Abstract: An assembly of a support plate and an exit window foil for use in an electron beam generating device. The support plate is designed to reduce wrinkles in the foil. The foil is bonded to the support plate along a closed bonding line bounding an area in which the support plate is provided with a pattern of apertures and foil support portions alternately. When vacuum is created in the housing the pattern is adapted to form a topographical profile of the foil substantially absorbing any surplus foil. Another aspect involves a method in a filling machine for sterilizing a packaging material web.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrode for electroluminescence for use in electronic devices including organic electroluminescent devices and a process for producing the same, in which interfacial electric characteristics, such as work functions, can be easily controlled. The process for producing an electrode for electroluminescence comprises the step of diffusing an additive element for an electrode into the electrode and/or the step of developing surfactant properties of the additive element for an electrode.

Abstract: A spacing device that, when integrated with a deflection yoke, enables proper alignment of the deflection yoke vis-à-vis the display screen without tilting. Several individual spacers are placed between the windings in cavities that accommodate the spacers, and the spacers are composed of an elastic plastic or rubber material that compresses under pressure and expands when the pressure is removed. The spacers allow the deflection yoke to be clamped in place and prevent tilting of the deflection yoke during the clamping process. Once clamped in place, the deflection yoke can be adjusted in the z direction to permit adjustment of the deflection yoke on the cathode ray tube vis-à-vis the glass to provide optimum picture quality (e.g., geometry, color purity, convergence, and focus).

Abstract: During manufacture, the components of a cathode ray tube must be protected against contaminants, such as dust, that will degrade performance of the completed tube. A protective tunnel, in which a contaminant-free environment can more easily be maintained, protects open cathode ray tube funnels that are moved between a coating station and a drying oven. Access doors may be provided to allow for cleaning and maintenance of the tunnel, as well as access to cathode ray tube funnels in the tunnel. A vacuum system may also be provided to clean airborne contaminants from the protective tunnel.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a cathode ray tube (1). In the method, a cone part (4) of the tube is first provided with a first coating (13) so as to reduce an annoying crackling sound, whereafter a neck part (5) is connected to the cone part (4). Due to the presence of a closing element (20) on the cone part (4), said first coating is prevented from covering an inner surface of the cone part (4). As a consequence, the performance of the tube is not affected. A good quality of the connection is obtained if the layer thickness of the first coating (13) is equal to or less than 1 &mgr;m. A suitable material for the first coating is Antimony Tin Oxide combined with TEOS.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube includes an evacuated envelope having a generally rectangular panel portion, a narrow neck portion having a circular cross-section and a funnel portion tapering down from a panel-portion side thereof toward a neck-portion side thereof for connecting the panel portion and the neck portion, a three-color phosphor screen formed on an inner surface of the panel portion, an electron gun housed in the neck portion, and an internal conductive film extending from an inner wall of the neck portion to an inner wall of the funnel portion. The funnel portion is provided with a yoke-mounting portion of generally truncated quadrilateral-pyramidal shape for mounting a beam deflection yoke therearound on the neck-portion side of the funnel portion. The internal conductive film is formed of a first part and a second part, the first part is formed of graphite, metallic oxide and potassium silicate, and the second part is formed of graphite and potassium silicate.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube includes a transparent panel, a funnel joined airtightly to a circumference portion of a sidewall of the panel, a light absorption layer (black layer) and an optical filter layer both disposed on an interior surface of the transparent panel, and a phosphor layer formed thereon. A length from an edge of the panel joined to the funnel to a circumference edge of the light absorption layer formed on an interior surface of the sidewall of the panel is longer than or equal with that from the edge of the panel to a circumference edge of the optical filter layer formed similarly on an interior surface of the sidewall of the panel. The color cathode ray tube can be manufactured by making a length from an edge of the panel to a scraping edge of the light absorption layer in the trimming step of the light absorption layer longer than or equal with that from the edge of the panel to a scraping edge of the filter layer in the trimming step of the filter layer.

