Abstract: An assembly (10) for a lamp. The assembly 10 includes a light source (12) having a center chamber (14) and opposite ends (16, 18), arrayed along a longitudinal axis (19). The ends (16, 18) are cylindrical in cross-section. A tubular shroud (20) surrounds the light source (12) and is coaxial with the longitudinal axis (19). The light source (12) is mounted within the shroud (20) by spring clips (26) one of which is mounted at either end of the shroud. The spring clips each include a base (28) lying in a first plane and having an aperture (30), for example, a star-shaped aperture, centrally located in the base. The apertures (30) in the two spring clips frictionally engage one of the ends (16, 18) of the light source (12). Each of the spring clips (26) has a U-shaped projection (32) at and end (33) of the base (26). The U-shaped projection comprises first and second upstanding walls (34, 36) joined by a first lip (38) that extends in a second plane and is fitted over the wall of the shroud (20).

Abstract: A flat light source having a front plate and a rear part. The front plate is held at a distance from the rear part by spacers. A gaseous filling which is under a pressure lower than the ambient atmospheric pressure is introduced into the intermediate space between the front plate and rear part, and the front plate is of a glass material. To be able to produce flat light sources of this type which have a low intrinsic weight, according to this invention the front plate and/or the rear part can be configured as an at least partly thermally or chemically tempered glass pane or the front plate and/or the rear part can be configured as a glass pane which at least in areas is coated with ductile polymer material.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device includes an anode, a light-emitting layer, and a cathode, which has a structure formed by sequentially laminating, from the light-emitting layer side, a first cathode formed of a material having a work function of 3.0 eV or less, and a second cathode, formed of a material having a work function higher than that of the first cathode, so that the total thickness of the first and the second cathodes is 100 angstroms or less. These elements are stacked on a substrate, and light is emitted to an exterior of the device via at least the cathode.

Abstract: A mask frame assembly in a cathode ray tube is capable of minimizing a howling phenomenon and preventing local wrinkles of a shadow mask by optimizing positioning of compression of the mask frame assembly. A mask frame assembly for applying optimal tension in a cathode ray tube includes a shadow mask for selecting color and a frame assembly having a main frame for applying tension to the shadow mask and a sub-frame for supporting the main frame, wherein each of compression points of the main frame is set to satisfy the following expressions, (L/2)×0.38?X1?(L/2)×0.52, and (L/2)×0.80?X2×(L/2)×0.98, where L is a length of a long side of the main frame, X1 and X2 are distances from the center of the main frame to each of compression points P1 and P2 in both sides.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The organic electroluminescent device includes: a transparent substrate; a first electrode layer including a series of first electrode lines formed on the top surface of the substrate as a predetermined pattern and connected to first electrode pad portions at opposite edges of the substrate; an organic layer formed as a predetermined pattern on the first electrode lines; a second electrode layer including a series of second electrode lines formed on the substrate, on which the first electrode lines and the organic layer are formed, as a predetermined pattern to be insulated from the first electrode lines and connected to second electrode pad portions at the other edges of the substrate; a cap bonded to the substrate using a sealant to seal the organic layer within its inner sealing space; and a barrier portion which blocks the flow of the sealant on the substrate inwards or outwards the sealing space.

Abstract: A display device composed of: (a) a cathode; (b) an anode; (c) a luminescent region between the cathode and the anode; and an optional region adjacent one of the electrodes, wherein at least one of the cathode, the anode, the luminescent region, and the optional region includes a metal-organic mixed layer composed of: (i) an inorganic metal containing material, (ii) an organic material, and (iii) optionally, at least one component selected from the group consisting of metals, organic materials, and inorganic materials.

