Patent ID: 6692255
Filing Date: 2004-02-17
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
A refreshable Braille reader comprising:a display assembly having an outer surface, said surface having a plurality of openings therethrough with said openings arranged at said surface in rows; a plurality of pins having first and second ends, each one of said pins mounted in a different one of said openings and movable therein; and actuating means maintained at a station adjacent to said surface of said display assembly for moving said pins, said pins selectively contactable by said actuating means to move said pins in said openings so that said first ends of said pins are selectively raised from or not raised from said surface, at least one of said actuating means and said display assembly being movable relative to the other of said actuating means and said display assembly in either of two directions, said actuating means capable of causing controlled pin movement in said openings while relative movement occurs in either of said two directions.