Abstract: Method for introducing a limited amount of mercury into a fluorescent lamp during manufacture thereof includes the steps of forming the lamp with an exhaust tubulation therein open at an end thereof, exhausting the interior of the lamp through the exhaust tubulation, placing a body of metal material not reactive with mercury in the exhaust tubulation open end, the body having a coating of metal which amalgams with mercury, over a selected surface area of the body, and having mercury on the coated area of the body, such that a limited amount of the mercury is retained by the metal coating, and sealing the open end of the exhaust tubulation, whereby the amount of mercury retained on the body and introduced into the lamp is limited by the surface area of the metal coating on the body.

Abstract: Disclosed are an electron-emitting element having a large operating current at a low operating voltage and excellent operation stability, and an electron source, an image display device and the like utilizing such an electron-emitting element, and further a method of fabricating such an element with few process steps at low cost. A cold cathode member is configured utilizing hybrid particle of a first particle serving to emit electrons into the space and a second particle being in the vicinity of the first particle and serving to control the position of the first particle. In this configuration, it is preferable that the first particle have a higher electron emission efficiency than the second particle and that the second particle be conductive.

Abstract: The subject of the present invention is a glass spacer intended to keep two substrates spaced apart, its glass matrix having a volume electronic conductivity advantageously between 10?13 and 10?5 ohm?1·cm?1. According to a variant of the invention, the glass spacer has a modulus of elasticity of greater than 90 GPA.

Abstract: An OLED display device for displaying a color image, the display device being viewed from a front side includes a plurality of OLED elements including first color elements that emit a first color of light and second color elements that emit a second color of light different from the first color; a reflector located behind the OLED elements; and a corresponding plurality of filter elements aligned with the OLED elements, including first and second color filters for passing the first or second color of light emitted by the corresponding OLED element, and blocking other colors of light.

Abstract: The present invention provides a display apparatus in which there is no shorting between the electrodes and cathode, and there is little variation in the amount of emitted light within a single luminescent layer. A display apparatus is employed in which first and second bank layers are extended to the peripheral edge section of electrodes, the first bank layer is extended farther towards the center of electrodes than the second bank layer, a first laminated section is formed on the first bank layer, an opening is provided in the bank sections, functional layers are composed of a positive hole injection/transport layer and a luminescent layer, and the positive hole injection/transport layer is composed of a flat section formed on the electrodes and a peripheral edge section formed on the first laminated section of the first bank layer.

Abstract: A reflection type flat cathode-ray tube enhanced in quality of display image, and its manufacturing method are presented. A flat cathode-ray tube is composed by forming a grid layer, a reflective layer, and a fluorescent layer sequentially at the inner side of a screen panel. The reflective layer is preferably formed at the outer side of the circumference of the fluorescent layer. On a transfer substrate, a transfer foil laminating at least a fluorescent layer, a reflective layer, and a grid layer in this order is prepared, the grid layer side of the transfer foil is heated, pressed and adhered to the inner side of a screen panel, a transfer substrate is peeled off, and a fluorescent screen composed of the fluorescent layer, reflective layer, and grid layer is transferred.

Abstract: Method for introducing a limited amount of mercury into a fluorescent lamp during manufacture thereof includes the steps of forming the lamp with an exhaust tubulation therein open at an end thereof and provided with a ball retention structure, exhausting the interior of the lamp through the tubulation open end, placing a rigid ball of inert material in the tubulation between the ball retention structure and the tubulation open end, the ball having a coating of a selected one of silver, gold, and indium, of a selected mass over a selected surface area of the ball, and mercury on the coated area, and sealing the open end of the tubulation, whereby the amount of mercury retained on the ball and thereby introduced into the lamp is limited by the selected mass of the coating on the ball.

Abstract: A flat luminescence lamp includes a first substrate having a first surface and a second surface, a second substrate having a first surface disposed facing opposite to the first surface of the first substrate, a first luminescence layer formed on the first surface of the first substrate, a second luminescence layer formed on the first surface of the second substrate, and a plurality of grooves formed on the second surface of the first substrate.

Abstract: A field emission device and method of forming a field emission device are provided in accordance with the present invention. The field emission device is comprised of a substrate (12) having a deformation temperature that is less than about six hundred and fifty degrees Celsius and a nano-supported catalyst (22) formed on the substrate (12) that has active catalytic particles that are less than about five hundred nanometers. The field emission device is also comprised of a nanotube (24) that is catalytically formed in situ on the nano-supported catalyst (22), which has a diameter that is less than about twenty nanometers.

Abstract: An electron source includes a vacuum chamber within which a vacuum is maintained by a vacuum pump. An insulated receptacle is mounted within the vacuum chamber and has a receptacle mounting flange. The receptacle mounting flange is used to establish a coordinate system having an electron beam axis and a lateral plane, wherein the lateral plane is transverse to the electron beam axis. An adapter is mounted to the receptacle and is adjustable in five degrees of freedom with respect to the coordinate system. A cathode and focus electrode are adjustable in at least four degrees of freedom and are pre-aligned with respect to one another prior to being installed on the adapter. An anode is mounted in the vacuum chamber and is aligned at a predetermined distance from the cathode with respect to the coordinate system.

