Abstract: The present invention relates to a flat-type cathode ray tube and more particularly, the present invention improves the brightness and color purity of picture by improving the curvature of the inner surface of the panel in order to prevent the mislanding of the electron beam, thereby preventing doming, howling, magnetic field of the earth magnetism and the like.

Abstract: A glass envelope for a cathode ray tube (10) and a method of production. The envelope comprises (12) a panel member having a thickness (t) that is defined by an equation which involves net tensile stress; wherein the panel having a net tensile stress not exceeding 1150 psi, having a surface compression induced during panel manufacture, and having an implosion protection band (30) shrink-fitted around a skirt (20) on the panel that augments surface compression in the panel (12), whereby the panel thickness is substantially less than that of a corresponding untreated tube envelope.

Abstract: A flat type color cathode ray tube (CRT) includes a bulb consisting of a flat type panel where a fluorescent film on which inner surface a fluorescent pattern and black matrix are coated is formed, and a funnel extended from the panel, and a frame assembly having a flat type shadow mask installed adjacent to the panel in the bulb and having a plurality of strips for forming a plurality of slits and a tie bar for connecting neighboring strips, wherein a vertical pitch of the black matrix formed on the fluorescent film is less than or equal to a vertical pitch of the tie bar of the flat type shadow mask.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence display device 100 comprises a color modulating member 2 including a plurality of shading layers 21 and a plurality of color modulating layers 22, the layers 21 and 22 being arranged in a planar and discrete manner, an organic EL electroluminescent member 3 including a plurality of organic EL elements arranged in a planar and discrete manner at a site corresponding to the color modulating layers 22, and a transparent medium 1 sandwiched between the color modulating member 2 and the organic EL electroluminescent member 3, wherein the relation d2≧d1 is satisfied, with d1 being a distance between the color modulating member 2 and the organic EL electroluminescent member 3, and d2 being a width of the shading layer. A practical organic EL display device is thus provided which has an excellent viewing angle property as well as an excellent visuality and which can prevent occurrence of color-shift (color mixing) and blot.

Abstract: A flat panel for a cathode ray tube for preventing a screen image from being shown concavely to a user or viewer includes a flat outer surface and a non-spherically formed inner surface, the non-spherically formed inner surface satisfying formula 1:

Abstract: This is a cathode ray tube having a panel provided with a colored layer on an outer surface of a face portion, wherein an emission luminance ratio is 75% or higher in a lowest part relative to a highest part, and a diffuse reflectance ratio is 90% or higher in a lowest part relative to a highest part in an image display area of the face portion. Due to this configuration, a cathode ray tube with a natural appearance can be obtained in which a luminance difference or a contrast difference is not perceived in the entire area of the face portion.

Abstract: A transfer film capable of transferring thin films such as a conducting film, a heat absorption film onto a display apparatus panel, a method for fabricating thin films for a display apparatus panel using the transfer film, and a display apparatus having thin films fabricated by the method are provided. The transfer film is constructed by forming a conducting film layer and an adhesion layer on a base film. The transfer film is disposed on the display apparatus, and a heat pressure adhesive bonding process is performed to transfer the conducting film layer to the display apparatus. A high quality display apparatus is realized by fabricating a high quality conducting film using the transferring process.

Abstract: A display screen may be formed with a moth-eye like array of elements of sufficiently small size to reduce glare from ambient light while passing outbound image light substantially unaffected. The screen may be used in direct view and projection displays.

Abstract: Panel in a cathode ray tube having a flat outside and a curved inside surfaces, which can provide a perfect flat image at an appropriate distance of view, wherein a condition of 2.48×106(mm2)≦R×CFT≦4.38×106(mm2) is set for the CRT for use as a TV receiver, and a condition of 2.17×105(mm2)≦R×CFT≦6.93×105(mm2) is set for the CRT for use as a monitor, where R is a curvature represented by at least one of vertical, horizontal and diagonal curvatures of the inside surface of the panel and CFT is a center thickness of the panel.