Abstract: A plasma display panel including a first panel, address electrodes formed on the first panel in a predetermined pattern, a first dielectric layer formed on the first panel and covering the address electrodes, a partition structure having unit partitions discontinuously formed on the first dielectric layer to partition a discharge space, the unit partitions being parallel to the address electrodes and each having auxiliary partitions, red, green and blue phosphor layers coated in the partitioned discharge space, a second panel, which is coupled to the first panel to form the discharge space and which is transparent, a plurality of pairs of sustaining electrodes formed on an inner surface of the second panel and having sets of first and second electrodes at a predetermined angle with respect to the address electrodes, and a second dielectric layer formed on the second panel and covering the sustaining electrodes.

Abstract: Disclosed is a deflection yoke comprising: a fastening band of a ring shape assembled on an outer periphery of a neck portion in a coil separator by a fixing manner, provided for being extended and contracted; a pair of flanges bent and extended from both ends of the fastening band, on which a through hole is formed; a yoke clamp for generating fastening force by tightening of a bolt for passing through a pair of through holes, then being tightened by a nut; a bending portion projected on an outer side along the periphery of the fastening band, whose object contact plane for coming in contact with an outer periphery of the neck portion is divided into at least two or more.

Abstract: The represent invention relates to a method of backlighting a liquid crystal display which includes heating a fluorescent lamp with an external heating element which does not contact the lamp. The heating step may be accomplished by passing a current through a resistive material. The resistive material may be coated on to a surface. The present invention also relates to a backlighting system with a fluorescent lamp and an external heating element which does not contact the fluorescent lamp. The heating element may be a resistive material coated on a substrate. The present invention also relates to a portable display device element includes a liquid crystal display, a fluorescent lamp to act as a backlight, a heating element which does not contact the fluorescent lamp and optionally including reflectors, diffusers, and optical enhancement films. The heating element may be a resistive material coated on a substrate.

Abstract: Continuous manufacturing of EL lamp laminate material comprising a front substrate made up of an organic binder phosphor particulate layer coated on an ITO/PET substrate with a rear substrate made up of a barium titanate layer coated on an aluminum foil polyester film laminate is described. The resultant EL lamp laminate is coiled and stored on a take-up reel for subsequent use as an EL lamp having a transparent ITO front electrode and aluminum foil rear electrode. Large surface illumination area, split-electrode and parallel plate EL lamps made from the EL lamp laminate material are also described.

Abstract: A solid halogen-containing lamp fill material and a method of introducing small amounts of halogen into a HID lamp are disclosed. The solid material may include an admixture of a metal and a metal halide in the form of spheres of high purity, uniform size and uniform composition. Solid lamp fill material and methods of introducing small quantities of one or more metals into a HID lamp are also disclosed.

Abstract: A solid halogen-containing lamp fill material and a method of introducing small amounts of halogen into a HID lamp are disclosed. The solid material may include an admixture of a metal and a metal halide in the form of spheres of high purity, uniform size and uniform composition. Solid lamp fill material and methods of introducing small quantities of one or more metals into a HID lamp are also disclosed.

Abstract: A spark plug 100 has a glaze layer 2d formed on a surface of an alumina based insulator 2 contains 1 mol % or less of a Pb component in terms of PbO. The glaze layer 2d comprises 35 to 55 mol % of a Si component in terms of SiO2; 15 to 35 mol % of a B component in terms of B2O3; 5 to 20 mol % of a Zn component in terms of ZnO; 0.5 to 20 mol % of a Ba component in terms of BaO; and 10 to 15 mol % in total of at least one alkaline metal component of Na, K and Li, in terms of Na2O, K2O and Li2O, respectively.

Abstract: A U-shaped compact fluorescent sun-tanning lamp (10) capable of generating and transmitting desired and undesired wavelengths of ultraviolet radiation, for example, the desired wavelength is in the range of 352 nm and the undesired wavelength is in the range of 254 nm. The lamp (10) comprises two lamp tubes (12) that are transparent to the desired wavelength of the ultraviolet radiation and substantially opaque to the undesired wavelength of the ultraviolet radiation. The tubes (12) are connected at the upper portion by a bight (14) that in an unmodified state is transparent to both the desired and the undesired wavelengths of the ultraviolet radiation. A modification (16) on the bight (14) is opaque to at least the undesired wavelength of ultraviolet radiation. In a preferred embodiment the modification is a ceramic paint (18).

