Number Title Abstract Date Inventor Assignee
1965582 Gas Discharge Display Device basic glow lamp from GE Ted E. Foulke General Electric Vapor Lamp Company
1965583 Electric Discharge Device shaped electrode geometry Ted E Foulke General Electric Vapor Lamp Company
1965585 Electric Gaseous Discharge Device Basic NE-2 patent Ted E. Foulke General Electric Vapor Lamp Company
1965586 Gaseous Electric Discharge Device selective patterning of electrodes Ted E. Foulke General Electric Vapor Lamp Company
1965587 Gaseous Elect. Disch. Dev. and Method of Ma Early glow bulb with shaped (flame) electrodes Ted E. Foulke General Electric Vapor Lamp Company
1965588 Gaseous Elect. Disch. Dev. and Method of Ma Ted E. Foulke General Electric Vapor Lamp Company
1965589 Gas. Elect. Disch. Dev. & Method of Making multiple electrode device chemistry Ted E. Foulke General Electric Vapor Lamp Company
2142106 Signalling System and Glow Lamps Therefor This is the basic patent for the Nixie type of display. Stacked, shaped cathodes. Hans P. Boswau
2874320 Indicating Device Character indicating devices, especially glow tubes Herbert J. Hampel Burroughs Corporation
2878407 Ion Control Means Prevention ion sputtering and deposition in glow discharge tubes Engelman, Joseph H.; Landrey, Leo R.; Legendre, Victor Burroughs Corporation
2984765 Electronic Controlled Information Bearing Device tube type (ala Bell Labs) display Douglas C. Engelbart Digital Techniques, Inc.
2988647 Panel for the Reproduction of Images El coupled device Simon Duinker North American Philips Company
3127535 Visual Readout Device key patent for transparent electrode devices H. T. Westerheim
3198980 Light-sensitive Glow Discharge Apparatus early parallel EO image processing forerunner Harold F. Martin International Business Machines Corporation
3262010 Electrical Display Apparatus...and Gas Discharge... plasma addressing before Tekvision/PALC .. many citations Benjamin Kazan Hughes Aircraft Company
3327154 Ionizable Gas Display Device with Segmented Electrodes early multilayar planar style device Edwin R. Bowerman General Telephone and Electronics Laboratories, Inc.
3334269 Character Display Panel ... cavities ... ballast... oft referenced patent Robert C. L'Heureux International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
3336499 Display Device with Plasma Discharge Propagating propagating type of shift register device Thomas R. O'Meara Hughes Aircraft Comanpy
3440488 System for Producing Illumination of Progressive Portions tube type bubble generator Clifford D. Skirvin Microdot, Inc.
3497751 Transparent Electrode and Device using the Same fine mesh looks like transparent electrode, but this pat is oft John Cullis, Jr. Burroughs Corporation
3499167 Gas Discharge Memory Display Device and Method basic digivue type of AC memory panel Theodore C. Baker Owens-Illinois, Inc.
3500390 Gaseous Glow Plural Character Presentation Device stacked nixie type construction with glass plates and box envelope Joseph T. McNaney
3509421 Plasma Gas Filled Display Device UV irradated cells for initiation and transfer George E. Holz Burroughs Corporation
3531685 Gas Discharge Storage and Display Matrix triggerable four terminal AC system George E. Holz Burroughs Corporation
3532809 Electronic Image Producing Apparatus Plasma addressed EL display with gas discharge shift register pulse generator Warner H. Witmer
3545374 High Speed Printer Employing a Gas Discharge Matrix Ion jet xerographic printer Charles D. Hemndricks, Jr. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3553458 Electrical Glow Discharge Display Devices basic image amplifier / plasma design -- also E News 26 July 19 Pieter Schagen U. S. Philips Corporation
3558975 Gas Filled Matrix Display Devices sandwich type James A. Ogle Burroughs Corporation
3559190 Gaseous Display and Memory Apparatus basic AC panel patent Donald L. Bitzer University of Illinois
3573531 Plasma Panel Display Device simple solid fired closed cell panel Donald R. Kerstetter Sylvania Electric Products
3573532 Electroluminescent Display Device Having Etched C multi-layer EL Gerald Boucher Sanders Associates
3579015 Electron Beam Addressed Plasma Display Panel CRT addressed storage panel Robert O. Gregory Monsanto Company
3579019 Light Cell Matrix Structure stamped electrodes for forming discharge and reflecting light Alfred D. Scarbrough The Bunker-Ramo Corporation
3580654 Method of Making Display Devices glass capsule of Hg which is ruptured by an electric current George A. Kupsky Burroughs Corporation
3585433 Three-Dimensional Gas Panel box o' gas George M. Krembs International Business Machines Corporation
3588590 Gas Discharge Plasma Tube having a Multi-turn primary laser tube excited by a coaxial inductive field Charles B. Zarowin International Business Machines Corporation
3588596 Two-Color Matrix-Type Display Panel simple two-sided panel -- duh Donald D. Tech International Business Machines Corporation
3589789 Method Of Producing an Open Cell Color Plasma Device deposition of multiple phosphors Carl R. Hubert International Business Machines Corporation
3590315 Plasma Panel Display System having a Source of Pri Wallace J. Hoff Westinghouse Electric Corporation
3597758 Display System strange addressing method based upon cross-linked sneak paths James C. Greeson International Business Machines Corporation
3599027 Display Discharge Tube having Improved Substrate Sperry type DC device where the raised ceramic islands are plat Michio Koshizuka Japan Radio Company Limited
3601531 Plasma Display Panel ... Multilevel Stable States Donald L. Bitzer University of Illinois Foundation
3601532 Plasma Display Panel ... Variable Intensity Display method of quantizing analog signals onto an AC memory panel Donald L. Bitzer University of Illinois Foundation
3602754 Capillary Tube Gas Discharge Display Panels Drawn closed tube construction to ease atmospheric pressure, ca Lawrence V. Pfaender Owens-Illinois, Inc.
