Abstract: A mask and method of manufacturing is disclosed. The mask may include a transparent quartz substrate having light-transmitting regions and light-shielding regions, a light-control layer formed on the substrate excluding a portion corresponding to a light-transmitting region of an edge portion, and a light-shielding layer formed on the light-control layer of an light-shielding region. The method may include the steps of preparing a quartz substrate, forming a light-control layer on the quartz substrate, forming a light-shielding layer on the light-shielding region of the light-control layer, and selectively etching the light-control layer corresponding to light-transmitting regions of an edge portion of the substrate.

Abstract: A process is described for the fabrication of a multicolor filter intended for use as part of a colored LCD system. A particular feature of the process is that no mask is needed for the formation of the final set of miniature color filters, thereby saving on mask costs as well as reducing processing time.

Abstract: A method for production of graph scales of a panel of a cathode-ray tube for an oscilloscope for forming the panel graph scales by exposing and developing a slurry precipitate on a panel through a mask having cathode scales. More particularly, the present invention relates to a panel graph scale production method of a novel type characterized in that a specific filter having light transmissivity of about 62% at the center is disposed between the mask and a light source. According to this method, it is not necessary to arrange a large number of parallel ray lenses between the mask and the light source as opposed to the prior art, the distance between the panel and the light source can be more reduced, the overall exposure system for producing the scales can be more simplified, and the intended panel graph scales can be produced under an ideal condition.

Abstract: A method of forming a microstructure having a higher aspect ratio by using a general purpose synchrotron orbital radiation apparatus is provided. A resist layer mainly including a copolymer of methylmethacrylate and methacrylic acid is formed relatively thick on a substrate. Lithography by synchrotron orbital radiation is carried out on the resist layer, to form a resist pattern. By carrying out normal electroplating, electro-forming or the like in accordance with the resist pattern, a microstructure having a high aspect ratio is obtained.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, a method of electrophotographically manufacturing a luminescent screen assembly for a color CRT 10 on an interior surface of a faceplate panel 12 is described. A volatilizable organic conductive (OC) layer 32 is provided on the interior surface of the panel and a volatilizable organic photoconductive (OPC) layer 34 overlies the OC layer 32.

Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a correction lens for exposing a phosphor screen of a cathode ray tube, an effective surface of the correction lens is divided into a plurality of regions and an orbit of light beam corresponding to an orbit of electron beam is analyzed for each of regions to determine segment surface equation in the same expression form for the respective regions. A final surface equation is derived from the segment surface equations in consideration of an allowable error and the correction lens is formed on the basis of the final surface equation.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for manufacturing photostencils used in screening the faceplates of color cathode ray tubes. The photostencils are produced as progeny from a parent stencil photo plotted according to the dictates of a proximity photoprinting process in conjunction with the electron optical characteristics of the operational CRT. A rectangular beam is used for radiating light through the pattern of features on the parent stencil onto the photoresist of the progeny stencil. As a result, the features of the progeny stencil differ in size or shape or both, from those of the parent stencil.

Abstract: In order to manufacture a pair of main plates closely contacted with both the faces of a member to be exposed to light, patterns are drawn on a pair of original dry plates by a main pattern drawing device and developed. Thereafter, the developed pattern formed on one of the pair of original dry plates is successively transcribed even times in such a manner that a transcribed pattern having just formed on a newly supplied dry plate at a prior transcription is now transcribed to a fleshly supplied dry plate at a next transcription, and the developed pattern formed on the other one of the pair of original dry plate is successively transcribed odd times in such a manner that a transcribed pattern having just formed on a newly supplied dry plate at a prior transcription is now transcribed to a fleshly supplied dry plate at a next transcription, thereby forming a pair of main plates.

Abstract: The present invention is an improvement in a method of screening a line screen slit mask color picture tube that includes coating a faceplate panel of the tube with a photosensitive material, inserting a slit shadow mask into the panel and exposing the photosensitive material by passing light from a line light source through a misregister correction lens and through the slits of the mask. The improvement comprises positioning a skew correction lens between the line light source and the misregister correction lens during exposure of the photosensitive material. The skew correction lens has a surface with a general overall cylindrical shape with deviations from the cylindrical shape being in the four corners of the skew correction lens.

Abstract: A method of forming a phosphor layer on the screen panel of a cathode-ray tube include the steps of charging phosphor slurry on the inside of the screen panel, rotating the screen panel to spread the phosphor slurry forming the phosphor layer, and exposing the screen panel to a light disposed in front of the inside of the screen panel and a plurality of lights disposed in front of the outside of the screen.

Abstract: Forming a color filter by vacuum depositing alternating layers of SiO.sub.2 and TiO.sub.2 at a temperature of less than 150.degree. C.

Abstract: An emulsion covered photo printing plate for use in printing an etchant resist pattern on a light sensitive etchant resist located on a metal web covered with an etchant resist wherein the emulsion layer contains an exterior master pattern separated from an interior master pattern by a strip line with the interior master pattern having optically clear spacers located on top of the emulsion layer opaque projections and the nonopaque emulsion layer and the exterior emulsion layer having clear spacers located on top of the exterior emulsion layer with the area of the strip line being substantially devoid of spacers to provide evacuation channel past the strip line between the exterior master pattern and the interior master pattern.

