Multicolor Or Mosaic (e.g., Color T.v. Tube, Etc.) Patents (Class 427/68)
  • Patent number: 6103297
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a cathode-ray tube comprises a process of forming a phosphor screen. The process comprises an application process, a shake-off process, and a drying process. In the application process, a glass panel is tilted with respect to a vertical axis and is rotated having a tilt axis as a central axis to spread a phosphor slurry over almost the entire area of an inner face of the glass panel. In the shake-off process, by rotating the glass panel, excess phosphor slurry is shaken off, and the excess phosphor slurry is recovered in phosphor-slurry recovery members provided at the four corners of the glass panel. In the drying process, the phosphor slurry is dried. In this method, the tilt angle and rotation speed of the glass panel at least in one process out of the application process, the shake-off process, and the drying process is changed at least in two stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: Matsushita Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Aoki, Kenji Nakada, Naoyuki Tani, Hiroshi Deguchi
  • Patent number: 6099746
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device and a method for fabricating the same are disclosed, the method including the steps of (1) forming a plurality of first electrode stripes on a transparent substrate at fixed intervals, (2) forming an array of partition walls made of an electrically insulating material on the first electrode elements; having a trapezoidal structure with the lower side wider than the upper side, (3) forming an organic eletroluminescent multilayer, the second electrode, and the first protection layer in succession on the entire surface including on top of the partition walls, (4) removing upper portions of films, unequivocally including the second electrode layer on top of the partition walls, whereby electrically isolating any two adjacent pixels, and (5) forming the second protection layer on top of the etched-out surface, whereby simplifying fabrication processes, improving product yield and reducing product cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Sung Tae Kim
  • Patent number: 6074789
    Abstract: A method for improving the adherence of a phosphor screen to the face panel of a color cathode ray tube involves 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 form which the light emerged, thereby effectively increasing the exposure dosage of those areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Assignee: Philips Electronics N.A. Corp.
    Inventor: Robert L. Donofrio
  • Patent number: 6068738
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and carrier for coating a CRT screen after assembly. The method and apparatus includes isolating a surface portion of the CRT to be coated from the remaining surface to prevent or minimize coating problems resulting from outgassing or difficulty in controlling coating process parameters and to isolate noncompatible components from the deposition environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Inventors: Erik J. Bjornard, Clifford E. Taylor, Debra M. Steffenhagen, Eric W. Kurman
  • Patent number: 6066357
    Abstract: Methods of making a full-color organic light-emitting display are disclosed. The methods include ink-jet printing of fluorescent dopants selected to produce red, green, or blue light emission from designated subpixels of the display. The dopants are printed sequentially from ink-jet printing compositions which permit printing of dopant layers over a light-emitting layer containing a host material selected to provide host light emission in a blue spectral region. The dopants are diffused from the dopant layer into the light-emitting layer by exposing the light-emitting layer and the dopant layers to vapor of a fluid or fluid mixture. When an ink-jet printing composition is formulated with a printing fluid having fluid vapors which promote dopant diffusion, the steps of ink-jet printing and diffusing of dopants can be combined to form a selectively doped light-emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Ching W. Tang, Kee-Chuan Pan
  • Patent number: 6063434
    Abstract: A paste composition for screen printing a cathode ray tube (CRT) shadow mask, the composition including 12-32 wt % of a vehicle, 34-87 wt % of an electron reflecting material, and 0.7-44 wt % of a frit, and a screen printing method using the paste composition. A CRT shadow mask to which the paste composition has been applied, the vehicle driven off, and the frit glassified exhibits decreased doming due to reduced thermal expansion of the shadow mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: SamSung Display Devices Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hwan-chul Rho, Dong-hee Han, Jae-myung Kim
  • Patent number: 6060112
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube is disclosed in which a coating containing an aluminum-phosphorus compound and fine particles of at least one of tungsten oxide and bismuth oxide is formed on the surface of a shadow mask on the side of an electron gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Sachiko Muramatsu, Yasuhisa Ohtake
  • Patent number: 6042748
    Abstract: A method for regenerating a fluorescent material from a recovered phosphor slurry characterized by including a chemical washing step wherein a hypochlorite and a periodate are used; a carbon removing step for floating carbon in the supernatant liquid by the use of ammonia thereby removing the carbon; an acid washing step; and a heat treating step in this order as well as a system for regenerating a fluorescent material comprising means for effecting the aforesaid steps. From this constitution, it becomes possible that impurities are easily and effectively removed from the recovered phosphor slurry, whereby a fluorescent material providing excellent luminance and excellent grade of phosphor film can be regenerated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Inoue, Tsutomu Ishii, Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Yoshifumi Chujo