Abstract: Provided is a color cathode ray tube, which comprises a panel including a substantially rectangular effective portion, of which the outer surface is a flat surface or a slightly curved surface, and a shadow mask having an effective surface opposite the inner surface of the effective portion of the panel. In this color cathode ray tube, the inner surface of the effective portion of the panel is a curved surface having a substantially infinite curvature radius RXp1 in the major-axis direction on the major axis thereof near the center, a predetermined curvature radius RXp2 in the major-axis direction near peripheral portions on the major axis, and another predetermined curvature radius in the minor-axis direction on the minor axis thereof. This color cathode ray tube, with its panel having the substantially flat outer surface, enjoys improved visibility and higher strength for the maintenance of the curved surface of the shadow mask.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube includes a panel having a substantially flat outer surface and an inner curved surface with a phosphor screen. The panel has a substantially rectangular effective screen portion with two long sides parallel to each other, two short sides parallel to each other and four rounded edges interconnecting each long side and the neighboring short side. The effective screen portion is structured such that a first line V1 interconnecting centers of the long sides, a second line H1 interconnecting centers of the short sides and a third line D1 interconnecting centers of the rounded edges opposite to each other meet at a point. The effective screen portion has a first thickness Tv at the centers of the long sides, a second thickness Th at the centers of the short sides, a third thickness Td at the centers of the edges and a fourth thickness Tc at the meeting point of the first to third lines V1, H1 and D1.

Abstract: A display device utilizes a plurality of pixels arranged in a predetermined configuration for recording and displaying information. Each pixel includes a substrate and a light modulating material for selectively modulating a predetermined wave length of light by transitoning between a first and a second state in response to a heater element. The light modulating material in the first state causes destructive interference in the predetermined wave length of light and in the second state causes constructive interference in the predetermined wave length of light. The pixel structure is buried within an aerogel thereby minimizing the heat dissipation rate from the pixels.

Abstract: A display screen may be formed with a moth-eye like array of elements of sufficiently small size to reduce glare from ambient light while passing outbound image light substantially unaffected. The screen may be used in direct view and projection displays.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube with a panel that has a thickness of the central portion of an effective area of a screen surface that is TC, a thickness of a vertical edge that is TV, a thickness of a horizontal edge portion that is TH, and a thickness of an edge in a diagonal direction that is TD. The respective values of TC, TV, TH and TD satisfy the expression (TH−TC)+(TV−TC)+(TD−TC)<TC/3, and the radius of curvature in the diagonal direction of the outer surface of the effective area is 1450 mm or more. Thus, by limiting the difference in thickness of the central portion and the peripheral portion of the effective screen area of the panel and the curvature radius of the inner and outer surfaces of the effective screen, the weight of the panel is reduced and an increase of an incident angle caused by flatness of the screen panel is prevented so that a convergence feature of an electron beam is improved.

Abstract: To realize a high-quality flat-face type of color cathode ray tube by combining a tint panel with a pressed mask, the outer surface of the panel of the color cathode ray tube is made nearly flat and the inner surface of the panel is curved in a concave shape, and the long-length direction pitch of slots formed in an aperture region 2 of a pressed mask 1 to be disposed close to the inner surface and the connection-direction width of each of bridges which connect the slots are made different between a central portion (A) and a peripheral portion (B) in the apertured region 2 of the pressed mask 1, whereby the ratio of bridges per unit area is made larger in the central portion (A) than in the peripheral portion (B) or the opening rate of slots per unit area is made larger in the peripheral portion (B) than in the central portion (A).

