Abstract: Pad portions are respectively integrally protruded to be formed on an outer surface of a substantially funnel-shaped sidewall portion of the glass funnel for projection. A ridgeline for a reference end face formed on the pad portion comprises a first curved portion to form a top portion and second curved portions to form rising portions. The first curved portion and the second curved portions are smoothly continuous to each other without bending portions. The second curved portion is smoothly continuous to the outer face of the sidewall portion without bending portions.

Abstract: A method of shatterproofing a fluorescent lamp having a glass envelope by extruding a polymeric coating over the lamp envelope so that it intimately embraces substantially all of the external contours of the lamp, including its glass envelope and end-ferrules thereby increasing the hoop strength of the glass envelope. The lamp is passed through an air lock into the main lumen of a crosshead which extrudes a cylinder of hot plastic that is radially drawn inward toward the lumen axis by an applied vacuum. A continuous chain of encapsulated lamps emerges from the crosshead that then may be cut apart to reveal individually completely encapsulated lamps.

Abstract: A method and a device for affixing a film (7) of a predetermined length to a surface (5) are described. The film (7) is wound on a roller (3) having a circumference which is larger than or equal to the length of the film (7). Then the roller (3) is rotated relative to the surface (5), whereby the film (7) is transferred from the roller (3) to the surface (5).

Abstract: A display device is manufactured having a display with an auxiliary plate. The display window (3) and the auxiliary plate (15) are oriented at an angle of tilt &agr;1, preferably substantially vertically, the volume in between the display window and auxiliary plate is filed up to a selected level height (h) with uncured resin, a seal (17) and an opening (18) being provided at or near the highest point. Thereafter the display window is reoriented to a more horizontal position (smaller angle of tilt &agr;2) the auxiliary plate being positioned on top of the display window inducing a flow v of curable material (16) towards the opening (18), and when the resin has reached the opening the resin near the opening is plugged, where after the angle of tilt is further reduced and the resin is fully cured.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a cathode-ray tube capable of improving an anti-explosion characteristic as compared with an arrangement of a prior-art cathode-ray tube and which can be reduced in weight while maintaining a satisfactory anti-explosion characteristic.

Abstract: A vacuum envelope of a cathode ray tube includes a substantially rectangular panel with a skirt portion standing on an outer peripheral edge thereof. A substantially rectangular implosion-proof band made of metal is banded on the outer surface of the skirt portion. The implosion-proof band has a pair of long sides and a pair of short sides, and a yield point of a middle portion of each of the long sides differs from that of a middle portion of each of the short sides.

Abstract: A method of shatterproofing a fluorescent lamp having a glass envelope by extruding a polymeric coating over the lamp envelope so that it intimately embraces substantially all of the external contours of the lamp, including its glass envelope and end-ferrules thereby increasing the hoop strength of the glass envelope. The lamp is passed through an air lock into the main lumen of a crosshead which extrudes a cylinder of hot plastic that is radially drawn inward toward the lumen axis by an applied vacuum. A continuous chain of encapsulated lamps emerges from the crosshead that then may be cut apart to reveal individually completely encapsulated lamps.

Abstract: There is provided a field leak preventing coating film of a cahtode ray tube, comprising a vacuum case comprising the panel section, a neck section and a funnel section connecting the panel section and the neck section; a fluorescent film applied on an inner face of the panel section; and an electron gun, stored in the neck section, for emitting three electron beams toward the fluorescent film, by adhering a double coating film composed of a conductive first layer mainly composed of particles of one or more kinds of metal among noble metal elements of gold (Au), silver (Ag) or platinum (Pt) and a second layer mainly composed of silicon dioxide (SiO2) or magnesium fluoride (MgF2) on an outer face of a faceplate of a panel section of the color cathode ray tube.

Abstract: An inner shield for a cathode ray tube comprising a plurality of rectangular segments parallel to the tube axis; a flange joined to each of the rectangular segments and bent in a right angle for mounting on a mask frame; a trapezoid portion joined to each of the rectangular segments, being arranged slantwise along an inner circumference of a funnel; and a pair of holes formed in the two adjacent trapezoid portions to decrease a deflection in a East-West direction of an electron beams. Since an undesirable affection on the electron beams caused by the earth magnetic field is decreased, a pin-cushion distortion and barrel distortion of the electron beams are highly decreased.

Abstract: A shield for a screen of an image display device comprises a substrate including a pair of opposing faces, an anti-static coating on each of the opposing faces and an outer coating on each of the anti-static coatings, opposite the substrate. The shield is mounted in spaced apart relation from a screen of an image display device, The outer coating preferably is softer than the screen but harder than the case of the display.

Abstract: A method for heating an implosion-proof band in a process of banding a cathode ray tube (CRT) and an apparatus for heating the band. The band is thermally expanded before it is attached to the outer surface of a CRT. The method includes generating a first high frequency pulse, generating a second high frequency pulse in response to the first pulse, regulating the level of the second pulse, generating a magnetic field in response to the second pulse, and heating the implosion-proof band by locating the band within the magnetic field. The band is uniformly and completely expanded for easy installation while avoiding deterioration of the surface of the band.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube, comprising a front panel glass having a fluorescent screen; a glass envelope sealed with the front panel; a film having a conductive layer and an insulating layer superposed on the outer side of the front panel glass; a plurality of ground electrodes soldered on the film by using a soldering iron which has an ultrasonic wave generator; and a conductive layer connected with the ground electrodes electrically through the insulating layer, and a method for manufacture of the same.

