Plural Layer Type Patents (Class 313/473)
  • Patent number: 9576511
    Abstract: A sign comprising a surface having a display, and a plurality of sources of visible light. The sources of visible light are oriented to illuminate at least a portion of the display, and include solid state light emitters and/or luminescent materials. Line segments drawn on a Chromaticity Diagram connecting coordinates of some of the illumination color hues define a shape which encompasses coordinates of the display color hue(s). Also, a sign comprising a surface having a display having a surface area of at least 4 square meters, and at least 100 sources of visible light including solid state light emitters and/or luminescent materials. Also, a sign comprising a white light source and at least one additional source of light. Also, methods of illuminating signs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Antony Paul Van De Ven, Gerald H. Negley
  • Patent number: 8963411
    Abstract: A control console assembly includes a diffusion layer and an electrode of a capacitive sensor. The diffusion layer has an outer surface and an inner surface substantially opposite the outer surface. The electrode of the capacitive sensor is mated to at least one of the inner surface or the outer surface of the diffusion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Methode Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard A. Boelstler, Eluid David Carter
  • Patent number: 8598772
    Abstract: A flat display and a method of fabricating the same, in which the fabrication of the flat display is facilitated by employing a plate-to-plate method. The method of fabricating a flat display panel includes the steps of forming an optical bonding resin layer by applying an optical bonding resin on the underside of a transparent film, attaching a filter to the upper surface of the transparent film, and attaching the optical bonding resin layer to the upper surface of a display panel using a plate-to-plate method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Corning Precision Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Yoon Yeom, Insung Sohn, Euisoo Kim, Seung Won Park, Jinhoon Lee, EunYoung Cho
  • Patent number: 8421332
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a capacitive touch screen and a method for manufacturing the same. The capacitive touch screen includes: a base member on which a plurality of electrode patterns are formed; conductive adhesive members formed at ends of the electrode patterns; a window disposed over the base member and having a plurality of electrode wirings formed in an outer region thereof, the plurality of electrode wirings being opposite to the electrode patterns; and auxiliary electrodes formed at one of the ends of the electrode wirings to conduct the electrode patterns with the electrode wirings by the conductive adhesive members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Woon Chun Kim, Yong Soo Oh, Jae Il Kim, Jong Young Lee
  • Patent number: 8241418
    Abstract: The present invention provides a producing method of powder particles having an average particle diameter on the order of submicrons. Specifically, the producing method is a producing method of powder particles obtained by grinding a product to be ground by using plural grinding media, wherein the grinding media including at least one kind (grinding medium A) having an average particle diameter of 0.01 to 5 times and at least one kind (grinding medium B) having an average particle diameter of 10 to 450 times, with respect to the average particle diameter of the product to be ground before being ground, are used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: TORAY Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuki Shigeta, Atsushi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 8129892
    Abstract: In a light emitter substrate which has a resistor for connecting electrodes adjacent in a row direction, it aims to improve withstand discharge performance of the resistor. In the substrate comprising a substrate, plural light emitting members which are positioned in matrix on the substrate, plural electrodes each of which covers at least one of the light emitting members and which are positioned in matrix, and a row-direction striped resistor which is positioned between the electrodes adjacent in a column direction and connects the electrodes adjacent in a row direction and the column direction, a row-direction separated distance Gx? between the electrodes adjacent in the row direction at a connecting portion between the electrodes and the resistor is made larger than a row-direction separated distance Gx between the electrodes adjacent in the row direction at a portion covering the light emitting members (Gx?>Gx).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yukihiro Inoue
  • Patent number: 7994695
