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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:
Nov. 08, 1994
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Research Institute For Applied Sciences, Kyoto, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3151691 ; 315248 ; 315326 ; 315D / ;
Abstract
A discharge tube including a tubular vessel which is filled with gases, and including a first gas and second gas, the first and second gases being different in excitation level and luminous color from each other. A first electrode unit axially applies an electric field to the vessel to generate a positive column in the vessel. A second electrode unit applies an electric field to the vessel to generate a negative glow in an area, the area extending substantially along a wall surface of the vessel and confronting the positive column generated by the electric field applied by the first electrode.