Abstract: A method of healing low-ohmic defects in a flat display is characterized by passing an extra current during a pre-determined time period through the affected subarea of the flat display, said current being selected to turn at least one defect or a specific surrounding of at least one defect into a high-ohmic state which has a resistance higher than the initial resistance of said at least one defect.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for the computer-implemented processing of electronic payment instructions, wherein in a first step total instruction data contained in a payment instruction are analysed in an instruction input processor and separated into payment instruction data which are needed for processing the payment instruction and accounting data which are not needed for processing the payment instruction, the payment instruction data being converted into a uniform metaformat for processing in a subsequent payment processing apparatus (payment engine) and the accounting data being stored temporarily in a data bank together with linkage instructions, in a second step the payment instruction data converted into the metaformat are processed in the subsequent payment processing device, while, for each payee, there is automatically a routing identification and a clearing identification and, depending on the clearing identification, internal preparation of the payment instruction entry, and in a third step the automat

Abstract: The invention relates to a plasma picture screen with a protective layer (5) made of materials having a low electron affinity and a high resistance to sputtering.

Abstract: A plasma display comprises a front panel, a rear panel, and, arranged therebetween, a number of gas-containing plasma cells separated from each other by partitions. The plasma cells each comprise a plasma region between two discharge electrodes and means arranged between the discharge electrodes for locally substantially narrowing the plasma region.

Abstract: The invention relates to a plasma picture screen with a protective layer (5) made of materials having a low electron affinity and a high resistance to sputtering.

Abstract: Lighting apparatus includes a dielectric barrier discharge lamp having a discharge vessel enclosing a discharge space having a filling, first and second main electrodes, a dielectric sheet between the first main electrode and the discharge space, and a first circuit part for generating an operating voltage between the main electrodes. A plurality of electrode bodies mounted in or on the dielectric sheet form an auxiliary electrode, and a second circuit part generates auxiliary voltages between the electrode bodies for generating an auxiliary discharge in the discharge space.

Abstract: In automobiles, for example, the exhaust fumes must pass through a plasma reactor operating by the principle of dielectrically inhibited ("silent") discharge, consisting of an arrangement of flat plates with alternating metallic and dielectric layers, whereby a plurality of adjacent discharge paths in parallel in the flow direction are formed. According to the invention, the discharge paths border on a single metallic electrode surface or layer (62, 72) and the electric power is supplied (58, 59) from two different sides with the metallic layers (62, 72) having alternating polarities.