Abstract: A low-energy X-ray image formation apparatus includes an X-ray generator generating X-rays having an energy spectrum showing an energy range continuously ranging from 18-30 keV (or ?37 keV), the energy range being higher in energy from an effective energy of an energy range ranging 10 to 23 keV. A detector detects the X-rays transmitted through a soft tissue of a subject or a tissue of a substance. The tissue of the substance corresponds in a contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) to the soft tissue of the object. A console acquires an image of the soft tissue of the object or of the substance, based on a detection signal from the detector. The soft tissue and the substance are defined as a soft tissue and a substance presenting a CNR of 3.8 or more when the X-rays are radiated in a condition where an X-ray tube voltage is set at 20 kV.

Abstract: An original monochrome image recorded with an FPD (flat panel detector) which comprises an array, m rows and n columns, of pixels is reduced and converted into a display image which comprises an array, q rows and (3*n*q/m) columns, of pixels before the display image is transferred to a monochrome liquid crystal display equipped with a monochrome LCD which comprises an array, q rows and P columns, of pixels, where m, n, q, and P are natural numbers and m?n, q<P, n/m<P/q, and m>q are given. The monochrome liquid crystal display drives the three sub pixels of each pixel independently aligned along the row of the monochrome LCD to display the display image of the pixels in q rows and (3*n*q/m) columns.

Abstract: According to the present invention, the amount of usage of a heat conductive member for fixing a self-luminous flat display panel to a metallic chassis member disposed at the back of the display panel is reduced in the thickness direction as well as in the surface direction. The invention further provides a technique for efficiently radiating heat from the display panel, suppressing cost increase. To this end, in the invention, the heat conductive member is a hot-melt adhesive having adhesion at room temperature and filled with a heat conduction imparting agent, and the display panel is fixed to the chassis member by a plurality of heat conducting sections of the heat conductive member formed discretely ranging from 0.3 to 0.8 mm in thickness.

Abstract: An original monochrome image recorded with an FPD (flat panel detector) which comprises an array, m rows and n columns, of pixels is reduced and converted into a display image which comprises an array, q rows and (3*n*q/m) columns, of pixels before the display image is transferred to a monochrome liquid crystal display equipped with a monochrome LCD which comprises an array, q rows and P columns, of pixels, where m, n, q, and P are natural numbers and m?n, q<P, n/m<P/q, and m>q are given. The monochrome liquid crystal display drives the three sub pixels of each pixel independently aligned along the row of the monochrome LCD to display the display image of the pixels in q rows and (3*n*q/m) columns.

Abstract: The invention provides a technique enabling an image of high quality to be displayed while decreasing an effect of an outside light proceeding toward a back surface of PDP through a through hole for mounting an electric circuit on a chassis. A flat panel display of the invention includes a display panel, a metallic chassis having a through hole and joints for connecting the back surface of the display panel and the chassis to each other. The joints are on the back surface of the display panel distant from each other in a predetermined direction, and one of the joints is arranged at a position corresponding to the through hole of the chassis.

Abstract: Provided is a projector light source which can effectively project a light beam having a sufficient volume from a lamp as a light source, and which is highly accurate and is excellent in workability. The projector light source comprising an arc tube for emitting a light beam; and a concave reflector including a hold part for holding the arc tube, and having a concave reflection surface for reflecting the light beam from the arc tube so that the light beam outgoes through an opening of the reflector, the concave reflector comprising a first reflector located in the vicinity of the hold part for holding the light emitting tube, and second reflector located in a part other than the hold part, and made of a material different from that of the first reflector. Further, the first reflector is made of heat-resistant glass, and the second reflector is made a material containing a heat-resistant organic material having a thermal deformation temperature which is lower than that of the heat-resistant glass.

Abstract: A flat type display device is provided which is capable of accurately and easily assembling a spacer when arranging the spacer while reducing the danger of damaging the metal back. In the display device, a plurality of fine holes each having a fluorescent materials are formed on a light transparency substrate and a metal sheet is arranged by a black oxide film formed on the surface of the light transparency substrate side so as to obtain a light absorbing layer. A plurality of concave portions are provided on a surface of the metal sheet of the rear substrate side. A metal back having an openings corresponding to predetermined areas containing each of the concave portions is superimposed on the metal sheet, thereby constituting an acceleration electrode of two-layer structure. The spacer is inserted into the concave portion on the metal sheet exposed in the opening of the metal back.

Abstract: The invention provides a technique enabling an image of high quality to be displayed while decreasing an effect of an outside light proceeding toward a back surface of PDP through a through hole for mounting an electric circuit on a chassis. A flat panel display of the invention includes a display panel, a metallic chassis having a through hole and joints for connecting the back surface of the display panel and the chassis to each other. The joints are on the back surface of the display panel distant from each other in a predetermined direction, and one of the joints is arranged at a position corresponding to the through hole of the chassis.

Abstract: The present invention suppresses color irregularities or a black spot defect by reducing mislanding of electron beams or the generation of discharge at end portions of a spacer. The spacer is arranged on scanning lines as a single member having no split portions, and the spacer has both end portions thereof positioned exceeding both sides of a display region in the lateral direction (x direction) formed of a two-dimensional arrangement of electron sources and phosphors. An anode is formed to cover a display region with a width exceeding a width of the display region in the extending direction of the scanning lines. Both end portions of the spacer in the lateral direction (x direction) are arranged at positions retracted from a width of the anode. In the lateral direction, a relationship of the width of the display region<the width of the spacer<the width of the anode is established. The phosphors are applied to stripe-like black matrix apertures which extend in the vertical direction (y direction).