Abstract: A cathode-ray tube includes a glass envelope having a panel with an inner surface formed with a phosphor screen, and a cylindrical neck extending substantially coaxially with a tube axis. An electron gun is arranged in the neck, and a stem is welded to an end of the neck. The stem has a substantially circular disk-like flare made of glass and having an outer peripheral portion welded to the end of the neck, and a plurality of stem pins attached to the flare. The end of the neck and the flare of the stem are welded to each other such that a glass portion of the flare surrounds a glass portion of the end of the neck from outside.

Abstract: A position of an inner surface of a panel (10) is measured with the panel being held, and a position of a main surface of a color selection electrode (30) is measured with a color selection electrode frame (40) being held, so that the measured positional data provide a measured value corresponding to a spacing between the panel inner surface and the main surface of the color selection electrode. In a state that the engaging holes of the supporting members are engaged with dummy pins (200) arranged in a predetermined positional relationship to the panel pins (20) on the condition that the panel is held, the position of the main surface of the color selection electrode is adjusted with respect to engaging holes on the basis of the predetermined positional relationship and the measured value, and supporting members are fixed by welding to the color selection electrode frame.

Abstract: A glass substrate manufacturing method and a color cathode ray tube manufacturing method manufactures a front substrate on which a phosphor layer is formed. In an application process a phosphor slurry of one color is applied onto an inner surface of a glass substrate on which a phosphor pattern in at least one color has already been formed. Then, in a spreading process, the glass substrate is rotated about an axis located at the approximate center of the inner surface to make the phosphor slurry spread out over its inner surface. Following this, in a draining process the glass substrate is tilted to a first tilt angle of more than 90° to drain excess slurry off the inner surface of the glass substrate, a tilt angle being formed between a vertical axis and an axis orthogonal to an outer surface of the glass substrate. In a spinning process the glass substrate is returned to a second tilt angle smaller than the first tilt angle, and rotated.

Abstract: A getter film is formed on an inner surface of a funnel portion of a cathode ray tube, and an inner conductor of the cathode ray tube is heated by a heating unit. According to this heating, the gas which is physically adsorbed by the inner conductor of the cathode ray tube other than the getter film is discharged and then chemically adsorbed again by the getter film, whereby a degree of vacuum in the cathode ray tube can be increased.

Abstract: A non-adhesive, conductive strip is used to provide an electrical ground path between a solder electrode on the anti-reflective film of a cathode ray tube and the reinforcement or heat shrinkage band on the tube. The conductive strip is preferably held in place on the cathode ray tube using a magnet or magnets. Consequently, because the conductive strip is held in place by magnets and is non-adhesive, it can be removed and replaced repeatedly during the testing of the solder electrodes and anti-reflective film without potentially damaging the solder electrode or degrading the performance of the conductive tape that is typically used as the ground path in a completed cathode ray tube.

Abstract: The invention relates to an oven for sealing a panel to a funnel, thus forming an envelope suitable for use in a display tube, comprising a tunnel structure 9 and at least one mount for conveying an assembly of a panel and a funnel through the tunnel structure 9. The tunnel structure 9 is provided with a longitudinal slot 16A and the components of the mount for guiding the mount along and through the tunnel structure 9 are placed outside the tunnel structure. It is preferred that the components comprise a means, such as a pump or compressor 24, for flushing the interior of the assembly 22 with a fluid obtained from a source which is substantially separated from the gas(es) circulating in the oven 1, e.g. from the surroundings of the oven 1.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube with a central tube axis Z includes a panel with an inner phosphor screen and a rear portion. The panel has a substantially rectangular effective screen portion with two long sides in a horizontal axis direction, two short sides in a vertical axis direction and four edges in a diagonal axis direction. A funnel is connected to the rear portion of the panel. The funnel sequentially has a body with a large-sized end and a small-sized end, and a cone portion with a large-sized end and a small-sized end. The cone portion has a thickness Th in the horizontal axis direction, a thickness Tv in the vertical axis direction and a thickness Td in the diagonal axis direction. The horizontal thickness Th, the vertical thickness Tv and the diagonal thickness Td of the cone portion of the funnel in the tube axis Z direction satisfy the following condition: Th(z)=Tv(z)>Td(z).

