Abstract: The fluorescent display tube is of the flat tube type driven by a dynamic drive system. The tube comprises a transparent envelope made up of a flat substrate and a cover spaced therefrom. A first display unit is formed on the inner surface of the substrate while a second display unit is formed on the inner surface of the cover. Each of the first and second display units comprises electrodes arranged in a pattern to be displayed and phosphor films coated on the electrodes. The electrodes of the second display unit are made of transparent material. Where the electrodes of respective display units are selectively energized the phosphor films on the selected electrodes are caused to fluoresce by thermal electrons generated by a cathode electrode thus displaying a desired pattern.

Abstract: A fluorescent display panel device comprising a casing formed of a base plate and a cover plate bonded airtightly together, a digital display section provided on the base plate and adapted to selectively and digitally display multi-column characters, figures, symbols and the like utilizing light emission of fluorescent substance, and an analog display section provided on the base plate adapted to selectively perform dot-shaped and/or bar-shaped analog display utilizing dot anodes linearly provided and having fluorescent layers thereon.

Abstract: A luminescent display panel comprises a planar anode assembly comprising luminescent anode segments. A glass cover has peripheral flange portions surrounding a window area. So as to enclose a vacuum space, the flange portions are hermetically sealed to the anode assembly by a frit glass layer together with lead-out conductors arranged along at least one particular flange portion for the anode segments, at least one grid, and at least one hot cathode. A transparent and electroconductive film is formed mainly on an inside surface of the window area. The film may be formed also on the flange portions. If formed, the film portion formed on the particular flange portion should have a higher electric resistance than the electroconductive film portion. For example, the resistances should be 10 M.OMEGA. or more between two adjacent lead-out conductors for the anode segments, 1 M.OMEGA.

Abstract: An envelope for hermetically containing various functional elements of an indicator tube is disclosed. The envelope includes a base plate and a transparent cover mounted on a front surface of the base plate to form a chamber with the base plate which contains a plurality of the indicator elements. The cover comprises a channel plate having a transparent upper viewing window and side ridges or walls and a pair of strips to be bonded to the open side ends of the channel plate.

Abstract: In one preferred form of calculators, a multi-digit fluorescent display tube and an LSI semiconductor chip together are disposed on a printed circuit flexible film. More particularly, individual components of the multi-digit fluorescent display tube (that is, segmented anode electrodes, grid or accelerator electrodes and a directly heated type filament) and the LSI semiconductor chip are housed within a common package which in turn is disposed directly on the printed circuit flexible film. Connection between the fluorescent display tube and the LSI chip is accomplished by conductor leaves carried on the printed circuit flexible film. In addition, the printed circuit flexible film carries a plurality of stationary key contacts which constitute the keyboard of the calculators.

Abstract: A luminescent display panel comprises a substrate assembly comprising a solid insulator substrate and an underlying and an overlying insulator layer successively thereon, a glass cover, and a sealing layer sealing the glass cover and the substrate assembly to enclose a vacuum space where electrodes of the panel are placed. Use is made of a sealing mass for positively eliminating slow leak which otherwise occurs if at least one of the leads for the electrodes interposed between the insulator layers is extended outwardly of the vacuum space continuously along the overlying layer. The sealing mass may comprise that portion of the underlying layer which lies across the sealing layer, with all leads laid directly on the solid substrate at their portions extended across the sealing layer.

Abstract: A multi-digit luminescent display tube comprises a plurality of luminescent anode segment groups. All anode segment groups may be regularly spaced. Alternatively, at least one single anode segment group may be spaced wider from the remaining regularly spaced ones. A grid is interposed between a cathode and each anode segment group and comprises a pair of grid frame members, or rectangular metal rods, transversely of the cathode. Two of the frame members are made wider on both ends of a series of regularly spaced grids than other frame members of the grid series. Both frame members are also made wider for the single anode segment group than the above-mentioned other frame members.

