Nowadays, we are leaving in industrial world

which many high technologies are present.

Example is the LEDs technologies that have
grown rapidly in popularity for industrial
control applications.
These LEDs are commonly used in
electronics and mechanical devices. Several
of them can be connected to each other with
one small and compact packaging called the
seven segments.

Industrial application displays are designed

from high reliability application and feature
extremely durable packaging for high
temperature environments. Industrial
application display such as seven segments is
used in alpha-numeric displays in control
applications.
Thus, the researchers have been interest to
make a prototype of one of the machines in
industrial world using the seven segments.

This special project aims to show the

prototype of one of the industrial machines
that uses 7 segments. We sought to
determine the answers of the following:

1. How the 7 segments are use in the

industrial world?
2. How it is work?

This special project aimed to make a

prototype of one of the industrial machines
that uses 7 segments. This includes the
making of a circuit of the prototype.
1.3This
Significance
of theserved
Study as a
special project
challenge for the researchers to widen
their knowledge and their skills in the
industrial world.

Industry
is the application of the seven segment
display in this project.

LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes)

is a two-lead semiconductor light source that
composed
the seven
1.4
Definition
of segment
Terms display.
7-segment Display
is an electronic array of seven LEDs arranged
in a way that can display numerals as well as
some alphabetic characters. It is the main
component used in this study.

LEDs or Light Emitting Diodes have small

sizes with different colors like red, blue,
orange, yellow and green. The commonly use
LEDs in the world of industry are LEDs that
are having red colors. According to Wayne
(2014), the main advantages of light emitting
diodes are that because of their small sizes,
several of them can be connected together
within one small and compact package
producing what is generally called a
7-segment Display.

According to Storr (2014), the 7-segment

display or also written as seven segment
display are composed of seven light emitting
diodes which are arranged in rectangular
fashion a shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Seven Segment Display

These individually LED pins are labelled from a

through to f (labelled in clockwise fashion)
representing each individual LED. The other
LED pins are connected together and wired to
form a common pin. So by forward biasing the
appropriate pins of the LED segments in a
particular order, some segments will be light
and others will be dark allowing the desired
character pattern of the number to be
generated on the display. This then allows us
to display each of the ten decimal digits 0
through to 9 on the same 7-segment display.

According to Storr (2014), the displays

common pin of is generally used to identify
which type of 7-segment display it is. As each
LED has two connecting pins, one called the
Anode and the other called the Cathode,
there are therefore two types of LED 7segment display called: Common Cathode
(CC) and Common Anode (CA).

In the common cathode display (shown in

Figure 2), all the cathode connections of the
LED segments are joined together to logic 0
or ground. The individual segments are
illuminated by application of a HIGH, or logic
1 signal via a current limiting resistor to
forward bias the individual Anode terminals (ag).

Figure 2. The Common Cathode (CC)

In the common anode display (shown in Figure

3), all the anode connections of the LED
segments are joined together to logic 1. The
individual segments are illuminated by applying
a ground, logic 0 or LOW signal via a
suitable current limiting resistor to the Cathode
of the particular segment (a-g).

Figure 3. The Common Anode (CA)

Table 1. Truth Table

Decimal
Digit
0

Individual Segments Illuminated

a

1
2

In order to produce the required numbers from

0 to 9 respectively, on the display the correct
combination of LED segments need to be
illuminated and BCD to 7-segment Display
Decoders.
According to Roon (2010), a Decoder IC is a
device which converts one digital format into
another and the most commonly used device
for doing this is the Binary Coded Decimal
(BCD) to 7-Segment Display Decoder.

