Patent ID: 6242871
Filing Date: 2001-06-05
Classification: G09F

Abstract:
A high field effect neon lamp comprising a glass tube having at least one section of an outside wall thereof coated with a transparent conductive layer, a pulse width modulation and scanning control circuit connected to said transparent conductive layer, said pulse width modulation and scanning control circuit being controlled to give a high frequency high voltage pulse width variable pulse signal to said transparent conductive coating layer, causing a linearity-variable static electric field to be produced in said glass tube, so that an inert gas in said glass tube is ionized to strike a fluorescent material on an inside wall of said glass tube, causing it to emit light, wherein said pulse width modulation and scanning control circuit is comprised of a scanning cycle generator, an oblique wave generator, a pulse width modulator, an input circuit, a high frequency switch, an output circuit, and a power supply unit, said scanning cycle generator being operated to adjust the reversing time and scanning time of the neon lamp, said oblique wave generator being controlled to provide a pulse signal, said pulse width modulator being controlled to modulate the pulse width of the pulse signal from said oblique wave generator, enabling the modulated pulse signal to excite said high frequency switch, causing said output circuit to output a high frequency pulse signal to said transparent conductive layer so as to ionize said inert gas in said glass tube in striking said fluorescent material.