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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 1978
Filed:
Oct. 25, 1977
Applicant:
Inventors:
Eugene Stewart Schlig, Somers, NY (US);
George Raymond Stilwell, Jr, West Nyack, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3151 / ; 3151 / ;
Abstract
Improved writing and erasing in AC gas discharge display panels is obtained by applying a special normalizing voltage waveform to cause the cells to be in a more standardized state, so that the applied writing and erasing pulses act to cause wall voltage changes which are less sensitive to the cell's recent history. The special normalizing waveform is applied adjacent to the erase pulse and/or to the write pulse and acts to fire the cells in a manner such that there is no loss in the memory state of the cells.