Fluorescent Or Phosphorescent Base Coating (e.g., Cathode-ray Tube, Luminescent Screen, Etc.) Patents (Class 427/64)
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Patent number: 7291365Abstract: A method of transferring organic material from a donor element to a substrate includes providing a radiation source; and selecting the power of the radiation applied to the donor element by the radiation source to cause the transfer of organic material to the substrate wherein the time that one or more positions of the donor element receives radiation is greater than 1 millisecond.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2004Date of Patent: November 6, 2007Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: David B. Kay, Mitchell S. Burberry, Andrea S. Rivers, Michael L. Boroson, Lee W. Tutt, Giana M. Phelan, Daniel D. Haas, Kelvin Nguyen, Bradley A. Phillips
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Publication number: 20070248746Abstract: A main object is to provide a manufacturing method of an organic EL element having excellent light emission characteristics, and capable of facilitating the organic EL layer patterning operation and obtaining preferable wettability change.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2007Publication date: October 25, 2007Inventors: Norihito ITO, Yasuhiro IIZUMI
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Publication number: 20070248812Abstract: There are provided an yttrium oxide composition having particle size of 25 nm or less, a method of preparing the same and a method of forming an yttrium oxide layer using the same. The yttrium oxide composition is prepared by dissolving an yttrium salt into a solvent to prepare an yttrium salt solution, and adding a basic compound to the yttrium salt solution to adjust a pH value to a range of 3.7 to 7. The yttrium oxide composition can form an yttrium oxide layer having improved properties since the composition has particle size of 25 nm or less and uniform particle distribution.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2007Publication date: October 25, 2007Inventors: Dai Hong Jung, Seog Hyun Cho, Tae Ho Park, Sergey K. Evstropiev, Wan Hee Lee, Young Soo Kim, Jae Seok Park
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Patent number: 7285033Abstract: In a manufacturing method of a color filter for display devices having a plurality of pixels on a substrate, each pixel comprises a reflective layer and a color layer, the method of manufacture comprises a step of forming partitions which separate each pixel area from the other pixel areas to comprise the pixel in each pixel area; a step of forming the reflective layer by discharging a first liquid material into each of the pixel areas by means of a droplet discharge method; and a step of forming the color layer within each of the pixel areas. By this method, color filters can be manufactured without requiring photolithography or other complicated processes, in a short time, using little energy, and at low cost.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2004Date of Patent: October 23, 2007Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Kazuaki Sakurada
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Patent number: 7282848Abstract: A mercury vapor discharge fluorescent lamp is provided having a phosphor layer that has a yttria-based red emitting rare earth phosphor. The phosphor layer is prepared from an aqueous phosphor slurry that is coated onto the inner surface of the glass envelope of the lamp, then baked in a lehring oven to vaporize or decompose non-phosphor components of the slurry to leave behind the finished phosphor layer. The phosphor slurry contains a non-ionizing thickener, preferably polyethylene oxide, but does not contain any calcium carbonate or carbonate salts. The phosphor layer includes a yttria-based red emitting rare earth phosphor.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2003Date of Patent: October 16, 2007Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Jon B. Jansma
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Publication number: 20070228949Abstract: A light emitting device 10 includes: a lead frame 12a serving as a mounting portion having a cup 13; a light emitting element 14, mounted on the bottom face 13a of the cup, for emitting light having a predetermined peak wavelength; a layer of large phosphor particles 16, absorbed and formed on the light emitting element, for absorbing light emitted from the light emitting element and for emitting light having a longer peak wavelength than that of the light emitted from the light emitting element; small phosphor particles 18, which have a smaller particle diameter than that of the large phosphor particles, for absorbing at least one of light emitted from the large phosphor particles and light emitted from the light emitting element and for emitting light having a longer peak wavelength than that of the at least one of the light emitted from the large phosphor particles and the light emitted from the light emitting element; and a sealing member 20, in which the small phosphor particles are dispersed, for sealinType: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2007Publication date: October 4, 2007Applicant: DOWA ELECTRONICS MATERIALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsukasa Maruyama, Masahiro Gotoh, Tetsuya Ikuta
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Publication number: 20070231592Abstract: A method for producing a gas-barrier laminate film comprising at least one inorganic layer and at least one organic layer on a substrate film, which comprises forming the organic layer by polymerizing a monomer composition comprising an acrylate monomer having a phosphate ester group, a monomer having a phosphate ester group or their mixture. The produced gas-barrier laminate film maintains its excellent gas-barrier property even when folded.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2007Publication date: October 4, 2007Inventor: Yuya Agata
