Abstract: Provided are an electron gun, an electron gun component, an electron beam applicator, and an alignment method that can align the emission axis of an electron beam with the optical axis of the electron optical system of the counterpart device even when misalignment of a mounted position of the electron gun being mounted to the counterpart device is larger.

Abstract: The semiconductor device includes: a base; a first mount placed on the bottom of the base; a second mount placed on the top of the base; a first light-emitting element placed on the bottom of the first mount; and a second light-emitting element placed on the top of the second mount for emitting light. The first light-emitting element and the second light-emitting element are placed so that the emission direction of light from the second light-emitting element is at an angle of depression with respect to the emission direction of light from the first light-emitting element and that the emission direction of light from the first light-emitting element and the emission direction of light from the second light-emitting element substantially coincide with each other as viewed from above the base.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a display panel having a face plate, a rear plate, and a frame member, forming a vacuum container, a plurality of plate-like spacers arranged between the face plate and the rear plate in an interior of the vacuum container to maintain an internal space of the vacuum container, and a support member that supports a rear surface of the display panel. The support member includes a plate-like member having a plurality of protruding portions with a linear shape, and a longitudinal direction of the protruding portions and a longitudinal direction of the spacers are substantially parallel to each other.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube includes a tube having a panel having an inner phosphor screen, a funnel connected to the panel, a neck connected to the funnel, a deflection unit disposed around the funnel, an electron gun installed in the neck, and a scatter-proof unit installed on the panel and the funnel such that the panel shares the scatter-proof unit with the funnel for preventing the tube from breaking and scattering into many pieces.

Abstract: A Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) includes a panel having an inner phosphor screen, a funnel connected to the panel and adapted to have a deflection unit arranged thereon and a neck connected to the funnel and having an electron gun arranged therein. A shatter-proof member is installed on the funnel to prevent the tube from shattering.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube has a deflection yoke (14) secured to a glass envelope (2). The glass envelope includes a neck (4) and a funnel (5). The deflection yoke comprises an electrically insulative liner (15) provided with vertical (17) and horizontal deflection coils (19). The liner has rod receiving apertures (23) arranged proximate a rear end (20) of the liner. The rod receiving apertures extend through the liner at spaces between the vertical and horizontal deflection coils. Rods (29) are positioned in the rod receiving apertures. A clamp (30) has a locking portion (40) that engages the rods. The locking portion pushes the rods inward through the rod receiving apertures and into engagement with the neck to secure the deflection yoke to the neck of the envelope.

Abstract: The disclosed method for forming a field emission display includes forming a cathode and an anode, forming a plurality of photoresist posts over the cathode, and coating the posts with a layer of coating material. The layer of coating material forms sidewalls around the posts. The photoresist posts may then be removed from within the sidewalls. The anode may then be fitted onto the sidewalls so that the sidewalls function as spacers in the field emission display.

Abstract: An image display device includes a first substrate which has a phosphor surface, and a second substrate which is opposed to the first substrate with a gap and has a plurality of electron sources. A plurality of spacers are arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate and support an atmospheric load acting on the first and second substrates. Each of the spacers has distal end portions at the first and second substrates, respectively. The distal end portions of each spacer are impregnated with electrically conductive material and constitute conductivity-imparting portions.

Abstract: The disclosed method for forming a field emission display includes forming a cathode and an anode, forming a plurality of photoresist posts over the cathode, and coating the posts with a coating material. The coating material forms sidewalls around the posts. The photoresist posts may then be removed from within the sidewalls. The anode may then be fitted onto the sidewalls so that the sidewalls function as spacers in the field emission display.