Abstract: A method of producing a fluorescent screen of a cathode-ray tube inclusive of a process to form carbon stripes by coating an inner surface of a panel with a carbon film and then drying, exposing and developing such a carbon film. The method comprises the steps of perceiving the carbon stripes on the inner surface of the panel as video information by optical means, then inputting the video information to an image processor to calculate the line widths of the carbon stripes, and controlling the exposure during the carbon stripe exposure process on the basis of the line widths thus calculated. According to this method, the line widths of the carbon stripes can be maintained constant to enhance the quality stability, and the measuring operation is remarkably simplified by a completely automated mechanical system.

Abstract: A system for standardized printing of CRT screens is disclosed. A preferred embodiment utilizes a standardized photoexposure stencil made without the use of a shadow mask aperture pattern and projection printing. The stencil is then placed in proximity to the screening surface during exposure. Front panel and mask support topography preparation methods and apparatus are disclosed, as are means and methods for compensating for variations among panel assemblies utilized in standardized printing of the screens. The system thereby produces high resolution screens which may accept interchangeable shadow masks.

Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a color cathode ray tube, a photosensitive layer is formed on a inner surface of a panel and a shadow mask is mounted in the panel. The photosensitive layer is exposed to a light beam which is emitted from a light source and passes through a lens system, a shutter and apertures of the shadow mask to form a pattern corresponding to the apertures of the shadow mask in an exposure step. In the exposure step, the shutter is moved along the inner surface of the panel and the light source is also moved in synchronism with the movement of the shutter. Thus, the light beam is so shifted as to satisfy the .gamma.-.DELTA.p characteristic of the cathode ray tube, which reflects the angle of deflection .gamma. of the electron beam and the corresponding displacement of the center (F) of the deflection .DELTA.p from where the center of deflection would be when the angle of deflection is zero.

Abstract: A fluorescence pattern forming method and apparatus includes electron beams being irradiated over a face panel, on which a fluorescence layer is formed, to form a fluorescence pattern on a color CRT. The fluorescence layer is formed by coating a slurry of fluorescence substance. According to predetermined pattern designing data, a control device causes the electron beams to be irradiated over the fluorescence layer on the face panel so that the fluorescence luminesces. This luminescence is detected by a light detector located on the convex side of the face panel. A correcting device gives a correcting signal to the control device to correct the irradiated position according to the detected light quantity.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns the manufacture of mask type color television tubes. A diaphragm is used, for which the profile or aperture is modified during the operation for the uniform illumination of the vertical stripes of the screen during the different stages for the deposition of luminophors. The modification of the profile is obtained by the shifting of strips parallel to the vertical stripes.

Abstract: The need for annealing the internal magnetic shield of a cathode ray tube to eliminate registration errors caused by non-uniformity of magnetic properties of the shield resulting from the forming process, is eliminated by using a shader plate with a convex curvature to adjust the screen pattern to compensate for such errors.

Abstract: Superconducting mirror surfaces are provided by forming a mirror surface from a material which is superconductive at a temperature above about 40.degree. K. and adjusting the temperature of the surface to that temperature at which the material is superconducting. The mirror surfaces are essentially perfect reflectors for electromagnetic radiation with photon energy less than the superconducting band gap.

Abstract: A method of producing a color picture tube screen particularly for a high definition tube. In producing a high definition screen light from a point source (S) is directed through a segmented lens (18) and a shadow mask (24) onto a layer of photoresist applied to the internal surface of a faceplate panel (12). The segmented lens (18) comprises a rectilinear array of differently inclined facets (F). In order to obtain a substantially uniform illumination of the faceplate panel (12), the segmented lens (18) is wobbled in an oblique direction such that in moving from one extreme position to another, the image of a facet on the panel occupies substantially the previous position of the image of another facet obliquely adjacent the first mentioned facet when at the one extreme position.

Abstract: A method of forming a fluorescent screen for a color CRT, by exposing a photosensitive film on the inner surface of a curved panel, to form color stripes with different stripe widths. A flat mask is used, with slits aligned with the curved panel. The spacing of the mask and the width of the slits are controlled to produce a predetermined pattern factor F according to the expression: ##EQU1## where A is the width of the slits in the mask, b is the distance between the mask and the panel surface, and .lambda. is the wavelength of the exposing light.