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Publication number: 20070222367Abstract: A process for producing an emissive device including a first emissive layer composed of a first material that emits light of a first color, a second emissive layer composed of a second material that emits light of a second color different from the first color, and a third emissive layer that emits light of a third color by stacking at least the first material and the second material, the third color being different from both of the first color and the second color, the process includes (1) feeding the first material to a side adjacent to a first face of at least one first electrode by a gas-phase process with a first mask to form films, the first mask having an opening for forming the first emissive layer and having an opening for forming the third emissive layer; (2) feeding the second material to the side adjacent to the first face of each first electrode by a gas-phase process to form the emissive layers while a second mask having an opening for forming the second emissive layer and having an opening for fType: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2007Publication date: September 27, 2007Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Toshiko Hosoda, Shinichi Yotsuya
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Publication number: 20070224429Abstract: This invention provides a thick-film type dielectric with desired adhesivity to the base and very good insulation properties. The dielectric of the present invention includes a lower dielectric layer made of a photosensitive composition and an upper dielectric layer which is made of a photosensitive composition and formed on the aforementioned lower dielectric layer. The softening point (T1) of the primary glass powder used for the aforementioned lower dielectric layer, the softening point (T2) of the primary glass powder used for the aforementioned upper dielectric layer, and the firing temperature (T3) of the aforementioned primary glass powder satisfy the following relationship: T1<T3<T2<T3+30° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2007Publication date: September 27, 2007Inventors: Keiichiro Hayakawa, Masakatsu Kuroki
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Patent number: 7267785Abstract: There is provided a white light illumination system including a radiation source, a first luminescent material having a peak emission wavelength of about 570 to about 620 nm, and a second luminescent material having a peak emission wavelength of about 480 to about 500 nm, which is different from the first luminescent material. The LED may be a UV LED and the luminescent materials may be a blend of two phosphors. The first phosphor may be an orange emitting Eu2+,Mn2+ doped strontium pyrophosphate, (Sr0.8Eu0.1Mn0.1)2P2O7. The second phosphor may be a blue-green emitting Eu2+ doped SAE, (Sr0.90-0.99 Eu0.01-0.1)4Al14O25. A human observer perceives the combination of the orange and the blue-green phosphor emissions as white light.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2006Date of Patent: September 11, 2007Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Alok Mani Srivastava, Holly Ann Comanzo
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Patent number: 7264842Abstract: A manufacturing method for a wiring substrate for a display panel having a plurality of wiring electrodes thereon includes the step of forming wirings in an orthogonal projection area of an image forming member onto the wiring substrate by photolithography using a photo paste. In addition, wires are formed in an area where the frame member is disposed by pattern printing using paste ink for printing.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2004Date of Patent: September 4, 2007Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuyuki Watanabe, Kazuya Ishiwata, Shinsaku Kubo
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Patent number: 7261917Abstract: The present invention relates to a plasma display device and to a method of producing a phosphor to be used for the device, that prevents the phosphor layer from deteriorating, and improves the luminance, life, and reliability, of the PDP. The plasma display device is equipped with a plasma display panel in which a plurality of discharge cells are arranged, phosphor layers (110R, 110G, 110B) in color corresponding to each discharge cell are allocated, and phosphor layers (110R, 110G, 110B) are excited by ultraviolet light to emit light. Green phosphor layer (110G) has a green phosphor including Zn2SiO4:Mn, the element ratio of zinc (Zn) to silicon (Si) is 2/1 to 2.09/1 at least at the proximity of the surface, and the layer is positively charged or zero-charged.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2004Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keiji Horikawa, Masaki Aoki, Kazuhiko Sugimoto, Yuichiro Miyamae, Junichi Hibino, Tanaka Yoshinori, Setoguchi Hiroshi