Abstract: A light-emitting structure contains a plate (20), light-emissive regions (34R, 36G, and 38B) overlying the plate, and a dark region (40DR/46DC, 40IR/56DC, 60DR/66DC, or 76DR/80DR/80DC) overlying the plate and laterally surrounding each light-emissive region. In one aspect, the dark region is formed with (a) multiple first strips (40DR, 40IR, 60DR, or 76DR) extending in one direction and (b) multiple second strips (46DC, 56DC, 66DC, or 80DC) extending in another direction and also extending further away from the plate than the first strips. In another aspect, the dark region contains trapezoidally profiled strips (86), each having a width profile shaped like an upright trapezoid.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube has a vacuum enclosure including a panel unit having a fluorescent film formed on an inner face, the fluorescent film consisting of densely arrayed three color dot trios of a fluorescent material. A shadow mask is mounted in the vicinity of the fluorescent film. The color cathode ray tube further includes a neck unit housing an electron gun for emitting three electron beams and a funnel unit for joining the panel unit and the neck unit. The panel unit has a diagonal diameter of not more than 52 cm and an effective display area on an outer face of the panel unit has a diagonal radius of curvature of not less than 1,300 mm. The dot trios of the fluorescent material are horizontally arrayed in a number of approximately at least 1600, and a cover film is applied to the panel unit to lower optical transmittance.

Abstract: Cathode-ray tubes with a shadow mask effective in minimizing the moiré effect are disclosed.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube comprises a vacuum envelope in which there is mounted a shadow mask having a curved surface having a plurality of electron beam passing holes and a skirt extending downward from the margin of the curved surface. The shadow mask is supported by a mask frame having a substantially rectangular side wall. A shadow mask assembly constituted by fitting and securing the skirt into the side wall is set in the panel of the envelope, and the skirt is fitted and secured into the side wall by curving the middles of two or four facing sides of the skirt inward. Thereby, it is possible to provide a color cathode ray tube having the shadow mask assembly capable of obtaining a superior magnetic shielding characteristic by enlarging the effective region of the curved surface of the shadow mask.

Abstract: A CRT is provided with a panel having a curved inner phosphor-coated side, a substantially flat outer viewing screen side and a rectangular-shaped effective screen area ranged through the inner phosphor-coated side and the outer viewing screen side. A shadow mask faces the phosphor-coated side of the panel. The shadow mask is formed to the curved shape of the phosphor-coated side. The rectangular-shaped effective screen area of the panel has two horizontally parallel long sides meeting a vertical axis, two vertically parallel short sides extended perpendicular to the horizontal sides, and four boundary corners formed between the neighboring horizontal and vertical sides. The vertical sides meet a horizontal axis and each of the boundary sides meets a diagonal axis. The meeting point of a horizontal long side and the vertical axis has a thickness Tv. The meeting point of a vertical short side and the horizontal axis has a thickness Th.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube has a metal film formed to cover phosphor areas of a phosphor layer on an inner wall of a panel portion of an envelope. The metal film is formed over an organic film resin applied to the phosphor layer, the organic film resin is baked and removed so that the metal film covers the phosphor layer, and cracks are formed in the metal film in a greater number on side portions of the phosphor areas than on an upper portion of the phosphor areas. This construction results in a cathode ray tube with a metal film that can prevent a blister phenomenon and a reduction in brightness.

Abstract: An inner surface of an effective portion (10) of a substantially rectangular panel is formed to be a curved surface which satisfies relationships of RyP1<PyP0, RyP1<RyPH, RyP1<½·RyP2 and RyP2<3·RyP1, where RyP0 is a radius of curvature of the inner surface in a short axis direction thereof at the center of the effective portion (10), RyPH is a radius of curvature of the inner surface in the short axis direction at an end of a long axis of the effective portion (10), RyP1 is a radius of curvature of the inner surface in the short axis direction at a position within a range of {fraction (7/16)}·WPH to ¼·WPH from the center of the effective portion in the long axis direction, wherein WMH is a width of the effective surface in a long axis direction thereof, and RyP2 is a radius of curvature of the inner surface in the short axis direction at an end of the effective portion on a line parallel to the short axis passing through the position on the long axis withi

Abstract: A resonant microcavity display (20) having microcavity with a substrate (25), a phosphor active region (50) and front and rear reflectors (30 and 60). The front and rear reflectors may be spaced to create either a standing or treaveling eledtromagnetic wave to enhance the efificenty of the light transmission.