  • Patent number: 6022652
    Abstract: A method for creating a faceplate of a display provides a faceplate substrate with a faceplate interior side and a faceplate exterior side. A plurality of barriers are formed on the faceplate interior side, with the barriers defining a plurality of subpixel volumes. Phosphor containing photopolymerizable material mixtures of red, green and blue, are deposited into subpixel volumes, and create a faceplate interior side/phosphor interface. At least a portion of the phosphor containing photopolymerizable material mixture is exposed with sufficient actinic light through the faceplate interior side/phosphor interface to polymerize a selected depth of the phosphor containing photopolymerizable material mixture in the subpixel volumes, and form a polymerized phosphor containing material in a plurality of subpixel volumes. Non-polymerized phosphor containing photopolymerizable material is removed from the polymerized phosphor containing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: Candescent Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Duane A. Haven, Paul M. Drumm, Robert M. Duboc, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6017579
    Abstract: A new method (P200) is provided for making magnesium oxide layers (122) in plasma displays (100). A magnesium carboxylate liquid precursor solution is applied to a display panel (102), dried, and annealed to yield a solid magnesium oxide layer (122) having excellent electro-optical performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignees: Symetrix Corporation, Matsushita Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Gota Kano, Carlos A. Paz De Araujo, Koji Arita, Michael C. Scott, Larry D. McMillan, Shinichiro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 6013314
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a phosphor composition of a phosphor comprising a pigment coating of hematite, includes a first step in which the phosphor is coated with an iron-containing starting compound for hematite, and a second step, in which the phosphor with the coating is calcined, thereby converting the iron-containing starting compound for hematite into hematite. The calcining operation is carried out in an atmosphere of a gas mixture of water vapor and an oxidizing gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Bredol, Jacqueline Merikhi, Dieter Wadow, Irmgard Kohler
  • Patent number: 6013309
    Abstract: A method of forming a protection layer of a plasma display panel, which has upper electrodes, lower electrodes and a barrier rib, includes the steps of: forming a dielectric layer on the upper electrodes; and forming a MgO protection layer on the dielectric layer by the method of direct coating the MgO solution on the surface of the dielectric layer. Some advantages are derived by properly mixing MgO particles, salt containing Mg, and organic binder and coating an MgO protection layer (thin film) on the surface of the PDP substrate irrespective of coating methods by simple facility and processing. These advantages include PDP MgO protection layer formation to reduce PDP production cost, time and firing voltages, and adjustment of the protection layer's thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Young Kim, Sen Gouk Kim, Myung Ho Park, Jae Hwa Ryu
  • Patent number: 5998918
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a phosphor screen for a flickerless cathode ray tube comprising the steps of forming red and green phosphor layers on a panel for a cathode ray tube on which a black matrix is formed, forming a blue phosphor layer on said panel on which a black matrix is formed by coating the blue phosphor slurry and drying and forming a double phosphor layer by coating an ultraviolet phosphor slurry on said blue phosphor layer and drying, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Samsung Display Devices Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-rag Do, Chang-won Park, Joon-bae Lee, Won-ho Yoon
  • Patent number: 5998085
    Abstract: A process is described for forming an emissive or phosphor screen. The process comprises the steps of:a) providing a thermal mass donor element comprising a substrate with a front side and a back side, with a coating of emissive material or phosphor adhered to said front side of said substrate,b) placing said coating of emissive material or phosphor adjacent to a support layer,c) addressing said mass donor element with coherent radiation to heat at least a portion of said coating of emissive material or phosphor to locally transfer at least some of said emissive material or phosphor to said support layer,d) repeating step c) a sufficient number of times to provide a coating of transferred emissive material or phosphor on said support layer in an area of at least 1 square centimeter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties
    Inventors: Thomas A. Isberg, Claire A. Jalbert, John S. Staral, William A. Tolbert, Martin B. Wolk
  • Patent number: 5994008
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for forming a fluorescent film for a display and a method of forming a fluorescent film for forming a display surface of a display unit. The composition for forming a fluorescent film for a display has an aqueous medium in which photosensitive resin having a styryl pyridium photosensitive group having an internal salt structure and a fluorescent material which easily reacts with acid are dispersed. The composition is applied to the display surface of a display unit so that a fluorescent layer is formed. Then, the fluorescent material layer is developed to form the fluorescent material layer into a predetermined pattern, and then the fluorescent material layer formed into the predetermined pattern is baked so that a fluorescent film is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Futaba Denshi Kogyo K.K.
