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Thin-film EL display panel drive circuit

US4914353A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJul 8, 1988
Grant dateApr 3, 1990
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Expiry dateJul 8, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG09G2310/0275
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The preferred embodiment discloses a new thin-film EL display panel drive circuit using EL layers installed between the scan-side electrodes and the data-side electrodes aligned so as to allow them to cross one another, comprising: scan-side electrodes connected to the drain terminal of the N-ch high-voltage resistant driver having a grounded source terminal and also connected to the other drain terminal of the P-ch high-voltage resistant driver having a source terminal connected to the pull-up charge drive circuit and to the write drive circuit via the scan-side common bus line; and data-side electrodes connected to the drain terminal of the N-ch high-voltage resistant driver having a grounded source terminal and also having the anode common terminal connected to the cathode terminal of the diode array connected to the preliminary charge drive circuit via the data-side common bus line. By grounding the source terminal to the scan-side N-ch MOS ICs, some of the floating-output logic-circuit driving power sources and some of the logic signal transmission photo-couplers can be eliminated. This not only saves component elements conventionally needed for the P-N symmetric EL display pa…

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