Abstract: A display panel includes a resin lens layer. The display panel consists of a front panel 10 and a back panel 12 which are hermetically sealed together. The display panel also includes a plurality of display cells and is filled with a gas. A visible-light transparent resin is coated over the front surface of the front panel 10. The resin layer is raise-molded with a molding tool 16 while being solidified. Through this molding process, a resin lens layer 14 with plural lenses is formed on the front surface of the front panel 10. The resin lens layer 14 formed on the front surface of the front panel 10 can improve the brightness of the display cells.

Abstract: A resonant microcavity display (20) having microcavity with a substrate (25), a phosphor active region (50) and front and rear reflectors (30 and 60). The front and rear reflectors may be spaced to create either a standing or treaveling eledtromagnetic wave to enhance the efificenty of the light transmission.

Abstract: An electrode plate for display device includes a substrate and a multi-layered conductive film. The multi-layered conductive film includes a lower side amorphous oxide layer, a silver-based layer, and an upper side amorphous oxide layer. The lower side amorphous oxide layer and the upper side amorphous oxide layer are formed of an amorphous and amorphous-like material. The film thickness of the upper side amorphous oxide layer is not larger than 20 nm.

Abstract: A glass panel for an implosion-protected type cathode ray tube is provided with a compressive stress of 7 MPa-30 MPa in an outer surface of a face portion and a relation of Rb≧0.017D+4.0 between the radius of curvature Rb of an outer surface of a blend R portion 9 in a diagonal portion of the glass panel and the largest outer diameter D of the glass panel Further, when the face portion is substantially flat, there is a relation of Tr≦0.014D+11.0 wherein Tr is the largest wall thickness of the blend R portion.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube includes a panel having a substantially flat outer surface and an inner curved surface with a phosphor screen. The panel has a substantially rectangular effective screen portion with two long sides parallel to each other, two short sides parallel to each other and four rounded edges interconnecting each long side and the neighboring short side. The effective screen portion is structured such that a first line V1 interconnecting centers of the long sides, a second line H1 interconnecting centers of the short sides and a third line D1 interconnecting centers of the rounded edges opposite to each other meet at a point. The effective screen portion has a first thickness Tv at the centers of the long sides, a second thickness Th at the centers of the short sides, a third thickness Td at the centers of the edges and a fourth thickness Tc at the meeting point of the first to third lines V1, H1 and D1.

Abstract: A filter 2A(2C), which prevents the leakage of electromagnetic waves from a PDP 1, is provided with a filter base 11 in front of the PDP 1 and a grounded conductive mesh 12 which transmits light from the base 11 on the PDP 1 side. A light scattering layer 13 is bonded to the mesh 12 by a conductive adhesive 14 which transmits light, and the spaces of the lattice, when the base 1 exists, of the mesh 12 are filled with the adhesive 14 so that, when an electric charge is induced in the mesh 12 by a pulse voltage applied to the PDP 1 for write/erase, the voltage across the lattice of the mesh 12 is made nearly equal to the potential of the mesh 12 so as not to cause an electric discharge and generate noise.

Abstract: A photo-luminescent/electro-luminescent display screen includes an electro-luminescent display, a photo-luminescent layer optically coupled to the electro-luminescent display. The photo-luminescent layer includes a transparent layer coated with an amorphous silica with fluorescence behavior. The screen further includes liquid crystal light valves which have a polarizer layer, a transparent glass substrate, a set of transparent electrodes which are formed by indium titanium oxide, a liquid crystal layer, a common transparent electrode formed by indium titanium oxide and a second polarizer layer.