3602756 Gas Ionization Display Device clever woven electrodes -- pantyhose are cheaper than ICs -- sounds good to me Robert E. Bonnet Englehard Minerals & Chemicals Company
3602757 Multiple-Luminescent Layer Improved Lumen Maintenance Layered phosphors in an illumination device for optimum output a Ansolm Wachtel? Westinghouse Electric Corporation
3603836 Conductor Configurations for Discharge Panels split electrodes to permit more light and add reduncancy for conductors John D. Grier
3603837 Visual Display Device simple closed cell matrix George Christie Turner
3611019 Gas Panel Apparatus and Method external electrodes on a gas and mesh filled cell George M. Krembs International Business Machines Corporation
3611020 Readout of Gas Cell AC panel electrical readout by locating electrode (Langmuir pro William L. Cotter Itek Corporation
3612938 Gas Discharge Tube Having Two Systems of Intersecting electrode coated wire dc xy panel Thijs Johannes De Boer U. S. Philips Corporation
3614509 Large Area Plasma Panel Display Device Open cell ac display Robert W. Willson Westinghouse Electric Corporation
3614511 Gas Discharge Display Memory Device grooved digivue to form a rigid structure to withsaand atmospheric pressure Theodore C. Baker Owens-Illinois, Inc.
3614526 Method and Means for Operating a Plasma Display thermally triggered DC type of addressing for short lifetime displays John L. Janning The National Cash Register Company
3617796 Display Panel Construction simplified steucture for self-scanII type of device Bernard Caras Burroughs Corporation
3617803 Raised Cathode Gas Discharge Indicator ... Sputter basic sperry type of DC segmented display with elevated electrodes to resist shorts James W. Wheeler Sperry Rand Corporation
3621332 Stacked Plate Visual Display Device stacked and laminated layer where the glow region is defined by an aperture plate John L. Janning The National Cash Register Company
3629637 Indicator Tube with Leads Extending Through Mesa t frit bottom for nixie base James Thomas Boyer Burroughs Corporation
3629638 Plasma Display Device with Internal-External Electro external electrode AC type display with means to isolate and sharpen discharge boundaries Harry Veron Sperry Rand Corporation
3639654 Removable Electrode Display Device Basic external electrode device -- similar to digivue only thick dielectric John L. Janning The National Cash Register Company
3644925 Gaseous Discharge Display Panel with Auxiliary Exci this is the basic self-scan device from Burroughs Corporation George A. Kupsky Burroughs Corporation
3646384 One-Sided Plasma Display Panel Single-sided planr matrix AC type display device Frank M. Lay International Business Machines Corporation
3683364 Display Panel ... Scanning Cell ... Plurality of Display modification of basic self-scan George E. Holz Burroughs Corporation
3764429 Method of Forming Cavities in a Plasma Display Pan John L. Janning The National Cash Register Company
3769543 Low Voltage Gas Discharge Display low voltage DC extraction panel not unlike the self-scan structuresof Burroughs William B. Pennebaker International Business Machines Corporation
3778126 Gas Dipsplay Panel without Exhaust Tube Structure sealing panels in the proper gas environment without pips Donald Miller Wilson International Business Machines Corporation
3778127 Sealing Technique for Gas Panel method of sealing evolved water vapor into a fritted panel Perry R. Langston, Jr. International Business Machines Corporation
3873169 Multiple Digit Display Device and Method of Manufac Akio Miyamoto Hitachi Ltd.
3873171 Multiple-Digit Display and Method of Manufacturing Same flat thick filmsegemnted multi-digit display with barriers between d Akio Miyamoto Hitachi, Ltd.