Abstract: An implosion preventing band for a cathode ray tube includes a main band formed around an outer surface of a skirt of a face panel, and including a pair of long sides provided on opposite sides of the skirt in a direction corresponding to long sides of a screen, a pair of short sides provided on opposite sides of the skirt in a direction corresponding to short sides of a screen, and corners formed between the long sides and the short sides to interconnect the same; and degaussing coil supports formed raised from the main band on long and short sides of the main band, and each having formed one or more openings that allow passage in a direction of a width of the main band, a degaussing coil(s) being supported using the openings. A plurality of the openings is formed continuously in the degaussing coil supports in a circumferential direction of the main band.

Abstract: A panel (2) of a vacuum envelope includes a substantially rectangular effective portion (8) having a substantially flat outer surface and also having a phosphor screen 1 formed on an inner surface, and a skirt portion (9) provided along a peripheral part of the effective portion and extended substantially perpendicularly to the effective portion. A funnel (3) is bonded to the skirt portion. A reinforcing band for fastening the skirt portion is attached round an outer surface of the skirt portion. When a distance in a direction of the tube axis from a bonding part between the panel and the funnel to an end of the reinforcing band on the outer surface side of the effective portion is represented by a and a distance in the direction of the tube axis from the bonding part to a central position of the outer surface of the effective portion is represented by h, the reinforcing band is arranged to satisfy a ?0.9h.

Abstract: A cap can comprise an aperture, and an attenuator may block the aperture during at least one point in time. In one embodiment, the attenuator can include a cover that may be displaced by a spring. In another embodiment, such as an electron gun, may comprise a support cap with an aperture, a displaceable cover that may cover the aperture, and a spring. A material attached to the spring and acting as a fuse may release the spring and expose the aperture after an electrical current blows the “fuse”. In yet another embodiment, a method for using a tube may comprise evacuating the tube while a cover covers an aperture in the support cap of a electron gun that is at least partially in the tube and moving the cover to expose the aperture after the tube is sealed.

Abstract: A cooling structure of a projection tube having a following constitution is disclosed. A chamber in which a liquid coolant for cooling a panel surface is filled is formed on the panel surface of the projection tube and the chamber is defined by the panel surface, a lens which faces the panel surface in an opposed manner and a metal envelope which radiates heat. A first seal member is disposed between the metal envelope and the panel surface, while a second seal member is disposed between the metal envelope and the lens. A holder for pressing the lens in the direction toward the metal envelope is disposed in the periphery of the lens. Pads which have surfaces approximately perpendicular to a tube axis of the projection tube are formed on a funnel portion of the projection tube. A sustainer for supporting the chamber is brought into contact with the pads.

Abstract: A process for fabricating a faceplate for a flat-panel display such as a field emission cathode type display is disclosed, the faceplate having integral spacer support structures. Also disclosed is a product made by the aforesaid process.

Abstract: In a projection cathode ray tube device in which a projection cathode ray tube and a projection lens assembly are coupled and held by a coupler, superior focus characteristics and high resolution are realized by eliminating the deviation between the center of the phosphor screen of the cathode ray tube and the center of the lens assembly. In the cathode ray tube, each of the outside and inside surfaces of a faceplate is formed as a spherical convex surface which is curved toward an electron gun.

Abstract: In a color cathode ray tube in which a shadow mask and an inner magnetic shield are supported by a mask frame and an electron shield is provided in the mask frame, at least a part of the electron shield is made to have a smaller anhysteretic magnetic permeability than the shadow mask, the mask frame and the inner magnetic shield when an applied magnetic field is 800 A/m (10 Oe). Since the magnetic resistance of the electron shield increases, it is possible to reduce a leakage magnetic field from a tube-axis-side edge of the electron shield. Thus, a color cathode ray tube that reduces mis-landing due to a terrestrial magnetism and has no color displacement can be provided.

Abstract: A two-piece second anode button for a cathode ray tube has: a first portion defined by a cup-shaped can having a seating area at its widest part and a second portion comprising and a planar annulus fixed in said seating area, said first portion comprising a nickel-iron alloy having a composition of about 47 wt. % nickel, about 6 wt. % chromium and the balance iron and said second portion comprising a ferritic stainless steel alloy having a chromium content of about 10 to about 28% by weight.