Abstract: A method of insulating a cathode ray tube and an electrical insulator composition for a cathode ray tube enabling an electrical insulator to be produced without material loss and enabling improvement of the bonding strength between a stem and a stem base and the insulation property between stem pins, when attaching to a stem, which is provided at the cathode ray tube and has a tip and stem pins projecting therefrom, an insulating stem base, which comprises a base through which pin through holes are formed and has provided projecting from the front surface thereof a tip holder, in a state with the stem pins inserted through the pin through holes and the tip held in the tip holder, said method comprising the steps of molding an electrical insulator composition comprising an uncured self-adhesive silicone rubber into a predetermined sheet shape by using a transfer mold to obtain an electrical insulator, arranging the electrical insulator in a state extending from the positions of the pin through holes on the bac

Abstract: During manufacture, the components of a cathode ray tube must be protected against contaminants, such as dust, that will degrade performance of the completed tube. A protective tunnel, in which a contaminant-free environment can more easily be maintained, protects open cathode ray tube funnels that are moved between a coating station and a drying oven. Access doors may be provided to allow for cleaning and maintenance of the tunnel, as well as access to cathode ray tube funnels in the tunnel. A vacuum system may also be provided to clean airborne contaminants from the protective tunnel.

Abstract: A vacuum envelope of a cathode-ray tube includes a panel and a funnel section opposed to the panel. The funnel section has two funnels each having a cone section. Each of the funnels is formed by cutting one side portion of a base funnel which is formed by pressing. The two funnels are joined together at sections thereof so as to form the funnel section and also joined to the panel into the vacuum envelope. A neck containing an electron gun is joined to each of the cone sections. A phosphor screen formed on the inner surface has two scanning regions which are divided scanned by electron beams emitted from the electron guns.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a cathode ray tube (1). In the method, a cone part (4) of the tube is first provided with a first coating (13) so as to reduce an annoying crackling sound, whereafter a neck part (5) is connected to the cone part (4). Due to the presence of a closing element (20) on the cone part (4), said first coating is prevented from covering an inner surface of the cone part (4). As a consequence, the performance of the tube is not affected. A good quality of the connection is obtained if the layer thickness of the first coating (13) is equal to or less than 1 &mgr;m. A suitable material for the first coating is Antimony Tin Oxide combined with TEOS.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube having a panel to which a fluorescent layer is applied, a slim neck portion with an electron gun, a funnel joined to the panel, and a stem with the electron gun sealed to the neck portion, wherein if an inner diameter of the neck portion and an outer diameter of the stem equal a and f, respectively, an interval between the neck portion's inner diameter and the stem's outer circumference meets the condition of 0.2≦(a−f)/2≦3.0, and the neck portion's outer diameter equals 23.0 mm to 28.5 mm.

Abstract: Manufacturing steps for a cathode ray tube or a glass bulb for the cathode ray tube are controlled in such a manner that a two-dimensional matrix code 3 comprised of a plurality of dots is marked by laser in an outer side surface of a glass bulb 1, 5, the two-dimensional matrix code 3 containing the information which can identify individually glass bulbs, and the manufacturing steps are conducted by using a computer and the particulars specified by the serial information.

Abstract: An exhaust oven for heat treating and simultaneously evacuating cathode ray tubes includes a tunnel structure with a through passageway and temperature control apparatus for providing regulated heating and/or cooling of the atmosphere in one or more longitudinal zones of the passageway. The oven also includes apparatus for conveying the tubes along the passageway and exhaust ducts operatively connected to the necks of the tubes during conveyance to evacuate gases therefrom. Baffles within at least one of the zones of the passageway circulate the atmosphere about the exteriro of the tubes. The baffles include at least one inlet directing a flow of atmosphere to impinge onto the face of the screen panel of each tube and one or more outlets in adjacent spaced relationship to side edges of said panel and/or to the neck of the tube for exit of the flow of atmosphere from the baffles.

