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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 1988
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1985
Martinus V Stroomer, Eindhoven, NL;
Henricus F de Leeuw, Eindhoven, NL;
U.S. Philips Corp., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Such a device comprises display elements (RC) arranged, for example, in matrix form in rows and columns with, each display element comprising a first (E1) and a second electrode (E2) and an intermediate, movable, third electrode (E3). The first electrode (E1) is used in common by the elements (RC) with, the second electrode (E2) forming part of a strip-shaped row electrode and the third electrodes (E3) having an electrical through-connection in the column direction. Depending on the polarities of information pulses applied to the electrodes by a control voltage source, the third electrode is positioned adjacent the first or second electrode to achieve a bright or a dark picture element on display. With picture element-selective drive by a row selection with, a change being made for the selected picture element from the bright to the dark state, a non-energized state occurs at the other bright and dark picture elements in the column. To counteract the possibility of picture disturbance, a pulse (CT2) is simultaneously applied, in addition to the information pulses (CT1), to each electrode with a polarity which is the same for the first and the second electrodes and is the opposite for the third electrode. This results in a reset with a memory state.