Shinoda Plasma Corporation

Shinoda Plasma Co., Ltd.

Takamitsu Bunno

Kenji Awamoto

Hitoshi Hirakawa

Koji Shinohe

Yoshio Shibukawa

Tetsuya Makino

Hiroaki Tamura

Yoko Shinoda

Bingang Guo

Naganori Tsutsui

A large-scale display device having a plurality of display units which each include a plurality of elongated plasma tubes each filled with a discharge gas, and at least one pair of display electrodes disposed outside the plasma tubes, voltage applying means which applies a drive voltage to the display electrodes to cause electric discharge in the plasma tubes for display. Vertically adjoining ones of the display units respectively have adjoining portions which are offset thicknesswise from each other for prevention of contact between the plasma tubes of the vertically adjoining display units. The voltage applying means is disposed away from the adjoining portions of the vertically adjoining display units.

Large-scale display device

This invention provides a plasma tube array-type display sub-module capable of reducing a possibility of occurrence of troubles on a plasma tube array during a manufacturing process even in a case where irregularities are formed on the back side of the plasma tube array, and a display device. The plasma tube array-type display sub-module comprises a plasma tube array including a plurality of plasma tubes arranged in parallel, the plasma tube array being held between an address electrode support sheet having address electrodes formed thereon and a display electrode support sheet having display electrodes formed thereon, wherein the plasma tube array is fixed to a sub-module frame through an intermediate layer that is made of a material more flexible than that of the plasma tube array and can deform along the irregularities on the address electrode support sheet of the plasma tube array.

Plasma tube array-type display sub-module and display device

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Hyogo, Japan

Takamitsu Bunno