System for driving a gas discharge display
CA 1165481 A · Owner: Sangamo Weston, Inc. · Inventors: Nadolski, James J.
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An improved system for driving a gas discharge display which prevents streamers of ionized gas from forming between adjacent character positions. Each of a plurality of character positions has an anode driver to which anode drive signals are sequentially applied. All odd character positions share a first cathode decoder/driver and all even character positions share a second cathode decoder/driver. Cathode drive signals are simultaneously applied to the first and second decoder/driver circuits. A first logic device responsive to all odd position anode drive signals outputs a, blanking signal which is applied to the blanking input of the even character cathode decoder/driver to bias all even …
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- Granted April 10, 1984. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended April 10, 2001.
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