Abstract: A laser cathode ray tube (laser-CRT) is provided. The laser-CRT includes a connection ring connected to an end portion of a glass bulb where an electron gun is installed, a disk having a single-crystal for generating laser beams when electron beams emitted from the electron gun are input, a support ring connected to the disk and the connection ring, and a junction layer interposed between the support ring and the disk, having at least two metal thin films which have been pressurized and heated, to connect the support ring and the disk to each other.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a cathode ray tube comprising the steps of providing a stem with a flange having an outer diameter larger than an inner diameter of a bottom end of a neck and smaller than or identical with an outer diameter of the bottom end of the neck, applying a liquefied frit glass onto an upper portion of the flange, hardening the liquefied frit glass applied on the upper portion of the flange, mounting an electron gun onto the stem, fitting the stem into the inside of the neck such that the upper portion of the flange applied with the frit glass contacts a bottom end of the neck, and providing a frit seal between the upper portion of the flange and the bottom end of the neck by heat-treating the frit glass between them.

Abstract: A vacuum envelope includes a flat face plate having a phosphor screen formed on the inner surface of the face plate, and a flat rear plate opposed to the face plate with a side wall interposed therebetween. A plurality of funnels extend from the rear plate, and electron guns are respectively enclosed in the necks of the funnels. The rear plate and the plurality of funnels are integrally formed of one single plate glass and are joined to face plate through the side wall. A plurality of reference surfaces are formed on the inner surface of the rear plate, and ends of the plate support members are respectively fixed to the reference surfaces.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for securing a deflection yoke onto a cathode ray tube includes forming pockets having deformable, resilient inner walls along a circumferential surface of the deflection yoke. When the deflection yoke is mounted on the cathode ray tube, the inner walls deform slightly to conform to a contact portion of the cathode ray tube. The position of the deflection yoke with respect to the cathode ray tube it then adjusted into proper alignment. Once the deflection yoke and cathode ray tube are properly aligned, fast curing epoxy is poured into each of the plastic pockets, wedging the deflection yoke permanently into its desired orientation on the cathode ray tube. The pockets can either be integrally formed with the deflection yoke or they can be manufactured and attached to the deflection yoke in a separate operation.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a cathode ray tube employs an assembly of a frit jig and a flexible bolt for use during the aligning and sealing process of the glass cone and display screen components of a cathode ray tube. The flexibility provided by the bolt reduces the risk of damage to the glass parts of the cathode ray tube during the heat steps involved in the sealing process. Preferably, the bolt comprises a resilient metal pin that is flexible in a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the bolt. The bolt comprises a hollow part having a central bore with an opening and a head, the central bore extending substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the bolt, and the metal pin being comprised in the hollow bolt. The metal pin extends from the head through the bore over a length larger than that of the bore.

Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus for a cathode ray tube attaches an electron gun to a neck of a glass valve while grasping the neck with a chuck apparatus. The chuck apparatus has at least three chuck members, a chuck member holding unit and an interlocking unit. Each chuck member has a neck contacting surface that lies on a single plane that is parallel with a central axis of the neck. The chuck member holding unit holds the chuck members so as to allow movement of the neck contacting surface of each chuck member from a periphery of the neck toward the central axis of the neck. The interlocking unit causes an interlocked movement of the chuck members so that the neck contacting surface of each chuck member moves with an equal displacement toward the central axis of the neck.