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Patent number: 7258589Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device includes first and second substrates attached by a seal pattern, array elements having a plurality of switching devices on the first substrate; a color changing medium on a rear surface of the second substrate, wherein the color changing medium has a black matrix that defines sub-pixel regions and has red, green and blue color changing layers respectively corresponding to the sub-pixel regions, a planarizing layer on the color changing medium, a first electrode on a rear surface of the planarizing layer, an organic electroluminescent layer on a rear surface of the first electrode, second electrodes on a rear surface of the organic electroluminescent layer that correspond to respective sub-pixel regions, and a plurality of electrical connectors between the first and second substrates, wherein electrical connectors connect the array elements on the first substrate to the second electrodes on the second substrate, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2006Date of Patent: August 21, 2007Assignee: LG Philips LCD Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae Yong Park, Choong Keun Yoo, Ock Hee Kim, Nam Yang Lee
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Publication number: 20070190235Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a film forming method for forming a film with reduced defect and to provide a film forming method for forming a film with a uniform quality. In addition, another object is to provide a manufacturing method of a light emitting element which can be driven with low voltage. Further, another object is to provide a manufacturing method of a light emitting element with high light emission efficiency. A film with reduced defect and a uniform quality can be formed by fixing a substrate to a substrate holding unit so that at least a part of a surface of the substrate is exposed, evaporating a vapor deposition material from an evaporation source filled with the vapor deposition material, irradiating the vapor deposition material which is evaporated with a laser beam, and depositing the vapor deposition material on the surface of the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2007Publication date: August 16, 2007Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Junichiro SAKATA, Yoshiaki YAMAMOTO, Miki KATAYAMA, Kohei YOKOYAMA, Rie MATSUBARA, Takahiro KAWAKAMI
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Patent number: 7247341Abstract: The present invention provides a method for forming an electrode of a flat panel display device using ink for ink jet printing and an ink jet printer. The ink for ink jet printing is prepared by a method comprising the first step of contacting the vapor of a metal with the vapor of the first solvent, according to the vapor phase-evaporation technique, to thus give a dispersion of metal ultrafine particles; the second step of adding a low molecular weight polar solvent as the second solvent to the dispersion prepared in the first step to thus precipitate the metal ultrafine particles and removing the first solvent; and the third step of adding the third solvent to the precipitates thus prepared to carry out the solvent substitution and to give a dispersion of independently dispersed metal ultrafine particles, and prepared by adding a dispersant in or during the foregoing first and/or third steps, and the ink for ink jet printing consists of a dispersion excellent in ink characteristic properties.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2001Date of Patent: July 24, 2007Assignee: Ulvac, Inc.Inventors: Noriyuki Abe, Masaaki Oda
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Patent number: 7235340Abstract: First a display panel having a pixel region and a controlling circuit region is formed. Then a plurality of pixels arranged in array is formed in the pixel region. A plurality of orientation patterns that do not overlap the pixels is formed. Finally an input device is provided. The input device has a sensor for detecting the orientation patterns and generates at least a signal for inputting data.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2004Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.Inventor: Hsin-Hung Lee
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Patent number: 7232530Abstract: A method of manufacturing a plasma display device which prevents the brightness of a phosphor layer from lowering is disclosed, and the method can form the phosphor layer in a stable manner because a nozzle is free from clogging. At least one of the phosphor layers has a green phosphor layer containing green phosphor having zero or positive charges and a crystal structure of Zn2SiO4:Mn. Green phosphor ink, whose major ingredient is the green phosphor, is applied through the nozzle to discharging cells, thereby forming the green phosphor layer. The green phosphor ink is formed of green phosphor powder coated with an oxide having positive charges, or the ink is formed by crushing the green phosphor powder originally having negative charges and a crystal structure of Zn2SiO4:Mn such that the powder changes to have positive charges.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2002Date of Patent: June 19, 2007Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawamura, Mitsuhiro Otani, Masaki Aoki, Kazuhiko Sugimoto, Junichi Hibino
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Patent number: 7229663Abstract: A method of making a liquid-crystal sheet material, useful for displays, having polymer-dispersed cholesteric liquid crystals, comprising the steps of providing a emulsion comprising dispersed cholesteric liquid crystal domain and a solution comprising gelatin and a hardening agent, coating said emulsion onto a substrate; and drying said emulsion to form polymer-dispersed liquid-crystal domains dispersed in a continuous matrix comprising hardened gelatin. The invention is also directed to a display having an imaging layer comprising domains of polymer-dispersed cholesteric liquid-crystal material dispersed in a continuous matrix comprising hardened gelatin, said imaging layer disposed between first and second conductors. The invention is advantageous in reducing sensitivity to temperature and/or high humidity, especially in thin displays or displays that are open to the environment.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2003Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Stanley W. Stephenson, Charles M. Rankin