    Abstract: A RGB phosphor system for a carbon nanotube (CNT)/field emission device (FED) display operated between about 4-10 kV. The RGB phosphor system is formed on an interior surface of a screen of the CNT/FED display. The RGB phosphor system includes ZnS:Cu, Al (green phosphor), ZnS:Ag,Cl (blue phosphor) and Y2O2S:Eu+3 (red phosphor). The average particle size for each of the green, blue and red phosphors should be about 3-4 microns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Brian Thomas Collins, Peter Michael Ritt, David Paul Ciampa, James Kleppinger
  • Patent number: 7834532
    Abstract: An electron beam display, in which light extracting efficiency from phosphor and a bright-portion contrast are improved is provided, has: an electron-emitting device, a metal back, and a phosphor dot which is disposed in opposition to the electron-emitting device through the metal back and emits light responsive to an irradiation with an electron beam emitted from the electron-emitting device; and further has a face plate having a black member which is disposed in opposition to the electron source through the phosphor dot and has an aperture in a region in which the phosphor dot is formed. A region irradiated with the electron beam emitted from the electron-emitting device is not larger than the phosphor dot, a part of the black member is disposed in the region irradiated with the electron beam, and at least a part of the aperture is disposed outside of the region irradiated with the electron beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomoya Onishi
  • Publication number: 20090309480
    Abstract: In a light emitter substrate which has a resistor for connecting electrodes adjacent in a row direction, it aims to improve withstand discharge performance of the resistor. In the substrate comprising a substrate, plural light emitting members which are positioned in matrix on the substrate, plural electrodes each of which covers at least one of the light emitting members and which are positioned in matrix, and a row-direction striped resistor which is positioned between the electrodes adjacent in a column direction and connects the electrodes adjacent in a row direction and the column direction, a row-direction separated distance Gx? between the electrodes adjacent in the row direction at a connecting portion between the electrodes and the resistor is made larger than a row-direction separated distance Gx between the electrodes adjacent in the row direction at a portion covering the light emitting members (Gx?>Gx).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yukihiro Inoue
  • Patent number: 7531952
    Abstract: A front sheet that is a layered film glued on a front face of a display panel includes a front portion made of plural layers having the same plane size and different functions and a rear portion having a plane size smaller than the front portion and larger than the screen, and the rear portion is put on the front face of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display Limited
    Inventors: Yoshimi Kawanami, Nobuyuki Hori, Atsuo Ohsawa, Fumihiro Namiki
  • Patent number: 7400082
    Abstract: In a flat type image forming apparatus formed by electron emitting devices, the invention is to provide a light emitting substrate, capable of relaxing influence of an abnormal discharge on the electron emitting devices. On a glass substrate 1, a resistor member 4 extending in X- and Y-direction, and a black member 6 extending in X- and Y-directions are formed. Phosphors 5 are positioned in apertures of the black member 6, and are covered by metal backs 7 divided in X- and Y-directions. The metal backs 7 and the resistor member 4 are electrically connected through the black member 6, and the resistance between the metal backs 7 is defined by the resistor member 4 in the Y-direction in which the adjacent metal backs 7 have a wider gap than in the X-direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norihiro Suzuki, Koji Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 7361417
    Abstract: A phosphor layer having improved contrast and brightness characteristics and a display device including the same are provided. The phosphor layer is made out of an ultra-fine pigment, a dispersant, a phosphor, a photosensitizer and a binder. The phosphor has a uniform distribution along the thickness of the phosphor layer, and the pigment varies in content over the thickness of the phosphor layer. A method of forming the phosphor layer is based on existing phosphor layer processes and includes a reduced number of processing steps than a filter screen method, thereby markedly lowering the manufacturing costs. The phosphor layer can be used in a cathode ray tube, a plasma display panel, a field emission display, and an organic electroluminescent device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung-Heun Kang, Jong-Sang Lee, Jae-Hong Lim, Seok-Hwan Cha, Hong-Kyu Choi
  • Patent number: 7291963
    Abstract: A front substrate is provided which has a phosphor screen including a phosphor layer and a black light-blocking layer, a metal back layer which is laid over the phosphor screen and is composed of a plurality of strip-shaped divisional electrodes, a getter layer which is laid over the metal back layer, and a dividing layer which electrically divides the getter layer over the black light-blocking layer. The dividing layer has electrical conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Yuuji Haraguchi