Abstract: A color cathode-ray tube has a black matrix film having a plurality of light-transmitting windows that are formed on an inner surface of a face panel to have a predetermined positional relationship with each other, filter films formed in the light-transmitting windows to correspond to green, blue, and red, and phosphor films formed by stacking green, blue, and red phosphors on inner surfaces of the filter films. The filter films are made of a photo-tacky resin containing a filter dispersion. A method of manufacturing this color cathode-ray tube is also provided. This method includes the steps of applying a photo-tacky resin containing a desired filter dispersion to the inner surface of the face panel where the back matrix film is formed in advance, exposing the photo-tacky resin in the light-transmitting windows through a shadow mask, applying and drying a phosphor slurry to form the phosphor films, and removing undesired, non-exposed portions of the photo-tacky resin and phosphor films simultaneously.

Abstract: In a color cathode ray tube comprising a panel with a substantially rectangular effective portion whose outside face is almost flat or slightly curved and whose inside face has a curvature in the direction of minor axis near the short sides of the portion, and a fluorescent substance screen having a substantially rectangular effective region formed on the inside face of the effective portion of the panel, the short sides in the outer circumference of the effective region of the fluorescent substance screen are projected toward the center of the effective region. This improves the flatness of images appearing on the fluorescent substance screen provided on the inside face of the effective portion in the color cathode ray tube with the outside face of the effective portion of the substantially rectangular panel being almost flat and the inside face having a curvature in the direction of minor axis at least near the short sides.

Abstract: A resonant microcavity display (20) having microcavity with a substrate (25), a phosphor active region (50) and front and rear reflectors (30 and 60). The front and rear reflectors may be spaced to create either a standing or taveling electromagnetic wave to enhance the efficiency of the light transmission.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for producing a pattern on a transparent substrate, particularly a glass or glass-ceramic substrate. According to the invention, there is deposited on at least one area of one face of the substrate, a first layer of a photosensitive resin comprising at least one sensitizing agent and at least one photosensitive compound essentially composed of a polymer with an average degree of cross-linking d° such that it is able to absorb solid particles. Certain areas of said first layer are exposed to light, particularly in order to increase, in a controlled manner, the average degree of cross-linking d° of said polymer so as to modulate its absorption capacity. On the first layer is deposited at least one second layer of a mineral-particle-based composition. The substrate is subjected to at least one treatment cycle, particularly in order to fix said mineral particles. The invention also concerns the substrate produced by this method and its applications.

Abstract: An effective picture area A, displaying an image on the inside of a face panel, is curved and has no inflection points. An origin O marks the center of the effective picture area A on the inside of the face panel. The x-axis passes the origin O and is parallel to the long sides X.sub.a of the effective picture area. The y-axis passes the origin O and is parallel to the short sides Y.sub.a of the effective picture area. The z-axis passes the origin O and is parallel to the tube axis. Using a Cartesian coordinate system of the axes x, y, and z, the saggital height Z of any point (x, y, z) on the inner surface of the face panel 4 from the origin O in the direction of the tube is given by Z=a.sub.1 x.sup.2 +a.sub.2 x.sup.4 +a.sub.3 y.sup.2 +a.sub.4 x.sup.2 y.sup.2 +a.sub.5 x.sup.4 y.sup.2 +a.sub.6 y.sup.4 +a.sub.7 x.sup.2 y.sup.4, which describes a curved surface without inflection points.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube has a vacuum enclosure including a panel unit having a fluorescent film formed on its inner face, consisting of densely arrayed three color dot trios of a fluorescent material, a shadow mask being suspended in the vicinity of the fluorescent film; a neck unit housing an electron gun for emitting three electron beams; and a funnel unit for joining the panel unit and the neck unit. The panel unit has a diagonal diameter not more than 52 cm, wherein the effective display area on the outer face of the panel unit has a diagonal radius of curvature not less than 1,000 mm, and the dot trios of the fluorescent material are horizontally arrayed in a number not less than 1,450. As a result, it is possible to provide a color cathode ray tube which has a resolution corresponding to 2M pixels, but which has no display luminance irregularity and which can be adopted for use in a desktop terminal.