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Patent number: 7223353Abstract: A phosphor layer for an electroluminescent panel comprises a phosphor powder held in a binder. The binder comprises a mixture of two constituents, one of which is a drying oil or a semi-drying oil or a derivative and the other constituent is a sol-gel precursers. Examples of suitable oils are linseed oil, rape seed oil, sunflower oil and soyabean oil. Examples of suitable sol-gel precursers are tetraethyl orthosilicate, boron iso-propoxide, aluminium sec-butoxide and titanium iso-propoxide. Metal salts such as metal alkoxides, metal acetates and metal nitrates may be mixed with the sol-gel precursers.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2002Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Burnel UniversityInventors: Aron Vecht, Jack Silver, Dominic Davies, Philip Titler
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Patent number: 7214116Abstract: A light-emitting diode with no fluctuations in optical properties and good sealing properties, and a simple production method for producing this light-emitting diode. The light-emitting diode has a base comprising a cup part on which the light-emitting diode is placed, a resin material introduced into cup part, and a lens member placed on top of a cup for focusing light emitted by a light-emitting diode chip. A layer of fluorescent material, which converts the wavelength of at least some of the light from the light-emitting diode chip, is applied to the inner convex face of the lens member. When the lens member is attached to the base, the inner convex face deforms the resin material and air and excess resin material can be pushed to the outside.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2003Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: Avago Technologies ECBU IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventor: Akira Takekuma
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Patent number: 7189426Abstract: In a method for vapor-depositing a substrate with a layer of a needle-shaped x-ray fluorescent material containing at least one alkali metal, alkali halide phases and an alkali halide are mixed in a vapor phase and are vapor-deposited on the substrate. A needle-shaped fluorescent material is thereby produced having the formula ( ( M ? + ? H ? - ) a ? ( M ?? + ? H ?? - ) ( 1 - a ) ) k ? : ? ? ( M x ? + ? S y z + ? H x ? - ? H z * ? y ??? - ) b ? ( M x ?? + ? S y z + ? H x ?? - ? H z * ? y ??? - ) c ? ( M x ? + ? S y z + ? H x ?? - ? H z * ? y ??? - ) d ? ( M x ?? + ? S y z + ? H x ? - ? H z * ? y ??? - ) e wherein M+ is at least one metal ion from the group Na, K, Rb and Cs, H? is at least one halide from the group F, Cl, Br and I and Sz+ is at least one lanthanide ion from the group La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb or Lu.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2003Date of Patent: March 13, 2007Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Manfred Fuchs, Erich Hell, Wolfgang Knüpfer, Detlef Mattern, Peter Röhrer
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Patent number: 7179572Abstract: The present invention relates to a fluorescent screen forming method, a fluorescent screen forming apparatus and a cathode-ray tube. In the fluorescent screen forming method according to the present invention, a transfer roller lowers a transfer sheet to somewhere above the inner surface of the panel and the transfer roller moves up to the end edge positions of the inner surface of the panel, whereafter the transfer roller moves downwards onto the end edges of the inner surface of the panel in unison with the transfer film to start pressing the transfer film. Therefore, the transfer roller can reach the end edges of the panel, and hence component layers of a fluorescent screen can be transferred up to the end edges of the inner surface of the panel. A fluorescent screen forming apparatus according to the present invention includes a transfer film supply means, a transfer roller, and a control means, wherein operations of the above-mentioned transfer method are executed.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2002Date of Patent: February 20, 2007Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Katsutoshi Ohno, Koji Fujita
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Patent number: 7163722Abstract: A serpentine tube used in the manufacture of a fluorescent lamp is coated with a reflective or phosphor material. A magnetic material and coating material slurry is placed within one end of a serpentine glass tube. A magnet is placed adjacent the magnetic material and coating material slurry and is moved in a path conforming to the shape of the serpentine tube. The magnet causes the magnetic material and coating material slurry to travel along therewith, coating a portion of the interior surface of the serpentine tube with a reflective, phosphor, or other material. In another embodiment of the invention, abrasive magnetic material is placed within the serpentine lamp for removing a previously coated material resulting in an aperture being formed. The present invention is particularly suited to the manufacture of serpentine fluorescent lamps that are used to illuminate flat panel displays.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2003Date of Patent: January 16, 2007Assignee: LCD Lighting, Inc.Inventors: Istvan Sedenszki, George Kovacs