In doing this special project, the researchers need an equipment to

make the project successful. The following equipments are:
For the Circuit, we need:
One digit display of 7-segment (common cathode)
Two digit display of 7-segment (common cathode)
SN74LS47 IC
74LS290 IC
Resistor (330 ohms, 100 ohms & 1k ohms)
Laser
LDR
Wires
SN7448 IC
SN7490 IC
Capacitor (3.3 microfarad & 4 microfarad)
555 timer
IR diode
Infrared

For the conveyer, we need:

Aluminium
Screws
Recycled parts (e.g. old cassette VCD player
and ball pen)
Wood
Nails
L-bars
Belt
Potentiometer (5k)
Dynamo

3.2.1 Seven Segment with One (1) Digit

Display

3.2.2 Seven Segment with Two (2) Digit

Display

In doing the project, we should prepare the

materials needed in the project. In the first
circuit shows the circuit that was input in the
platform of the conveyer. It is composed of a 7segment display (common cathode) and ICs
(integrated circuit) which are the SN74LS47
and LS290.

7-segment display is connected first to the SN74LS47

IC. From 7-segment display to SN74LS4, connections are:
pin 1 to pin 9, pin 2 to pin 10, pin 4 to pin 11, pin 6 to pin 12,
pin 7 to pin 13, pin 9 to pin 15 and lastly, pin 10 to pin 14. The
pin 3 and pin 8 of the 7-segment and the pin 8 of the IC is
connected to GND. The pin 14 of the IC is connected to the
VCC. The connection between the IC and the 7-segment, 330
ohms resistor must be in series with it to minimize the voltage
flowing in it to avoid the malfunctioning of the 7-segment. The
pin 1 of S74LS47 IC must connect to pin 5 of 74LS290. Pin 2
to pin 4, pin 6 to pin 8 and pin 7 to pin 9. The 74LS290 IC
helps the decoder SN74LS47 IC to display the digits well.
When you test the circuit after connecting those connections,
the numbers 0-9 are not in properly manner, so we connect a
capacitor parallel with it to avoid jumping of numbers. To
make the circuit not operated in manually manner, we used a
LDR (light emitting diode) to trigger the circuit to count. The
LDR is facing a laser. When an object passes through, the
laser light was covered and the LDR trigger the circuit so that
it will count from 1-9.

The platform of the conveyer is made of

the 2 aluminium with 6 inches long, 1 inch
width and 1 inch high. The dynamo helps the
conveyer to rotate the belt on it. With the help
of the potentiometer, it controls the speed of
the conveyer. The roller of the belt was made
of recycled materials which is some parts of
the ball pen. The platform of the conveyer was
supported by L-bars.

From the conveyer, it pass to the another

platform where the object is arranged in the manually.
The conveyer is the same size of the platform of the
conveyer. One box is containing 9 canned products.
After arranging, the box is push into the slide. But
before the box slide, it passes through a sensor where
the 7-segment 2 digit display counts it from 1-99. It is
composed of 2 circuits. The 7-segment is connected
to the SN7448 with 330 ohms resistor is in series
between them. The connections between the 7segment to the SN7448 IC is the same with the
connections of 7-segment display to SN74LS47 IC.
The connections between the SN7448 IC to SN7490
are: pin 1 to pin 9, pin 2 to pin 8, pin 6 to pin 11 and
lastly, pin 7 to pin 12. In SN7490 IC, pins 2, 3, 6, 7 and
10 are connecting to the ground. The pins 16 of the 2
ICs are connected to the VCC. Since it is composed of
two circuits, the pin 14 of the SN7490 IC is connected
to the pin 11 of the other SN7490.

7-segment display is composed of compact

LEDs that display alpha-numeric. It is usually used
nowadays in the community and industries.
In this study, the researchers make a
prototype of a machine that uses a 7-segment
display in industrial application. The application we
make is the counting of the canned products and
counting the products per box that are produce for
a day. The canned products are count from 1 to 9
and then packed into the box where they are
arranged manually and then pushed into the slide
where the box is counted from 1-99. The 7segment that displays 2 digit numbers display the
number of how many boxes does the industry
produce for that day.

We conclude that using of 7-segment in

industries is a great help to the industrial
control applications. It will be a great help to
fasten the jobs in counting the products than
counting it manually. There is an accurate
counting of numbers and can record it properly
for it shows it in digital manner.

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