Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display backplane, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device. The display backplane includes: a substrate defining a transparent display area and a normal display area; a first insulating layer disposed on a side of the substrate and having a plurality of openings; an emitting layer disposed in the openings; and a first electrode disposed on a remote side of the emitting layer from the substrate and including a first sub-layer and a second sub-layer which are stacked, wherein an orthographic projection of the emitting layer on the substrate is within an orthographic projection of the second sub-layer on the substrate, and the sub-layer is patterned in the transparent display area.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device (300) includes a liquid crystal panel (200) and a liquid crystal driver (100) that drives the liquid crystal panel (200). The liquid crystal panel (200) includes a segment electrode (ESD1) and segment signal lines (LSD1, LSD2) that are connected to the segment electrode (ESD1). The liquid crystal driver (100) includes segment terminals (TSD1, TSD2) to be connected to the segment signal lines (LSD1, LSD2), and a segment driving circuit. The segment driving circuit outputs a first segment driving signal to the segment signal line (LSD1) through the segment terminal (TSD1), and outputs a second segment driving signal to the segment signal line (LSD2) through the segment terminal (TSD2).

Abstract: A mischarge detection method, a mischarge detection apparatus, and a display apparatus are provided. The mischarge detection method includes: acquiring a target sub-pixel; cutting off a connection between the target sub-pixel and sub-pixels adjacent to the target sub-pixel in a vertical direction; cutting off a connection between the target sub-pixel and the target data line; outputting a scanning signal of the target scanning line to the pixel electrode of the target sub-pixel through the target data line, the target common electrode line sequentially; acquiring the scanning signal of the target scanning line from the pixel electrode of the target sub-pixel; and acquiring a mischarge degree of an array substrate according to the scanning signal of the target scanning line.

Abstract: The plasma display device has a display panel having first and second display electrodes and address electrodes, an electrode drive circuit, and a drive control circuit for controlling the electrode drive circuit. The drive control circuit performs a reset drive control, address drive control and sustain drive control in each subfield. The drive control circuit performs an all cell reset drive control which resets all cells in a first subfield out of the plurality of subfields, and an ON cell reset drive control which resets ON cells in a second subfield. At a first temperature T1, an ultimate potential of an slope pulse of the first display electrode is controlled to be a first potential in the ON cell reset drive control, and at a second temperature T2>T1, the ultimate potential is controlled to be a second potential higher than the first potential.

Abstract: An electroluminescent article is described, wherein the article includes one or more electroluminescent structures, which may in some embodiments be discontinuous from each other. The article further includes one or more retroreflective structures and, optionally, a removable carrier film disposed over the electroluminescent structures and the retroreflective structures. In some embodiments, the retroreflective structures may be disposed at least partially in the light path capable of being emitted by one or more of the electroluminescent structures. Exemplary articles may, optionally, include connectors between electroluminescent structures that comprise conductive adhesive. Exemplary articles according to the present disclosure may be disposed in roll form. The present disclosure also includes methods for making such articles.

Abstract: A display device comprising a first and a second set of electrodes (2, 5), and a plurality of light-emitting elements (3), arranged between said sets of electrodes. The display further comprises an electromechanically operable foil (6), located between said light-emitting elements (3) and said second set of electrodes, with a conducting layer facing the light-emitting elements (3). The foil (6) is arranged to place the conducting layer (7) in contact with selected ones of said light-emitting elements (3), thereby closing a circuit from said first set of electrodes (2), via said elements (3), to said conducting layer (7). Thus, the foil acts as a plurality of “switches”, connecting selected light-emitting elements to the conducting layer. This function can be used for controlling the light-emitting elements with a higher degree of accuracy.

Abstract: A discharge lamp of the short arc type having a trigger wire which can be installed in a state which is suitable for a directional capacity of the electrode regardless of what type of base the lamp has is achieved by the trigger wire on the outside surface of an arc tube having the following characteristic: an annular area that is formed by a portion of the trigger wire which is looped around the arc tube and elastically held against the outside surface of the arc tube; a first holding part which adjoins a first end of the portion of the trigger wire that forms the annular area and which extends in an axial direction along the arc tube; a second holding part which adjoins a second end of end of the portion of the trigger wire that forms the annular area and which extends in the axial direction along the arc tube.