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Patent number: 7153539Abstract: An apparatus and method of color tuning a light emitting display are provided. The apparatus includes a source of a mixture of a compressed fluid solvent and an organic material. A discharge device is positioned in fluid communication with the source of the mixture of the compressed fluid and the organic material. A condition controlling device is positioned in fluid communication between the source and the discharge device. The method includes providing a substrate, providing a first addressing electrode on the substrate, controllably depositing an organic nanomorphic material over the first addressing electrode, and providing a second addressing electrode over the organic nanomorphic material.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2003Date of Patent: December 26, 2006Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Sridhar Sadasivan, Ramesh Jagannathan, Seshadri Jagannathan, David J. Nelson, Rajesh V. Mehta, Glen C. Irvin, Jr., Thomas N. Blanton, Robert S. Cupello
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Patent number: 7153180Abstract: A method of applying patterned materials for manufacture of a flat panel light source includes providing a flexible continuous substrate; providing one or more application stations, each application station having, one or more stationary sources of material, a supply of discrete patterned masks for defining a pattern of material to be applied to the substrate, means for attaching the discrete patterned masks to the substrate; means for transporting the substrate and the patterned mask in registration past the one or more stationary sources of material, and means for delivering the masks one at a time to the transporting means; and transporting the substrate and the masks past the one or more application stations.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2003Date of Patent: December 26, 2006Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Ronald S. Cok, David R. Strip, Robert F. Cournoyer
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Patent number: 7140940Abstract: The present invention intends to provide a manufacturing method for a PDP that can continuously apply phosphor ink for a long time and can accurately and evenly produce phosphor layers even when the cell construction is very fine. To do so, phosphor ink is continuously expelled from a nozzle while the nozzle moves relative to channels between partition walls formed on a plate so as to scan and apply phosphor ink to the channels. While doing so the path taken by the nozzle within each channel between a pair of partition walls is adjusted based on position information for the channel. When phosphor particles is successively applied to a plurality of channels, phosphor ink is continuously expelled from the nozzle even when the nozzle is positioned away from the channels. The phosphor ink is composed of: phosphor particles that have an average particle diameter of 0.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2002Date of Patent: November 28, 2006Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawamura, Shigeo Suzuki, Masaki Aoki, Kanako Miyashita, Mitsuhiro Ohtani, Hiroyuki Kado, Keisuke Sumida, Nobuyuki Kirihara
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Patent number: 7138157Abstract: A method for manufacturing electron emitting devices each having electrodes formed on a substrate and an electroconductive thin film connected between a pair of electrodes and having an electron emitting region is provided which can manufacture electron emitting devices having an excellent uniformity of electron emitting characteristics by improving the formation of liquid droplets to be dispensed to the substrate. In the manufacturing method, the substrate formed with the electrodes is subjected to a hydrophobic process using a silane coupling agent which contains two or more acetoxy groups in a molecule, and thereafter liquid droplets containing material for forming the electroconductive thin film are dispensed to the substrate. An image of excellent uniformity can be displayed by adopting electron emitting devices manufactured in the above manner to an image display apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2003Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuko Tomida, Taku Shimoda
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Patent number: 7094120Abstract: A phosphor screen substrate is provided in which withstand voltage properties are superior, white uniformity of display image is superior, and luminescence can be efficiently reflected toward the front side. A method for manufacturing such a phosphor screen substrate includes the steps of forming a resin layer on a phosphor layer disposed on a substrate, heating the resin layer to a temperature in the range of from a glass transition temperature of a resin forming the resin layer to the melting point thereof, and forming a metal film on the heated resin layer. The resin layer provided with the metal film thereon is removed by pyrolysis.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2003Date of Patent: August 22, 2006Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shoshiro Saruta
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Patent number: 7070756Abstract: A mixed melt, which contains urea and/or a urea derivative and contains a sulfur source and a zinc source, is prepared. A temperature of the mixed melt is raised, and a precipitate of zinc sulfide is thereby formed. The temperature of the mixed melt is raised even further, and a solid material containing the zinc sulfide is thereby formed. The solid material is fired, and organic constituents contained in the solid material are thus removed. Zinc sulfide particles having uniform particle size and free from inclusion of impurities are thus produced without any precipitant being added.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2004Date of Patent: July 4, 2006Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Milan Hubacek, Kenji Takahashi