    Inventors: Yukio Ogawa, Yoshihisa Yonezawa, Katsutoshi Kougo, Kazuyoshi Ishikawa, Shigeo Itoh, Tetsuaki Tochizawa, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Toru Shibuya, Hideo Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 5955226
    Abstract: There is disclosed a display screen obtained such that a first pigment layer and a resist layer are exposed and developed, then a second pigment layer is formed on the photoresist pattern, and the resultant structure is coated with a resist decomposition agent to remove the photoresist pattern and the second pigment layer formed on the photoresist pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hidemi Matsuda, Takeo Itou, Makoto Onodera, Yoshinori Takahashi, Norihisa Nakao
  • Patent number: 5952137
    Abstract: A color filter composition, a color display device, and a production method of the same with which an increase of the luminance, an increase of the contrast, an increase in the range of color reproduction, and an improvement of the function for preventing reflection of outside light can be achieved. The color filter composition has a spectral characteristic allowing specific light of the visible region to pass therethrough and is composed of fine particles of an inorganic metal oxide containing 15 percent by weight or less of particles having a particle size of 0.1 .mu.m or more based on the weight of all of the particles and contains 70 percent by weight or more of particles having a particle size of 0.01 .mu.m to 0.07 .mu.m based on the weight of all of the particles. A color filter is formed on an inner surface of a panel of a display device by screen printing or heat transfer printing by using this color filter composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Ihara, Katsutoshi Ohno, Kyoichi Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Shikata, Tomoaki Nanbu
  • Patent number: 5922394
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to producing a luminescent screen used in a cathode ray tube (CRT) suitable for monochromatic or chromatic images, such as, those utilized in televisions, computers or data monitoring equipment, which require CRTs. The method of the present invention produces an ablative layer of the luminescent screen having a smooth surface with reduced surface distortions, such as, streaks and waviness, which are typically produced by conventional coating processes. When a reflective aluminum film is deposited on such a smooth ablative layer, the reflective aluminum film is also provided with a smooth surface, since it typically conforms to the underlying smooth surface of the ablative layer. As a result, CRT images having reduced distortions are produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Andrew Paul Trapani, Gary Robert Larson, Steven Charles Brown, David William Whitman
  • Patent number: 5922395
    Abstract: A dispersion solution of colloidal silica is coated on a pigment layer composing a filter layer and then dried. Thus, the state of the front surface of the filter layer (pigment layer) is controlled without affecting the filter layer (pigment layer). A phosphor layer is formed on the filter layer (pigment layer).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Norio Koike, Yoshinori Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5914150
    Abstract: A technique for creating openings in a polycarbonate film entails providing a liquid chemical formulation that contains polycarbonate material, a liquid that dissolves the polycarbonate, and possibly one or more other constituents. The liquid is typically capable of dissolving the polycarbonate to a concentration of at least 1% at 20.degree. C. and 1 atmosphere. Examples of the liquid include pyridine, a ring-substituted pyridine derivative, pyrrole, a ring-substituted pyrrole derivative, pyrrolidine, a pyrrolidine derivative, chlorobenzene, and cyclohexanone. A liquid film (36A) of the chemical formulation is formed over a substructure (30) and processed to remove the liquid, thereby converting the liquid film into a solid polycarbonate track layer (38). Charged particles (70) are passed through the track layer to form charged-particle tracks (72) at least partway through the layer. Apertures (74) are created through the track layer by a process that entails etching along the tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Assignees: Candescent Technologies Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company
    Inventors: Jack D. Porter, Scott J. Crane, Stephanie J. Oberg, Anthony W. Johnson, Christopher J. Spindt, John M. Macaulay
  • Patent number: 5907377
