Abstract: An airtight container manufacturing method includes the steps of exhausting an inside of a container through a through-hole provided in the container, and arranging a spacer member along a periphery of the through-hole on an outer surface of the container. Additional steps include arranging a plate member having, at its periphery, grooves penetrating the plate member in its plate thickness direction so that a sealant will flow from the grooves to a side surface of the spacer member, with the spacer member and the through-hole covered by the plate member, and a gap is formed along the side surface of the spacer member between the plate member and the outer surface of the container, and sealing the container by arranging a cover member to cover the plate member via a sealant.

Abstract: A bonding method using a bonding agent is provided, which has the steps of forming an underlayer on a first member, providing a bonding agent on the underlayer, forming a contact member, different from the bonding agent, on a second member, bringing the bonding agent into contact with the contact member so that the first member and the second member are bonded to each other. In the method described above, the wettability of the bonding agent to the underlayer is superior to that of the bonding agent to a surface of the first member before the underlayer is formed thereon, and the bondability of the bonding agent to the contact member is superior to that of the bonding agent to a surface of the second member before the contact member is formed thereon.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a vacuum airtight container includes a baking step of baking, in a vacuum atmosphere, a container in which a first non-evaporable getter and a second non-evaporable getter having an activation temperature higher than that of the first non-evaporable getter are disposed. The baking step further includes steps of baking the entire container by increasing the temperatures of the container to a temperature T1 and holding the temperature T1, which is equal to or higher than an activation temperature of the first non-evaporable getter and is lower than an activation temperature of the second non-evaporable getter. After holding the temperature T1, the entire container is baked by increasing the temperature of the container to a temperature T2, which is higher than the activation temperature of the second non-evaporable getter.

Abstract: Under a vacuum atmosphere, while keeping two members in contact with each other with a bonding material therebetween, one of the members is moved relative to the bonding surface in the horizontal direction, and the bonding material between the members is pressed. The surface oxide film of the bonding material, which is a low melting point metal, is thereby broken effectively, and highly hermetic bonding is performed.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of an image display apparatus, having a vacuum container with getters therein, includes the steps of exhausting an inner gas through an exhaust hole provided in the vacuum container; and activating the getters during the exhausting. In the activating step, the getters are sequentially activated first from a getter positioned in an area having a larger exhaust conductance with respect to the exhaust hole.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a hermetically sealed container, comprises steps of placing, on a first member, a first bonding material and a second bonding material having a larger compressibility in relation to a pressing force than a compressibility of the first bonding material, such that the first and second bonding materials are arranged side-to-side relationship, and the first bonding material has a height lower than a height of the second bonding material; pressing a second member to the second bonding material; heating and melting sequentially part by part the first bonding material; and cooling the first bonding material to bond together the first and second members.

Abstract: In a method of making a vacuum vessel having a pair of plates including a face plate and a rear plate bonded to each other using a bonding member, a bonding member is applied to a periphery of at least one of a pair of plates, the plates are placed in contact with each other through the bonding member disposed therebetween, parts of sides of the plates are fastened to each other using a positioning jig made of bimetal, the plates are separated from each other by placing the plates in an atmosphere and by thermally deforming the positioning jig, and the plates are fixed to each other around the entire peripheries thereof using the bonding member by performing cooling so as to reduce thermal deformation of the positioning jig and making the plates contact each other through the bonding member disposed therebetween.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of an image displaying apparatus, having an airtight container with a vacuum interior, includes the steps of exhausting an inside of a container via a through-hole provided in the container, arranging a plate member on an outer surface of the container, the inside of which was exhausted, so as to close the through-hole, and sealing the container by arranging a cover member to cover the plate member and by bonding the arranged cover member and the outer surface of the container to each other via a sealant positioned between the cover member and the outer surface of the container. The sealing includes hardening the sealant after deforming the sealant by pressing the plate member, and the plate member has a terminal portion including a conductive material. Additional steps include providing an anode electrode in the airtight container, and performing the sealing in a state that the terminal portion is in contact with the anode electrode.

Abstract: It arranges a bonding material between a pair of base materials having different heat capacities and in which a difference between thermal expansion coefficients thereof is within 10×10?7/° C.; and bonds the pair of the base materials by the bonding material, by irradiating electromagnetic wave to the bonding material to melt and then harden it, wherein a thermal expansion coefficient at part of the bonding material facing one of the pair of the base materials of which the heat capacity is smaller is smaller than a thermal expansion coefficient at part of the bonding material facing the other of the pair of the base materials of which the heat capacity is larger by a difference within 10×10?7/° C., thereby bonding the base materials of which a difference of thermal expansion coefficients is relatively small, as preventing breakage and crack from occurring and further suppressing a degree of warp.

Abstract: A method comprises: arranging a bonding material between a pair of base materials; and bonding, as mutually pressing the pair of the base materials, the pair of the base materials by the bonding material, by irradiating an electromagnetic wave while moving an irradiation position along the bonding material to melt and then harden the bonding material, wherein the arranging includes arranging the bonding material on one of faces of the pair of the base materials so as to have a convex portion which continuously extends in a direction along which the bonding material extends and in which its central region in a width direction protrudes toward the other of the faces of the pair of the base materials. Thus, a stress according to heating and cooling of the base material is reduced and crack does not occur easily in a bonding portion.

Abstract: A bonding step of an image display apparatus manufacturing method includes, after bringing a first or second substrate opposite to a face of a frame member having a bonding material thereon into contact with the bonding material, bonding the first or second substrate opposite to the face of the frame member having the bonding material thereon and the frame member to each other, by irradiating a laser beam to the bonding material through at least a underlying layer. Here, the underlying layer includes a material which absorbs the laser beam easily, and the laser beam is irradiated to a predetermined range. Thus, in bonding of base materials by irradiation of the laser beam, it is possible to reduce damages such as occurrence of disconnection and short circuit in wirings, and achieve reliability and excellent airtightness of the image display apparatus.