Abstract: A method in which a (display) device having a part (41) comprising a first wall (43) and a second wall (44) is manufactured, which part (41) is warmed up during the temperature treatment by unilateral irradiation with heat by means of heat radiators (35). The method is characterized in that the temperature treatment further comprises measures which cause a fluid (53) to be fed past the outer surface of the first wall (43) to remove heat from said outer surface and/or measures which cause a fluid to be fed past the inner surface of the second wall (44) to supply heat to said second surface. In an embodiment, the inner surface of the second wall (44) is provided with a heat-absorbing coating (48). Preferably, the heat radiators (35) emit electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength below 3 .mu.m.

Abstract: A frit-sealing apparatus for a cathode-ray tube has a nozzle portion being inserted into and withdrawn later from the cathode-ray tube supported in a certain position; a guide block for supporting the nozzle portion; a guide rod for supporting the guide block so as to slide in directions in which the nozzle portion is inserted and withdrawn; and a rotation restriction member being in contact with an outer surface of the guide block, thereby restricting rotation of the guide block.

Abstract: An exhaust oven for heat treating and simultaneously evacuating cathode ray tubes includes a tunnel structure with a through passageway and temperature control apparatus for providing regulated heating and/or cooling of the atmosphere in one or more longitudinal zones of the passageway. The oven also includes apparatus for conveying the tubes along the passageway and exhaust ducts operatively connected to the necks of the tubes during conveyance to evacuate gases therefrom. Baffles within at least one of the zones of the passageway circulate the atmosphere about the exterior of the tubes. The baffles include at least one inlet directing a flow of atmosphere to impinge onto the face of the screen panel of each tube and one or more outlets in adjacent spaced relationship to side edges of said panel and/or to the neck of the tube for exit of the flow of atmosphere from the baffles.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an image display apparatus, which has a first substrate on which an electron emission element is arranged, a second substrate on which a phosphor that forms an image upon irradiation of an electron emitted by the electron emission element is arranged, and an enclosure which is bonded to the first and second substrates to hold a gap between the first and second substrates, has the steps of applying a bonding agent to bonding portions between the first and second substrates, and the enclosure, heating to a temperature equal to or more than the softening temperature of the bonding agent, detecting the solidification state of the bonding agent, performing position alignment between the first and second substrates during the interval after the bonding agent softens until the bonding agent solidifies, bonding the first and second substrates via the enclosure by compressing the first substrate and/or the second substrate, and releasing the compression force to the first substrate and/or the

Abstract: A frit-drying system for cathode ray tubes is to utilize VHF and it is to evaporate organic matters which are contained in the frit spread on the funnel by a VHF dielectric heating method that matters with dipole components are heated from the inner part of the frit by dielectric loss of VHF when the VHF is injected on the matters with dipole components. A frit-drying system for cathode ray tubes utilizing VHF includes a funnel transferring device, and a main furnace body which defines the VHF room for drying frit therein, a VHF oscillating device, and VHF induction path which inducts VHF generated from the VHF oscillating device into the main furnace body.

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.

Abstract: A method of evacuating and sealing a cathode ray tube, CRT, using softened glass frit to seal the exhaust hole through which the CRT is evacuated. A three way branch tube allows a shaft driven by a linear motion means to cover the exhaust hole with a sealing plug or plate and softened vitreous glass frit while the CRT is being evacuated. In one embodiment a getter is also used. Since the CRT is being evacuated when the vitreous glass frit is softened any gases evolved from the softened glass frit are removed by the vacuum pump and are not a problem to the sealed CRT.