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for producing a color filter, which comprises the steps of:providing a glass base equipped with black matrices;etching the glass base using the black matrices as a mask to form pixel holes in the base; and thenapplying inks into the pixel holes to form colored pixels of different colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoya Nishida, Takashi Enomoto
  • Patent number: 5895692
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing an organic electroluminescent device, including the steps of sequentially forming a hole transport layer, a bipolar transport layer at need, and an electron transport layer on a transparent electrode side of a transparent substrate having a transparent electrode. After a recombination region layer for electrons and holes of the transport layers is formed, three kinds of fluorescent pigment R, G and B are applied to an upper surface of the recombination region layer. Subsequently, the kinds of fluorescent pigment are heated to be diffused in the recombination layer so that the kinds of fluorescent pigment and the recombination layer constitute a luminescent layer. An organic electroluminescent device produced by this process is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1999
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Shirasaki, Seizo Miyata
  • Patent number: 5874135
    Abstract: Dry-powdered, silica-coated phosphor particles for use in manufacturing a CRT screen are dispersively coated with silica particles on the surface thereof to enhance the flow characteristics of the phosphor particles according to the present invention. A method of manufacturing the dry-powdered, silica-coated phosphor particles comprises the steps of sequentially first-dispersing silica particles in methanol, slowly adding dry-powdered phosphor particles to said silica-dispersed methanol, second-dispersing methanol in the silica-dispersed phosphor particles-adding methanol, filtering said resultant methanol of the second-dispersing step, drying the filtered resultant of the filtering step, and sieving the dried resultant of the drying step through a screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Orion Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Youl Yoon, Ho Seok Shon
  • Patent number: 5874124
    Abstract: A process for the metallization of phosphor screens is disclosed. The process includes the steps of coating all aqueous dispersion of a poly(hydroxyalkanoate) on a phosphor screen, allowing the screen to dry, optionally heating the screen to form a cohesive polymeric coating, depositing a layer of metal upon the coated screen to form a composite, and heating the composite to a temperature above the decomposition temperature of the poly(hydroxyalkanoate) in order to decompose and/or volatilize the film coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Cookson PLC
    Inventors: Adelaide Titilayo Oluronke Morenike Adebayo, Alison Mary Wagland, Karen Savill
  • Patent number: 5871807
    Abstract: A process is provided for forming a conductive line between a conductor and a spacer formed on a substrate of a field emission display. In one embodiment, the process performs the steps of disposing a screen between the substrate and a distributing member, the screen having an opening which permits the extrusion a conductive material, and moving the distributing member relative to the screen to extrude the conductive material through the opening and form a conductive line connecting the conductor and the spacer, wherein the snap off distance is varied according as the distributing member moves along the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: Micron Display Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Darryl Stansbury
  • Patent number: 5869128
    Abstract: Method for manufacturing a glass substrate with reduced glare wherein a suspension comprising sub-micron transparent oxide particles and a binder is coated on the substrate to form a film, whereafter the film is dried in such manner that in situ flocculation of the particles takes place. Said in-situ flocculation strongly reduces glare on the said surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Gijsbertus H.W.M. Meulendijks, Sebastianus N.G. Cuppen, Hendrikus L. Vandijck, Johannes M.A.A. Compen
  • Patent number: 5869129
    Abstract: Method of manufacturing a coating on a display screen and a display device comprising a display screen having a coating.The display screen 3 of a cathode ray tube 1 is provided with an antistatic coating 8 which comprises conductive, for example ATO (Sb:SnO.sub.2) particles. The coating comprises at least one additional layer (10) of silicon dioxide to obtain an antireflective effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Gerardus V. A. Aben, Jurgen P. A. Heymbeeck, Marcus J. Van Bommel, Angela C. L. Van De Poel