Abstract: After adhesive resin is applied to a surface of a flat panel, a front panel is glued thereto. One side of the front panel is contacted to the adhesive resin layer with the front panel tilted toward the surface of the flat panel. Then, the front panel is moved slowly to be close and parallel to the front panel. Finally, the front panel is pressed to the surface of the flat panel. Afterward, the adhesive resin is hardened. It is preferable that the thickness of the adhesive resin applied to the surface of the flat panel is decreasing from the side to which the side of the front panel is contacted, to the opposite side. By the above-mentioned method, an image display apparatus having multilayer structure comprising of a flat panel for displaying image, an adhesive resin layer and a front panel can be manufactured efficiently.

Abstract: A glass bulb is physically reinforced to provide a tensile stress in the nearly central portion of wall thickness in the wall thickness direction and to provide a compressive stress on the surface. The physical reinforcement is specifically applied by air cooling reinforcement. The completed CRT is further shrinkage fitted so as to tighten the outer side face of a panel by a metal ring. At the time of the air cooling reinforcement, reinforcement is optimized by reinforcing the glass bulb (or the panel or a funnel) so as to be more effective by adding the stress distribution in a vacuum state of the picture tube having a rectangular screen and by the shrinkage fitting achieved by the metal ring. As a result, the problem of heavy weight, which was one of major defects of mass produced CRTs, is solved while the risk of implosion is still avoided.

Abstract: There are provided a cathode-ray tube display unit which can be manufactured with reduced weight and cost and which can have a screen plane flattened without the use of any metal band, and a method of making the same. The screen panel is previously deformed by the use of a jig and then sealingly connected to a funnel. After the jig has been removed, the interior of the display tube body is extracted to form a vacuum. The display tube body is distorted by the extraction, but such a distortion can be corrected by deformations previously applied to the display tube body. Thus, the screen plane can be flattened without the use of any metal band.

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: An annulus attached adjacent the edge planes of a CRT front panel provides screen area savings, and in the preferred embodiment, panel protection, strengthening, and anti-implosion properties. The annulus is preferably composed of a plurality of sections and incorporates a shadow mask support. The annulus is attached to the front panel before receiving the shadow mask and becomes a part of the CRT envelope. In a preferred embodiment, the annulus is composed of ceramic and is x-ray shielded by an application of lead-based frit.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a display tube in which a transparent plate 9 is secured to the display window 2 by securing means 10 located between and exclusively along the edge portions of the display window 2 and the transparent plate 9. Subsequently, the envelope and the space 12 between the display window and the transparent plate 9 are evacuated substantially simultaneously. An optical coupling means is then provided in the space 12 between the display window 2 and the transparent plate 9.

Abstract: A method of forming an implosion protection band for a substantially rectangular CRT is disclosed. The band has at least one mounting lug comprising a base portion and an attachment portion cooperating therewith. The method includes the steps of expanding the dimensions of the band to form at least one outwardly directed concavity therein to accommodate the base portion of the mounting lug to prevent the lateral displacement thereof, attaching the mounting lug to the band and affixing the band to the CRT to compressively force the band and the base portion of the lug against the CRT.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube subjected to an antistatic treatment and a method of making the same. A conductive surface of a panel of a bulb body is grounded through a metal reinforcement serving as a reinforcement for maintaining the bulb's inward bursting resisting properties to instantaneously leaking any electrified charge, thereby providing the antistatic cathode ray tube which is free from the effect of air-conditioned humidities. Thus, there is the effect of preventing the occurrence of erroneous operations of the cathode ray tube and peripheral units and adverse effects on the human body, e.g., electric shock due to the charged static electricity on the panel surface, and there is another effect that the implosion protective adhesive glass tape or the member interposed between the conductive coating and the metal reinforcement is equivalent to lead wires thus eliminating the use of lead wires and thereby eliminating the provisions of complicated connections to the panel surface.

Abstract: A resin bonding system which bonds a substantially flat implosion protection panel to the nominally flat faceplate of a flat tension mask CRT tube and is cured by exposure to ultraviolet radiation. The resin bonding system is designed for differential adhesion so that the faceplate separates more easily from the resin than does the implosion protection panel, thus achieving superior implosion performance. It also incorporates a contrast-enhancing neutral density agent, preferably confined to a flat layer adjacent to and adhered to the flat surface of the implosion panel in order to achieve uniform neutral density filtration across the face of the tube. The neutral density agent is preferably an organic dye.

Abstract: A fluorescent lamp including a glass envelope having first and second end caps at the opposite ends thereof and each end cap provided with a connecting pin, the glass envelope containing energization means for generating light emanating from the lamp and upon energization thereof a first portion of the glass envelope adjacent the first end cap and a second portion of the glass envelope adjacent the second end cap being heated to a first temperature and an intermediate glass portion intermediate the first and second glass portions being heated to a second temperature lower than the first temperature, and a composite safety coating including first and second substantially light transparent coatings and an intermediate substantially light transparent coating intermediate the first and second coatings, the first coating surrounding and secured to the first glass portion and including an outer end portion surrounding and secured to a portion of the first end cap not including the first connecting pin and including

Abstract: When affixing the display screen to the cone and upon evacuating the display tube, the display screen and the cone are subjected to temperature treatments in which stresses occur in the display screen which might cause fracture of the display tube. In order to reduce the probability of fracture, during the temperature treatment measures are taken which infuence the temperature distribution over the display screen and the cone in such manner that the occurrence of stresses in the display screen is counteracted.

Abstract: In the novel method of electrically processing a completed and operative CRT, the portion of the focus electrode that faces a high-voltage electrode is heated at temperatures above about 700.degree. C. and then is subjected to RF spot-knocking. The novel method can be applied during the initial processing of the CRT and/or subsequently during a reprocessing procedure.