member, can have its associated frequency range shifted by the application of an electrical field so that light can pass through the filter without being absorbed or is absorbed by the filter.

Abstract: A liquid crystal cell, which has two carrier plates spaced apart to form a cavity for receiving a liquid crystal layer, the plates on a surface facing the liquid crystal layer being provided with electrodes so that a portion of the liquid crystal layer is switchable between different operating states, is characterized by an improvement consisting of providing at least one of the facing surfaces of the carrier plates with means for orienting strip-like zones of the liquid crystal layer adjacent the surface with different orientations, each of the strip-like zones having a width of approximately 5 .mu.m and the striplike zones being alternately substantially homogeneously oriented and substantially homeotropically oriented. One embodiment of forming the cell is to provide parallel strips of orienting material with adjacent strips being of different types of orienting material.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display incorporates a pair of spaced carrier plates separating a layer of liquid crystal material, both of the plates having a set of selection conductors on their inside surfaces, defining a display matrix of visual elements, and a plurality of boundary electrodes connected with one or both sets of selection conductors surrounding each individual visual element.