  • Patent number: 5863596
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing the cathode ray tube comprises, cleaning the front panel, heating for drying the front panel, forming an visible light absorbing layer on the front panel by spraying a first ethyl silicate solution, forming the antistatic layer on the front panel by spraying a second ethyl solution, and baking the front panel to harden the nonglare film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kunio Kojima, Takashi Setsuda, Takumi Takamura, Kouichi Kaneko, Hideo Kusama
  • Patent number: 5858619
    Abstract: A method for forming a three-dimensional multi-level conductive matrix structure for a flat panel display device. In one embodiment, the present invention forms first pixel separating structures across a surface of a faceplate of a flat panel display. The first pixel separating structures separate adjacent first sub-pixel regions. In this embodiment, the first pixel separating structures are formed by applying a first layer of photo-imagable material across the surface of the faceplate. Next, portions of the first layer of photo-imagable material are removed to leave regions of the first layer of photo-imagable material covering respective first sub-pixel regions. Then, a first layer of conductive material is applied over the surface of the faceplate such that the first layer conductive material is disposed between the aforementioned regions of the first layer of photo-imagable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: Candescent Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: David C. Chang, Arthur J. Learn, Bob L. Mackey, Paul M. Drumm, David L. Morris
  • Patent number: 5859494
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for manufacture of color cathode-ray tube for preventing the deterioration of color purity of red phosphor while enhancing the brightness and the contrast of color cathode-ray tube, which comprises steps of forming a black matrix film corresponding to 3 colors of green(G), blue(B) and red(R) onto the panel glass by using 0.067-0.075 g atom (content relative to 1 mol of Y.sub.2 O.sub.3) of europium(Eu) as an activator for red phosphor; forming a 3 color fluorescent film onto said black matrix film, wherein said 3 color fluorescent film consists of green phosphor, red phosphor to which predetermined amount of red pigment having 50-70% of reflectance has been adhered, and blue phosphor to which predetermined amount of blue pigment having 50-65% of reflectance has been adhered; coating an organic film on the 3 color fluorescent film; forming a metal reflective film thereon; and thermally decomposing the organic film at high temperature to obtain a fluorescent plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Hae-Beob Jeong
  • Patent number: 5820921
    Abstract: A phosphor layer is formed on an inside surface of a panel of a glass bulb comprising the panel and funnel connected with each other. A nozzle sprays an organic solvent lacquer on the phosphor layer to form a lacquer intermediate film under conditions ofa/2.ltoreq.L.multidot.tan (.THETA./2).ltoreq.(a/2)+.alpha.(0.ltoreq..alpha. )where,a is the length of the short side of the inside surface of the panel,L is the length from the connecting portion of the panel and funnel to the nozzle in the direction of spray,.THETA.0 is the angle of spray of the nozzle, and.alpha. is a length addition parameter. The lacquer intermediate film formed on the inside surface of the funnel is removed by a liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Saori Kawase, Nobuyuki Matsushima, Shuichi Saito
  • Patent number: 5800234
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a metallized luminescent screen for a CRT. At least one phosphor layer is deposited (10) on an inner surface of a faceplate panel to form the luminescent screen. The panel containing the screen is then preheated (12) to a temperature equal to, or in excess of, a minimum film-forming temperature and prewetted (14) by applying water to the screen. An aqueous filming emulsion containing a copolymer of acrylates and methacrylates with an average molecular weight of from 250,000 to 500,000 is applied (16) to the prewetted screen and dried (18) to form a film layer. Next, a layer of aluminum is deposited (20) onto the film layer, and the panel, bearing the metallized screen, is sealed to a funnel by heating the panel and the funnel through a sealing cycle. The sealing cycle(22) has a first rate of temperature increase to a first temperature and a second rate of temperature increase, less than the first rate, to a second temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: Videocolor S.p.A.