  • Patent number: 7227302
    Abstract: Optical filter layers that transmit only light with a desired wavelength are provided in a non-formation region of an optical absorbing layer formed on an inner surface of a glass panel, and phosphor layers that emit either one of red, green, and blue light are provided on the optical filter layers. The optical filter layers transmit blue light. Assuming that the thickness of the optical filter layer underlying the phosphor layer that emits blue light is t1, and the thickness of the optical filter layers underlying the phosphor layers that emit red and green light is t2, a relationship: t1>t2 is satisfied. Because of the above configuration, a color cathode-ray tube is provided, which can be produced at low cost with satisfactory yield with less peeling of a phosphor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Toshiba Picture Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Iida, Hidemi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 6998766
    Abstract: A screen composite provided on a face plate of a flat panel display device, said screen composite containing an aluminum layer and a metal layer formed on said aluminum layer for substantially reducing a halation phenomenon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: LG Philips Displays Korea Co., LTD
    Inventor: Sang-Chul Ryu
  • Patent number: 6979948
    Abstract: There is disclosed an image forming apparatus in which electric discharge by a peeled metal back film is prevented. In the image forming apparatus provided with a rear plate having an electron emitting device, and a face plate having a conductive film and a fluorescent layer having fluorescent particles, the conductive film is disposed on the fluorescent layer. When an average thickness of the fluorescent layer is set to d, an average particle diameter of the fluorescent particles is rp, and the thickness of the fluorescent film is D, D?rp?d?D+rp is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomoya Onishi
  • Patent number: 6960873
    Abstract: A novel CRT and method of making the CRT are disclosed. The CRT comprises an internal neutral density filter that lies between the phosphor deposits and the interior surface of the faceplate panel. The filter enhances the contrast of the CRT without compromising center to edge brightness ratio of the CRT. The filter comprises very fine particles, wherein the particles are black, gray, or a mixture of black and gray. The filter reduces the absorption of the faceplate by 25 to 75%. The invention is particularly useful for substantially flat CRTs. The method of producing the novel CRT comprises the steps of preparing a suspension of well-dispersed light-absorbing, carbon-containing particles which are 0.05 to 2 microns in aqueous media and applying the suspension onto the interior surface of the faceplate panel prior to applying at least one phosphor deposit. The suspension may also include suitable organic and inorganic binders and dispersing and wetting agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventor: Himanshu Mukundray Patel
  • Patent number: 6946160
    Abstract: A method of forming a fluorescent screen where a pigment film and a fluorescent film are deposited on a surface of a light transmissive substrate, is presented. The method includes coating a pigment dispersion liquid on the surface of the light transmissive substrate to form a coated film and forming the pigment film by drying the coated film. The drying of the coated film is performed under conditions that a temperature of the corner portions of the light transmissive substrate is controlled to 36° C. to 50° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Norihisa Nakao
  • Patent number: 6885143
    Abstract: A cathode ray tube is provided, and more particularly, a cost-effective cathode ray tube effective for minimizing deterioration of color purity and obtaining a sufficient margin for a beam strike neck (BSN) phenomenon by moving a ½ center (deflection center) closer to a panel without changing the curvature of a funnel or the thickness of a glass inside the funnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: LG. Philips Displays Korea Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyuk Dong Kim
  • Patent number: 6882091
    Abstract: To manufacture an electromagnetic-wave shielding and light transmitting plate having a conductive pattern of which line width is narrow and open area ratio is high, a resin pattern 2 is printed on a transparent film 1 having a low affinity for a plated layer by using a resin having a high affinity for the plated layer. Then, a conductive material layer is formed by electroless plating on the resin pattern 2 of the film 1, thereby forming the conductive pattern 3. After that, the blackening treatment is conducted, thereby obtaining the electromagnetic-wave shielding and light transmitting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Hidefumi Kotsubo, Yasuhiro Morimura, Itsuo Tanuma
  • Patent number: 6844667
