Lighting method for vacuum fluorescent display with reduced flickering
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorHajime Murata
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Abstract
A lighting method for vacuum fluorescent display which is lighted dynamically with frequency f.sub.1 includes applying a time-varying voltage with approximate frequency of (n+1/2)f.sub.1 to the cathode of the vacuum fluorescent display, where n is a predetermined natural number. By the method described, flickering in the display is suppressed even when, in the dynamical lighting of the vacuum fluorescent display, the cathode of the vacuum fluorescent display is heated with a time-varying voltage and the lighting duty ratio is reduced.
Claims4
A method for preventing a flickering phenomena in a vacuum fluorescent display tube lighted dynamically and used as a display for a motor vehicle, comprising adjusting a ratio between a frequency f.sub.1 of a first time-varying voltage applied to at least one of an anode and a grid of the tube and a frequency f.sub.2 of a second time-varying voltage applied to a cathode of the tube so that a beat frequency of the f.sub.1 and f.sub.2 frequencies is produced and becomes larger than a critical fusion frequency for a human eye, wherein f.sub.1 is set at a frequency sufficiently smaller than frequencies which will cause radio wave faults in devices disposed around the display for the motor vehicle, and f.sub.2 is adjusted approximately equal to (n+1/2)f.sub.1, where n is a predetermined natural number.
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