Abstract: An arc lamp assembly which includes in combination a reflector and a light source which is surrounded by said reflector. A dichroic coating on the reflector functions to reflect radiation in the range of about 300 to 600 nm. The light source is an arc lamp which contains a metal halide fill component which includes a mixture of scandium iodide, or other suitable lanthanide, indium iodide and cesium iodide, whereby the lamp assembly emits effective amounts of UV radiation to cure selected chemical compositions. The fill mixture, which contains no sodium component, contributes to improved lamp life and a reduction in passive lamp failure over halide fill mixtures which contain sodium iodide as a fill component.

Abstract: A flat luminescence lamp includes a first substrate having a first surface and a second surface, a second substrate having a first surface disposed facing opposite to the first surface of the first substrate, a first luminescence layer formed on the first surface of the first substrate, a second luminescence layer formed on the first surface of the second substrate, and a plurality of grooves formed on the second surface of the first substrate.

Abstract: A color picture tube includes: a glass panel having a substantially rectangular-frame skirt; a rectangular frame holding a shadow mask; and a support spring elastically supporting the frame inside the skirt and fixed to a first position at inside surface of a long side of the skirt and to a second position at the facing outside surface of the frame. The first and second positions are away in horizontal axis direction perpendicular to tube axis and substantially parallel to the long side. The second position is more away from vertical axis perpendicular to tube axis and horizontal axis than the first position. Materials for the support spring and frame are selected so that, in horizontal axis direction, thermal expansion amount of the support spring between the first and second positions is substantially same as that of the frame between the second position and vertical axis when the tube is operated.

Abstract: An electron tube cathode includes an emitter layer 30 whose main component is barium oxide and that includes a metal and/or a metal oxide as a dopant is formed on a base metal 20 whose main component is nickel and that includes a reducing agent such as magnesium. A mole ratio of the magnesium, barium, and the dopant is expressed as Y:1000:X. When the X and Y values in are expressed as XY coordinates, the value of X and the value of Y are within a range defined by straight lines connecting points (0.7, (0.8, 15), (3, 130), (3, 30), (2.5, 10), (2, 0.1), and 0.1).

Abstract: An electron emission element according to the present invention comprises a substrate, and a plurality of protrusions composed of diamond and protruding from the substrate. Each protrusion includes a columnar portion, the side face of which forms an inclination of approximately 90° relative to the surface of the substrate, and a tip portion, which is located on the columnar portion having a spicular end. A conductive layer is formed on the upper part of each columnar portion, and a cathode electrode film, which is electrically connected to the conductive layer, is formed on the side face of the columnar portion.

Abstract: An electroluminescence system includes two electrodes, a dielectric layer with a pigment, another dielectric and, optional pigment layers, which are serially connected; a device for the production of an electroluminescence system including a dispensing roll and an applier roll carrying slots sized to the one of the strips forming the layers.

Abstract: A cooling structure of a projection tube having a following constitution is disclosed. A chamber in which a liquid coolant for cooling a panel surface is filled is formed on the panel surface of the projection tube and the chamber is defined by the panel surface, a lens which faces the panel surface in an opposed manner and a metal envelope which radiates heat. A first seal member is disposed between the metal envelope and the panel surface, while a second seal member is disposed between the metal envelope and the lens. A holder for pressing the lens in the direction toward the metal envelope is disposed in the periphery of the lens. Pads which have surfaces approximately perpendicular to a tube axis of the projection tube are formed on a funnel portion of the projection tube. A sustainer for supporting the chamber is brought into contact with the pads.

Abstract: A high pressure discharge lamp includes a luminous bulb in which a pair of electrodes are opposed to each other in the bulb. At least mercury and halogen are contained in the luminous bulb, and at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Pt, Ir, Rh, Ru and Re is present in the luminous bulb.

Abstract: A green phosphor represented by the formula: A(Zn1?xMnx)Al10O17 wherein A is Ca, Ba or Sr and x is a number satisfying 0.02?x?0.14.

Abstract: The invention relates to a high-pressure gas discharge lamp, particularly a motorcar lamp, comprising a bulb including at least two neck portions and a vacuum-tight discharge vessel of quartz glass, at least two electrodes projecting into the discharge vessel, and a filling in the discharge vessel which, in the operating state, is in a discharge state. Such lamps are used, in particular, in headlights of motorcars. In order to ensure that the arc of the high-pressure gas discharge lamp generates a higher luminescence in a small area, and the lamp can be used as a light source in motorcar headlights, the discharge vessel of the high-pressure gas discharge lamp in accordance with the invention encloses a discharge space having a width B below 4 mm and a length C below 8 mm, and the filling comprises NaI, ScI3, Xe, ZnI3 and is free of Hg. Surprisingly it has been found that the use ZnI2 in the filling causes the arc to generate a higher luminescence in the area of the arc axis per dimension of the arc.