Abstract: A robust coiled filament electrode for a fluorescent lamp used in high vibration environments. A cylindrical mandrel is placed within coils in each end of a coiled filament electrode. The mandrel and the coiled filament electrode are held by a mounting post. The mounting post is bent over and crimped, holding the mandrel and coiled filament electrode. The mandrel extends inward between the two mounting posts, providing support for the coiled filament electrodes. The coiled filament electrode may be made by method or process of chemically dissolving selected portions of a mandrel. Lamp life is extended, as well as the variance between lamp life is substantially reduced. The present invention is particularly applicable to applications in avionics.

Abstract: In a cathode ray tube, an electron beam is directed towards a faceplate having an electrode biased at screen potential and is magnetically scanned across the faceplate to impinge upon phosphors thereon to produce light depicting an image. A six-pole coil is disposed proximate the deflection yoke and/or on the tube neck to modify the focus of the red, green and blue electron beams to control focus. An electrode between the tube neck and the faceplate is biased at or above screen potential to deflect electrons over a greater total angle than is obtained from the magnetic deflection.

Abstract: To provide a discharge lamp in which, by a simple procedure, the tip of the electrode support bar can be fitted easily into a concavity formed in the base of the electrode, and can be stably fixed to the electrode with high holding power, the discharge lamp has an electrode (13) supported by an electrode support bar (15) via the tip (15a) of the electrode support bar (15) engaging in a concavity (13a) formed in the base of the electrode, the tip of the electrode support bar (15) being provided with a slit (S) into which a spreader piece (20) is pressed to spread the slit (S). It is preferable that the electrode support bar (15) be made of molybdenum.

Abstract: Deflection yoke for a cathode ray tube including horizontal and vertical deflection coils for deflection of electron beams emitted from an electron gun in horizontal and vertical directions, respectively, a ferrite core disposed to surround the vertical deflection coil for improving a magnetic efficiency, an holder adapted to fix positions of the horizontal and vertical deflection coils and the ferrite core and insulate the horizontal and vertical deflection coils, and a magnet provided on an upper side and a lower side of a flange part formed at a screen side of the holder for canceling a magnetic field leaked from the horizontal deflection coil at the screen side of the holder.

Abstract: A shadow mask has a rectangular mask body opposed to the phosphor screen of a panel, and a rectangular mask frame attached to a peripheral portion of the mask body, and is supported on the panel by three mask holders such that it can move relative to the panel. Each mask holder has a fixed portion fixed to the mask frame, an engagement portion engaged with side walls of the panel, and a slope portion connecting the fixed portion to the engagement portion with a distance interposed between them. The slope portion of each mask holder has a cross section smaller at its fixed-portion side than at its engagement-portion side, and also has a responsiveness to a displacement in the mask frame due to thermal expansion thereof. This responsiveness is higher at the fixed-portion side than at the engagement-portion side.

Abstract: A flat panel display and a method for forming a flat panel display. In one embodiment, the flat panel display includes a cathodic structure which is formed within an active area on a backplate. The cathodic structure includes a emitter electrode metal composed of strips of aluminum overlain by a layer of cladding material. The use of aluminum and cladding material to form emitter electrode metal gives emitter electrode metal segments which are highly conductive due to the high conductivity of aluminum. By using a suitable cladding material and processing steps, a bond between the aluminum and the cladding material is formed which has good electrical conductivity. In one embodiment, tantalum is used as a cladding material. Tantalum forms a bond with the overlying resistive layer which has good electrical conductivity. Thus, the resulting structure has very high electrical conductivity through the aluminum layer and high conductivity into the resistive layer.

Abstract: Colored luminaire, in particular a signal luminaire for motorcars, having a lamp and a cover, wherein the lamp includes a bulb having a coating composed of a first layer containing an iron-oxide pigment, a second layer containing an organic coloring material, and a transparent layer which is arranged between the first and the second layer and which contains a silicon-oxygen compound.

Abstract: The discharge vessel encloses a discharge space provided with a filling of mercury and a rare gas in a gastight manner. Each end portion (12a) of the lamp supports an electrode (20a) arranged in the discharge space. An electrode shield (22a) encompasses at least one of the electrodes (20a) and has a substantially spiral-shaped cross-section. Preferably, the electrode shield (22a) is made from a ceramic material and is covered with a material which reacts with or forms an alloy with alkaline earth metals released by the electrode (20a).

Abstract: An organic EL device has a hole injecting electrode (2), an electron injecting electrode (6), an organic layer participating in a light emitting function disposed between the electrodes. The organic layer includes a light emitting layer (4) comprising a conjugated polymer. The device further includes an inorganic insulative hole injecting layer (3) or an inorganic insulative electron injecting layer (5). The device can take advantage of both organic and inorganic materials, and has an improved efficiency, an extended effective life, and a low cost.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube comprises an electron gun and a deflection unit, the electron gun being arranged in a neck portion of an envelope, and the deflection unit being arranged around the envelope. The neck portion of the envelope includes a first part in which the electron gun is arranged. Behind this first part, the neck portion narrows (the outside diameter decreases). The deflection unit is at least partly provided around this narrowed part.

Abstract: A short-arc discharge lamp (10) including a light-emitting tube (1) having at least 15 mg/cc of mercury sealed therein, an anode (2) and cathode (3) facing each other and disposed within the light-emitting tube (1), and a heat-release layer (6) covering a substantial portion of an outer surface of the cathode (3) so that when the short-arc discharge lamp (10) is provided with electricity having a current value of at least 50 A, an inter-electrode power value defined by a ratio Y/X is at least 500 W/mm, X being defined as a distance in millimeters between the anode (2) and the cathode (3), and Y being defined as an input power in Watts provided to the short-arc discharge lamp (10).

