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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6140774 | Planar type plasma discharge display device and drive method A first electrode group and a second electrode group each being formed by planarly arraying a plurality of electrodes on a common substrate are arrayed such that the electrodes cross over through an insulating layer. A common discharge electrode portion i... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6011567 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus having a plurality of electron emitting devices and luminescent members are arranged into a matrix formed on one surface of a substrate. As rows of electron emitting devices are successively driven, each luminescent member emits... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5962968 | Vessel shapes and coil forms for electrodeless discharge lamps A discharge vessel for an electrodeless lamp having a pair of substantially parallel front and back walls. In one implementation, the front wall of the discharge vessel has a collimating structure, e.g a fresnel lens, for directing the light in a preferen... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5929887 | Low cost field emission based print head A photoprinter is described, including a print head comprising three parallel substrates, with the space between them being permanently evacuated. The middle substrate is divided into left and right parts with a space left between them. Suitable gettering... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5896008 | Electro-optical device An electro-optical device has a first substrate having non-overlapping first electrodes on a major surface thereof and a second substrate opposed to the first substrate having non-overlapping second electrodes on a major surface thereof. The second electr... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5854650 | Field emission print head Field-emitted electrons are converged by a structure according to the present invention in which odd order gate lines are connected to a first gate lead electrode, while even order gate lines are connected to a second gate lead electrode. When the first g... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5734221 | Vessel shapes and coil forms for electrodeless discharge lamps A discharge vessel for an electrodeless lamp having a pair of substantially parallel front and back walls. In one implementation, the front wall of the discharge vessel has a collimating structure, e.g a fresnel lens, for directing the light in a preferen... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5698941 | Optical correction layer for a light emitting apparatus An optical correction layer for a light emitting apparatus having gaps in brightness at the light-emitting surface. The optical correction layer includes a plurality of optical correction regions centered over the gaps, and a plurality of optically transp... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5666024 | Low capacitance field emission device with circular microtip array An electron emitter plate (110) for an FED image display has an extraction (gate) electrode (122, 222) spaced by a dielectric insulating layer (25) from a cathode electrode including a conductive mesh (118, 218). Circular arrays (112) of microtips (14) ar... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5627431 | Electro-optical device An electro-optical device with a first substrate having a plurality of non-overlapping first electrodes on a major surface and a second substrate mounted to oppose the first substrate and having a plurality of non-overlapping second electrodes on a major ... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5592206 | Write head for fluorescent printer A write head for a fluorescent printer which is capable of being prevented from being adversely affected by charging of electrons and opposite control electrodes and capable of forming an electrode pattern with high precision. Anodes 7 are arranged on a g... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5561344 | Photo-ionization detector for detecting volatile organic gases A photo-ionization detector utilizes an ultraviolet (UV) lamp and is designed for detecting and measuring the concentration of volatile gases flowing between closely spaced parallel electrodes. One of the electrodes is formed to allow photons to pass into... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5525862 | Electro-optical device An electro-optical device applied as an image display device includes a first substrate having a plurality of non-overlapping first electrodes on a major surface thereof; and a second substrate opposed to the first substrate and having a plurality of non-... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5504390 | Addressable electroluminescent display panel having a continuous footprint The present invention is directed to an addressable electroluminescent display which eliminates ghost images resulting from leads used to energize the display. The addressable display has a polymer film substrate with a first electrode deposited onto the ... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5428263 | Discharge cathode device with stress relieving layer and method for manufacturing the same According to the present invention there is provided a discharge cathode device comprising: a substrate, an Al layer formed on the substrate, and a layer of hexabonide of either lanthanum, a lanthanide or yttnium formed on the Al layer. There is also prov... