Abstract: The frame (30) comprises flat sides (30a, 30b, 30c, 30d) disposed along the lateral faces of a right prismatic surface. The sides (30a, 30b, 30c, 30d) of the frame (30) comprise an outer panel (31) and an inner panel (32) which are assembled and fixed to each other and are each constituted by a portion of a thin metal strip preferably reinforced by ribs. Devices (34) for suspending the frame (30) in the glass case of the cathode ray tube may be fixed by clipping or by welding on corner portions (33) of the frame (30).

Abstract: A color display tube having an in-line electron gun. The in-line electron gun has two elongated supporting elements and is secured to the electrical leadthroughs in the neck by two pairs of supports. The distance between the supports is at least 3 mm. By virtue thereof, one or more supports can be connected to a high-voltage leadthrough without the risk of flashover between the supports.

Abstract: An EL lamp includes hole for receiving fitting attached to a printed circuit board. The fitting has a base, a head, and a neck connecting the head to the base. The diameter of the head is slightly larger than the diameter of the hole and the head fits though the hole by temporarily stretching the lamp. The lamp includes a substrate, a front electrode, a phosphor layer, and a rear electrode. The rear electrode faces the base. Contact to the front electrode is made through a first aperture in the rear electrode and in the phosphor layer. A second aperture, through the front electrode and the phosphor layer, exposes a portion of the substrate that is covered by the rear electrode. The apertures are aligned with two of the holes in the lamp.

Abstract: A thin-film EL display panel which has excellent packageability, high reliability and stable performance characteristics, and which can prevent nonuniformity of brightness and color from occurring and a fabrication method thereof are provided. In the above thin-film EL display panel, two thin-film EL elements 1 and 2 formed by sequentially laminating first electrodes 12 and 22, first insulating layers, luminescent layers, second insulating layers and second electrodes 16 and 26 respectively on glass substrates 11 and 21 are laminated into position and connecting terminal portions 12a, 22a, 16a and 26a for connecting the first electrodes 12 and 22 and second electrodes 16 and 26 are formed on the edge portions of the substrates 11 and 21 of the thin-film EL elements 1 and 2.

Abstract: An in-line electron gun for a color cathode ray tube having a main lens comprised of an in-line focusing electrode and accelerating electrode, with which it is possible to easily improve an assembly precision of field-correcting electrode plates provided at the focusing electrode and accelerating electrode and having three through apertures through which the R, G, and B electron beams pass and with which it is possible to easily perform an adjustment of aberration of the main lens. The two side through apertures among the three through apertures formed in the field-correcting electrode plate provided at the focusing electrode and accelerating electrode are formed basically as circular apertures with arc shaped cut-away portions continuous with the outside of the circular apertures and concentric with the circular apertures.

Abstract: A field emission device (100, 200) includes a cathode plate (110, 210), an anode plate (112, 212) spaced from the cathode plate (110, 210) to define an interspace region (114, 214) therebetween, a hole (144, 244) defined by the device package and in communication with the interspace region (114, 214), and a hydrogen-selective membrane (140, 240) disposed in registration with the hole (144, 244).

Abstract: A device useful as a display element has an electron emitter and an anode disposed to receive electrons emitted from the emitter. The anode has surface portions differing in resistivity, providing an electron sink portion at the surface portion of lowest resistivity. A preferred embodiment has a lateral field-emission electron emitter and has an anode formed by processes specially adapted to provide anode portions of differing resistivity, including the electron sink portion. The electron sink portion is preferably disposed at a position laterally spaced apart from the emitting tip of the device's electron emitter.

Abstract: In a spark plug for an internal combustion engine, a spark gap is defined between an insulated sparking portion and a grounded sparking portion. At least one of the insulated sparking portion and the grounded sparking portion is made of a molten alloy composed of (a) 99 to 80 wt. % of Ir and (b) 1 to 20 wt. % of Pt. The insulated sparking portion can be a center electrode or a discharge chip attached to a free end of the center electrode, while the grounded sparking portion can be a ground electrode or a discharge chip attached to a free end of the ground electrode.

Abstract: The spectral energy characteristic of a discharge lamp is controlled by changing the density of the fill substance. The spectral characteristic can be shifted while substantially maintaining its shape by changing the density of the fill. A sulfur or selenium containing discharge lamp which is operated at a pressure of at least about 1 atmosphere contains a low ionization potential substance in the fill. Characteristics which are improved are one or more of spatial color uniformity, extinguishing characteristics, and bulb starting reliability. Particular substances which are added to the fill are alkali metal containing substances, III B metal containing substances, and alkaline earth metal containing substances. When light is reflected back into the bulb, the light which is re-emitted is stronger in the higher wavelengths.

Abstract: An integral and internal matrix getter structure for capturing residual gas in a vacuum sealed container is disclosed. The vacuum sealed container may be a flat panel display having a small vacuum gap between two closely spaced panels. The getter structure may be provided on the inside of the walls of the display. In particular, the getter structure may be provided between phosphor groups and/or between field emitter groups on the display panels. The getter structure may be sealed to avoid exposure of the getter material until after a vacuum condition is reached within the display. Activation of the getter structure may be provided by selectively heating the getter structure with a laser or with resistive heating elements underlying the getter structure. Methods of making the getter structure are also disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a supplementary coil of a deflection yoke for a Braun tube. The supplementary coil forms a magnetic field of a pin-cushion type at a screen portion and a magnetic field of a barrel type at a neck portion at the same time. The deflection yoke includes a coil separator for fixing a relative position between horizontal deflection coils and vertical deflection coils by acting as an insulator. The supplementary coil also includes projections formed on inside surfaces of the neck portion and the screen portion of the coil separator. The supplementary coil is wound around the projections in the neck portion in a winding direction identical to a winding direction of the horizontal coil and wound around the projections in the screen portion in a winding direction opposite to the winding direction of the horizontal coil.