Abstract: A color cathode-ray tube comprises an envelope having rectangular flat face and rear plates opposing each other. A phosphor screen is formed on an inner surface of the face plate. Mask support members are mounted on an inner surface of the rear plate. A shadow mask is arranged in the envelope and supported by the mask support members to face the phosphor screen at a predetermined distance. A plurality of positioning posts are fixed on the inner surface of the rear plate and extend toward the face plate. A plurality of positioning pins extend from the inner surface of the face plate and engage the positioning posts so as to position the face plate at a predetermined position with respect to the rear plate. The shadow mask has setting openings through which the positioning posts extend so as to position the shadow mask at a predetermined position with respect to the rear plate.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a cathode ray tube is provided which comprises (a) spraying on the inner surface of a phosphor layer of a phosphor coated panel, an organic composition for forming a heat labile film, the organic composition being free of flammable or explosive organic solvents and including an initiator capable of forming a radical or cation when exposed to ultraviolet or electron rays and at least one resin containing at least one group consisting of acrylate, vinyl and diazo functional groups to form a heat labile film thereon; (b) exposing the heat labile film to ultraviolet or electron rays to from a hardened film layer; (c) forming an aluminum layer on a surface of the hardened film layer to form a screen; (d) sealing with heat the panel and a funnel to form a bulb with a mount including an electron gun and a stem, wherein the step of sealing to form a bulb decomposes the hardened film layer.

Abstract: Accelerated thermal upshock rates in the exhaust cycle of a CRT envelope are attained for a tension mask CRT having a shadow mask supporting rail frame affixed to the front panel. The actual corners of the rail frame are chamfered or left open to provide an increased separation distance from the corners of the funnel seal land. Panel fracturing stresses generated in the funnel seal area corners during upshock are thus alleviated allowing for faster CRT throughput during manufacture, without increasing the size of the CRT components.

Abstract: A CRT bulb that has been preloaded to counter the atmospheric load placed on the seal area of an evacuated and sealed CRT is disclosed along with methods of constructing the bulb. The front panel is simply supported on the funnel and deflected inwardly during affixation of the panel to the funnel to form the bulb. When the deflection load is removed from the affixed panel, the resultant strain energy imparted to the bulb seal area offsets at least some of the atmosphericly induced strain on the sealed CRT. The bulb has a more evenly balanced stress distribution between the front panel and the funnel seal area than previous flat panel CRTs, enabling the use of thinner front panels and seal land.

Abstract: The device comprises a body, a support, a welding torch, a connecting means ensuring the mobility of the support and of the welding torch. The welding torch can occupy at least one working position in which the flame effects one welding position and one rest operation in which the flame is sheltered. The device also has a screen which makes the flame during passage from the rest position to the working position. The invention can be used for welding robots.

Abstract: To improve the conventional manufacturing method for a color picture tube in which (1) the panel with a phosphor screen is provided with a shadow mask and baked, (2) the panel and funnel having the necessary parts mounted in the tube, are sealed with frit glass (3) an electron gun is mounted at the main sealing step, and (4) gases are exhausted from the tube, the invention includes a vacuum treatment step which is further provided to exhaust gases from the tube before the temperature in the tube is reduced to the room temperature after the panel and funnel are sealed with frit glass. The vacuum treatment step after the frit sealing step provides a color picture tube with a long life, in which the amount of remaining moisture in the tube is reduced to less than 1/2 of the conventional one and the gas evolution amount during operation is extremely reduced.

