Abstract:
A pulse driven self-shift plasma display panel characterized by having meander type shift channels for shifting a discharge spot. Each meander type shift channel is composed of an array of discharge cells defined in the discharge gap at the crossing points of electrodes arranged on parallel substrates, the electrodes on one substrate being oriented generally transversely to those on the other substrate, and barrier structure for determining the meander route being provided. Data in the form of a discharge spot is written in at one end of a shift channel and is shifted by the pulse shift voltages with various phases over the meander route for display at the desired positions. The barrier structure may also be formed using photo-luminescent phosphor material to create desired colored display effects.
Abstract:
A gas discharge panel in which a pair of substrates each has provided thereon a plurality of buses and a plurality of electrodes regularly connected to the buses, and in which the substrates are disposed opposite to each other with a discharge gas sealing space defined therebetween. By applying switching voltages to the buses, discharge spots between pair of opposed electrodes are sequentially shifted. No cross-over parts for electrode connections are present on the substrates.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a multiple gaseous discharge display/memory panel having an electrical memory and capable of producing a visual display, the panel being characterized by an ionizable gaseous medium in a gas chamber formed by a pair of opposed dielectric material charge storage members which are respectively backed by an array of conductor (electrode) members, the conductor array behind each dielectric material member being appropriately oriented with respect to the conductor array behind the opposing dielectric material member so as to define a plurality of discrete discharge volumes constituting a discharge unit, the surface of at least one dielectric material member having at least one inorganic non-oxide aluminum compound applied thereto in an amount sufficient to provide improved panel operating characteristics, especially stable panel operating voltages which do not significantly change with panel operating time.In addition to display/memory panels comprising opposed dielectric members, it is contemplated using this invention with display/memory panels having only one insulated electrode and/or only one dielectric member such as in a monolithic type device.
Abstract:
An improved driving system and method for shifting a discharge spot from a given discharge cell to an adjacent discharge cell in an A.C. gas discharge, or plasma display, panel, having opposed sets of electrodes respectively covered with corresponding dielectric layers thereby insulated from the discharge gas space. One set of electrodes comprises common electrodes extending in parallel relationship and defining the direction of propagation of the shifted discharge spots. The other set of electrodes, spaced apart from the first set by the gas space, extends in parallel relation transversely to the first common electrodes, and comprise the shift electrodes. The shift electrodes are arranged in groups of a predetermined number in each group and a corresponding number of buses permits selective application of shift pulses to the respectively associated shift electrodes in sequence for each group and simultaneously for the successive groups. An improved operating margin for the shift function is achieved by utilizing the priming discharge effect of a given cell currently discharging, to reduce the necessary firing voltage at an adjacent discharge cell to which the current discharge spot is to be shifted, while minimizing the probability of misfiring at corresponding, remote cells energized in the same phases. An overlap pulse is applied to a discharge cell at which a discharge spot currently is established, to provide a priming discharge for the adjacent cell to which the spot is to be shifted. A shift pulse applied to the adjacent cell terminates after termination of the overlap pulse and thereby produces a lateral field between the two adjacent discharge cells whereby the space charge generated by the priming discharge is attracted to and reduces the necessary firing voltage at the adjacent cell. The duration of the overlap pulse in relation to the amplitude of the shift pulse defines an operating margin for the shift operation which is optimized over a preferred range of the overlap pulse duration.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a gas discharge device containing electrode arrays, an ionizable gaseous medium, and a phosphor excited at least in part by radiation from the gas discharge of the device, the life of the phosphor being increased by the application of a phosphor overcoat which is at least partially transmissive to excitation radiation from the gas discharge. The phosphor overcoat is typically selected from alkali and alkaline earth fluorides. In one embodiment, the gaseous medium comprises at least one rare gas selected from neon or argon and at least one other rare gas selected from argon, xenon, krypton. The gas discharge device is preferably of the display/memory type wherein electrical charges are stored on opposing dielectric surfaces, the phosphor and phosphor overcoat being positioned on the dielectric surfaces near the gas discharge.
Abstract:
This patent discloses an improved gas discharge display panel typically of the type used for luminous displays showing lines of electrically changeable alpha-numeric characters, figures and the like. The gas discharge display panel comprises a transparent front cover plate, a rear cover plate, and marginal sealing areas extending adjacent to and about the periphery of each of the plates.The rear plate includes a plurality of contiguous layers of gas impervious material and electrical wiring intermediate the layers. Intermediate the plates is a thin flat chamber containing ionozable gas. Facing each other are a plurality of dielectrically coated electrodes mounted in the chamber, the electrodes of one group being mounted on the front plate at substantially right angles to but not contacting the electrodes of the second group mounted on the rear plate. To effect a localized ionization discharge of the gas, voltages are applied to electrically selected facing electrodes. The rear cover includes the wiring necessary for effecting such localized ionization and the one group of electrodes is electrically connected to the wiring of the rear cover in the marginal sealing areas between the front and rear covers.
Abstract:
A gas discharge panel in which at least the electrodes serving as cathodes are separated from each other by partitions which consist of electrically oxidized aluminum strips which, like the cathodes, are also connected to a flat insulating plate by means of glaze.
Abstract:
Two arrays of main X and Y electrodes are juxtaposed with two arrays of auxiliary electrodes in two parallel plane respectively. Two half illumination or extinction pulses less in magnitude than a discharge voltage across the opposite arrays and opposite in polarity are applied to selected ones of the X and Y electrodes to initiate or terminate an electric discharge or discharges across them. A pulse train including positive pulses alternating negative pulses is applied across the arrays of auxiliary electrodes to be discharged across those auxiliary electrodes juxtaposed with the selected X and Y electrodes upon each inversion of the pulses polarity after the first discharge.
Abstract:
A display system for a plasma display device in which a plurality of electrodes are arranged on each of a pair of opposing base plates with a discharge gas space defined therebetween, the plurality of electrodes on each base plate being arranged to intersect those on the other base plate perpendicularly to them; the electrodes on at least one of the base plate are covered with a dielectric layer to form a display layer; the other plate serves as a shift layer; a discharge produced between adjacent electrodes of the shift layer is shifted; and a discharge is caused between adjacent electrodes of the display layer in accordance with the timing of the shifting of the discharge in the shift layer and that of writing in the display layer.
Abstract:
A plasma display device uses the same area for selectively displaying several fixed displays images. The device has cavities which are arranged in rows and columns in a gridlike manner. Each fixed image has a fixed number of cavities associated with it only, and each image may extend substantially over the given area when necessitated by the design thereof. Rows of spaced parallel electrodes and columns of spaced parallel electrodes are aligned with their associated rows and columns of cavities. Alternate ones of the rows of electrodes are connected together and alternate ones of the columns of electrodes are connected together to form a simple selection scheme for energizing the device to display the selected fixed image.