    Inventors: Paolo Spina, Patrizia Cinquina, Guido Manciocco, Aaron William Levine
  • Patent number: 5776555
    Abstract: A process for the metallization of a phosphor screen which process comprises the steps of: i)applying to a process screen a coating composition comprising a poly(acrylate) or poky(methacrylate) dissolved in an acrylate or methacrylate monomer, the said composition including an initiator therein; ii) subjecting the coated to irradiation in order to form a polymeric film coating, iii)depositing a layer of metal upon the coated screen to form a composite; and iv) heating the composite to a temperature above the decomposition temperature of the film coating in order to decompose and/or volatilize the polymeric film coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Cookson Group PLC
    Inventors: Alison Mary Wagland, Karen Savill, Warren Li, Jason Robert Brewer, Brian John Collister
  • Patent number: 5773150
    Abstract: A high molecular weight, i.e., molecular weight of 90,000-750,000, conductive polymer soluble in both water and alcohol is mixed with a solution of water, alcohol, tetraethoxysilane (TES), and nitric acid (HNO.sub.3) to provide an antistatic coating for a glass display panel of a cathode ray tube (CRT) for grounding static charge on the panel. Conductive polymers such as of polyaniline mixed with either polystyrene sulfonic acid or polyacrylic acid in a molecular ratio of 1:1 or 3,4 polyethylenedioxythiophene added to polystyrenesulphonate in a molecular ratio of 1:1 form a conductive complex which when mixed with a solution of water, alcohol, TES and HNO.sub.3 provides a coating solution with a resistivity in the range of 10.sup.7-10.sup.9 ohm/cm.sup.2 on the outer surface of the CRT display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hua-Sou Tong, Chun-Min Hu
  • Patent number: 5770258
    Abstract: A method of producing a cathode-ray tube (CRT) of anti-static-processed type and further a cathode-ray tube which screens a leakage electric field (VLF band width). The method including the steps of forming a high-refractive transparent conductive layer, a low-refractive smooth transparent layer, and a low-refractive rough transparent layer on a faceplate of the CRT. This triple coat layer serving to reduce the weight of the CRT, minimize the deterioration of the resolution and contrast of images displayed, diminish the reflection of external light, and provide sufficient film strength for practical use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoki Takizawa, Hiroshi Okuda
  • Patent number: 5762527
    Abstract: A high luminescence display, and methods for making such a display, are described. A faceplate for a display device having a glass face is provided, having phosphor elements on the glass face. There are reflective elements, on the glass face and adjacent to the phosphor elements, with surfaces angled toward the phosphor elements, whereby light emitted from the phosphor elements reflects off the reflective elements and travels through the glass face. The reflective elements may be formed of, for example, aluminum, and be directly adjacent to the phosphor, or offset from it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: David Nan-Chou Liu, Jammy Chin-Ming Huang, Jin-Yuh Lu
  • Patent number: 5756241
    Abstract: For the manufacture of a color screen for a cathode ray tube a process is described which uses a single photolithographic mask for defining multiple patterns, so that said single mask may be used for determining the different areas where several different phosphor layers will be located. Masks used for conventional photolithographic processes normally comprise a pattern of regions that are either fully transparent or fully opaque to the radiation used for exposing the resist. The mask used as part of the present invention includes regions that are neither fully transparent nor fully opaque, having, instead, a grey scale of optical densities. Through careful control of both exposure and development time, selected parts of a layer of a positive photoresist, that were exposed through successively denser regions of the mask, can be successively removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Nan-Chou David Liu, Jin-Yuh Lu
  • Patent number: 5750187
    Abstract: A process of manufacturing a cathode-ray tube (21) having a faceplate panel (27) with an exterior surface (39) having thereon an anti-glare, anti-static, dark coating (37) is described. The process is characterized by the steps of (a) forming a substantially homogeneous initial carbon dispersion containing substantially equal parts, by weight, of carbon particles and an organic vehicle; and (b) combining a sufficient quantity of the homogeneous initial carbon dispersion with an aqueous solution of lithium polysilicate to form a final dispersion suitable for application to the faceplate of the CRT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Videocolor, S.p.A.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Magnone, Guido Manciocco, Patrizia Cinquina