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Patent number: 7067171Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electron beam apparatus having an airtight container with electron-emitting devices contained therein and spacers provided in the airtight container comprising the coating step of providing a film on a spacer substrate to be the spacers, and characterized in that the coating step includes the applying step of applying liquid film material by emitting from an emitting portion in a predetermined direction to a part of a surface of the spacer substrate facing the emitting portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2000Date of Patent: June 27, 2006Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobuhiro Ito
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Patent number: 7059929Abstract: A compact self-ballasted fluorescent lamp includes an arc tube in which a phosphor layer is formed on an inner surface of a double spiral glass tube formed into a double spiral. The phosphor layer is formed by a process of injecting a suspension for forming the phosphor layer into the double spiral glass tube; a process of coating the inner surface of the double spiral glass tube with the suspension; a process of draining the suspension from the double spiral glass tube; a process of preliminarily drying the suspension until the suspension do longer flows according to self weight, while rotating the double spiral glass tube in a state in which a spiral axis of the double spiral glass tube is at an angle of 100 degrees with respect to a vertical axis and a turning part of the double spiral glass tube is downward; and process of completely drying the partially dried double spiral glass tube.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2004Date of Patent: June 13, 2006Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shiro Iida, Toyokazu Amano, Kenji Itaya
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Patent number: 7052353Abstract: A method for forming a phosphor screen comprising the step of forming a phosphor layer containing a thermoplastic resin on the inner surface of a face plate, the step of pressurizing the phosphor layer being heated to plasticate the thermoplastic resin and smooth the surface of the phosphor layer, and the step of forming a metal film on the surface-smoothed phosphor layer and heating the face plate. Thermoplastic resin having a softening temperature of 50–350° C. can be used in the phosphor layer, and 0.05–50 wt % of such a thermoplastic resin in solid content ratio is contained in the layer. Heating/pressurizing conditions preferably involve temperatures of 50–350° C. and pressures of 10–10000 N/cm2. This method enhances the film forming property of a metal back layer and prevents cracks and pinholes in the metal back layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2002Date of Patent: May 30, 2006Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takeo Ito, Tsuyoshi Oyaizu, Hajime Tanaka, Tomoko Nakazawa, Akira Mikami, Hitoshi Tabata
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Patent number: 7021982Abstract: Conductive or semiconductive binders, both inorganic and organic, are used for providing sufficient binding action to hold powder phosphor particles together, as well as to the glass screen of a field emission display device.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2002Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Surjit S. Chadha, Charles M. Watkins
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Patent number: 7008283Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a high-brightness planar lamp, a reflecting plate is first provided, and several UV light sources are placed on the reflecting plate. Next, liquid macromolecular polymer is uniformly coated on the reflecting plate and the UV light sources, and fluorescent powder is then uniformly coated on the macromolecular polymer. In another method for manufacturing a high brightness planar lamp, a reflecting plate is first provided, and several UV light sources are placed on the reflecting plate. Next, fluorescent powder and liquid macromolecular polymer are mixed up and uniformly coated on the reflecting plate and the UV light sources. A solidification procedure is then performed. The solidification ways of the mixture of fluorescent powder and macromolecular polymer includes solidification by heating and solidification by illumination of UV light.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2003Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: Candle Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chih Yung Liu, De-An Chang, Sheng Chih Wan
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Patent number: 6979948Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 7, 2002Date of Patent: December 27, 2005Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomoya Onishi
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Patent number: 6971938Abstract: The invention provides a display of a type of getting light out of a second electrode side, capable of increasing contrast by suppressing external light reflection, simplifying a manufacturing process, and reducing cost, and a method of manufacturing the same. A substrate for driving is provided with organic electroluminescence (EL) devices for getting light out of a cathode side. A red filter, a green filter, and a blue filter are formed on a substrate for sealing by printing so as to face the organic EL devices. By overlapping at least two filters out of the red, green, and blue filters by printing, a black matrix is formed so as to face the boundary region of the organic EL devices, so that external light reflection by a wiring electrode between the devices is suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2004Date of Patent: December 6, 2005Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tetsuo Urabe, Jiro Yamada, Tatsuya Sasaoka
