Abstract: A high intensity discharge lamp (10) has an envelope (12) having a base end (12a), a middle portion (12b) and domed end (12c) arrayed along an envelope longitudinal axis (14). Two spaced apart electrical lead-ins (34, 36) are sealed in the base end (12a) and extend into the envelope (12). A substantially U-shaped frame (38) is within the envelope (12) and the U-shaped frame comprises glass tubing 26a. A light source (16) has an arc discharge capsule (16b) positioned within the frame (38) and a containment vessel (18) is spaced from and surrounds the arc discharge capsule 16b. The containment vessel (18) comprises a transparent structure (19) attached to the frame (38) and formed to provide multiple, independent, localized fractures capable of absorbing the given kinetic energy possessed by the shards.

Abstract: A plasma display panel in which a sustain discharge is generated as an opposed discharge, thereby reducing a discharge firing voltage and improving efficiency. The plasma display panel includes first and second substrates. Address electrodes are formed on the first substrate in a first direction and first electrodes and second electrodes are formed in a second direction crossing the first direction. Each of the first electrodes and the second electrodes has base portions that correspond to discharge spaces of discharge cells and a crossbar portion that connects the base portions along the second direction. The base portions of the first and the second electrodes face each other across a gap in each discharge cell. The length of the portions of the base portions near the first substrate is different from that of the portions of the base portions near the second substrate in the second direction.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a shadow mask for cathode ray tubes. When the width of a smaller hole part of each of slots formed at the shadow mask is defined as Sw, the horizontal distance between the end of a taper-shaped larger hole part facing the panel side of each of the slots, which is adjacent to the edge part of the shadow mask, and the end of the smaller hole part, which is adjacent to the edge part of the shadow mask, is defined as Ta, and the incident angle at which the electron beam passes through each of the slots is defined as ?, the shadow mask has at least one slot through which the electron beam passes at an incident angle ? of above 47 degrees, and the at least one slot through which the electron beam passes at an incident angle ? of above 47 degrees is configured such that the following inequality is satisfied: 1<Ta/Sw<2.

Abstract: An electron emission display includes: an electron emission substrate having at least one electron emission device formed thereon, an image forming substrate, and at least two spacers for supporting the electron emission substrate and the image forming substrate to be spaced apart from each other. Areas of the spacers per unit area are increased in at least one direction from a central region to a periphery region. The areas can be increased by, for example, increasing a cross-sectional area of each spacer or increasing the number of spacers. In another embodiment, heights of the spacers are decreased in at least one direction from the center region to the periphery region.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a photomultiplier having a structure for performing a high gain and achieving a higher productivity in a state keeping or improving an excellent high-speed response. In the photomultiplier, an electron-multiplying unit accommodated in a sealed container has a structure that enables an integrated assembly of a focusing electrode, an accelerating electrode, a dynode unit, and an anode. Specifically, the focusing electrode has one or more notched portions to be grasped by a part of each of the insulating support members for grasping directly the dynode unit and so on when the focusing electrode itself is rotated around the tube axis of the sealed container. With this construction, the focusing electrode is fixed to the pair of insulating support members in a state that the focusing electrode is aligned with high accuracy by using the pair of insulating support member as a reference member.

Abstract: A conductive film isolated from an inner conductive film is formed on an inner wall of a neck. Assuming that, among a plurality of focusing electrodes constituting an electron gun, a position in a tube axis direction of an end on an anode side of an anode-side focusing electrode placed at a position closest to the anode side is P0; among electrodes supplied with substantially the same voltage as that of the anode-side focusing electrode and arranged continuously from the anode-side focusing electrode, a position in the tube axis direction of an end on a beam generating portion side of an electrode placed at a position closest to the beam generating portion side is P1; in the tube axis direction, a position of an end on the beam generating portion side of the conductive film is PL1 and a position of an end on the panel side of the conductive film is PL2, the position P0 is placed between the position PL1 and the position PL2.