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Stable brightness vacuum fluorescent display

US4859912A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 26, 1985
Grant dateAug 22, 1989
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Expiry dateAug 26, 2005

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG09G3/06
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

To avoid non uniform brightness or flickering of a vacuum fluorescent display especially at low brightness levels anodes energizing pulses sent to each end of the display are coordinated with the AC filament current so that successive pulses or group of pulses are initiated at opposite phases of the filament current at sufficiently high rates to time average the light variations of a critical flicker fusion period to obtain uniform perceived display brightness.

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