Abstract: A CRT including an evacuated envelope with a color selection electrode assembly disposed within the envelope, and an internal magnetic shield (IMS) secured to the color selection electrode assembly, and having a replaceable getter attachment assembly comprising a mounting rail and replaceable getter portion. The mounting rail having a first portion with a coupling clip attached to the IMS and a second portion extending therefrom. The replaceable getter portion includes a first end extending from the mounting rail with a getter cup attached thereto and a second end detachably attached to the second portion of the mounting rail. The replaceable getter portion extends from the mounting rail to deposit a film of evaporated getter material therefrom within the envelope.

Abstract: A projection type cathode ray tube device includes a panel, a neck, a funnel connecting the panel to one end of the neck, and a stem closing the other end of the neck. An electron gun is housed in the neck for projecting an electron beam toward a phosphor screen on the panel. The neck includes a small-diameter neck portion disposed on its funnel side, a large-diameter neck portion disposed on its stem side, and a neck junction region connecting the small-diameter neck portion and the large-diameter neck portion. A deflection yoke is disposed in a vicinity of a transition region between the funnel and the small-diameter neck portion. A convergence yoke for generating a beam-convergence magnetic field is disposed to extend from the large-diameter neck portion and surround at least a portion of the neck junction region.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improvement in the mounting of a cathode-ray tube within a bezel. The cathode-ray tube includes a unitary shellbond frame having integral mounting lugs which are positioned at locations either in the corners or off of the corners. The mounting lugs are formed with tapered sections along a depth dimension to allow a tube having the shellbond frame applied to be simply lowered into a bezel having lug receiving recesses of a complimentary shape. The tapered lug and complimentary lug receiving recess provides self-alignment of the tube before it is secured to the bezel.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cathode-ray tube having funnel sealed at one end to a faceplate panel with a viewing screen on an interior surface thereof, the funnel and the faceplate panel form an evacuated envelope, and a mask frame assembly supported within the envelope and in proximity to the screen. The cathode-ray tube includes a knee action circuit connector which electrically connects the internal conductive coating which is supported on an inside surface of the funnel. The knee action circuit connector is disposed between the exterior surface of the magnetic shield and the inside surface of the funnel and extends from the magnetic shield to form a curved first contact portion resiliently engaging the conductive coating of the funnel and a second contact portion extending from the curved portion and urged inwardly against the exterior surface of the internal magnetic shield thereby making electrical contact between the conductive coating and the internal magnetic shield.

Abstract: An electron beam gun comprises a beam waveguide and an accelerating anode fixed thereto. The accelerating anode is connected with the aid of high-voltage insulators and through a cathode plate to a cathode assembly. The cathode assembly comprises a linear hot cathode fixed with the aid of two cathode carriers and a focussing electrode which is coaxially arranged with respect to the linear hot cathode and encompasses it with the aid of a two-sided surface. The beam waveguide is separated from the accelerating anode with the aid of rack panels which rigidly fix the accelerating anode to the beam waveguide in such a way that a space is formed therebetween. In order to hermetically separate cathode and anode parts of the projector, the accelerating anode is provided with a plate rigidly connected thereto.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube has a cathode and plural grid electrodes fixed by insulating support rods. The cathode is supported within an eyelet disposed within and bonded to a cup-shaped support by a crystallized glass. The cup-shaped support is fixed by the insulating support rods. The crystallized glass is formed by firing a glass composition composed chiefly of zinc oxide, boron oxide, silicon oxide, and magnesium oxide. The crystallized glass exhibits a ratio in intensity of a diffraction peak A to a diffraction peak B in a range from 0.25 to 0.80 in an X-ray diffraction analysis using X-rays of 0.154 nm in wavelength, where the diffraction peak A is in the vicinity of 2&thgr;=25.5°, the diffraction peak B is in the vicinity of 2&thgr;=26.5°, 2&thgr;is an angle which a diffracted X-ray beam from a specimen surface makes with an incident X-ray beam.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a flat fluorescent lamp is provided. The method involves: preparing a transparent front plate; preparing a transparent back plate facing the front plate, the back plate having a plurality of discharging electrodes thereon and a dielectric layer covering the discharging electrodes; forming a plurality of spacers between the front plate and the back plate to keep a separation gap therebetween; and forming a fluorescent layer by spraying phosphor slurry on one surface of at least one of the front plate and the back plate.