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Patent number: 6969292Abstract: A phosphor layer is formed efficiently in a gas discharge tube by drawing a mother material to fabricate a supporting member which is insertable in a small glass tube used for a gas discharge tube, forming a phosphor layer on the supporting member, and inserting and placing the supporting member in the small glass tube.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2004Date of Patent: November 29, 2005Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Akira Tokai, Hitoshi Yamada, Manabu Ishimoto, Tsutae Shinoda
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Patent number: 6946160Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 21, 2002Date of Patent: September 20, 2005Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Norihisa Nakao
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Patent number: 6936304Abstract: A method for producing a coating of fluorescent or luminophore material includes the steps of depositing the luminophore material from a vapor phase on a substrate in such a manner that at least 30 weight-% of the luminophore material used is deposited on the substrate and then abrading or polishing the luminophore coating to a predetermined even layer thickness utilizing a polishing agent.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2001Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Manfred Fuchs, Erich Hell, Detlef Mattern, Bernhard Schmitt
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Patent number: 6890593Abstract: A method for coating moisture sensitive inorganic particles, such as phosphors, comprising mixing the inorganic particles having a particle size of about 1 to 100 micrometers with nanometer-sized coating particles, and firing the mixture to soften or melt the nanometer-sized particles about the inorganic particles, forming a moisture impervious coating. The coated particles are washed to remove excess particles, and dried. Coated moisture sensitive phosphor particles are impervious to moisture.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2003Date of Patent: May 10, 2005Assignee: Sarnoff CorporationInventor: Yongchi Tian
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Patent number: 6875463Abstract: Paste for a transparent insulating film of a plasma display panel, the paste including powder glass contains lead oxide, silicon oxide, boron oxide, barium oxide, and aluminum oxide, solvent, and resin.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2003Date of Patent: April 5, 2005Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tastuo Mifune, Tomohiro Hayashi
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Patent number: 6863923Abstract: Processes and compositions for printing substrates. A printing paste containing a matrix-forming precondensate containing polyorganosiloxanes obtained by a sol-gel process and at least one coloring, luminescent, conductive and/or catalytically active filler is applied imagewise to the substrate and is densified by heat treatment at a temperature below the glass transition temperature of the matrix being formed. The processes and printing pastes are suitable, for example, for the production of conductor tracks and decorative patterns.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2000Date of Patent: March 8, 2005Assignee: Institut fuer Neue Materialien gemeinnuetzige GmbHInventors: Axel Kalleder, Rainer Kreutzer, Martin Mennig, Helmut Schmidt
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Patent number: 6861803Abstract: A full color three electrode surface discharge type plasma display device that has fine image elements and is large and has a bright display. The three primary color luminescent areas are arranged in the extending direction of the display electrode pairs in a successive manner and an image element is composed by the three unit luminescent areas defined by these three luminescent areas and address electrodes intersecting, these three luminescent areas. Further, phosphors are coated not only on a substrate but also on the side walls of the barriers and on address electrodes. The manufacturing processes and operation methods of the above constructions are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2000Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Tsutae Shinoda, Shinji Kanagu, Masayuki Wakitani, Toshiyuki Nanto, Mamaru Miyahara
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Patent number: 6861091Abstract: A self-assembly process for preparing luminescent organic-inorganic nanocomposite thin films is disclosed. A homogeneous solution in water and an organic solvent is obtained containing a soluble silicate, a silica coupling agent, a surfactant, and an organic material having a hole transport, electron transport, and/or emissive material moiety. The silica coupling agent is selected to chemically react with the organic material. A film of the homogeneous solution is deposited onto a substrate. Preferentially evaporating the organic solvent enriches the concentration of water and non-volatile solution components to promote micelle formation. Organic materials migrate into the hydrophobic portion of the forming micelles. Continued evaporation promotes self-assembly of the micelles into interfacially organized liquid crystalline mesophases. Reacting the organic material and silica coupling forms a nanostructure self-assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2000Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Alan Sellinger