Abstract: An apparatus for use in the manufacture of a color cathode ray tube that includes a faceplate with a screen embraced by which rails support a flat tension mask. The apparatus includes a radiant heat source for heating the faceplate, and shielding means including a heat shield for shielding a central area of the faceplate from the radient heat source. Stresses induced in the corners of the faceplate by the rails during thermal cycling of the tube are dispersed in the cooler central area of the faceplate.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a metallic, luminescent screen for a CRT includes the steps of: depositing at least one phosphor layer on an inner surface of a faceplate of a panel, to form the luminescent screen; preheating the panel containing the screen to a temperature in excess of a minimum film-forming temperature; and depositing an aqueous emulsion of at least one acrylic film-forming resin onto a screen and drying said emulsion to form the film. Then, a metallic coating is deposited onto the film and the panel bearing the metallized screen is sealed to a funnel by heating the panel and funnel through a sealing cycle. The sealing cycle has predetermined rates of temperature increase and includes a temperature range within which the film is volatilized. The rate of temperature increase within the volatilization range is less than the rate of temperature increase in other portions of the sealing cycle.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing CRT tubes with binary coded faceplates including dispensing a frit paste on the faceplate in the form of a bar code. The frit is devitrified as part of conventional faceplate processing either during normalizing or during devitrification of the mask rail frit without any additional steps. In one embodiment the frit is dispensed through a single dispensing nozzle and the nozzle is moved relative to the faceplate in x and y coordinates to form a single undulating line. In another embodiment, frit is selectively dispensed through a plurality of nozzles for each character pair to form either narrow bars or wide bars.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns electron tubes. A tube such as a cathode-ray tube consists of several parts, namely the stem, the neck, the cone and the screen of the front face. To build a tube such as this more compactly while, at the same time, improving the quality of the fabrication, a new construction of the neck is proposed. In the prior art, the neck is a glass tube to which there is soldered a glass stem through which pass the connection terminals towards the various electrodes, internal to the tube. Here, the neck is built in the form of a stack of alternating metallic rings and ceramic rings. The metallic rings are used for the supporting of and electrical connection to the internal electrodes. The ceramic rings are used to insulate the metallic rings. The brazings between metallic rings and ceramic rings provide for vacuum tightness. The base of the tube is a ceramic washer without drillings other than lateral ones for the connections to pass through.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of and an apparatus for baking the silicate films, which are formed on the front glass panels of cathode-ray tubes by a spraying or coating operation, so as to fix the films stably to the front glass panels. The front glass panels only, which are positioned in opposition to infrared ray radiation panels provided in the upper portion of a heating furnace body, are heated with the radiant heat from the infrared ray radiation panels. The radiant heat-screening isolation plates are provided between the front glass panels and funnels, and at least a part, which is below these isolation plates, of the furnace body is opened or cooled.

Abstract: In an integrated thermal processing method the bulb is completely processed in a dedicated oven. The inside and outside of the bulb are simultaneously heated. The inside and outside are also simultaneously cooled. During the evacuation a temperature gradient is maintained across the face of the panel to reduce tensile stresses which develop in the bulb skirt area during evacuation.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube fixturing device for position a face panel and a funnel during a frit sealing process. The device includes a cone holder for positioning a constricted portion of the funnel, and a movable abutting block which is adapted to abut against the panel and the funnel. A pivoting arm connects the cone holder with the movable abutting block, and at least one fixed abutting block is adapted to abut against the panel and the funnel and is located in opposed relationship with respect to the movable abutting block. When the funnel and the panel are mounted in the cone holder in assembled relation, their common centerline is vertical. In this assembled relation, the panel and funnel are urged against the fixed abutting block by the movable abutting block so that the seal from the panel to the funnel can be effectively produced and the fixturing device is reduced in weight.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a cathode-ray tube in which a cone part and a display window are accurately positioned relative to each other, a glass frit is provided between the display window and the cone part, and the positioning thus obtained is fixed by securing locating pins to faces on the display window and in slots in studs on the cone by means of an acrylate adhesive. Subsequently, the display window is permanently secured to the cone by frit sealing.

Abstract: Disclosed is a holder for sealing member, in which at least a portion of the holder which comes into contact with the member comprises a sintered body comprising as a main component a non-oxide ceramic of silicon nitride, aluminum nitride, sialon or silicon carbide.By the use of the holder according to this invention, in the hermetic sealing process which is carried out continuously and automatically, an exchange frequency of the holder can be decreased remarkably, and thus a working efficiency on a manufacturing line can be increased. In consequence, the holder according to this invention is industrially very useful, and in particular, it is suitable for the hermetic sealing of the panel pins for cathode ray tubes.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a cathode ray tube, in which the positions of the tube envelope and the gun assembly are adjusted so their respectively longitudinal axes coincide, and then fixed against non-axial movement prior to insertion and sealing of the gun assembly into the neck of the envelope, wherein the gun assembly position is fixed by clamping at least three of its connector pins.