Abstract: An image display apparatus manufacturing method comprises: arranging a bonding material between a pair of base materials acting as a first or second substrate and a frame member, wherein the bonding material includes a main portion extending along the frame member in a closed shape, and a thinner additional portion branching from the main portion as an elongation of a side constituting the main portion; and bonding, as mutually pressing to each other the base materials, the pair of the base materials by the bonding material, by irradiating an electromagnetic wave to the main portion while moving an irradiation position along the bonding material to melt the main portion, and then hardening the melted main portion. Thus, a crack having a possibility of occurrence and widening from the corners of the bonding material can be easily suppressed.

Abstract: A bonding method using a bonding agent is provided, which has the steps of forming an underlayer on a first member, providing a bonding agent on the underlayer, forming a contact member, different from the bonding agent, on a second member, bringing the bonding agent into contact with the contact member so that the first member and the second member are bonded to each other. In the method described above, the wettability of the bonding agent to the underlayer is superior to that of the bonding agent to a surface of the first member before the underlayer is formed thereon, and the bondability of the bonding agent to the contact member is superior to that of the bonding agent to a surface of the second member before the contact member is formed thereon.

Abstract: A bonding method using a bonding agent is provided, which has the steps of forming an underlayer on a first member, providing a bonding agent on the underlayer, forming a contact member, different from the bonding agent, on a second member, bringing the bonding agent into contact with the contact member so that the first member and the second member are bonded to each other. In the method described above, the wettability of the bonding agent to the underlayer is superior to that of the bonding agent to a surface of the first member before the underlayer is formed thereon, and the bondability of the bonding agent to the contact member is superior to that of the bonding agent to a surface of the second member before the contact member is formed thereon.

Abstract: A bonding member, which can achieve a sufficient degree of vacuum without forming a gap caused by air bubbles that have been released out through the surface of the bonding member, a bonding method, an image display apparatus, and a manufacturing method therefor. The bonding member 92 of a strip has a first portion 92a and a second portion 92b. The first portion 92a has a uniform thickness t1. The second portion 92b has a smaller thickness t2 than the thickness t1 of the first portion 92a and constitutes a side plane of the bonding member 92. The second portion 92b also has a shape such that a convexity and a concavity alternate along a longitudinal direction of the bonding member 92.

Abstract: In an airtight container manufacturing method including sealing a through-hole by a cover, it secures sealing performance and restrains a sealant from flowing into the through-hole. The method comprises: (a) exhausting the inside of a container through the through-hole provided on the container; (b) arranging a plate member having, at its periphery, grooves penetrating the plate member in its plate thickness direction on the outer surface of the container the inside of which has been exhausted, so as to close up the through-hole; and (c) arranging the cover so as to cover the plate member via the sealant and bonding the cover and the outer surface of the container via the sealant, wherein the sealing includes hardening the sealant after deforming the sealant as pressing the plate member by the cover so that the sealant is positioned between the cover and the outer surface of the container via the grooves.

Abstract: In airtight container manufacturing method including sealing a through-hole by a cover, it secures sealing performance and restrains sealant from flowing into the through-hole. The method comprises: (a) exhausting inside of a container through the through-hole; (b) arranging a spacer along periphery of the through-hole on an outer surface of the container the inside of which has been exhausted; (c) arranging a plate so that the spacer and the through-hole are covered by the plate and gap is formed along a side surface of the spacer between the plate and the container outer surface; and (d) arranging the cover to cover the plate and bonding the cover and the container outer surface via sealant positioned between the cover and the container outer surface, wherein the sealing includes hardening the sealant after deforming the sealant as pressing the plate by the cover so that the gap is infilled with the sealant.

Abstract: In an airtight container manufacturing method including sealing a through-hole by a cover, it secures sealing performance and restrains a sealant from flowing into the through-hole. The method comprises: (a) exhausting the inside of a container through the through-hole provided on the container; (b) arranging a plate member having, at its periphery, grooves penetrating the plate member in its plate thickness direction on the outer surface of the container the inside of which has been exhausted, so as to close up the through-hole; and (c) arranging the cover so as to cover the plate member via the sealant and bonding the cover and the outer surface of the container via the sealant, wherein the sealing includes hardening the sealant after deforming the sealant as pressing the plate member by the cover so that the sealant is positioned between the cover and the outer surface of the container via the grooves.

Abstract: An image formation apparatus comprising a rear plate on which a plurality of wires for connecting electron emission devices are placed; a faceplate arranged in parallel to the rear plate in a frame, on which an image formation material for forming images by radiation of electrons emitted from the electron emission devices is placed; spacers placed between the rear plate and the faceplate and placed on the wires of the rear plate; and getters provided on the wires on which a spacer is not placed but not provided on the wires on which the spacer is placed.

Abstract: In a method of making a vacuum vessel having a pair of plates including a face plate and a rear plate bonded to each other using a bonding member, a bonding member is applied to a periphery of at least one of a pair of plates, the plates are placed in contact with each other through the bonding member disposed therebetween, parts of sides of the plates are fastened to each other using a positioning jig made of bimetal, the plates are separated from each other by placing the plates in an atmosphere and by thermally deforming the positioning jig, and the plates are fixed to each other around the entire peripheries thereof using the bonding member by performing cooling so as to reduce thermal deformation of the positioning jig and making the plates contact each other through the bonding member disposed therebetween.