Abstract: An electroluminescent display in which a dielectric breakdown of a luminescent element is suppressed has luminescent elements disposed between first and second substrates, where the first and second substrates are deformed into a convex shape to improve breakdown characteristics.

Abstract: A field emitter including an exposed wide band gap emission area in contact with and protruding from a planar surface of a conductive metal, and a method of making is disclosed. Suitable wide band gap materials (2.5-7.0 electron-volts) include diamond, aluminum-nitride and gallium-nitride; suitable conductive metals include titanium, tungsten, gold and graphite. The method includes disposing the wide band gap material on a substrate, disposing the conductive metal on the wide band gap material, and etching the conductive metal to expose wide band gap emission areas. The emission areas are well suited for large area flat panel displays.

Abstract: A high voltage switch, including: first and second electrodes having electrode surfaces; an electrically non conductive tube having an outer surface connecting the electrode surfaces; an electrically non conductive wall surrounding the tube and forming an enclosure in which the electrode surfaces and the outer tube surface are sealed; an ionizable material in the enclosure, an electric field being created in the enclosure responsive to application of a high voltage potential across the electrodes; and, an electrically conductive member adapted for movement in the tube between a first position substantially inside the enclosure and a second position substantially outside the enclosure, the electrically conductive member distorting the electric field when moved into the first position and causing an ionized current flow path between the electrode surfaces. A plurality of such switches can be ganged for simultaneous and/or sequential operation.

Abstract: A deflection yoke device includes vertical deflection coils wound on a pair of cores, respectively, and a pair of horizontal deflection coils each having two longitudinal portions connected to a larger arcuate interconnecting portion and a smaller arcuate interconnecting portion, respectively. The smaller arcuate interconnecting portion is connected generally perpendicularly to the longitudinal portions, respectively, and the larger arcuate interconnecting portion is connected at an acute angle to the longitudinal portions, respectively.

Abstract: An one-piece plastic protective enclosure is provided for a glow bulb used as a starter for a fluorescent lamp. The enclosure has a latching hinged lid, a partition wall to isolate the glow bulb leads, and integral strain relief. The glow bulb enclosure is mounted inside a ballast assembly and the glow bulb leads are ultrasonically welded to the ballast power supply wires.

Abstract: A microelectronic light-emitting device (10) is made with dual lateral thin-film emitters (35 and 40) substantially parallel to a substrate (20). Emitter electrodes (35 and 40) have a thickness of not more than several hundred angstroms. Each emitter has an emitting blade edge (110 or 115) having a small radius of curvature. Thus, opposed emitters for two opposite-sign carriers are provided, shaped to provide very high electric field intensity at their emitting tips. A region containing phosphor (50) extends between the two emitters and contacts them. When a suitable bias voltage is applied, electrons are injected into the phosphor from the blade edge of one emitter and holes are injected from the other emitter. The sum of diffusion lengths of the carriers (including secondary carriers) is equal to or greater than the shortest distance between the emitters. DC, AC, pulsed, or other voltage waveforms can be applied. Light emission is excited from the phosphor by carrier recombination.

Abstract: In an automobile lamp bulb, a shield is attached firmly to a common conductor by an improved fixing method. Dents are formed in one surface of a shield to form projections in the other surface of the same and a cut is formed in the shield. Portions of the shield defined by the cut are raised to form lugs, and projections are formed, respectively, on the lugs. A projection is formed in each lug which corresponds to the dents, but project in opposite directions. The projections of the shield are welded by projection welding to the common conductor to join the shield firmly to the common conductor. Therefore, an inexpensive rough service automobile lamp bulb is provided. In another embodiment, a portion of a round common conductor is flattened to form a flat portion. A shield is positioned on and welded to the flat portion of the common conductor. Since the shield is positioned on and welded to the common conductor in surface contact, the amplitude of vibration of the shield can effectively be suppressed.

Abstract: An x-ray image intensifier includes a photoconductive x-ray detector having an electro-optic light modulator disposed on a photoconductive detector layer. The photoconductive x-ray detector absorbs x-rays passing through an object to be imaged to form an x-ray exposure of the object. An optical image of the x-ray exposure is generated when light passes through the photoconductive x-ray detector. An imager captures optical images of the x-ray exposure. A processor coupled to the imager digitizes and stores the optical images of the x-ray exposure captured by the imager at selected intervals.

Abstract: The invention concerns a high pressure discharge bulb. Such bulbs involve a wo-sided sealed bulb with and without an outer bulb. The bulb is sealed by a pinch on at least one side. It generally has a discharge vessel made of quartz. These bulbs particularly comprise metal halide bulbs, which have a metal halide filling in addition to mercury, but they also include mercury high pressure discharge bulbs or xenon high pressure discharge bulbs. The bulbs are used preferably for optical systems, particularly larly for photo-optical purposes, for example, in head-lights, overhead projectors, and decorative lighting devices. They particularly find application in lighting systems for the stage, film and television. Typical lamp powers are 400 to 2000 W. A discharge lamp pinched on each end has pinches in which the ratio of the total width of each wide side is smaller than or equal to 2.2 times the thickness of the wide side. Tube pieces carrying the base sleeves are formed on the outer ends of the pinches.