  • Patent number: 5744191
    Abstract: In a method of coating a curved panel in a cathode ray tube, by placing on the inner surface of a panel having a curved surface a screen frame of a boat-shaped configuration across the bottom of which a screen printing screen is stretched; and by moving a squeegee pushed against the surface of the screen so that ink coated on the surface of the screen passes through the screen and prints on the inner surface of the panel, a fluorescent screen having a good and even film is fabricated on the inner surface of the cathode ray tube panel having a curved face, by a screen printing. In the method, electro-conductive terminals for electro-deposition are not required, steps are reduced, production costs are reduced, and production quality is stabilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuneo Muchi, Yoji Kono, Kano Shimizu
  • Patent number: 5744270
    Abstract: The novel method for producing a coded marking on a CRT faceplate panel having an exterior and an interior surface with a viewing area surrounded by a periphery and having a luminescent screen with a plurality of different light-emitting phosphors separated by light-absorbing material includes the steps of: depositing a suitable photoresist on the interior surface of the panel to form a layer that extends across the viewing area and onto the periphery; illuminating areas of the photoresist on both the viewing area and the periphery with actinic radiation to selectively change the solubility of the photoresist; developing the photoresist to remove the more soluble areas, thereby exposing underlying portions of the interior surface of the panel while leaving retained areas of less soluble photoresist. The retained areas of the photoresist and the exposed portions of the interior surface of the panel are then overcoated with a light-absorbing material which is dried to form a coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Pearlman, Robert Anthony Duschl, Anthony Stanley Baran, Glenn William Brunner, George Simon Gadbois, Frank Thomas DiAugustine
  • Patent number: 5735722
    Abstract: A high luminescence display, and methods for making such a display, are described. A faceplate for a display device having a glass face is provided, having phosphor elements on the glass face. There are reflective elements, on the glass face and adjacent to the phosphor elements, with surfaces angled toward the phosphor elements, whereby light emitted from the phosphor elements reflects off the reflective elements and travels through the glass face. The reflective elements may be formed of, for example, aluminum, and be directly adjacent to the phosphor, or offset from it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: David Nan-Chou Liu, Jammy Chin-Ming Huang, Jin-Yuh Lu
  • Patent number: 5733161
    Abstract: A high luminescence display, and methods for making such a display, are described. A faceplate for a display device having a glass face is provided, having phosphor elements on the glass face. There are reflective elements, on the glass face and adjacent to the phosphor elements, with surfaces angled toward the phosphor elements, whereby light emitted from the phosphor elements reflects off the reflective elements and travels through the glass face. The reflective elements may be formed of, for example, aluminum, and be directly adjacent to the phosphor, or offset from it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1998
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: David Nan-Chou Liu, Jammy Chin-Ming Huang, Jin-Yuh Liu
  • Patent number: 5731378
    Abstract: This invention relates to aqueous emulsions based on uncured and uncurable acrylic polymers and their use for the forming process of the cathode ray tube comprising as comonomers the following components:A) butylmethacrylate from 45-70 parts by weightB) methylmethacrylate from 20-45 parts by weightC) methacrylic acid from 1-4 parts by weightD) ethylacrylate from 5-9 parts by weighthaving a minimum filming temperature such as to produce film between about 20.degree. and 40.degree. C., with or without the use of coalescent agents, the nitrogen thermal cycle which simulates that utilized in the CRT process, being the following:1.degree. scanning: from 25.degree. C. to 375.degree. C. at 11.degree. C./min.2.degree. scanning: from 75.degree. C. to 440.degree. C. at 5.degree. C./min.3.degree. scanning: isotherm at 440.degree. C. for 45 minutes,the organic residue after said thermal treatment being lower than 0.05% by weight, preferably 0.01%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: Elf Atochem Italia S.r.L.
