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Custom VFD Glass

VFD technology ideally lends itself to customer specified designs and patterns. Its unique construction enables customers to specify custom announciators and icons in a cost effective manner. Home appliances, audio, video and measuring equipment manufacturers have all used this low cost feature to offer their customers very attractive and efficient displays which greatly improves their functionality and marketing appeal.

Designing Procedure:
Customer Noritake Itron Co.
1. Request for Quotation
With your rough design and request
2. Feasibility Study upon customer's design
1. Outer dimensions
2. Display patterns (outline sketch)
3. Electrical specification
4. Quality and reliability standard
5. Production Schedule (quantity, time scale etc.)
3. Proposal Drawing (Sketch) and Price Quote
4. Receipt of Sketch and Quotation Re-examined ( back to 3 if necessary )
5. Pattern Data and Request for Spec
Presentation of precise CAD data of display pattern.
DXF format is most preferable.
If can not prepare the CAD data, it will take additional development time.
6. Tentative Specification (spec)
Submitting within one week after receipt of your instruction.
7. Evaluation of Tentative Spec Re-examined ( back to 6 if necessary )
8. Approval of Tentative Spec
And Release of a development order for the engineering samples (E/S).
9. Development of the E/S
Normally 5 to 20 pcs. of the first E/S prepared.
General lead-time 40 to 75 days after received your order.
10. Receipt and Evaluation of the E/S
Approval for the E/S and Request for Final Spec
Re-examined ( back to 9, 6 or 3 if necessary )
11. Preparation of Final Specification.
12. Approval of Final Specification. Re-examined ( back to 11 if necessary)
13. Order release for Pre-Production Samples
Order for your pilot-run.(200 pcs MAX)
Process 13 to 15 may be omitted.
14. Pre-Production Samples
About 40 to 75 days lead-time after receipt your order
15. Evaluation of Pre-Production Samples Re-examined ( back to 14 if necessary )
16. Order release for Mass Production 17. Mass Production
General lead-time for mass production is 75 days.


Semi-Custom VFD Glass
The Semi-Custom CIG VFD is a new proposal for easy VFD development to create your high quality custom design CIG VFD with minimal tooling cost and development time.

The Semi-Custom CIG VFDs produce a high quality and good performance information display through pattern combinations of colorful custom icons, segments and fine pitch full dot-matrix as shown in the adjacent photograph.

The display at the top is the standard 128x32 dot matrix design
with 3 semi-custom designs below.

Please refer to the Application Note for interface details.
Base model specifications are available on the web site on the page refering to Graphic CIG VFD Glass.





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