Split-flap display

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Flap display as departure board in Hannover train station, Germany



Section of a split-flap display board at Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof (taken April 2005).



Schematic of a split-flap display in a digital clock display



Flap departure board at Gare du Nord (Paris)

A split-flap display, sometimes simply flap display, is a display device that presents alphanumeric text, and possibly fixed graphics.

Contents

1 Description

2 Pop culture references

3 See also

4 Patents

5 External links


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Description

Each character position or graphic position has a collection of flaps on which the characters or graphics are painted or silkscreened. These flaps are precisely rotated to show the desired character or graphic. Today, these displays are often found in train stations and airports, where they typically display departure and/or arrival information, although digital equivalents are far more common now.

Such displays are often called 'Solari boards', named after Solari & C. Udine, a large manufacturer of such boards continuing to the present day.

Sometimes the flaps are large and display whole words, and in other installations there are several smaller flaps, each displaying a single character. The former method is of course limited on the words it can display by what is on the flaps, whereas the latter system is not and output messages can be changed without the need for the addition or replacement of flaps, although images cannot. In the example image on the right, we can see that the destinations in the centre of the picture of split up into characters, whereas the messages left and right of these occupy entire flaps.

Flip-dot displays and LED display boards may be used instead of split-flap displays in most applications. Their output can be varied more easily (by reprogramming instead of replacement of physical parts in the case of graphics) but they suffer from lower readability. They also can refresh more quickly, as most split-flap displays only rotate in one direction.

Many game shows of the 1970s used this type of display for the contestant podium scoreboards. Usually, the flip was left-to-right on a vertical axis, although up/down on a horizontal axis was not completely unknown.

Advantages to these displays include:

high visibility and wide viewing angle in most lighting conditions;

little or no power consumption while the display remains static; and

fault-tolerance during a power loss or disruption -- the display will not normally reset.

Distinct sound draws attention to the board when the information is updated.

In the case of the latter the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has specifically designed the new LCD replacements for its aging Solari boards at North Station and South Station to emit an electronically generated flapping noise to cue passengers to train boarding updates.

Pop culture references

The television game show Chain Reaction on GSN features computer-simulated split-flap displays to display the various words in a chain.

The 2004 movie The Terminal shows such a display being used in the airport where the main character Victor Navorski is trapped.

The television show Lost prominently featured a split-flap counter during its second season.

See also

Analog clock with digital display ("flip clock")

Display device

Solari departure board

Patents

U.S. Patent 3,501,761 Remote-Controlled Display Device for Selectively Displaying Signs or Words

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Split-flap displays

Solari di Udine homepage

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v?d?eDisplay technology

Video

Cathode ray tube Digital light processing Field emission Interferometric modulator display Laser TV Light-emitting diode (organic) Liquid crystal Plasma Surface-conduction electron-emitter (SED) Vacuum Fluorescent Video projector display

Non-video

Electromechanical (Flip-dot Split-flap Vane) Electronic paper Eggcrate Nixie tube

3D display

Stereoscopic Autostereoscopic Computer Generated Holography Volumetric Laser beam

Static media

Hologram Movie projector Neon sign Rollsign Slide projector

Comparison of display technology

Categories: Display technology

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