Abstract: A plasma address electrooptical device is provided, wherein the distance between a liquid crystal drive electrode 6a and an adjacent liquid crystal drive electrode 6b is set to be equal to or greater than the distance between the lower surface of said liquid crystal drive electrode 6a and the lower surface of a dielectric layer 3. Moreover, by providing additional electrodes between liquid crystal drive electrodes of the plasma address electrooptical device, the display leakage to adjacent pixels is reduced even further.

Abstract: A PDP drive method capable of restraining the generation of contour noise and making to be high a brightness level. In the PDP drive method, discharging cells on the plasma display panel start simultaneously on a radio frequency discharge by row lines. Next, the radio frequency discharge, which is caused in each discharging cell on the row line, is erased by applying an erasing pulse corresponding to a brightness level of video to the discharging cells on a row line.

Abstract: An electrode for an electro-optical device is provided. Light is passing through this electrode which comprises a pattern of conductive elements. The elements have dimensions small compared to the wavelength of light, so that the electrode appear transparent. The light intensity distribution after having penetrated the electrode compared with the light intensity distribution before having penetrated the electrode is influenced by forward scattering.

Abstract: A mesh grid for a fluorescent display tube capable of effectively preventing a deformed mesh from being in contact with fluorescent substance without disturbing indications on an anode display unit. The mesh grid is mounted over an anode substrate with adhesive. A mesh of the mesh grid is disposed over the anode display unit including a plurality of anode segments. The mesh is formed in a hexagonal pattern. On the mesh, protruding portions directed to the anode display unit are formed. The protruding portions are disposed at positions opposing the anode display unit but not opposing each of the anode segments. The protruding portions are formed by pressing the mesh toward the anode display unit with each intersection of fine wires in a hexagonal pattern.

Abstract: An electroluminescent device in accordance with the present invention includes a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed on a dielectric layer and coupled to control circuitry. An electroluminescent stack and a transparent electrode are included wherein the electroluminescent stack is disposed between the transparent electrode and the plurality of pixel electrodes. A plurality of guides are disposed between each of the pixel electrodes for guiding light from the electroluminescent stack when the pixel electrodes are activated by the control circuitry and reducing internal reflections of light within the electroluminescent stack. Another device and method include a dielectric layer disposed between the pixel electrodes for absorbing light and reducing a threshold voltage of the stack.

Abstract: A fluorescent display tube including a substrate, a plurality of anodes formed on the substrate, fluorescent layers formed on the respective anodes, cathodes located above the fluorescent layers to generate electrons which strike the fluorescent layers, ribs formed of an electrically insulating material on the substrate so as to surround at least a portion of a periphery of each of the anodes and having a larger height from the substrate than the fluorescent layers, and grid electrodes formed on the respective ribs to control activation of the fluorescent layers. Each rib consists of a plurality of layers laminated by screen printing using a paste which includes the electrically insulating material.

Abstract: A chip-in-glass fluorescent indicator panel includes a glass substrate, a wiring layer, an insulating layer, a pattern-like graphite layer, a phosphor layer, a filament, a grid, an IC, an IC shield, a filament fixing portion, and an anchor. The wiring layer is formed on the glass substrate. The insulating layer covers the wiring layer. The pattern-like graphite layer is formed on the insulating layer to be electrically connected to the wiring layer. The phosphor layer is formed on the pattern-like graphite layer. The filament is suspended above phosphor layer with an interval. The grid is arranged between the filament and the phosphor layer. The IC is fixed on the insulating layer on one end side of the glass substrate to be connected to the pattern-like graphite layer through the wiring layer. The IC shield is arranged between the IC and the filament. The filament fixing portion is formed on the IC shield.

Abstract: A fluorescent display device including a laterally elongated matrix-like display section and a plurality of control electrodes arranged in juxtaposition to each other while a longitudinal direction thereof is defined in a short side direction of the display section is disclosed which is capable of increasing a duty ratio when scanning the control electrodes. A plurality of picture cells are arranged longitudinally and laterally at equal intervals, resulting in forming the matrix-like display section. A plurality of sets of picture cells in an oblique direction are connected together. The control electrodes are connected together at every predetermined interval. Thus, when the control electrodes are scanned and the anode conductors are fed with a display signal, the fluorescent display device carries out graphic display while selecting desired picture cells at a high duty ratio.

