Full color surface discharge type plasma display device

A full color surface discharge plasma display device, comprising:

• first and second substrates in facing and parallel relationship and defining a space therebetween in which a discharge gas is filled, the first substrate being disposed on a side of a viewer;
• a plurality of pairs of display electrodes formed in parallel on the first substrate and facing the second substrate and extending in a first direction, the display electrodes of each pair being in parallel and spaced relationship and constituting an electrode pair for surface discharge, each display electrode comprising a combination of a transparent conductor line and a metal line in contact with said transparent conductor line and having a width narrower than a width of the transparent conductor line;
• a dielectric layer over the display electrodes and the first substrate;
• a plurality of address electrodes, formed on the second substrate and facing the first substrate, extending in a second direction and intersecting the display electrodes;
• barriers on the second substrate in parallel with said address electrodes and dividing said discharge gas space into elongated cavities, each barrier having corresponding side walls;
• a plurality of phosphor layers facing the display electrodes, each phosphor layer emitting a respective and different luminescent color and being defined as a plurality of phosphor layer stripes, each stripe extending substantially without interruption throughout a length thereof, disposed adjacent respective address electrodes in plural, successive sets spaced in the first direction, each set including plural stripes in a common arrangement of respective and successive, different luminescent colors;
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• the intersecting portions of each set of address electrodes with each pair of display electrodes defining a corresponding image element of plural luminescent areas respectively defined by the portions of the address electrodes and the associated phosphor layer stripes of the respective and different luminescent colors.

A full color surface discharge type plasma display device comprising:

• a plurality of pairs of display electrodes extending in parallel relationship with respect to each other in a first direction and disposed substantially in a common, first plane, the display electrodes of each pair defining a surface discharge space therebetween;
• a plurality of sets of address electrodes disposed substantially in a common, second plane and extending in a second direction, perpendicular to the first direction, and disposed in parallel, spaced relationship in the first direction, each set comprising a group of plural address electrodes intersecting the display electrodes;
• a plurality of phosphor layers of respective, different luminescent colors disposed in facing relationship with respect to the display electrodes, the number of the plurality of phosphor layers corresponding to the number of the plural address electrodes of each set of the plurality of sets of address electrodes thereof and each layer comprising a plurality of corresponding, elongated phosphor stripes, the respective pluralities of the corresponding, elongated phosphor stripes of the plurality of phosphor layers being arranged in successive and repetitive sets, the successive sets being displaced in the first direction and each set corresponding to a respective set of address electrodes;
• the plurality of pairs of display electrodes, spaced in the first direction, and the plurality of sets of address electrodes, displaced in the second direction, defining at the crossing portions thereof respectively corresponding image elements, corresponding portions of the elongated phosphor stripes of each set being related to a common image element;
• physical barriers extending between the first and second planes and spaced between corresponding and adjacent elongated phosphor stripes so as to define isolated cavities between the first and second planes, each cavity associated with a corresponding elongated phosphor stripe and extending substantially without interruption at least throughout a length of the associated phosphor stripe;
• each image element correspondingly comprising a subset of a set of the elongated phosphor stripe portions, one of each luminescent color;
• discharge gas present in each isolated cavity;
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• said image element having an area of a substantially square configuration and each of said corresponding portions of the elongated phosphor stripes having a rectangular shape that is obtained by dividing said substantially square configuration of the image element by the number of elongated phosphor stripes in each set thereof and the rectangular shape having a longer dimension in the second direction.