Abstract: A stem for a cathode ray tube. The stem includes a circular disc type stem part adapated to be integrally sealed with an end of a neck portion of the cathod ray tube, an exhausting tube mounted in the middle of the stem part for the exhausting of the cathode ray tube, a plurality of leads mounted to the stem part along a periphery of the exhausting tube and connected to respective electrodes of an electron gun for providing voltage signals, and a plurality of stem mounds mounted to the respective leads for fixing and supporting the leads in the stem parts and having different shapes and/or sizes depending on loads to be applied to inner leads, so that cracks of the stem mounds and blocking problems of a shadow mask due to the cracks may be prevented.

Abstract: A process for fabricating a face plate for a flat-panel display such as a field emission cathode type display is disclosed, the face plate having integral spacer support structures. Also disclosed is a product made by the aforesaid process.

Abstract: The plasma display panel of the present invention has, for achieving high luminance and high reliability, a plurality of discharge spaces formed between a front panel and a back panel that are disposed to oppose each other, and phosphor layers, formed in the discharge spaces, each including phosphor particles of one of blue, red and green colors, wherein the phosphor particles of at least one of blue, red and green colors included in the phosphor layer are flake-like particles.

Abstract: In a color cathode ray tube, an electron gun assembly is received in a neck and includes three cathode electrodes, which are heated by heaters, respectively, and a plurality of electrodes. A sealing portion is welded to a stem section of the neck, and stem pins holding the electron gun are buried in the sealing portion. A wire is connected at one end to the stem pin and also connected at the other end to the electrode corresponding to the stem pin so as to electrically connect the electrode to the stem pin. The wire is provided with a folded portion. Even if the wire is thermally expanded, the thermal expansion is absorbed by the folded portion so as to suppress the fluctuation of the cathode current flowing into the electrode.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electron gun having a sub-assembly to interconnect the beaded unit and the base of the electron gun. This sub-assembly is manufactured by making a pattern of apertures in a planar element, thereby forming a number of securing elements. In the next step, portions of the securing elements are bent out of the plane of the planar element and then connected to an insulating plate, thus forming the sub-assembly of securing elements and insulating plate. This sub-assembly is preferably provided with funnel-shaped apertures to lead the electric leads of a number of gun electrodes through the insulating plate. This allows an accurate and easy interconnection of the electric leads and the pins of the base.

Abstract: The present PDP includes a rear plate, a plurality of barrier ribs on the rear plate, and a front plate in parallel with the rear plate. The front plate includes a transparent dielectric layer, a plurality of joint notches on the transparent dielectric layer, and a protective layer on the transparent dielectric layer that covers the joint notches. The position of each of the joint notches is aligned with the position of one corresponding barrier rib, and each joint notch has a filler to affix within the joint notch corresponding the barrier rib. When the front plate is mounted onto the rear plate, the top of each of the barrier ribs of the rear plate is pushed through the protective layer and is embedded in the corresponding joint notch of the front plate. The filler within each of the joint notches fills the gap between the top of the barrier rib embedded in the joint notch and the joint notch so that the front plate is tightly fixed to the rear plate.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has an envelope including as constituent elements first and second substrates spaced by some distance an electron source and an image forming member for forming an image upon irradiation of electrons from the electron source, the electron source and the image forming member being disposed in the envelope and a spacer for maintaining the distance between the first and second substrates, wherein the spacer is conductive and has a heat resistant organic polymer film formed on the surface of the spacer or the spacer is constituted of an insulating base member, a conductive film formed on the insulating base member, and a heat resistant organic polymer film formed on the conductive film.