    Abstract: A panel for a cathode ray tube having an inner surface with predetermined roughness, including a plurality of black matrix layers formed on the inner surface and a phosphor layer composed of red, green and blue phosphors between the black matrix layers, and the phosphor layer and the black matrix layer are formed on the inner surface of the panel after forming a transparent dielectric film, can prevent degradation of brightness and color purity of a screen caused as a result of grinding process which gives roughness to an inner surface of the panel in order to prevent mirror surface reflection on the inner surface of the panel caused by external light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Lg. Philips Displays Korea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Tae Choi, Bum-Sik Seo
  • Patent number: 6841926
    Abstract: A transfer film comprising a base film (11), a parting-agent layer (12), a protective film (13), and a metal film (14), the latter three being formed on the base film (11) in order, wherein the protective film (13) contains a softening agent such as a phosphate, an aliphatic monobasic acid ester, an aliphatic dibasic acid ester, or a dihydric alcohol ester. By using such a transfer film, a metal back layer is formed. Since the transfer layer of the transfer film has a surface resistivity of as high as 102-108 ?/, the surface resistivity of the formed metal back layer is high, and discharge is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Nikka Techno, Inc., Fuji Pigment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeo Ito, Hajime Tanaka, Tomoko Nakazawa, Taichiro Nakayama, Takaaki Shinohara, Yoichiro Nakayama, Kazuo Sakai
  • Patent number: 6833663
    Abstract: A phosphor screen with metal back of the present invention has a degree of adhesion of 30% or more in the ratio of the contact area of a phosphor layer (2) and a metal back layer (3). The deterioration (film burning) of emission brightness in FED can be suppressed and the brightness characteristics can be improved. The film thickness of the metal back layer is set to 50 to 100 nm and the light transmittance thereof is set to 10% or less to provide a highly bright display with excellent reflectivity. The phosphor screen with metal back can be formed by transferring a metal film onto the phosphor layer formed on the internal surface of a translucent substrate by using a transfer film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hajime Tanaka, Tomoko Nakazawa, Takeo Ito
  • Patent number: 6822393
    Abstract: A plasma display panel including a pair of panels, pairs of sustain electrodes arranged on one of the panels and bus electrodes formed to be at least partially overlapped on the transparent electrodes, and address electrodes arranged to intersect the pairs of sustain electrodes, wherein a plurality of cells are formed on intersecting points of the pairs of sustain electrodes and the address electrodes. Also including, fluorescent layers, wherein a light absorption layer is formed on a side of each bus electrode directing the inside of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Jae Sung Kim
  • Patent number: 6762548
    Abstract: The invention relates to a color picture screen with an improved blue light emission. The blue phosphor layer comprises a first blue-emitting phosphor and a second phosphor which shows a light emission in the range from 380 to 450 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Hans-Helmut Bechtel, Wolfgang Busselt, Thomas Juestel, Martin Weibrecht, Peter Quadflieg
  • Patent number: 6727648
    Abstract: There is explained a plasma display panel that is capable of preventing discoloration of a substrate caused by migration of a metal bus electrode or metal paste's running down. A plasma display panel according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a transparent electrode; a metal bus electrode formed on the transparent electrode; and a black layer formed on a side surface of the transparent electrode and between the metal bus electrode and the transparent electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Seok Dong Kang
  • Patent number: 6713953
    Abstract: Disclosed is a field emission display device which can prevent mixing of colors between the phosphor elements of the field emission display device. In the field emission display device, an upper substrate and a lower substrate are spaced apart with a predetermined gap and opposed to each other. Cathode assemblies are formed in a shape of stripes on the lower substrate. Anodes are formed on the upper substrate, and black matrices are formed on the anodes. The black matrices are disposed at locations respectively corresponding to every space between the cathode assemblies, so as to respectively have a shape of a partition. R, G, and B phosphor elements are formed in spaces between the black matrices, so as to respectively correspond to the cathode assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Boe-Hydis Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Un Cheol Sung, Ick Hwan Ko, Kyo Woong Lee, Young Wook Ko
