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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 1982
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1979
Takio Okamoto, Kusatsu, JP;
Tamisuke Atsumi, Kobe, JP;
Yoshio Nakagawa, Otsu, JP;
Hidezo Akutsu, Kobe, JP;
Matsushita Electronics Corporation, Kadoma, JP;
Abstract
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.