Patents by Inventor Paolo Spina

Paolo Spina has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5821842
    Abstract: A liner of a deflection yoke is provided with non-threaded sleeves. A slide pin is inserted into the sleeve until a head portion of the pin comes in contact with a funnel of a cathode ray tube on which the yoke is mounted. After adjustment, a wedge is inserted into a hollow part of the pin for expanding radially the wall of the pin. Thereby, the pin is locked within the sleeve. In this way, the position of the yoke relative to the tube is secured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Videocolor, S.p.A.
    Inventors: Gildo DiDomenico, Paolo Spina, Anthony Stanley Baran
  • Patent number: 5800234
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a metallized luminescent screen for a CRT. At least one phosphor layer is deposited (10) on an inner surface of a faceplate panel to form the luminescent screen. The panel containing the screen is then preheated (12) to a temperature equal to, or in excess of, a minimum film-forming temperature and prewetted (14) by applying water to the screen. An aqueous filming emulsion containing a copolymer of acrylates and methacrylates with an average molecular weight of from 250,000 to 500,000 is applied (16) to the prewetted screen and dried (18) to form a film layer. Next, a layer of aluminum is deposited (20) onto the film layer, and the panel, bearing the metallized screen, is sealed to a funnel by heating the panel and the funnel through a sealing cycle. The sealing cycle(22) has a first rate of temperature increase to a first temperature and a second rate of temperature increase, less than the first rate, to a second temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: Videocolor S.p.A.
    Inventors: Paolo Spina, Patrizia Cinquina, Guido Manciocco, Aaron William Levine
  • Patent number: 5306190
    Abstract: A process for forming a color selection mask for a CRT, in a press containing a punch and a counter-punch, after a temperature build-up stage in a shaping chamber, through the circulation of pressurized hot gas injected by inlets placed on the walls of the counter-punch, includes the step of distributing the hot gas through a distribution device to uniformly heat the mask's surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1994
    Assignee: Videocolor SpA
    Inventors: Paolo Spina, Carlo L. Fonda, Marco Visconti, Eric M. Jego
  • Patent number: 5233266
    Abstract: The improved color picture tube includes an evacuated glass envelope having a rectangular faceplate panel. The panel includes a shadow mask assembly mounted therein by support means located at the four corner of the panel. Each support means includes a stud attached to the glass envelope. The improvement comprises the support means also including, at each of the four corners, a first spring and a second spring. Each spring is elongated, with a first portion thereof attached to the mask assembly and a second portion thereof cantilevered away from the assembly. The first spring extends peripherally in a first direction with respect to the assembly, and the second spring extends peripherally in a second direction with respect to the assembly. The first spring includes an aperture within the second portion that engages a respective stud. A section of the second portion of the second spring overlaps the second portion of the first spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1993
    Assignee: Videocolor, S.p.A.
    Inventors: Paolo Spina, Pedro E. Cosma
  • Patent number: 5072151
    Abstract: An improved color picture tube includes an evacuated envelope having a rectangular faceplate panel. The panel includes a viewing screen on an inner surface thereof and a shadow maskframe assembly mounted therein by support means located at the four corners of the panel. The shadow mask-frame assembly includes an apertured shadow mask and a peripheral frame to which the mask is attached. The frame has two flanges arranged in an L-shaped cross-section. The support means are attached to the corners of the frame. The improvement comprises the frame being formed by four sections that are welded together at their ends. Each section includes a side of the frame and two angled corners of the frame at each end of each section. The sections overlap each other at their ends, with both of the flanges of each section in surface-to-surface contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1991
    Assignee: Videocolor S.p.A.
    Inventor: Paolo Spina