  • Patent number: 6703778
    Abstract: In a display device (70, 70A, 80-80G, 90-90F) having a display window (73, 81, 93), a magnetic loss layer or layer (75, 75A, 88-88C, 97-97C) is formed on at least a part of a principal surface of the display window. The magnetic loss layer may be a granular magnetic thin layer which is, for example, made of a magnetic substance of a magnetic composition comprising M, X and Y, where M is a metallic magnetic material consisting of Fe, Co, and/or Ni, X being element or elements other than M and Y, and Y being F, N, and/or O. The magnetic loss layer may be formed in any one selected from mat, lattice, stripe, and speck fashions. The magnetic loss layer may be formed in a mesh fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: NEC Tokin Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Watanabe, Koji Kamei, Hiroshi Ono, Shigeyoshi Yoshida, Michio Nemoto
  • Patent number: 6690107
    Abstract: A transparent inorganic intermediate layer extends between a color filter layer and a phosphor layer in a color display device. The intermediate layer stops electrons before they can penetrate the color filter layer. Aging phenomena which adversely affect the effectiveness of the color filter layer are thus precluded. It is alternatively possible to use hitherto useless pigments, in particular pigments which are unstable when they are exposed to an electron bombardment in the color filter layer (or layers). By virtue thereof, the effectiveness of the color filter layer has been increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Arie R. Van Doorn, Remko Horne, Godefridus P. Van Melis
  • Patent number: 6624564
    Abstract: For use in a color cathode ray tube (CRT) having a display screen with a flat outer surface and a curved inner surface, a 2-layer antistatic and antireflective coating for the display screen's flat outer surface compensates for the variation in screen thickness to provide uniform light transmission through the screen and coating combination, a high degree of video image contrast, effective electrostatic shielding and discharge, and reduced light reflectivity. The coating includes a first inner electrically conductive layer disposed on the CRT display screen's flat outer surface containing carbon black particles for a high level of video image contrast and improved electrical conductivity for electrostatic shielding and discharge. The extent of light transmission through the inner conductive layer may be adjusted in accordance with the display screen's thickness by varying the amount of carbon black particles in the coating solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Chu Wang, Chun-Min Hu
  • Patent number: 6570322
    Abstract: An anode screen for a field-emission-display is formed by layering light-permeable conductive material and phosphor respectively over a transparent substrate. A plurality of holes are formed in the layer of phosphor to expose corresponding regions of the conductive material. In a further embodiment, the anode screen is disposed in spaced and opposing relationship to a cathode emitter plate that comprises a plurality of electron emitters. Pixel regions of the phosphor of the anode screen correspond to regions of the phosphor opposite respective electron emitters of the plurality of electron emitters. Preferably, each pixel region of the phosphor has a number of holes spaced equally about its periphery. In the preferred embodiment, six holes delimit a hexagon shape for their respective pixel region, wherein centers of the holes provide apexes of the hexagon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert T. Rasmussen
  • Publication number: 20030034726
    Abstract: A heat absorbing film (14) made of an oxide is formed on a conductive reflecting film (13) by applying and baking a sol containing a material, which is to form the oxide, in a colloidal state. Conditions under which a vacuum evaporation system for forming the conductive reflecting film (13), and an applying/baking system for forming the heat absorbing film (14) are operated need not be changed, and the heat absorbing film (14) having small variations in thickness and quality can be formed on the conductive reflecting film (13). Reflection and radiation of heat from the conductive reflecting film (13) to a color selection electrode are suppressed effectively, so that a color cathode-ray tube in which a decrease in color purity is small can be manufactured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Publication date: February 20, 2003
    Inventor: Kimiyo Ibaraki
  • Patent number: 6521346