Abstract: An object is to remove unnaturalness of the picture caused by inferior flatness of the apparent screen and provide a safety-designed color picture tube device having a flatter apparent screen without deterioration of static strength of the picture tube. The upper half of the panel (the part above the Z-axis) shows the vertical-axis (V) section and the lower half (the part below the Z-axis) shows the horizontal-axis (H) section. The outside surface of the panel is in a convex form with respect to the Z-axis in the vertical-axis (V) section with a radius of curvature of ROV and is in a convex form with respect to the Z-axis in the horizontal-axis (H) section with a radius of curvature of ROH. The inside surface of the panel is in an almost linear form in the vertical-axis (V) section with a radius of curvature of RIV and is in a convex form with respect to the Z-axis in the horizontal-axis (H) section with a radius of curvature of RIH.

Abstract: A display screen which includes a microtip electron source which is observerable through the microtip support. The screen includes a cathodoluminescent anode, transparent support and cathode conductors formed on the support. The conductors are meshed according to a first pattern which includes openings. A resistive layer formed on the support is meshed according to a second pattern and includes solid areas located in the openings of the first pattern. Microtips are formed on the solid areas. Grids are meshed according to the second pattern in an unmeshed insulating layer which is transparent and extends above the cathode conductors and the resistive layer in between them and the grids.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube panel has a glass face portion including a substantially flat outer surface facing a viewer and an inner surface on which a phosphor screen is coated. The inner surface is concavely curved with a radius of curvature R.sub.x in a direction of a horizontal axis of the cathode ray tube, and the following conditions are satisfied: ##EQU1## where W.sub.h denotes a horizontal width of an effective area of picture in the face portion, L denotes an optimum viewing distance, n.sub.1 denotes a refractive index of the face portion, and t denotes a thickness of the face portion at its center.

Abstract: A glass panel for a cathode ray tube having a substantially flat face portion and being safe and light in weight wherein the smallest value of the averaged radius of curvature of an outer face of the face portion is 25,000-50,000 mm and the outer face portion of the face portion has a compressive stress of 6-30 MPa in absolute value.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube has a vacuum enclosure including a panel unit having a fluorescent film formed on an inner face thereof, consisting of densely arrayed three color dot trios of a fluorescent material, a shadow mask being mounted in the vicinity of the fluorescent film, a neck unit housing an electron gun for emitting three electron beams, and a funnel unit for joining the panel unit and the neck unit. The said panel unit has a diagonal diameter of not more than 50 cm, an effective display area on an outer face of the panel unit has a diagonal radius of curvature of not less than 1,300 mm, and the dot trios of the fluorescent material are horizontally arrayed in a number of approximately at least 1600.

Abstract: An explosion-proof film being good in visibility, scratch-resistance, and workability, and a cathode-ray tube using the film. The explosion-proof film includes a transparent plastic film as a base material; and a reflection preventive film having two or more layers, which is formed on one surface of the plastic film; wherein, of the two or more layers of the reflection preventive film, at least one has a light absorption function, and at least another has a conductive function. The explosion-proof film is stuck on a surface of a panel glass constituting a display screen of a cathode-ray tube, to thereby give an explosion-proof function to the cathode-ray tube, to achieve lightweightness of the cathode-ray tub, and to obtain the optimum visual contrast. The explosion-proof film may be formed of three or more layers.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube is disclosed, that comprises an optical filter layer 2 formed on an inner surface of a glass panel 1, a thin film formed on a front surface of the optical filter layer 2 and composed of a metal oxide, and a fluorescent substance layer 4 formed on the thin film 3 corresponding to a pattern of the optical filter layer 2. The surface state of the thin film 3 is rougher than the surface state of the optical filter layer 2 and similar to the surface state of the fluorescent substance layer 4. Thus, the optical filter layer 2 sparsely contacts the fluorescent substance layer 4. Thus, the influence of the optical filter layer 2 to the fluorescent substance layer 4 can be reduced. Consequently, fluorescent substance particles of the fluorescent substance layer 4 can be suppressed from breaking, dropping, and so forth. Thus, an excellent fluorescent surface can be obtained at high throughput.