Abstract: An arc stabilization arrangement for a discharge lamp having a light transmissive arc tube containing a fill of gas excitable to a discharge state upon introduction thereto of a drive signal having a predetermined frequency associated therewith, includes a modulating arrangement effective for providing a modulating signal which is imposed onto the drive signal. The modulating signal has a frequency associated therewith which approximates the acoustic resonance of the gases within the fill, such modulating signal frequency being less than the frequency of the drive signal. In one embodiment of the invention the modulating arrangement is an amplitude modulating scheme effective such that a modulating amplitude of greater than about 5% of the amplitude of the drive signal is achieved. In yet a further implementation of the present invention, the frequency of the modulating signal is swept about a range of frequencies so that a varying acoustic resonance frequency can be encompassed by the modulating signal.

Abstract: An improved electrode structure (42', 42") for an addressing structure using an ionizable gaseous medium has a plurality of plasma discharge channels (20') and a reference electrode (30', 30") and a row electrode (62') extending along each channel. The channels open into a plenum (118) for exhausting gases from the channels and introducing into the channels an ionizable gaseous medium at a predetermined pressure. The reference electrodes and the row electrodes enter from opposite ends of the channels, and the reference electrodes cross below the plenum. The row electrodes have an end (110) spaced from the ends (102) of the channels. The end of the row electrodes is separated from the end of the channels by a first distance (D) adequate to prevent undesirable plasma discharge while the electrode structure is operating. In a first embodiment (42') the reference electrodes have an end (112) spaced from a first perimeter seal (106).

Abstract: A special effect light bulb combines both cathode glow illumination with fluorescent illumination. A pair of plates respectively electrically connected to a pair of electrical lead wires jointly define a word, phrase or well-known symbol which is illuminated within an inert gas during operation of the light bulb. A third plate, having a fluorescent coating which is activated only by the ionized inert gas, is shaped in the form of a distinct symbol.

Abstract: A cold cathode gas discharge display panel comprising a gas-filled envelope including a glass base plate and glass face plate. An array of linear electrodes are provided on the base plate with some of the cathodes having adjacent ends. The usual masking layer of insulating material is provided on the base plate to outline the cathodes but this insulating layer does not cover the adjacent ends of the cathodes so that these ends are operatively disposed close together. Thus an improved glow blending of adjacent cathode ends is achieved.

Abstract: A gas discharge display device comprises upper and lower substrates having anodes and cathodes thereon. An envelope is formed between the upper and lower substrates and includes an ionizable gas therein. A resistance heater element is placed on the lower substrate adjacent the cathode, and at layer of dielectric material is printed over both the cathode and the heater. The heater includes a pair of trimming elements which extend parallel to one another and which may be connected at any one of a plurality of points along their lengths to achieve the desired trimmed resistance value for the heater element.

Abstract: A display panel has an evacuated envelope with at least one transparent panel. Phosphor is deposited inside the panel at locations which are visible through the transparent panel. Two sets of electrodes are associated with the phosphor for locally controlling the brightness of the phosphor to give bright and dim displays, respectively, which are viewed through the transparent panel. The two displays are arranged to give a three dimensional appearance.

Abstract: A composition for a conductor ink used in a screening process and including a nickel powder, a lead-free glass binder, and a vehicle suitable for firing at a temperature below about 590.degree. C. The conductor composition is designed for use in gas plasma display panels.

Abstract: A gaseous display panel having a base plate and a face plate is disclosed. A plurality of groups of cathode segments are disposed on the base plate, and a plurality of anodes are disposed on the face plate. Each anode has a plurality of electrically conductive web portions extending across at least one of the cathode segments, the anodes, including the web portions, being deposited onto the face plate simultaneously with the application of a conductive layer used to outline the anode.

Abstract: A screenable ink for forming conductors in a gas-filled display panel including aluminum and an aluminum alloy as important constituents and a panel including such conductors as reinforcing transparent conductive films.

Abstract: A gas discharge display tube, which has a rear tube wall with parallel extending cathode strips mounted thereon characterized by the cathode strips being mounted by each strip having a pair of spring plates slidably received on pins which are fused into the rear wall of the tube. Preferably, each of the strips has a box-like cross section for slidably receiving the spring plates so that the strip can be shifted along its length on the pins. In addition, the pins for adjacent strips are offset from each other so that the pins are aligned in two rows at each end of each of the cathode strips.

Abstract: A driving circuit for a luminescent display tube having a plurality of segment anodes arranged in a predetermined direction and each provided with a luminescent material layer, the segment anodes being divided into a plurality of groups each having the same number of the segment anodes, the corresponding segment anodes of the respective groups being connected in common, and a plurality of control grids provided separately for the respective groups, comprising a scanning pulse generating circuit section for generating scanning pulses for successively driving the segment anodes connected in common, and a control circuit section adapted to receive the scanning pulses from the scanning pulse generating circuit section and input numeric signals and adapted to give driving signals to the control grids according to the input numeric signals.

