Abstract: Apparatus for providing a visual information screen by means of a plurality of gas cells serially arranged along gas channels within a glass panel, having orthogonal parallel conductors in dielectric separation over the channels, wherein a single electrical input circuit is utilized to ignite a gas cell which may be serially shifted to selected gas channels and subsequently parallel shifted with other similar gas cells along the channels by electrical excitation of the conductors.

Abstract: Improved construction of Flat Glass Plasma Display Panel of the type having planar conductors transversely oriented relative to elongated gas channels wherein dielectric separation exists between the planar conductors and gas channels, including preferred relationship between conductor spacing and channel depth, and joining of conductor pairs to facilitate external electrical connections to all conductors.

Abstract: Method is disclosed for applying sealing glass to glass surfaces intermediate multiple layers, etching channels through the sealing glass and partially into a glass layer, and bonding to the glass layers together to form a unitary glass display panel.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for selectively voltage-energizing adjacent lines in a planar plasma display panel having a plurality of orthogonal gas-filled channels relative to said adjacent lines, and wherein a display is created by the selective gaseous ignition of regions in the channels between lines, ignition regions may be shifted reliably according to the teachings of the invention.

Abstract: In a plasma display panel, of a conventional type or of the planar type, a drive system consists of an array of paired, parallel drive lines, both of which may be on the same side of the enclosed gas atmosphere, as with the planar panel, or disposed on opposite sides of the enclosed gas atmosphere, and a second array, orthogonal to the first, of paired parallel write/erase trigger lines. The parallel drive lines are driven continuously with a sustain voltage drive signal. The trigger lines are selectively driven in conjunction with a selected pair of the paired drive lines to write or erase a selected display element.

Abstract: A plasma display panel according to this disclosure comprises a plurality of display elements having a dielectric surface upon which charges may accumulate adjacent a plurality of conductors. The conductors are supported by a single substrate in substantially coplanar arrangement so that charge accumulation occurs at different locations on the dielectric. Specifically disclosed is a serial shift display wherein data to be displayed may be inputed at one edge of the panel for display and serially shifted across the panel by selective application of sustaining signals to selected electrodes. Data may be read out of this panel from the opposite end for recirculation or other purposes.