H01J 11/00
Gas-filled discharge tubes with alternating current induction of the discharge
Official title: Gas-filled discharge tubes with alternating current induction of the discharge, e.g. alternating current plasma display panels [AC-PDP] (circuits or methods for driving PDPs G09G3/28); Gas-filled discharge tubes without any main electrode inside the vessel; Gas-filled discharge tubes with at least one main electrode outside the vessel
H01J11/00 (Gas-filled discharge tubes with alternating current induction of the discharge) appears on 2,215 US grants and 2,856 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01J- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 2,856
- Assignees
- 329
- Inventors
- 3,080
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Implantable medical device selective encapsulation1 Sep 2026US 12,725,751 B2Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
- Devices and methods related to gas discharge tubes28 Jul 2026US 12,695,044 B2Bourns, Inc.
- Incontinence detection device18 Mar 2025US 12,255,036 B2Mad Bladder, Inc.
- Touch panel, display panel, and display unit4 Mar 2025US 12,242,701 B2Japan Display Inc.
- Sealant in a vacuum insulated glazing unit23 Apr 2024US 11,965,377 B2VKR Holding A/S
- Touch panel, display panel, and display unit29 May 2025US 2025/0173032 A1Japan Display Inc.
- Implantable medical device selective encapsulation29 Aug 2024US 2024/0290566 A1Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
- Devices and methods related to gas discharge tubes20 Jun 2024US 2024/0203681 A1Bourns, Inc.
- Touch panel, display panel, and display unit29 Feb 2024US 2024/0069681 A1Japan Display Inc.
- Touch panel, display panel, and display unit29 Jun 2023US 2023/0205382 A1Japan Display Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Full color surface discharge type plasma display device307US 5,661,500 AFujitsu Limited · 1997
- Surface discharge plasma display including light shielding film between adjacent electrode pairs254US 5,952,782 AFujitsu Limited · 1999
- Full color surface discharge type plasma display device249US 5,674,553 AFujitsu Limited · 1997
- Method and a circuit for gradationally driving a flat display device204US 6,630,916 B1Fujitsu Limited · 2003
- Plasma display panel having high brightness and high contrast using light absorption reflection film130US 7,323,819 B2Samsung SDI.Co., Ltd. · 2008