Abstract: A multisegmented electrophoretic display such as a numerical display in which the lead lines are hidden from the observer's view and prevented from having a switching function by separating the lead lines from the electrophoretic suspension by means of an insulating and a conducting layer.

Abstract: A multi-column fluorescent display tube having a filament cathode provided opposite to a plurality of fluorescent display sections, which comprises at least a filament damper made of an insulating material low in thermal conductivity and having contact sections for supporting and stretching the filament cathode under tension at the middle portion of the filament cathode, and filament damper supporters so formed that it can prevent electrification of the surface of the filament damper.

Abstract: In a flat type fluorescent character indicating tube wherein a plurality of digit indicating elements are arranged in an evacuated envelope, there is provided a getter support structure located adjacent one end of the envelope. The getter support structure includes a shield plate extending toward the inner surface of the envelope to minimize distribution of the getter film toward the location of the digit indicating elements. At least one filament is extended above the digit indicating elements and its one end is secured to the getter support structure at a location beyond the shield plate.

Abstract: An enclosure containing an ionizable gas has electrodes mounted in opposition on opposite faces of the enclosure. A first set of electrodes on one side of the enclosure are energized in sequence. A second set of electrodes on the opposite side of the enclosure form a multiple-element character matrix in which groups of elements are electrically commoned so that the number of electrodes, and respective leads thereto, in the second set is less than the number of elements of the matrix. The electrodes of the first set are mounted and shaped so that each is opposite a plurality of electrodes of the first set, and so that the same electrode of the second set is opposite several electrodes of the first set. Thus different portions of the same electrodes of the first set, representing different elements of the matrix, can be separately actuated during the different time periods of energization of the electrodes of the first set.

Abstract: A flat type display tube has an exhaust tube extending outward in a plane of the surface of the substrate and a plurality of current supply lead-in strips. The exhaust tube and lead-in strips extend in the same direction from a body of the display tube. The lead-in strip is bent partway in a position short of the exhaust tube and in a direction substantially vertical to the plane of the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: 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 surrounded by a control electrode or grid plate. At least one cathode is disposed adjacent the anode segments and control electrode such that the distance between the cathode and the control electrode is less than the distance between the cathode and any of the anode segments. Utilizing such a structure, a voltage on the order of about -5 volts on the control electrode is effective to cut off luminescence from any of the anode segments of that digit.

Abstract: A multi-digit luminescence display tube comprises an anode assembly including a plurality of luminescent anode segments for each digit, a cathode, a plurality of grids disposed between the cathode and the anode segments of the respective digits, structure for supplying first voltages to the grids and to at least a selected one of the anode segments to make the same luminesce, and apparatus for superposing a second voltage on the first voltage supplied to at least a selected one of the grids to suppress luminescence at the anode segments covered thereby. The cathode comprises a common filament for the anode segments of all digits. Structure is provided for rendering the second voltage non-negative without adversely affecting the brightness of the selected anode segment which are not covered by the selected grid.

Abstract: A TV channel indicator is disclosed where the channel numbers 1 to 9 are indicated substantially in the center part of the indicator, which also coincides with that of the channel numbers 10 to 99.

Abstract: The invention relates to data display devices having a segmented structure. It provides a display device whose adjacent coplanar segments are divided up into complementary areas respectively connected to excitation units controlled simultaneously in such manner as to produce, in the absence of break down, a homogeneous display of the segments. The invention applies to display by elementary sources of light or by liquid crystals and other materials having electro-optical properties.

Abstract: In an improved digital display device relying on the phenomenon of dispersion of incident light by nematic crystals across which an electric field is imposed, an arrangement of transparent conductive segments in groups on opposing parallel plates makes it possible to reduce the number of leads necessary for displaying any digit from zero to nine from the conventional eight leads to six leads. The impressed voltage necessary for causing the nematic liquid crystals to disperse light is applied in pulses to different segments in each group in succession, the pulses being supplied at a sufficiently high frequency so that each pulsed segment appears to be continuously actuated.