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5408160 | Gas discharge electrodes Electrodes 11 and 12 in a cold-cathode discharge lamp have a row of holes 13 arranged side-by-side along their length. The holes are formed by laser machining and extend at an angle of between about 25° and 35° to the normal, the holes in the two electr... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5317231 | Plasma display device A planar discharge plasma display device which can be easily manufactured and has low optical loss includes a front and a rear plate, a plurality of anode signal lines and cathode signal lines arranged in an X-Y matrix on the rear plate and insulated so a... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5051648 | Flat type low pressure gas discharge lamp The discharge space of a flat type fluorescent lamp in which a pair of electrodes are oppositely positioned for producing discharge therebetween establishes a predetermined elongated width W along the pair of electrodes and a prescribed height H in a dire... | 09/24/1991 |
| 5045753 | Matrix display apparatus with repair wires A matrix display apparatus with a layered structure in which driving wires are layered on repair wires to sandwhich an insulating film therebetween, whereby it is possible to carry out complete driving of the display apparatus so that the location of pict... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5011582 | Method for producing electrochromic device with application of AC voltage between the electrode layers A method for producing an electrochromic device, comprises the steps of: (a) preparing a 5-layered laminate structure consisting of: A: electrode layer; B: reductive coloring electrochromic layer; C: ionic conductive layer; D0 : dispersion layer consisting of... | 04/30/1991 |
| 4933604 | Plate-type cathode ray tube device A plate-type cathode ray tube device is disclosed in which a plurality of electron beams are emitted in directions parallel to a fluorescent screen, each of the electron beams is so deflected as to be perpendicular to the fluorescent screen, and performs ... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4924148 | High brightness panel display device A high brightness panel display (20) includes a plurality of discrete gas discharge cells (24) sealed against a phosphor-carrying front panel section (26) and operable to produce a high brightness display. Gas discharges are ignited and extinguished in se... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4782265 | Electrochemical luminescent cell Electrochemical luminescent cell having a spacing of the plates (1, 2) provided with electrodes (5 and 6, respectively) from 10 to 100 μm, in which at least one of the oppositely located electrodes has a grid structure (13) or surface roughness, the size... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4743808 | Multi-layer electroluminescent element A multi-layer electroluminescent element so constructed that the overlapping area between a second voltage applying electrode and a transparent conductive layer is larger than the overlapping area between a first voltage applying electrode and the transpa... | 05/10/1988 |
| 4333040 | Gas discharge display device A gas discharge display device comprising alternately disposed anodes and cathodes, wherein the anodes and the cathodes are interconnected respectively in multi-phase connections whereby a bar-graph display can be effected by means of a self-scanning func... | 06/01/1982 |
| 4286265 | Bar graph display panel and system for displaying analog values therein The display panel comprises a gas-filled envelope which contains a series of aligned cathode electrodes, an anode for the series, and a reset cathode at each end of the series of cathodes. The system includes a driving circuit which repeatedly scans along... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4190787 | Phosphorus luminescent display tube A phosphorus luminescent display tube of the triode type having, in a vacuum casing, a filamentary cathode for emitting thermions, a control electrode for accelerating and controlling the thermions emitted from the cathode, a plurality of pattern display ... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4155030 | Multicolor display device using electroluminescent phosphor screen with internal memory and high resolution The disclosure utilizes a memory electroluminescent (EL) layer which has brightness-voltage (B-V) characteristics with multistable hysteresis loops of one color emission. Another EL layer of second color emission is incorporated therewith for a multicolor... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4139261 | Display panel constructions eliminating discontinuities between adjacent panels A display comprises a plurality of addressable display panels each having a display zone for displaying visual information and arranged in a formation so as to collectively provide a composite display of increased area. A fibre optic image transform const... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4004186 | Vacuum fluorescent display having a grid plate coplanar with the anode A vacuum fluorescent display is disclosed having a grid plate substantially coplanar with the anode and which is controllable with conventional metal oxide semiconductor devices. Each digit of the display includes a segmented anode structure substantially... | 01/18/1977 |
| 3975661 | Driving method for a thin-film electroluminescent element of a three-layer construction Disclosed is a driving method for a thin-film electroluminescent element of a three-layer construction which emits light and exhibits the hysteresis phenomenon within the light emission versus applied voltage characteristics. The light intensity is mainta... | 08/17/1976 |
