Futaba Corporation

Klaus Heynen

Yukihiko Shimizu

Toshio Suzuki

Katsushi Tokura

Kazuhiko Tojo

Shinichi Narushima

Takehiro Iizawa

Soichi Shinya

A fluorescent display tube, which has short-length filaments, can be driven by applied voltage of 3-8V to be used for a general fluorescent display tube. The fluorescent display tube can emit sufficient thermal electrons even if the number of filament cathodes is decreased to reduce power consumption of the filaments. The filament cathode is arranged between a first and third supporting plates by one end thereof fixed to the first supporting plate and the other end thereof fixed to the third supporting plate, and the filament cathode having an equal length with the filament cathode extended between the first and third supporting plates is arranged between the second and third supporting plates.

Fluorescent display tube

A fluorescent display device capable of minimizing a variation in pitches between lead terminals and deformation thereof and attaining mounting of the device on a circuit board without soldering. The lead terminals each are bent at a distal end thereof so that the distal end is held in each of terminal holding holes of a mounting holder to hold the mounting holder therein, so that the fluorescent display device is mounted on the circuit board while keeping the mounting holder and circuit board fixed to each other through a fixing structure and keeping the lead terminals pressedly contacted with connections on the circuit board.

Fluorescent display device

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Chiba, Japan

Klaus Heynen