Abstract: A process for fabricating a face plate for a flat panel display such as a field emission cathode type display is disclosed, the face plate having integral spacer support structures. Also disclosed is a product made by the aforesaid process.

Abstract: An electron gun for a cathode ray tube includes a single cathode that emits thermions; first and second electrodes; a plurality of focus electrodes provided consecutively after the second electrode; an anode electrode mounted after a final focus electrode; and a support that supports the electrodes in an aligned configuration. The final focus electrode and the anode electrode are mounted opposing one another with a predetermined gap therebetween. If a lengthwise direction of phosphor layers forming a phosphor screen of the cathode ray tube is a Y axis direction, and a direction perpendicular to the Y axis direction is an X axis direction, an electron beam aperture formed in a portion of the final focus electrode opposing the anode electrode, and an electron beam aperture formed in the anode electrode have diameters in the X axis direction that are larger than corresponding diameters of electron beam apertures formed in the remaining electrodes.

Abstract: Implosion protection band for color cathode ray tube having a panel with a wedge ratio of 1.1˜1.8 and a substantially flat outer surface, wherein the implosion protection band is strapped around an outer circumference of the panel to satisfy a condition of 0.2≦UW/LW≦0.5, where the UW denotes an upper band width and the LW denotes a lower band width with reference to an extension line from an inside surface of the panel at a center thereof, thereby reducing a maximum stress on the panel by approx. 5%˜7% compared to the same in the related art and improve an implosion proof characteristics.

Abstract: A phosphor for a vacuum ultraviolet ray-exciting light-emitting element, comprising Eu as an activator, and aluminates having a magnetoplumbite structure.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube has an electron gun supported on a stem of a vacuum envelope having stem pins. The electron gun includes electrodes fixed on two bead glasses, and mount supports are embedded in end portions of the bead glasses for supporting the electron gun on the stem, and a supporting member connects one of the stem pins and one of the mount supports. The supporting member includes a plate-like portion, first and second bent portions bent from respective sides of the plate-like portion to form a generally C-shaped transverse cross section, the first bent portion is welded to the one of the mount supports, and the second bent portion is welded to the one of the stem pins. An axial length of the plate-like portion on its first-bent-portion side is longer than that on its second-bent-portion side.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improvement in the mounting of a cathode-ray tube within a bezel. The cathode-ray tube includes a unitary shellbond frame having integral mounting lugs which are positioned at locations either in the corners or off of the corners. The mounting lugs are formed with tapered sections along a depth dimension to allow a tube having the shellbond frame applied to be simply lowered into a bezel having lug receiving recesses of a complimentary shape. The tapered lug and complimentary lug receiving recess provides self-alignment of the tube before it is secured to the bezel.

Abstract: In a cathode ray tube device including an electron gun (4) inside a neck portion (3) of a funnel (2), a deflection yoke (5) having horizontal deflection coils (61) and vertical deflection coils (52) on an outer surface of the funnel (2) and on the side of a front panel with respect to the electron gun (4), and velocity modulation coils (6) on an outer surface of the neck portion (3), the velocity modulation coils are provided so that an end of the velocity modulation coil (6) on the side of the front panel is positioned on the side of the electron gun (4) with respect to an end of the horizontal deflection coil (51) on the side of the electron gun (4) and is positioned on the side of the front panel with respect to an end of the electron gun (4) on the side of the front panel.

Abstract: In a color cathode ray tube, inner lead pin segments which extend inside the neck of a funnel constituting an vacuum envelope, outer lead pin segments which are led out of the neck and interconnecting wires which respectively connect both lead pin segments together are provided in a stem for sealing the end portion of the neck. The inner lead pin segments are arranged along a first circumference and are supported by respective projections protruding from the stem. The outer lead pin segments are arranged along a second circumference having a larger diameter than that of the first circumference. The inner lead pin segments are connected to the respective outer lead pin segments by the respective interconnecting wires which are bent in the stem and the respective projections.

