Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for removal of fluorescent substances, which removes fluorescent substances on only the top surface of a barrier rib but does not remove fluorescent substances on the side of the barrier rib. The invention relates to a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet used for removing fluorescent substances adhering to a barrier rib of a plasma display panel back substrate and having at least a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on one side of a base material, wherein the thickness of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is more than 3 ?m and less than 20 ?m.

Abstract: A laser beam writing material having: silicon dioxide; and a titanium-containing compound fixed with the silicon dioxide and capable of being changed in color by irradiation with a laser beam; wherein when a color-changed portion in the laser beam writing material is formed by irradiation with the laser beam and exposed to the air at 600° C. for 30 minutes, contrast between the color-changed portion and a color-unchanged portion in the laser beam writing material is not lower than 0.60; a material for forming the laser beam writing material, having a mixture at least including the titanium-containing compound and an MQ resin; and a display body having a color-changed portion formed by irradiation with the laser beam in the laser beam writing material.

Abstract: A discharge lamp includes a luminous bulb in which a luminous material is enclosed and a pair of electrodes are opposed in the luminous bulb; and a pair of sealing portions for sealing a pair of metal foils electrically connected to the pair of electrodes, respectively. At least one of the pair of metal foils has a twist structure.

Abstract: The invention provides a laminate sheet used for forming a dielectric layer and a rib simultaneously and integrally. The invention also provides a method of producing a back substrate for plasma display panel, which is excellent in the efficiency of production by reducing the production process significantly by using the laminate sheet. The laminate sheet of the invention is used for integrally forming a dielectric layer and a rib on a glass substrate having electrodes, which comprises a barrier layer laminated on a glass resin composition layer containing inorganic powder and a binder resin, an inorganic powder-containing viscoelastic layer laminated on the barrier layer.

Abstract: A discharge lamp includes a luminous bulb in which a luminous material is enclosed and a pair of electrodes are opposed in the luminous bulb; and a pair of sealing portions for sealing a pair of metal foils electrically connected to the pair of electrodes, respectively. At least one of the pair of metal foils has a twist structure.

Abstract: A method for producing a high pressure discharge lamp including a luminous bulb enclosing a luminous substance inside and a sealing portion for retaining airtightness of the luminous bulb, includes preparing a glass pipe for a discharge lamp including a luminous bulb portion that will be formed into a luminous bulb of a high pressure discharge lamp and a side tube portion extending from the luminous bulb portion; inserting a glass member constituted by a second glass having a softening point lower than that of a first glass constituting the side tube portion into the side tube portion, and then heating the side tube portion so as to attach the glass member and the side tube portion; and after the attachment step, heating a portion including at least the glass member and the side tube portion at a temperature higher than a strain point temperature of the second glass and lower than a strain point temperature of the first glass.

Abstract: A discharge lamp includes a luminous bulb in which a luminous material is enclosed and a pair of electrodes are opposed in the luminous bulb; and a pair of sealing portions for sealing a pair of metal foils electrically connected to the pair of electrodes, respectively. At least one of the pair of sealing portions is provided with at least one constricted portion whose length in a thickness direction of the metal foil in the sealing portion is smaller than that of other portions in the sealing portion.

Abstract: A method for producing a high pressure discharge lamp unit including a high pressure discharge lamp set and fixed to a reflecting mirror includes the steps of detecting light released from a point-like light source and reflected at a reflecting surface of the reflecting mirror to determine a position for setting that is a position of the point-like light source in which the reflected light is substantially the maximum; identifying a predetermined position between electrodes of the high pressure discharge lamp; and matching the predetermined position to the position for setting.

Abstract: A discharge lamp includes a luminous bulb in which a luminous material is enclosed and a pair of electrodes are opposed to each other in the luminous bulb; and a pair of sealing portions for sealing a pair of metal foils electrically connected to the pair of electrodes, respectively. The pair of metal foils have a pair of external leads on the side opposite to the side electrically connected to the pair of electrodes, respectively. At least one of the pair of external leads is joined to a lead wire for external connection that is to be electrically connected to an external circuit by the plastic flow of a caulking member.

Abstract: The present invention provides a high-pressure discharge lamp 100 including a luminous bulb 10 enclosing at least a rare gas and halogen in the bulb and made substantially of quartz glass; and an electrode 12 made substantially of tungsten and disposed in the luminous bulb. The mole number of the halogen is larger than the sum of the total mole number of metal elements (except the tungsten element and the mercury element) that have the property of bonding to the halogen and are present in the luminous bulb 10 and the mole number of the tungsten present in the luminous bulb by evaporation from the electrode 12 during lamp operation.

Abstract: A high-pressure discharge lamp has a support structure for supporting a light emission tube so as to restrict its displacement in a direction perpendicular to the axis line thereof. A pair of thermal-stress generation members generates thermal stresses due to a temperature change at a time of switching the high-pressure discharge lamp from an on status to an off status. The thermal stresses acts as forces directed downward in a vertical direction and outward with respect to the light emission tube on side tube portions of the light emission tube arranged in a posture where the axis line extends in a horizontal direction.