    Abstract: A two-layer coating for the outer surface of a glass display screen of a video display device such as a cathode ray tube (CRT) includes an inner antistatic layer and an outer antireflective layer. The outer antireflective layer contains silica and has a refractive index in the range of 1.4-1.5. The inner layer contains carbon black powder particles which provide high electrical conductivity to dissipate electrostatic charge on the glass display screen. The inner layer further includes a surface activation agent, such as glycol, for dispersing the carbon black particles in the antistatic solution. To increase the refractive index of the inner layer to a value greater than its typical value, which is in the range of 1.5-2.0, for the purpose of reducing light reflection from the glass display screen while maintaining high conductivity, ZrO2, ZnO, ZnS or TiO2, or a combination thereof, is added to the inner antistatic layer to provide a stable solution with optically and electrically desirable characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Chu Wang, Chun-Min Hu
  • Patent number: 6512327
    Abstract: An improved resin layer used in the manufacture of cathode ray tube assemblies incorporates inorganic particles in the resin. The resin layer with particles is coated on a CRT screen prior to coating with aluminum film. The resin layer is volatilizable, so that following applying the aluminum film, the screen is baked to drive off the resin. The inorganic particles in the resin layer create an uneven boundary with the screen, so that during baking, volatilized resin in the form of gases can escape from between the aluminum and screen without forming bubbles or causing swelling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: Orion Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Youl Yoon, Dong Ky Shin, Hyo Sup Lee
  • Patent number: 6501102
    Abstract: Presented is an LED device that produces white light by performing phosphor conversion on substantially all of the primary light emitted by the light emitting structure of the LED device. The LED device comprises a light emitting structure and at least one phosphor-converting element located to receive and absorb substantially all of the primary light. The phosphor-converting element emits secondary light at second and third wavelengths that combine to produce white light. Some embodiments include an additional phosphor-converting element, which receives light from a phosphor-converting element and emits light at a fourth wavelength. In the embodiments including an additional phosphor-converting element, the second, third, and fourth wavelengths combine to produce white light. Each phosphor-converting element includes at least one host material doped with at least one dopant. The phosphor-converting element may be a phosphor thin film, a substrate for the light emitting structure, or a phosphor powder layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: LumiLeds Lighting, U.S., LLC
    Inventors: Regina B. Mueller-Mach, Gerd O. Mueller, George M. Craford
  • Patent number: 6489715
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a substrate of a luminous faceplate of a color projection cathode ray tube and a luminous faceplate which is composed of this substrate. The substrate consists of transparent polycrystalline material, and the luminous faceplate comprises a transparent polycrystal substrate and a luminous layer which is formed thereon. The luminous faceplate using the substrate of the present invention has an advantage over the prior art in the volume of a product, operating power, manufacturing cost, and resolution and so on. Thus, it is widely used in the field of color projection TV, advertisement display and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: Research Institute of Synthetic Crystals
    Inventors: Dezhong Shen, Cunxin Huang, Zaixue Peng, Deming Lui, Muyun Lei, Zhiyang Zhang
  • Patent number: 6400072
    Abstract: A viewing screen (100) for a display device (115) includes a glass substrate (110) having a thermal coefficient of expansion within a range of 3.5×10−6−4.5×10−6 °C.−1. Viewing screen (100) further includes a black matrix (111), which is affixed to glass substrate (110), and which includes a black surround, a ductile metal, and lead titanate. A method for fabricating viewing screen (100) includes the steps of: adding to a black surround paste a ductile metal paste, adding to the black surround paste lead titanate particles, depositing the black surround paste on glass substrate (110), and heating the black surround paste and glass substrate (110) to affix the black surround paste to glass substrate (110), thereby forming black matrix (111). The ductile metal paste and lead titanate particles are added in amounts sufficient to realize an extent of cracking in black matrix (111) upon repeated heating to a temperature within a range of 450-600° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn M. O'Rourke, Nick R. Munizza, Matthew Stainer
  • Patent number: 6344712
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2002
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Eida, Chisio Hosokawa, Masahide Matsuura
  • Patent number: 6288483
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Candescent Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Duane A. Haven, Arthur J. Learn, John D. Porter
  • Patent number: 6274976
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignees: Hitachi, LTD, Hitachi Device Engineering Co., LTD
    Inventors: Toshimasa Ishigaki, Masahiro Nishizawa, Fumio Takahashi, Tetsuo Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6255778