A full color surface discharge type plasma display device comprising:

• a plurality of pairs of display electrodes extending in parallel relationship with respect to each other in a first direction and disposed substantially in a first common plane, each pair of display electrodes defining a surface discharge space therebetween;
• a plurality of sets of address electrodes disposed substantially in a second common plane, spaced from the first common plane, and extending in parallel relationship in a second direction transverse to the first direction and intersecting the display electrodes, each set comprising plural address electrodes respectively corresponding to plural primary colors;
• a plurality of phosphor layers of respective, different luminescent colors respectively corresponding to the plural primary colors, disposed adjacent the second common plane and in facing, spaced relationship with respect to the display electrodes, each phosphor layer comprising a plurality of elongated phosphor stripes, the respective pluralities of elongated phosphor stripes of the plurality of phosphor layers being arranged in a plurality of successive and repetitive sets thereof respectively corresponding to the plurality of sets of address electrodes, the elongated phosphor stripes of each set thereof respectively corresponding to the plural primary colors and being respectively associated with the address electrodes, of the associated set thereof, respectively corresponding to the plural, primary colors;
• each pair of display electrodes defining, with each intersecting set of address electrodes and associated set of respectively corresponding phosphor layer stripes, a corresponding image element and each address electrode and associated phosphor stripe, within the image element, comprising a unit luminescent area;
• plural physical barriers, each barrier extending between the first and second common planes and being located between adjacent address electrodes and the associated phosphor strips, adjacent said barriers defining laterally therebetween an elongated cavity which is uninterrupted through a length thereof and which isolates the respective elongated phosphor stripe, each image element correspondingly comprising plural unit luminescent areas respectively corresponding to the plural primary colors;
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• discharge gas in each elongated cavity.

A full color plasma display device having plural image elements and comprising:

• (a) a transparent front substrate on an inside surface of which are provided a plurality of parallel display electrode pairs, extending in a first, longitudinal direction and defining a plurality of respective display lines, and a dielectric layer covering said display electrode pairs;
• (b) a rear substrate provided with a plurality of addressing electrodes extending in a second direction, transverse to said first, longitudinal direction of said display lines and traversing said display lines, said front and rear substrates having respective, sealed peripheries and defining a space for gas discharge therebetween;
• (c) straight barriers arranged in the second direction, in parallel with said addressing electrodes, on the inside surface of said rear substrate, each pair of adjacent addressing electrodes having a respective straight barrier positioned therebetween;
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• (d) phosphor layers formed as patterns of linear stripes between respective pairs of adjacent straight barriers and extending without interruption in the second direction along respective addressing electrodes, said phosphor layers comprising three distinct, different color phosphor layers arranged in a repeating succession of three distinct, different color phosphor layer linear stripes spaced in the first, longitudinal direction of said display lines and corresponding portions of each set of three adjacent, distinct and different color phosphor linear stripes and associated addressing electrodes crossing respectively corresponding portions of the plurality of display electrode pairs and defining therewith respective, plural image elements spaced in the second direction and the plural sets of color phosphor linear stripes and associated addressing electrodes spaced successively in the first direction defining, with a common pair of display electrodes crossed thereby, respective, successive image elements of the corresponding display lines.

A full color plasma display device comprising:

• a transparent front substrate having an inside surface;
• a plurality of parallel display electrode pairs formed on the inside surface of the transparent front substrate and extending in parallel in a first direction, each pair corresponding to a display line and the plurality of pairs respectively defining a plurality of display lines;
• a dielectric layer covering said display electrode pairs on said inside surface of said transparent front substrate;
• a rear substrate having an inside surface;
• a plurality of addressing electrodes formed on the inside surface of the rear substrate and extending therealong in a second direction, traversing said first direction of said display lines;
• elongated barriers arranged in parallel with said addressing electrodes, each barrier positioned between a respective pair of adjacent addressing electrodes on the inside surface of said rear substrate;
• phosphor layers formed between adjacent said barriers and arranged in patterns of linear stripes extending continuously along respective addressing electrodes and in plural sets, each set comprising three different color phosphor linear stripes and the plural sets being arranged in a repeating succession in the first direction, the three color phosphor linear stripes of each set being separated from each other, in the first direction, by corresponding barriers and corresponding portions thereof crossed by a pair of parallel display electrodes constituting a single image element of the display line;
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• said front and rear substrates having respective peripheries and being sealed, along the respective peripheries thereof, with a space for a gas discharge therebetween.