Translator-display device

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AN INTEGRATED ELECTROLUMINESCENT-PHOTOCONDUCTOR LAMINATED TRANSLATOR-DISPLAY DEVICE FOR CONVERTING BINARY INPUT SIGNALS TO VISUAL READOUT INFORMATION ON A DISCRETELY PATTERNED ELECTROLUMINESCENT READOUT DISPLAY COMPRISING: AN INSULATIVE TRANSLATOR SUBSTRATE HAVING FIRST AND SECOND OPPOSITELY DISPOSED SURFACES AND A PERIMETRIC EDGE THEREBETWEEN; A PLURALITY OF BINARY INPUT SUPPLY TERMINALS, INSULATIVELY SPACED AND DISPOSED ON THE FIRST SURFACE OF SAID SUBSTRATE AND EXTENDING TO SAID EDGE THEREOF; A PLURALITY OF SEPARATE ELECTRICAL SUPPLY AND GROUND CONDUCTOR TERMINALS INSULATIVELY SPACED AND DISPOSED ON THE FIRST SURFACE OF SAID SUBSTRATE BEING REMOVED FROM SAID BINARY INPUT TERMINALS AND EXTENDING TO SAID EDGE THEREOF TO PROVIDE AT LEAST A FIRST SUPPLY CONDUCTOR TERMINAL AND A FIRST AND A SECOND GROUND CONDUCTOR TERMINALS; A PLURALITY OF INSULATIVELY SPACED ELECTRODE STRIPS DISPOSED ON THE SECOND SURFACE OF SAID SUBSTRATE AND EXTENDING TO SAID EDGE THEREOF; A PLURALITY OF ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVE TERMINATION AREAS INSULATIVELY SPACED AND DISPOSED ON THE SECOND SURFACE OF SAID TRANSLATOR SUBSTRATE BEING REMOVED FROM SAID ELECTRODE STRIPS AND EXTENDING TO SAID EDGE THEREOF; A FIRST SET AND A SECOND SET OF ELECTRICAL CONNECTIVE MEANS SPACEDLY DISPOSED ON SAID PERIMETRIC EDGE PERPENDICULAR TO SAID SURFACES, SAID FIRST SET INDIVIDUALLY JOINING SAID BINARY INPUT SUPPLY TERMINALS ON SAID FIRST SURFACE TO SAID ELECTRODE STRIPS ON SAID SECOND SURFACE OF SAID SUBSTRATE AND SAID SECOND SET INDIVIDUALLY JOINING SAID SUPPLY AND GROUND TERMINALS ON SAID FIRST SURFACE OF SAID TERMINATION AREAS ON SAID SECOND SURFACE OF SAID SUBSTRATE THEREBY PROVIDING AT LEAST A FIRST SUPPLY TERMINATION AREA AND FIRST AND SECOND GROUND TERMINATION AREAS ON THE SECOND SURFACE THEREOF; A LAYER OF ELECTRIC FIELD RESPONSIVE PHOSPHOR DISPOSED OVER SAID ELECTRODE STRIPS; A TRANSPARENT ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE LAYER DISPOSED ON SAID LAYER OF ELECTRIC FIELD RESPONSIVE PHOSPHOR SAID CONDUCTIVE LAYER BEING UTILIZED WITH SAID ELECTRODE STRIPS AND SAID PHOSPHOR LAYER THEREBETWEEN TO PROVIDE A PLURALITY OF STRIP-LIKE ELECTROLUMINESCENT LAMPS; FIRST GROUND CONNECTIVE MEANS ELECTRICALLY JOINING SAID TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE LAYER WITH THE FIRST OF SAID GROUND TERMINATING AREAS TO PROVIDE A COMMON INPUT GROUND CONNECTOR FOR SAID LAMPS; A TRANSPARENT INSULATIVE LAYER OVERLAPPING SAID TRANSPARENT ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE LAYER; A MOSAIC LAYER OF OPAQUE INSULATIVE MATERIAL HAVING A PLURALITY OF APERTURES DISCRETELY POSITIONED THEREIN IN REGISTRATION WITH SAID STRIP-LIKE ELECTROLUMINESCENT LAMPS TO PROVIDE A PLURALITY OF ELECTROLUMINESCENT WINDOWS; A PHOTOCONDUCTIVE LAYER OVERLAYING SAID MOSAIC AND COVERING SAID WINDOWS TO PROVIDE A PLURALITY OF PHOTOCONDUCTIVE WINDOW GATES THEREON; A TRANSLATOR MATRIX LAYER IN THE FORM OF A PLURALITY OF CONDUCTIVE ELEMENTS, HAVING A COMMON SUPPLY ELECTRODE, PROVIDING A DISCRETE NETWORK OF INDIVIDUAL CONDUCTIVE PATTERNS HAVING AREAS OF ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECTION THEREBETWEEN IN THE FORM OF SAID PHOTOCONDUCTIVE GATES, SAID PATTERNS HAVING INDIVIDUAL ELECTRICAL TERMINAL PORTIONS; AN ELECTRICAL TRANSFER PLANE FOR INSULATIVE MATERIAL HAVING FIRST AND SECOND SURFACES WITH ELECTRICAL TRANSFER CONDUCTORS EMBEDDED THEREIN AND EXTENDING NONPERPENDICULARLY THERETHROUGH WITH EACH END THEREOF EMERGING AS A TRANSFER TERMINAL AREA AT ONE OF SAID SURFACES; TRANSLATOR CONNECTIVE MEANS ELECTRICALLY CONNECTING SAID TRANSLATOR TERMINAL PORTIONS WITH TRANSFER TERMINAL AREAS DISPOSED ON SAID FIRST SURFACE OF SAID TRANSFER PLANE; A PLANARLY-LAYERED ELECTROLUMINESCENT READOUT DISPLAY SUPPERJACENTLY DISPOSED RELATIVE TO SAID ELECTRICAL TRANSFER PLANE AND HAVING A PLURALITY OF ELECTRODE SEGMENTS DISPOSED FOR CONNECTION; AND READOUT CONNECTIVE MEANS ORIENTED INTERMEDIATE SAID READOUT DISPLAY AND SAID TRANSFER PLANE CONNECTING SAID READOUT ELECTRODE SEGMENTS WITH SAID TRANSFER TERMINAL AREAS DISPOSED ON SAID SECOND SURFACE OF SAID TRANSFER PLANE.