3903445 Display/Memory Panel having Increased Memory Ma see '446 Wolfgang W. Bode Owens-Illinois
3903446 Conditioning of Gas Discharge Display Device description of age and use effects of AC panels and their margins Michael E. Fein Owens-Illinois
3903448 Multiple Character Flat Panel Display Device nixie taken a half step forward for multiple digit displays etched and welded! Saul Kuchinsky Burroughs Corporation
3931436 Segmented Gas Discharge Display ... Method of Ma method of panelizing multiple displays for batch processing flow charts included George A. Kupsky Owens-Illinois
3976907 Gas Discharge Display Tube with Barrier ... Ion Scattering in-house device planar style sag glass envelope Yuzuru Yanagisawa Sony Corporation
3979623 Indicator Display Tube Planar configuration DC panel with anodes interposed with display cathodes Yuzuru Yanagisawa Sony Corporation
3987337 Plasma Display Panel Having Additional Discharge l AC panel with large keep-alive type cells to buffer varying capacitive effects Kazunori Nishida Nippon Electric Company
4035690 Plasma Panel Display Device Including Spheroidal G panel where EccoSpheres are filled with gas then AC excited in matrix fashion Frederick W. Roeber Raytheon Company
4106009 Single Substrate AC Plasma Display truly coplanar AC display with distant electrode spacing George Wilmer Dick Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated
4124926 Edge Terminations for Gas Discharge Display Devic conductive goo between substrates, connected to pattern on one face George A. Kupsky Owens-Illinois
4139250 Gas Discharge Display Panel and Method of Manufa method of sealing substrates where deformation is encouraged -- yucch. Jacobus H. Jacobs U. S. Philips Corporation
4157543 Indicia Display Device basic multilayer DC device Herman R. Person Dale Electronics, Inc.
4206382 Glass-to-Glass Sealing Method with Conductive Lay vacuum fluorescent type where SnOx connection are gas tight and wrap around Richard DuBois Wagner Electric Corporation
4206386 Gas Discharge Display Device polyphase addressing to minimize crosstalk and ionization times Hidezo Akutsu Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
4315259 System for Operating A Display Panel Having Memory AC display, DC adressed devive -- self-scan in put / digivue output Joseph E. McKee Burroughs Corporation
4370599 Self-Shift Type Gas Discharge PAnel shift register type of AC panel Tsutae Shinoda Fujitsu Limited
4407658 Gas Discharge Display Device Sealing Method ... Anthony J. Bernot Beckman Instruments, Inc.
4451761 Glass Composition and Gas-Filled Display Panel... high k glass for self-scan Nicholas W. Kay Burroughs Corporation
4529909 Gas Discharge Display Panel edge defined discharge electrode suspended in chamber for sputtering on non-view surface Takeo Kamegaya Okaya Electric Industries Co., Ltd.
4549109 Optical Display with Eximer Fluorescence Yeah, right an AC panel with fluorine gas -- great lifetime -- Oh!, military...OK William G. Nighan United Technologies Corporation
4554482 DC Type Gas DIscharge Panels use of LaB6 cathodes -- seems broad for use of lanthanides for cathodes -- electron uscope? Takeo Kamegaya Okaya Electric Industries Co., Ltd.
4554537 Gas Plasma Display addressing on single substrate by meancer pattern of electrodes George W. Dick AT&T Bell Laboratories
4566006 Gas Discharge Display Apparatus self-scan geometry, polyphase and truly co-planar Yukio Okamoto Hitachi, Ltd.
4588921 Vacuum-Fluorescent Display Matrix and Method of O VF device Kurt M. Tischer International Standard Electric Corporation
4613794 Charge Transfer Plasma Display Device two axis double substrate panel Osamu Oida NEC Corporation
4870326 Method and Apparatus for Driving Neon ... Bubbles... another very specific, very bad style of patent -- the old let the PatOff do your search for you" Jack Andresen
4887003 Screen Printable Luminous Panel Display Device the winner in the world's worst patent contest -- pure rubbish William P. Parker
5007872 Screened Interconnect System method of vias between substrates Sang T. Tang Babcock Display Products
5095626 Method of producing semiconductor packaging how to point out the goofiness of the patent system Kitamura Hitachi, Ltd
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