Abstract: The present invention ensures the efficient radiation of heat of a flat display panel without increasing a space outside a display screen of the flat display panel. A periphery of a reinforcing member adhered to a back surface of the flat display panel is folded in an L-shape and a driver IC is brought into contact with the folded portion.

Abstract: A back substrate has a plurality of electron emission elements. A display substrate comprises an optically transparent substrate disposed opposite to the back substrate; an accelerating electrode formed on the inner face of the optically transparent substrate for accelerating electron beams emitted from the electron emission elements; and luminescent materials excited by the electron beams to emit light toward the outer face of the optically transparent substrate. A frame member supports the back substrate and display substrate on their peripheries. A vacuum chamber is defined by the back substrate, display substrate, and frame member. A conductor electrically connected to the accelerating electrode is drawn out to the outside of the vacuum chamber. A high voltage connector for supplying an accelerating voltage to the conductor is removably connected to the conductor.

Abstract: According to the present invention, the amount of usage of a heat conductive member for fixing a self-luminous flat display panel to a metallic chassis member disposed at the back of the display panel is reduced in the thickness direction as well as in the surface direction. The invention further provides a technique for efficiently radiating heat from the display panel, suppressing cost increase. To this end, in the invention, the heat conductive member is a hot-melt adhesive having adhesion at room temperature and filled with a heat conduction imparting agent, and the display panel is fixed to the chassis member by a plurality of heat conducting sections of the heat conductive member formed discretely ranging from 0.3 to 0.8 mm in thickness.

Abstract: In an image display device which includes a frame body which is arranged between a back substrate and a face substrate, a phosphor screen which is arranged on the face substrate, and an anode lead line for introducing a high voltage which is arranged between the phosphor screen and a voltage source, the anode lead line is covered with at least a portion of the frame body. According to the present invention, it is possible to obtain an image display device having a prolonged lifetime and capable of performing a high quality display while ensuring the conduction of a high voltage which is applied to a phosphor screen side.

Abstract: An image display device and its manufacture method are provided which are excellent in mass production at low cost and in reliability with a good quality of an assembled panel main body. In a thin type image display device having electrodes and an envelope accommodating components including the electrodes for displaying an image by electrons emitted from the electrodes, conductive adhesive of a low surface resistance is coated on the inner surface of the envelope or on the surfaces of the components accommodated in the envelope. The conductive adhesive has a surface resistance of 1×1010 ?/? or lower.

Abstract: The present invention provides a bright and high-resolution display apparatus having a dynamic range exceeding the number of gray-scale voltage (or current) outputs, which a signal driver is capable of generating. In accordance with the present invention, a select period, in which a group of pixels on each row is driven, is divided into a plurality of sub-periods. The signal driver supplies a voltage output varying from sub-period to sub-period to selected pixels through a signal electrode. The pixel is capable of expressing various values of a gray scale, the size of which is at least approximately equal to (the number of gray-scale voltage outputs, which the signal driver is capable of generating)×(the number of sub-periods). By changing the ratio of the length of a sub-period to the length of another sub-period or the range of the driving voltage (or current), the dynamic range of the display can be further increased.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a high-quality display device which prevents deterioration of color purity by use of a black matrix whose openings have sufficiently high partitions by a simple procedure. The black matrix BM is formed using an electroconductive black glass, comprising a glass incorporated with a black additive and electroconductive filler. The glass is mainly composed of V2O5, SnO2, Bi2O3, Ag2O or a combination thereof.

Abstract: In a method for manufacturing an image display apparatus, in which a rear substrate and a front substrate are adhered and fixed at a predetermined positional relationship, with high productivity, two (2) lines of seal flit glass FT are applied on inner surfaces of the rear substrate SUB1 and the front substrate SUB2, where a sealing frame FR is bonded and fixed, along the frame sides, on both sides of an abutting surface (i.e., a vacuum side and an atmospheric side) of the sealing frame FR, and are baked, provisionally. The sealing frame FR is disposed between those two (2) lines of seal flit glass FT, and is baked, thereby melting down the seal flit glass for bonding and fixing thereof.

Abstract: A flat panel display device capable of reducing charging of phosphors and disposing spacers easily and accurately. The flat panel display device has a rear substrate including an insulating substrate provided with many cold cathode elements for emitting electrons, a display substrate including a light-transmissive substrate disposed to face the rear substrate, and phosphors disposed on the light-transmissive substrate for generating light when excited by electron beams from the cold cathode elements, and a peripheral frame member. Provided on the light-transmissive substrate is a metal sheet perforated with plural fine holes arranged in a matrix configuration and having the phosphors disposed therewithin to form a light-emissive region.

Abstract: An envelope is constituted by sandwiching and fixing a frame between a back substrate having an electron emission region and a face substrate having an image display region. A recessed portion is formed in a corner portion of the frame, a getter assembly is arranged in the recessed portion, and the getter assembly is fixed to the frame. Due to such a constitution, it is possible to provide a display device which can install a sufficient getter without interrupting the narrowing of a picture frame.

Abstract: In the present invention, there is disclosed a reflective mirror whose contrast or resolution performance is equal to that of a surface mirror of a glass mirror for general use and which does not have any problem in reliability of resistance to environment and whose color shift or brightness performance is inhibited from being degraded. For this, in the present invention, a reflective film is formed on a glass substrate by use of silver mirror reaction, and a topcoat is formed of a colorless/transparent resin. At this time, a wavelength of a crest of a ripple indicated by a reflectance characteristic is constituted to substantially agree with that of a green luminescent line. Accordingly, a back projection type video display device which is satisfactory in the contrast or resolution performance can be prepared.