Abstract: A plasma flat-panel display has a glass substrate having a first pair of parallel sustainer electrodes deposited thereon that includes a first sustainer electrode and a second sustainer electrode. A second pair of parallel sustainer electrodes also is deposited upon the substrate that also includes a first sustainer electrode and a second sustainer electrode. A single common electrode pad is electrically connected to the first sustainer electrode in the first sustainer electrode pair and the first sustainer electrode in the second sustainer electrode pair. The electrode pad is adapted to be connected to a first sustainer voltage waveform supply so that a single supply provides a voltage waveform to both of the first sustainer electrodes.

Abstract: In an electron emitter based on Metal-Insulator-Semiconductor or Metal-Insulator-Metal emitters, field emission structures are enclosed within the emitter structure. The electron emitter may include a conductive substrate and an electron supply layer formed on the conductive substrate. The electron supply layer, for example undoped polysilicon, has protrusions formed on its surface. The sharpness and density of protrusions may be controlled. Above the electron supply layer and the protrusions, an insulator may be formed thereby enclosing the protrusions. A top conductive layer may be formed above the insulator. The enclosed protrusions are relatively insensitive to vacuum contamination. The thinness of the insulator allows high intensity electric fields at the protrusions to be generated with low applied voltage. Field-enhanced injection of electrons into the insulator and thence through the top conductive layer results. Furthermore, electron beam dispersion and divergence are minimized.

Abstract: A process of efficiently transforming polymer films arranged on an electron source substrate into carbon films is provided. A light is irradiated onto a region of the substrate where a plurality of polymer films, associated electrodes and part of wirings are arranged so that the plurality of polymer films are simultaneously transformed into lower resistance films such as carbon films through heating by the irradiated light, wherein for the irradiating light, a light absorptance of the wirings is lower than that of the electrodes.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cathode ray tube which exhibits a favorable contrast by enhancing a speed modulation effect. A front-stage anode electrode and a focus electrode which constitute an electron gun are respectively divided into a plurality of portions. A plurality of portions of the divided front-stage anode electrode are arranged in the tube axis direction at given intervals and are electrically connected with each other. A plurality of portions of the divided focus electrode are arranged in the tube axis direction at given intervals and are electrically connected with each other. Due to gaps formed in the front-stage anode electrode and the focus electrode, the speed modulation effect is increased.

Abstract: To devise an ultra-high pressure mercury lamp in which even in the case of lamp operation over a long time devitrification of the light emitting part is suppressed, an ultra-high pressure mercury lamp with a silica glass light emitting part in there is a pair of opposed electrodes, a rare gas, a halogen and at least 0.15 mg/mm3 of mercury, by the amount of halogen in the light emitting part being at least 1.0×10−4 &mgr;mol/mm3 and the amount of Mo in the light emitting part being at most 0.5×10−5 &mgr;mol/mm3. Also, such a lamp can have an amount of halogen in the light emitting part of at least 2.0×10−4 &mgr;mol/mm3 with an amount of Mo of at most 1.0×10−5 &mgr;mol/mm3.

Abstract: A cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) comprises an inner fluorescent tube and an outer glass tube which is sheathed on the outside of said inner tube, characterized in that said inner fluorescent tube and said outer glass tube is separately disposed, and there is a space therebetween. Said CCFL further comprises electrodes sealed at the ends of said inner fluorescent tube and said outer glass tube. The CCFL of the present invention has a double-tube construction, as a result, the inner fluorescent tube is not so much affected by a change in the environmental temperature. Further, the inner fluorescent tube and the outer glass tube are separately disposed so that the end of the inner fluorescent tube and the end of the outer glass tube are not integrally joined, so that a rate of the breakage caused by the temperature difference between two ends is dramatically reduced.