    Abstract: An electromagnetic-wave shielding material, such as a conductive mesh member 3, is bonded to a front surface of a PDP body 20 by transparent adhesives 4B, 4C and a transparent base plate 2 is bonded to a surface of the electromagnetic-wave shielding material by transparent adhesives 4A so that they are integrated together. In this way, electromagnetic-wave shielding efficiency is imparted to a display panel itself, thereby lightening its weight, making its wall thinner, reducing the number of parts, and thus improving the productivity and reducing the cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Yoshikawa, Yasuhiro Morimura
  • Patent number: 6188173
    Abstract: A cathode ray tube includes a rectangular panel on which a phosphor screen is formed, and a neck in which an electron gun assembly for emitting three electron beams is disposed. The cathode ray tube also has a funnel including a neck seal part at which the neck and the funnel are connected, a cone part formed contiguous to the neck seal part, and has a non-circular section having a maximum diameter along a direction other than a long axis and a short axis of the panel; and a body formed contiguous to the cone part and the panel. In the cathode ray tube, inflection points are formed between the cone part and the body, and the inflection point at a diagonal direction of the panel is formed nearer to the panel than the inflection points at the long axis and the short axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: Samsung Display Devices Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gwang-soo Kang, Chi-heoun Song
  • Patent number: 6180030
    Abstract: A coating liquid for forming a transparent conductive coating, comprising fine particles of a composite metal having an average particle size of 1 to 200 nm and a polar solvent. The above composite metal particles are preferably composed of an alloy of a plurality of metals or comprise fine metal particles or the fine alloy particles covered by a metal having a standard hydrogen electrode potential higher than that of the metal or alloy metal. A substrate with transparent conductive coating comprising a transparent conductive fine particle layer including the composite metal particles and a transparent coating disposed on the transparent conductive fine particle layer. A display device comprising a front panel composed of the above substrate with transparent conductive coating, the transparent conductive coating being formed at an outer surface of the front panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Catalysts & Chemicals Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiharu Hirai, Michio Komatsu, Mitsuaki Kumazawa, Yuji Tawarazako
  • Patent number: 6111352
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hideaki Hanaoka
  • Patent number: 6100632
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Keisuke Iida
  • Patent number: 6097144
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: International Lead Zinc Research Organization, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard L. Lehman
  • Patent number: 6094005
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube includes black matrix films (31) formed on an inner surface of a glass panel (29) with a predetermined positional relation. The black matrix films (31) have a plurality of light transmission window portions (33, 35, 37), and fluorescent substance films (55) formed by fluorescent substance particles (39, 41, 43) of green, blue, and red at the light transmission portions. In the color cathode ray tube, the fluorescent substance films have wave length selective layers (45, 47) partly coated on a surface of at least one kind of the fluorescent substance particles of green, blue, and red. Each of the fluorescent substance films has a wave length selective characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Nobumitsu Aibara
  • Patent number: 6087012
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: Donnelly Corporation
    Inventors: Desaraju V. Varaprasad, Craig A. Dornan, Catherine A. Getz
  • Patent number: 6013978
    Abstract: Adherence of the phosphor screen to the face panel of a color cathode ray tube is improved by placing a UV-reflective filter on the inside of the face panel prior to photolithographic forming of the screen, in order to reflect transmitted UV light back onto those areas from which the light emerged, thereby effectively increasing the exposure dosage of those areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Robert L. Donofrio
  • Patent number: 6001486
    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 preferred resolution of at least about 3 lines per millimeter, 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 and overcoatable with functional coatings such as transparent conductor and/or abrasion resistant coatings. Alternately, the diffuser surface coating may be applied over such functional coatings which are applied to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: Donnelly Corporation
    Inventors: Desaraju V. Varaprasad, Craig A. Dornan, Catherine A. Getz