Hi Jens, I posted the patent here on the forum this August, https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/neonixie-l/e3jIeheCiCQ , along with the three- and two-headed dekatron patent - I'd love to see one such dekatron running! You have been able to search for almost all patents for a few years time now, at least all that have been scanned and catalogued, at the EPO Espacenet website here: http://www.epo.org/searching/free/espacenet.html - I dug up a few of the Dekatron related patents this summer and posted them here on the forum I was actually looking for other patents related to AVO Valve Testers but found these Dekatron patents along the way. I also found a huge number of display related patents covering Nixies and also earlier technologies as well, so have a go at searching yourself. Just beware that you can spend whole days trying to track down what you are looking for and you sometimes also end up reading a lot of other interresting patents as you get distracted by other nice items! It is quite interresting to search for patents, not only for the items that you are looking for but more so to look where the inventors have been employed as that shows which companies got information from which other companies via the inventors. Digging through old literature will also give you a lot of information on what patents to search for, the hardest thing to solve is when the patent numbers have been either misprinted or mixed up with other patents. Just learning what words to use when searching takes up a lot of time, especially since different companies name the same thing differently and names and words are not always spelled correctly in either the original patents or in the searchable database. /Martin
> To be honest, I don't know if this patent is an entirely new discovery, > but I could not find it on Randall's page: > http://www.scientificsolutions.ca/patents.htm > > Jens > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neonixie-l/-/pezfOeidVp4J. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