Abstract: In a color cathode ray tube, the outer diameter of a neck is set at 22 mm-23 mm, the diameter of a pin circle formed by stem pins outside the flare section of a stem welded to an end of the neck is set at a nominal value of 15.24 mm, and the maximum diameter of a base adhered to an outer surface of the stem is set at 23 mm or less. Accordingly, while the neck outer diameter is reduced to reduce the power consumption of the color cathode ray tube, the color cathode ray tube has a high resolution.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube has a cathode and plural grid electrodes fixed by insulating support rods. The cathode is supported within an eyelet disposed within and bonded to a cup-shaped support by a crystallized glass. The cup-shaped support is fixed by the insulating support rods. The crystallized glass is formed by firing a glass composition composed chiefly of zinc oxide, boron oxide, silicon oxide, and magnesium oxide. The crystallized glass exhibits a ratio in intensity of a diffraction peak A to a diffraction peak B in a range from 0.25 to 0.80 in an X-ray diffraction analysis using X-rays of 0.154 nm in wavelength, where the diffraction peak A is in the vicinity of 2&thgr;=25.5°, the diffraction peak B is in the vicinity of 2&thgr;=26.5°, 2&thgr;is an angle which a diffracted X-ray beam from a specimen surface makes with an incident X-ray beam.

Abstract: A CRT coupling apparatus of a projection television couples a CRT which forms a picture to a lens which magnifies the picture formed by the CRT and projects it onto a screen. The CRT coupling apparatus includes: a CRT bracket supporting the CRT; a lens bracket supporting the lens; a coupler placed between the CRT and the lens; and a spring wire fixing the CRT bracket and the lens bracket to the coupler by applying elastic force in mutually approaching directions. One side of the spring wire is connected to a side of the CRT bracket facing away from the coupler, and the other side of the spring wire is connected to a side of the lens bracket facing away from the coupler. The apparatus also includes an earth assembly installed in the CRT bracket and contacting a backplate of the CRT to draw static electricity generated in the CRT away from the CRT. Sealing elements are provided between the coupler and the CRT and lens, respectively.

Abstract: An explosion-proof tape is wound on an outer circumference of a panel portion of a cathode-ray tube and a metal band is shrink-fitted on the tape. The tape is composed of a support having at least a layer composed of propylene polymer with a propylene content of not less than 40 weight % or styrene polymer with a styrene content of not less than 50 weight % and an adhesive layer formed on one surface of the support in a manner so that a plurality of fibers with a softening point of not lower than 200° C. are buried in the adhesive layer in a lengthwise direction of the tape. An explosion-proof structure of a cathode-ray tube, wherein a metal band is shrink-fitted on an outer circumference of a panel portion of a cathode-ray tube, through a layer which is formed by winding such an explosion-proof tape as mentioned above, through its adhesive layer.

Abstract: A process for fabricating a face plate for a flat panel display such as a field emission cathode type display, the face plate having integral spacer support structures is disclosed. Also disclosed is a product made by the aforesaid process. The support structures are designed to be load bearing so as to prevent implosion of a planar, transparent face plate toward a parallel spaced-apart base plate when the space between the face plate and the base plate is sealed at the edges of the display to form a chamber, and the chamber is evacuated in the presence of atmospheric pressure outside the chamber. Unlike most spacer support structures proposed for such flat panel displays, the support structures are made from the same material as the substrate from which the face plate is fabricated. For a preferred embodiment of the process, a perforated laminar template is sealably sandwiched between a laminar silicate glass substrate and a manifold block to form a temporary sandwich assembly.