Abstract: A plurality of measurement readout displays electrically insulated from one another are provided on a plate member, each of which displays is performed by making use of an excitable material which is capable of being visible only upon the application of a voltage thereto.

Abstract: A gaseous breakdown display device is disclosed capable of producing a chromatic picture or display pattern. This is accomplished by a selective excitation of electrodes associated with dielectric sheets containing phosphors capable of emitting the primary colors. Also disclosed is a dot matrix display device capable of producing an alphanumerical display device.

Abstract: A mesh electrode for a c.r.t. display device consists of a number of coplanar portions of mesh insulated from each other and secured to a support plate by means of a refractory compound incorporating particles larger than the pitch of the mesh. These particles space the mesh away from the support plate and allow the electrode to be easily fabricated.

Abstract: A display panel includes one or more character display positions, each of which comprises a cathode, an anode, and an array of anodic display elements. The display elements comprise conductive phosphor segments which can be energized in different combinations to emit light and display a character. In operation of the panel, the cathode and anode are connected in an operating circuit, and then selected phosphor segments are energized by information signals to transfer electrons thereto and to display a character.

Abstract: A substrate assembly for a fluorescent or phosphorescent display panel comprises segmented electrodes, for deposition thereon of masses of a fluorescent or phosphorescent material, respectively, on electroconductive leads disposed on a substrate of an electrically insulating material, such as glass or ceramics. Each segmented electrode comprises graphite powder bound into a mass by a zinc oxide containing vitreous material that does not substantially include lead. The segmented electrode may consist of an intermediate layer placed on each electroconductive lead and a segmented layer disposed on the intermediate layer.

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 multi-figure fluorescent display tube includes in the casing a plurality of anode display portions formed of segment electrodes each having a fluorescent material layer thereon, cathodes and control electrodes disposed opposite to the anode display portions, lead-in wires led out in an air-tight manner from the casing and electrically connected to the segment electrodes, the control electrodes and the cathodes, a plurality of conductive sections each connected to adjacent common segment electrodes through a corresponding conductive wiring film, the lead-in wires for the segment electrode terminal each having at the end thereof in the casing a contact with a spring portion, the contact coming in contact with the corresponding conductive section by the action of the spring portion thereby establishing an electrical connection.

Abstract: There is disclosed an improved gaseous discharge display panel device and process of manufacturing same. A cathode electrode, and mask structures are printed and fired on a glass substrate, the electrodes being printed first. Upon completion of fabrication of the electrode and dielectric mask structures, they are assembled with like formed anode plate structure. Individual devices are then assembled with use of a frit seal incorporating spacer spheres. In forming the devices, fusion of the seal material may be done in an environment of the fill gas or the gas may be processed through a small gap left in the seal structure and, the gap is closed with a short gob of sealing glass after outgasing and gas filling are performed.

Abstract: There is disclosed an improved gaseous discharge display device having segmented electrodes, typically cathode electrodes, shaped in the form of segments of characters to be displayed, a viewing plate carrying an opposing electrode, typically an anode electrode, there being one such anode electrode for each character position to be displayed and a seal sealing the electrodes and a gaseous medium at glow discharge pressure therein. The cathode electrodes are a sputter resistant material selected from the group consisting of silicon carbide, tungsten boride, chromium boride, molybdenum boride and molybdenum disilicide, these sputter resistant materials being in powder form deposited upon the dielectric substrate to form at least some of the electrodes and in a preferred form, the sputter resistant material is applied as a coating to conventional precious metal electrodes such as silver.

Abstract: There is disclosed an improved gaseous discharge display panel device and process of manufacturing same. A large number of cathode substrate electrode and mask structures are printed and fired on a single glass sheet, the electrodes being printed first and dried/cured at a higher temperature than subsequently applied mask and electrical crossovers, which are cured at lower temperatures. Upon completion of fabrication of the electrode and dielectric mask structures and crossover connections, the glass plate is simply scored and separated to provide individual back substrate and electrode mask structures which are then assembled with a like formed annode plate structure. Individual devices are then assembled with use of a seal rod preformed to have a gap in the seal structure and a laser facturable mercury dispensing giver.