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Patent number: 6855196Abstract: An ink for a display panel effective in reducing the uneven adhesion of the ink is applied by an ink application apparatus using an inkjet method to form a structural layer (e.g. reflective layer, phosphor layer) of a display panel such as a plasma display panel. The ink is delivered through a nozzle of the ink application apparatus and includes a powder material used in forming the structural layer, water or a water-miscible solvent, a binder formed from a water-soluble resin, and a plasticizer. The flexibility retained by the ink, even after the ink is applied, allows for leveling of the applied ink to occur and uneven adhesion to be reduced as a result.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2001Date of Patent: February 15, 2005Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawamura, Keisuke Sumida, Shigeo Suzuki
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Patent number: 6852356Abstract: A glass substrate and a shadow mask are put tightly together by inserting the glass substrate between a magnet and the shadow mask made of magnetic material. A pattern forming of an organic EL device is performed by depositing an organic EL material on the surface of the glass substrate from an evaporation source through an opening portion in the shadow mask. A coarsening processing has been performed on the surface of shadow mask facing the glass substrate. This suppresses the damage on the substrate surface by the shadow mask during the evaporation processing.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2003Date of Patent: February 8, 2005Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ryuji Nishikawa
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Patent number: 6852355Abstract: Processes for effecting thermal transfer of electroactive organic material are disclosed wherein unwanted portions of a layer of electroactive organic material supported by a donor element are removed or transferred from the layer by thermal transfer, particularly laser-induced thermal transfer, leaving a desired pattern of the electroactive organic material on the donor element. The electroactive organic material may be an organic material exhibiting electroluminescence, charge transport, charge injection, electrical conductivity, semiconductivity and/or exciton blocking. The layer of electroactive organic material may comprise more than one layer of different types of electroactive organic material. The exposure pattern is a negative image of the desired pattern. The electroactive organic material of the desired pattern is not, therefore, exposed to the heat which can cause decomposition.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2002Date of Patent: February 8, 2005Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Graciela B. Blanchet-Fincher
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Patent number: 6849297Abstract: A process for making an electroluminescent phosphor having a given emission spectra A, comprises the steps of manufacturing a beginning electroluminescent phosphor having an emission spectra B, different than A. A coating is applied to the phosphor having the emission spectra B to increase the resistance of the phosphor to the deleterious effects of moisture and change the emission spectra of the phosphor to emission spectra A. The application of the coating includes the steps of reacting a coating precursor with a mixture of oxygen and ozone.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2000Date of Patent: February 1, 2005Assignee: Osram Sylvania Inc.Inventors: Chen-Wen Fan, Kenneth T. Reilly, Richard G. W. Gingerich, Dale E. Benjamin
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Patent number: 6840835Abstract: A masking layer (405) is provided on selected areas of an electrode structure that is at least partly performed, to define masked areas and unmasked areas (emitter cells 410). A first constituent with particles (408) and a second constituent (409) are then applied to the emitter cells (410), and the particles (408) are selectively directed towards the bottoms of the emitter cells (410)—e.g. by electrophoresis. The masking layer (405) is then removed from the masked areas, together with any stray quantities of the first and second constituents (408, 409) on the masking layer (405). The first and second constituents (408, 409) are then processed (e.g. by curing) to create broad area field electron emission sites in desired locations of the electrode structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2000Date of Patent: January 11, 2005Assignee: Printable Field Emitters LimitedInventor: Richard Allan Tuck
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Patent number: H2131Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing a multilayer phosphor (film) product on a substrate. The method comprises adding solid particulate precursor to a solution of an alkoxide precursor and a dopant precursor before hydrolysis is allowed to occur. The mixture is then allowed to hydrolyze, resulting in a sol-gel condensation reaction. The solid particulate precursor can be fumed silica, and acts as a nucleation site for the sol-gel reaction product. After the sol-gel reaction, the mixture is dried and fired to form a multilayer phosphor (film). The phosphor film is especially suitable for applications in which there is low voltage operation.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2002Date of Patent: November 1, 2005Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: David S. Y. Hsu, Yongchi Tian