Abstract: An electron gun fixer comprising bulb spacers fixed to an electron gun to be inserted into a bulb neck. Each of the bulb spacers has a supporting portion to be put into press contact with the inner surface of the bulb neck. The expression “R1≧R2>R3” holds for the supporting portion, where R1 is the radius of curvature in the cross section along the direction of insertion of the electron gun into the bulb neck, R2 is the curvature of a peripheral part in the cross section perpendicular to the direction of insertion, and R3 is the radius of curvature for the remaining parts in the cross section perpendicular to the direction of insertion. R2 is substantially equal to the radius of curvature R0 of the bulb neck.

Abstract: An inventive spacing structure is a unitary structure of uniform height including a multitude of rail members framed by and interconnected with a multitude of frame members. The frame and rail members project between a flat panel display's face and base panels across a substantial area of their facing surfaces. As a result, the unitary spacing structure spaces a substantial portion of the face panel away from the base panel in a substantially parallel spaced apart relationship with the base panel. Because the inventive spacing structure is a unitary structure, it can be conveniently manufactured apart from the flat panel display and then easily aligned with the image generating apparatus of the display. Thus, the unitary spacing structure can help to make flat panel displays less difficult, time-consuming and costly to manufacture.

Abstract: An electron gun for a cathode-ray tube having a neck glass formed at a rear side of a funnel, a stem pin applying an external voltage to an electron gun, a cathode electrode generating electron beams, a plurality of grid electrodes installed spaced apart from the electrode at predetermined intervals and each focusing electrode receiving a static voltage or a dynamic voltage, and an electron gun having an anode installed isolated from the focusing electrode, the electron gun being encapsulated in the neck glass, wherein a wire connecting the stem pin and the dynamic static voltage focusing electrode is formed to have a regular section change in a longitudinal direction, to thereby change a natural frequency. The dynamic voltage focusing electrode and the stem pin are connected and the wire for applying the dynamic voltage is formed to a twisted several-strand wires to thereby improve the damping coefficient. Accordingly, the neck glass is restrained from vibrating and the noise is canceled.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube, which has a getter assembly (18) for providing proper vacuum conditions within the tube. The getter assembly (18) comprises a resilient strip (19) having a first end portion (23) and a second end portion (25), and is detachably secured to a high voltage contact (15). A getter cup (21) is connected to the first end portion (23). The second end portion (25) is cooperatively engaged with one, preferably two protrusions (30) for limiting lateral movements of the resilient strip (19). The protrusions (30) are provided inside the envelope (5) of the tube. This arrangement reduces the risk of obtaining a layer of getter material at the wrong location within the tube.

Abstract: In a color cathode ray tube, an electron gun assembly is received in a neck and includes three cathode electrodes, which are heated by heaters, respectively, and a plurality of electrodes. A sealing portion is welded to a stem section of the neck, and stem pins holding the electron gun are buried in the sealing portion. A wire is connected at one end to the stem pin and also connected at the other end to the electrode corresponding to the stem pin so as to electrically connect the electrode to the stem pin. The wire is provided with a folded portion. Even if the wire is thermally expanded, the thermal expansion is absorbed by the folded portion so as to suppress the fluctuation of the cathode current flowing into the electrode.

Abstract: A process for fabricating a face plate for a flat panel display such as a field emission cathode type display, the face plate having integral spacer support structures is disclosed. Also disclosed is a product made by the aforesaid process. The support structures are designed to be load bearing so as to prevent implosion of a planar, transparent face plate toward a parallel spaced-apart base plate when the space between the face plate and the base plate is sealed at the edges of the display to form a chamber, and the chamber is evacuated in the presence of atmospheric pressure outside the chamber. Unlike most spacer support structures proposed for such flat panel displays, the support structures are made from the same material as the substrate from which the face plate is fabricated. For a preferred embodiment of the process, a perforated laminar template is sealably sandwiched between a laminar silicate glass substrate and a manifold block to form a temporary sandwich assembly.