Abstract: The present invention provides an inexpensive cathode ray tube envelope which suffers considerably diminished glass browning in comparison with traditional cathode ray tube envelopes. The method of reducing glass browning in cathode ray tubes, and a suitable glass composite and glass composition are also provided. The cathode ray tube envelope of the present invention includes a screen which has an inner and an outer glass layers. The inner layer is made of lead-free glass whereas the outer layer is made of lead-containing glass. In the operational cathode ray tube of the present invention, the electron beams emitted therein, are absorbed by the inner layer without substantial browning, since the inner layer does not contain material that cause browning, and do not penetrate to the lead-containing outer layer. At the same time, the X-rays produced in the cathode ray tube are effectively and efficiently blocked by the lead-containing outer layer.

Abstract: A cathode-ray tube including: a flat panel with an inside to which fluorescent material of Red, Green and Blue is applied; a funnel combined to a rear end of the flat panel; an electron gun provided in a neck part of the funnel and radiating electron beam; a flat tension shadow mask installed to the inside of the flat panel at regular intervals and having a plurality of passing holes formed for the passage of electron beams; a rail supporting the flat tension shadow mask for regularly maintaining interval of the tension shadow mask and a surface of the panel; and a magnetic shield shielding an external magnetic field, where the rail has a magnetic shield connecting part for installing the magnetic shield within the cathode-ray tube.

Abstract: A transparent substrate having a glare reducing diffuser surface coating on its outer surface forms a faceplate for attachment to a screen for a cathode ray tube or other display device. The coating has a gloss less than about 80 gloss units, and the substrate may include an index matching adhesive/medium for attaching said faceplate to a cathode ray tube screen. The diffuser surface coated substrate is bendable, overcoatable with functional coatings such as transparent conductor coatings, abrasion resistant, and generally serviceable for its intended use.

Abstract: Disclosed is a phosphor suitable for use in a cathode-ray tube, a fluorescent lamp, a radiation intensifying screen, which comprises transparent spherical particles having an average particle size of 0.5 to 20 .mu.m and a ratio of the major diameter to the minor meter of individual particles in the range of 1.0 to 1.5, and ultrafine particles having a diameter of 0.2 .mu.m less in an amount of 5 wt % or less.

Abstract: The current coefficient and saturation brightness of a phosphor is increased by coating the surfaces of phosphor particles (11, 21, 41) constituting a powdered phosphor with layers (12, 22, 42), preferably composed of phosphor, of 5 .mu.m, or less in thickness. A cathode-ray tube using this phosphor has a high luminance and/or a high resolution. If the above phosphor contains phosphor particles covered with electrically conductive phosphor and is used for an electroluminescence device or a vacuum fluorescent display, the life time and stability are improved.

Abstract: A molded plastic faceplate and/or a molded plastic backplate are used to form a flat panel display. A faceplate mold is formed by laser etching pixel recesses in the mold. The detail of such pixel recesses is copied onto a plastic faceplate by injection molding or compression molding a clear plastic. Such molding achieves pixel detail and depth detail to a microscopic precision. The borders of the pixel areas serve as spacers which separate the faceplate and backplate while containing liquid crystal or phosphor material. Electrical circuits are formed on the faceplate and/or backplate to define control circuitry for display pixels.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a phosphor material, which comprises the steps of, generating thermal plasma, supplying a conductive material into the thermal plasma so as to evaporate the conductive material, supplying phosphor particles into the thermal plasma so as to allow the conductive material to adhere onto the surface of the phosphor particles, and cooling the phosphor particles having the conductive material adhered thereon. By making use of this method, it is possible to manufacture a phosphor material comprising a phosphor particle and a conductive layer formed on the surface of the phosphor particle, wherein the ratio between the minor axis and the major axis of the phosphor material is 1.5 or less.