Abstract: In an X-ray absorbing CRT bulb glass containing 10-40 weight % PbO and having an absorption coefficient not smaller than 40 cm−1 with respect to an X-ray having a wavelength of 0.6 angstrom, the glass contains 0.06-10 weight % Fe2O3 to thereby suppress lead from leaching into water in the atmosphere or in the ground where the CRT is wasted and dumped, so as to avoid the environmental pollution by the lead leached in the ground.

Abstract: A transparent electromagnetic radiation shield material includes a transparent base material, an optional transparent adhesive layer on the transparent base material, and a first black layer, a metallic layer and a second black layer of identical mesh pattern successively laminated in alignment on the transparent base material, directly or via the optional transparent adhesive layer, a portion of the second black layer being removed as required.

Abstract: An electrodeless compact fluorescent lamp operated at a frequency from 50 KHz to 1000 KHz and RF power from 10 W to 40 W is described. The lamp includes a bulbous glass envelope (1) filled with rare gas and metal vapor, reentrant glass cavity (2), an induction coil (6) made from Litz wire, a ferrite assembly comprising a ferrite core (7) and MnZn ferrite disk (11), a cooling structure comprising a metal (or ceramic) tube (8) positioned inside the ferrite core (7) and a metal (or ceramic) unit (9) that transmits the heat from the cavity and ferrite assembly to the Edison socket (10), a thermal shield (12), and a driver and matching network located inside the lamp base (13). A protective coating (15) and phosphor coating (16) are coated on the inner surface of the envelope (1) and reentrant cavity (2). The reflective coating (17) made from alumina is coated on the inner surface of the cavity (2) and on the outer surface of the envelope bottom (4).

Abstract: A detector unit for detecting photons in the energy range 1 keV to 100 MeV, includes at least two converter layers adapted to interact with incident X-ray photons and to cause electrons to be emitted therefrom, at least one amplifier adapted to interact with the electrons emitted from the converters and adapted to produce a multiplicity of secondary electrons and photons representing a signal proportional to the incident fluence of X-ray photons, a connector connecting the detector to an electric field generator providing an electric drift field for secondary electrons in the detector, and a sensor device arranged to receive the signal and provide an input to electronic signal processor.

Abstract: An electromagnetic-wave shielding and light transmitting plate includes a transparent base plate (2), an electromagnetic-wave shielding member such as a conductive mesh (3), an antireflection film (8) as a front most layer, and a near infrared ray blocking film which are laminated and integrated, wherein the near infrared ray blocking film (5) includes a base film and a near infrared ray blocking layer on a surface of the base film, and the near infrared ray blocking layer contains a near infrared ray absorbing agent composed of diimmonium compound and either a 1,2-benzenethiol copper complex compound or copper dimethyldithiocarbamate.

Abstract: A package for housing a photosemiconductor element comprises a substrate having a mounting portion on a top surface of which a photosemiconductor element is mounted, a frame attached onto the substrate to surround the mounting portion and having a through hole on a side thereof, a cylindrical fixing member attached around the through hole of the frame and having a space therein for transmitting an optical signal, a light transmitting member attached to the cylindrical fixing member, for clogging the inside of the fixing member and a lid attached onto a top surface of the frame, hermetically sealing the photosemiconductor element. The fixing member is made of an alloy of from 40 to 60 wt % iron and from 40 to 60 wt % nickel. The coefficient of thermal expansion of the fixing member is about 9.5×10−6/° C. (room temperature to 400° C.

Abstract: A high-voltage discharge lamp has a bulb made of quartz glass, a pair of electrodes and molybdenum foils, wherein the pair of electrodes are arranged so as to oppose each other and are joined to respective ones of the molybdenum foils, and the bulb and molybdenum foils are hermetically sealed at seal portions of the bulb. The joints between the pair of electrodes and the respective molybdenum foils are covered by cylindrical members having slits on an outer surface and/or an inner surface thereof.

Abstract: A color cathode-ray tube providing a nonglare effect which can be regenerated without degradation of its nonglare function and which can be inexpensively formed. A light scattering film composed of metal containing compound micro-particles having a high index of refraction and a particle size of 0.1 &mgr;m to 2 &mgr;m is formed in contact with the internal surface of a faceplate of the color cathode-ray tube, and a black matrix having a multiplicity of holes is formed on the light scattering film. A red phosphor layer, a green phosphor layer and a blue phosphor-layer are formed in the holes of the black matrix on the light scattering film in such a manner that the phosphor layers of red, green and blue are disposed cyclically in that order. External light incident on the faceplate is partly reflected by the external surface of the faceplate, and the remainder of the external light passes through the faceplate and is made incident on the light scattering film.

Abstract: A color cathode ray has an electron gun which includes three cathodes for emitting three in-line electron beams and a plurality of electrodes fixed in a predetermined axially spaced relationship on insulating supports. At least one of the plurality of electrodes is cup-shaped and has a correction electrode therein, and edges of the correction electrode are formed with recesses and sloped portions. A distance L from a mouth of each of the recesses of the correction electrode to an inner wall of the at least one of the plurality of electrodes satisfies the following relationship: L′≦L≦15 &mgr;m, where L′ is a height of a burr caused in press-forming of the recesses.