Abstract: A high-pressure mercury-vapor discharge lamp according to the present invention includes: an emission tube, which is made of quartz glass and which has a substantially ellipsoidal inner space; at least mercury and a rare gas, which are sealed in the inner space of the emission tube; and at least two electrodes, which are arranged in the inner space of the emission tube so as to face each other. The lamp satisfies W≧150 watts, P≧250 atm, t≦5 mm and rl≦0.0103×W−0.00562×P−0.316×rs+0.615×t+1.93, where W [watts] is the power of the lamp during its lighting operation, P [atm] is an operating pressure in the inner space of the emission tube, rs [mm] is the shorter radius of the inner space, rl [mm] is the longer radius of the inner space (where rl≧rs), and t [mm] is the thickness of a swollen portion that defines the inner space.

Abstract: The present invention provides a long-life discharge lamp by removing the causes of lowering the service life of the discharge lamp owing to quartz glass constituting the discharge lamp and a gas sealed therein, and also provides a discharge lamp production method wherein the mixing of impurities affecting the service life of the discharge lamp is prevented. In the discharge lamp the content of hydrogen, oxygen and their compounds existing in the light-emitting portion is such that the maximum intensity of the light-emitting spectral intensities of the above impurities is {fraction (1/1000)} or less of the intensity of the main light-emitting spectrum of the noble gas when glow discharge occurs by supplying a current of 3 mA, and also the content of OH groups included in the quartz glass of the sealing portions is 5 ppm or less by weight.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a lamp device using a high-pressure vapor discharge lamp, particularly to an improvement for controlling the influence of the generation of heat, which accompanies an increase in lamp power and a reduction in the size of a reflector. A lamp device of the present invention comprises a discharge lamp having an arc tube enclosing luminescent materials and having a pair of opposing electrodes disposed therein and a pair of sealed portions extending from the arc tube; a reflector which reflects light radiated by the discharge lamp; a transparent member covering an open end of the reflector and accommodating the discharge lamp in a space between the transparent member and the reflector; and means for preventing an excessive temperature rise wherein the temperature rise of welded parts of wiring members electrically connected to the electrodes of the discharge lamp is restricted.

Abstract: A discharge lamp includes a luminous bulb in which a luminous material is enclosed and a pair of electrodes are opposed to each other in the luminous bulb; and a pair of sealing portions for sealing a pair of metal foils electrically connected to the pair of electrodes, respectively. Each of the pair of metal foils has an external lead on a side opposite to a side electrically connected to a corresponding electrode of the pair of electrodes. At least one of the pair of sealing portions is provided with a reflective film on a surface of the sealing portion in a portion where a connection portion of the external lead and the metal foil is sealed. The reflective film contains a material having a reflectance larger than that of a material constituting the sealing portion.

Abstract: A reflecting-mirror-equipped lamp 100 including a high pressure discharge lamp 10 and a reflecting mirror 20. An opening 24 of the reflecting mirror 20 is provided with a front glass 22 and two air holes (31 and 32) are formed through the reflecting mirror 20. The air holes (31 and 32) are provided on a cross section (44) including a luminous bulb 11. If the cross section 44 is divided into regions (I through IV) consisting of first, second, third and fourth quadrants with respect to the luminous bulb 11, the air holes (31 and 32) are respectively provided in two quadrants diagonal to each other, i.e., in the first and third quadrants, respectively, or in the second and fourth quadrants, respectively.

Abstract: A high pressure mercury lamp includes a luminous bulb in which at least mercury is enclosed inside the bulb, and a pair of sealing portions that retain airtightness of the luminous bulb. The amount of the enclosed mercury is 230 mg/cm3 or more based on a volume of the luminous bulb, and heating means for heating the luminous bulb is provided at least at part of the luminous bulb and the pair of sealing portions.

Abstract: A high pressure mercury lamp includes a luminous bulb in which at least mercury is enclosed inside the bulb, and a pair of sealing portions that retain airtightness of the luminous bulb. The amount of the enclosed mercury is 230 mg/cm3 or more based on the volume of the luminous bulb, and heat-retaining means for retaining beat in the luminous bulb is provided. Thus, the present invention can suppress blackening of high pressure mercury lamps having a very high operating pressure.

Abstract: A method for producing a discharge lamp of the present invention includes the steps of: preparing a glass pipe for a discharge lamp having a luminous bulb portion and a side tube portion, and a single electrode assembly including an electrode structure portion that will be formed into a pair of electrodes of the discharge lamp; inserting the single electrode assembly into the glass pipe for a discharge lamp such that the electrode structure portion of the single electrode assembly is positioned in the luminous bulb portion of the glass pipe for a discharge lamp; forming a luminous bulb in which the electrode structure portion is arranged inside by attaching the side tube portion of the glass pipe for a discharge lamp to a part of the single electrode assembly; and forming a pair of electrodes in the luminous bulb by melting and cutting a part of the electrode structure portion selectively.

Abstract: A pair of electrodes (3) are provided in an arc tube (1) I/S is 20 (A/mm2) or less on a condition that an area of a cross section at a tip of the electrodes (3) is S (mm2) and an operating current between the electrodes (3) is I (A). According to this constitution, a long lamp life can be obtained without causing a rise in the lamp voltage and the blackening of the arc tube (1) by the evaporation of the electrodes while operation time becomes longer.