Matsushita Electronics Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Takio Okamoto

Taichi Shino

Kazunori Hirao

Yukiharu Ito

Takao Wakitani

Toru Hirayama

Koichi Itsuda

Hidezo Akutsu

Tamisuke Atsumi

Yoshio Nakagawa

Shigeo Kigo

Ryoji Inutsuka

Haruo Yamazaki

Tadayuki Masumori

Hajime Mae

Naoki Saito

Masayuki Yamaguchi

Seiji Matsubara

Kouichi Nomura

Yoshiaki Watarai

An alternating current (AC) plasma display panel is provided that emits little electromagnetic waves and which has no brightness irregularity. In this panel, pairs of scan electrodes and sustain electrodes are provided in rows, and data electrodes arranged orthogonally to the pairs of scan electrodes and sustain electrodes constitute a matrix. A conductor is disposed in each row in parallel with the scan electrodes and the sustain electrodes. The scan electrodes are coupled with a scan electrode driving circuit on the left side of the panel. The conductors are electrically coupled with the sustain electrodes on the right side of the panel and are connected with a sustain electrode driving circuit on the left side of the panel. When a sustain pulse voltage is applied, a current runs through the conductors in a direction reverse to a direction of the sustaining discharge current running through the scan electrodes and the sustain electrodes.

AC plasma display panel

Disclosed is an AC plasma display device for preventing an error discharge, improving a luminous intensity, and applicable to high definition display. The device includes a front substrate, which has display electrodes in parallel to each other and a non-display line. The line and the display electrode are arranged alternately each other on the front substrate. Further, the device comprises a rear substrate, which has a plurality of data electrodes extending in a direction perpendicular to the display electrodes. The rear substrate forms a discharge space between itself and the front substrate, defines a gap of the discharge space, and has a partition in a belt shape placed between adjoining data electrodes. Furthermore, the rear substrate has a barrier between the partitions at a position facing to the non-display portion so as to have width corresponding to the non-display portion, form a gap between itself and the front substrate, and prevent an error discharge between the display electrodes.

AC plasma display device

An AC plasma display panel includes a plurality of parallel scan electrodes and a plurality of parallel sustain electrodes. Each of sustain electrodes is extended parallel to scan electrodes. Scan and sustain electrodes are positioned alternately so that each one of scan and sustain electrodes positions adjacent to and paired with the other of scan and sustain electrodes. Also, the panel includes a plurality of parallel data electrodes. The data electrodes extend substantially perpendicular to scan and sustain electrodes. Scan and sustain electrodes are applied with a certain current so that an electromagnetic noise generated in the electrodes can be cancelled by another.

AC plasma display apparatus

A plurality of scanning electrodes and a plurality of sustaining electrodes parallel to each other are located on an inner face of a first glass substrate. Each of the scanning electrodes and each of the sustaining electrodes form a pair. A dielectric layer and a protection layer are formed on the first glass substrate in this order, covering the electrodes. A plurality of data electrodes perpendicular to the scanning electrodes and the sustaining electrodes are located on an inner face of a second glass substrate which is located opposed to the first glass substrate with a discharge space interposed therebetween. In an AC-type PDP having such a structure, at least one of the plurality of scanning electrodes and the plurality of sustaining electrodes are divided into a plurality of groups, and pulses having different phases are applied to the electrodes in different groups, thereby causing sustaining discharge. The scanning electrodes and the sustaining electrodes may be comb-like with teeth. The comb-like scanning electrodes and the comb-like sustaining electrodes are opposed to each other with a small gap interposed therebetween in the manner that the teeth thereof are in engagement with each other. In such a case, the data electrodes are located opposed to and in a longitudinal direction of the teeth of the scanning electrodes.

Gas discharge display apparatus and method for driving the same

Gas discharge display apparatus

A plurality of filaments are stretched in parallel on a rear plate, and an insulating plate is provided so as to cover the filaments. In the insulating plate, a plurality of through-holes are formed along the longitudinal direction of the respective filaments for exposing parts thereof. Each through-hole and phosphor layers, which are provided on the insulating layer adjacent to the through-hole, constitute one unit picture element. The respective phosphor layers in the respective picture element are installed in a plurality of cavities formed in a rib provided on a lower surface of the insulating plate, whereby separated from the neighboring phosphor layers. The respective cavities function as a discharge room, with a light-transmissive front plate, formed on the rib, as a lid and a portion of the insulating plate corresponding to the phosphor layer as a bottom. The respective discharge rooms overlap the through-hole at one end in the longitudinal direction thereof. A part of the filaments is exposed to the discharge room via the through-hole so as to act as a cathode. In addition, an anode exists respectively at the other end of the respective discharge rooms. In this manner, a luminescent panel for color video display, with a plurality of picture elements arranged in a matrix with a narrowed-pitch and a high density, is provided.

Luminescent panel for color video display and its driving system, and a

A gas discharge display apparatus consisting of a gas discharge display panel and a drive circuit for driving a matrix array of display elements formed in the display panel by mutually perpendicular arrays of stripe-shaped anodes and cathodes, the cathodes being sequentially selected during successive scanning intervals and the anodes driven to produce a light-emitting or non-emitting state during each scanning interval in accordance with display data. During each scanning interval, each anode for which the non-emitting state is to be maintained is momentarily driven to the light-emitting state potential during a brief interval, to thereby substantially increase the reliability of display operation during the immediately succeeding scanning interval.

In a gas discharge display device comprising a number of parallel array of anodes and crosswide disposed parallel array of cathodes, the anodes and cathodes being disposed with small discharging gaps filled with gas inbetween thereby forming a gas discharging matrix, on which a discharging spot scans from one end to the other end of the cathode of the array, wherein the array of the cathode is divided into plural divided arrays each having substantially the same number of cathodes and respective cathodes of the divided arrays are connected in common to respective cathodes of other divided arrays, the improvement is that any cathodes neighboring each other in one of the divided arrays are connected to such cathodes in other divided arrays as those are other than each other neighboring cathodes.

Gas discharge display device

A gas-discharge display device has a parallel array of anodes and a parallel array of cathodes forming a matrix of anode-cathode cross points or discharge dots. The display device is filled with a discharge gas mixture at the discharge dots or cells. Displaying and scanning are respectively achieved through drive circuits supplying discharges of a layer and a smaller current, or discharges for a longer and shorter time respectively.

A high pressure sodium vapor discharge lamp comprises an alumina tube envelope containing therein sodium, inert starting gas, buffer gas source of mercury or cadmium and discharge electrodes sealed in the envelope, inner diameter d (in mm) of said tube envelope and an average potential gradient E in volt/cm having the relation

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Takio Okamoto