    Inventors: Ivan Fuso Nerini, Massimo Cesana, Daniele Becchi
  • Patent number: 5725407
    Abstract: A process is described for the manufacture of a luminescent screen that eliminates image distorting or crosstalk effects resulting from secondary and back-scattered electrons that end up in adjoining sub-pixels. An unusually thick (ca. 70 microns) black matrix is first formed on the substrate surface and is given a tapered cross-sectional shape such that it is smaller at its top surface than at the substrate surface. Said tapered profile may be achieved through a screen-on process or by an overetching process. This is followed by the deposition of a transparent conductive layer, such as ITO, onto which the various layers of different phosphors that make up the sub-pixels of the display are deposited by means of electrophoresis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Nan-Chou D. Liu, Jammy Chin-Ming Huang, Jin-Yuh Lu
  • Patent number: 5723169
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for making a shadow mask for a color picture tube, including the steps of: forming a pattern, corresponding to apertures of the shadow mask, on a screen mesh fixed to a frame; applying metal paste on the screen mesh having the pattern; disposing a flat AK steel shadow mask under the screen mesh; printing a metal layer on a face of the flat AK steel shadow mask by squeezing the metal paste on the screen mesh with a constant pressure along a direction; and pressing the flat shadow mask to form a skirt portion and a bead portion of the shadow mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: Samsung Display Devices Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-hee Han, Hwan-chul Rho, Jae-myung Kim
  • Patent number: 5723170
    Abstract: A method of forming a phosphor layer of a fluorescent screen of a CRT, having a good screen quality by properly managing the dissolution of a water glass and barium acetate occurring in a covering water step and improve the uniformity. A phosphor layer is formed on an inner surface of a panel portion of a glass bulb by a precipitation process and a lacquer intermediate film is formed on the phosphor layer in a state where the phosphor layer is moistened by covering water. An electrolyte remaining in the phosphor layer after the phosphor layer is moistened by the covering water has a conductivity of 6.0.+-.4.0 .mu.s/cm in 200 ml of pure water of 20.degree. C..+-.1.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Saori Kawase, Hiroshi Kato, Tsuyoshi Kaneko
  • Patent number: 5707682
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a phosphor screen (22) on an interior surface (23) of a faceplate panel (12) is characterized by the steps of: forming a light-absorbing matrix (24) on an interior surface (23) of the faceplate panel (12); applying an aqueous surfactant solution thereto to solubilize oily contaminants and emulsify undissolved oily contaminants of the matrix (24); and serially applying three light-emitting phosphors (G, B, R) to the interior surface (23) of the faceplate panel (12) to form the phosphor screen (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignee: Videocolor S.p.A.
    Inventors: Himanshu M. Patel, Antimo Pezzulo
  • Patent number: 5698258
    Abstract: A cathode ray tube includes a face plate on which are formed a first transparent layer which has a high refractive index and is conductive and a second transparent layer which has a low refractive index. Thereby, the reflectance of the outer surface of the face plate can be made low and, at the same time, an antistatic property can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoki Takizawa, Hiroshi Okuda
  • Patent number: 5698353
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a flat display.The flat display is obtained by sealing an electro luminescent display which emit red and green light to a plasma display panel which emit blue light. One discharge space formed in the plasma display panel holds the red and green luminescent patterns in the electro luminescent display in common.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: Orion Electric Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Seong Jae Jeong
  • Patent number: 5695809
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing phosphor screens is disclosed. The method uses "sol-gel" for disposing a thin film of phosphor on a transparent substrate. The thin film of phosphor is applied in continuous form or in the form of an accurate dot pattern. The rastering of said dot pattern is performed either by screen printing before annealing the sol-gel, or by selective laser curing of a continuous thin film and washing off the non-cured portions. The phosphor screens are useful as monochrome or as full-color faceplates of field emission displays or cathode ray tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1997
    Assignee: Micron Display Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Surjit S. Chadha, James J. Alwan