US2846611A - Electric discharge tubes and circuits therefor - Google Patents

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US2846611A
US2846611A US260742A US26074251A US2846611A US 2846611 A US2846611 A US 2846611A US 260742 A US260742 A US 260742A US 26074251 A US26074251 A US 26074251A US 2846611 A US2846611 A US 2846611A
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Hough George Hubert
Jackson Thomas Meirion
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03K—PULSE TECHNIQUE
    • H03K17/00—Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making and –breaking
    • H03K17/51—Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making and –breaking characterised by the components used
    • H03K17/52—Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making and –breaking characterised by the components used by the use, as active elements, of gas-filled tubes
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J17/00—Gas-filled discharge tubes with solid cathode
    • H01J17/38—Cold-cathode tubes
    • H01J17/48—Cold-cathode tubes with more than one cathode or anode, e.g. sequence-discharge tube, counting tube, dekatron
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J2893/00—Discharge tubes and lamps
    • H01J2893/007—Sequential discharge tubes

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US2925531A (en) * 1958-07-22 1960-02-16 Philips Corp Cold-cathode stepping tubes
US3313973A (en) * 1962-06-01 1967-04-11 Ericsson Telephones Ltd Multi-electrode cold-cathode discharge tube comprising ring magnet with attached electrodes

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US2402019A (en) * 1944-10-04 1946-06-11 Westinghouse Electric Corp Glow lamp
US2565103A (en) * 1950-12-19 1951-08-21 Pierre M G Toulon Switching tube
US2575370A (en) * 1949-06-25 1951-11-20 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Cold cathode gaseous discharge device
US2575517A (en) * 1950-01-21 1951-11-20 Northrop Aircraft Inc Glow tube counting circuit
US2579306A (en) * 1948-03-05 1951-12-18 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Multielectrode gaseous discharge devices
US2618767A (en) * 1949-12-15 1952-11-18 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Multicathode gaseous discharge device

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2402019A (en) * 1944-10-04 1946-06-11 Westinghouse Electric Corp Glow lamp
US2579306A (en) * 1948-03-05 1951-12-18 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Multielectrode gaseous discharge devices
US2575370A (en) * 1949-06-25 1951-11-20 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Cold cathode gaseous discharge device
US2618767A (en) * 1949-12-15 1952-11-18 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Multicathode gaseous discharge device
US2575517A (en) * 1950-01-21 1951-11-20 Northrop Aircraft Inc Glow tube counting circuit
US2565103A (en) * 1950-12-19 1951-08-21 Pierre M G Toulon Switching tube

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2925531A (en) * 1958-07-22 1960-02-16 Philips Corp Cold-cathode stepping tubes
US3313973A (en) * 1962-06-01 1967-04-11 Ericsson Telephones Ltd Multi-electrode cold-cathode discharge tube comprising ring magnet with attached electrodes

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GB736142A (en) 1955-09-07
CH319746A (fr) 1957-02-28
FR63124E (fr) 1955-08-24

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