Abstract: A high contrast and brightness fluorescent screen of a color picture tube has a light absorbing layer in the form of fine dots or stripes provided for the inner surface of a panel of the tube on which the phosphor layer is formed, and a light reflection layer provided at an interface between the light absorbing layer and the phosphor layer. To manufacture the fluorescent screen, a photosensitive resin layer coated on an inner surface of the panel is exposed to light through a photomask mounted on outside of the panel to form a pattern. Nonluminous light absorbing substance is applied on the pattern to form the light absorbing layers.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a relief element useful in liquid crystal display panels to control the gap-width of the liquid crystal layer, which process comprises the steps of:(I) pattern-wise photo-exposing a photographic silver halide emulsion material comprising on a support a single gelatin containing silver halide emulsion layer to form a latent pattern of exposed silver halide, and(II) treating the exposed silver halide emulsion layer with an aqueous solution containing a developing agent for said halide in the presence of a colorless coupling agent capable of forming with oxidized developing agent a diffusion resistant colorless reaction product increasing the thickness of said emulsion layer in the exposed regions.The treating step (II) can occur also in the presence of a color developing agent reactive with the oxidized developing agent to form a colored reaction product in the exposed regions.

Abstract: A color separation filter which is formed through use of dyestuffs provided with monomolecular film forming properties in which molecules can be absorbed by air-water interfaces and patterning properties capable of forming patterns through exposure by ionizing radiations. A method of manufacturing a color separation filter which comprises a step of forming monomolecular films of dyestuffs provided with monomolecular film forming properties and patterning properties, a step of piling a plurality of monomolecular films to form cumulative films and a step of patterning the cumulative films by radiating ionizing radiations to the cumulative films.

Abstract: An exposure control system which permits accurate reproduction of optical density levels on a final image is characterized by a dynamically corrected look-up table. The look-up table is used to calculate each desired exposure intensity level for each image pixel on the basis of data obtained during the exposure and development of an immediately preceding image.

Abstract: A method of producing a luminescent viewing screen using a quadrupole focus mask having apertures substantially larger than the phosphor screen elements is described. The method includes the steps of providing a film of a photosensitive polymeric substance on a faceplate and exposing the film through the focus mask. A first phosphor material is subsequently deposited on the region of the faceplate that was shadowed during the exposure. The process is repeated at different angles of exposure and with different color-emitting phosphor materials until at least two and preferably three different color emitting phosphor materials are deposited to form a cyclic array of screen elements.

Abstract: By adjusting the exposure dosages for the three primary color phosphors in the photolithographic process used to produce color CRTs for color television, standard whites of desired color temperatures are obtained. The aperture mask used in the photolithographic process is then discarded, and the CRT is operated as a monochrome tube in a standard receiver. Stable, rugged and portable color references are thus produced.

Abstract: Apparatus for use in fabricating the faceplate section of a color cathode ray tube, which faceplate comprises a target surface and a shadow mask foil support frame affixed to and circumscribing the target surface. The apparatus comprises a pedestal having registration affording means associated therewith and a tensing structure which includes a fixture comprising a pair of collars for clamping the edge of the shadow mask foil to support and maintain the foil taut. An anvil is provided for engaging a peripheral portion of the clamped foil to induce a deflection of the foil and, thereby, a predetermined tension in the foil. A first indexing means effects repeatable registrations between the clamping fixture and the pedestal registration affording means.

Abstract: A method for constructing a color cathode ray tube wherein a light source is placed at a number of positions and exposures are made and a film on the inside surface of the panel is exposed to form prescribed stripe width patterns using the transmission light intensity distribution which are superposed plural Fresnel diffraction waveforms and wherein correction lens system is selected which correspond to the exposure of various light source positions and have different values and the absolute value of the transmission light intensity distribution and the derivative .differential.I/.differential.x of the transmission light intensity distribution at positions corresponding to the edge of the stripe width pattern are optimized throughout the inside surface of the panel.

Abstract: A method of screening a tensed mask CRT faceplate to correct for color purity errors resulting from screening of the tube through a tension mask whose supporting frame is distorted by the tensile forces exerted by the mask on the frame. The method includes heating the tensed mask during photoscreening of the tube to a temperature sufficient to substantially reduce the strain imparted to the support frame.

Abstract: A fluorescent screen of a color picture tube is manufactured by the steps of forming a film of substance which becomes sticky when exposed to light on an inner surface of a panel of the tube, exposing predetermined portion of the film through a shadow mask to render sticky the exposed portions, repeatedly applying powders of phosphors of respective colors onto the portions which became sticky so as to form phosphor picture elements of respective colors, exposing portions of the film other than the predetermined portions to render them sticky, and applying a powder of graphite to the portions other than the predetermined portions to form a black matrix film.

Abstract: A method for exposing a layer of photoresist on a sheet includes positioning the sheet in a vacuum printing frame comprising a glass plate carrying an opaque master pattern of metal or metal oxide. With the pattern opposite the coating, the frame is evacuated and the layer is exposed. The pattern has a substantially-uniform thickness in the range of about 0.5.+-.0.2 micrometer. To reduce the times for evacuating and devacuating the frame, the pattern side of the glass plate carries an array of light-transparent islands up to about 3.0-micrometer thick. An overcoating of wax on the islands is a further aid.

Abstract: A method for exposing a layer of photoresist on a sheet includes positioning the sheet in a vacuum printing frame comprising a glass plate carrying an opaque master pattern of metal or metal oxide. With the pattern opposite the coating, the frame is evacuated and the layer is exposed. The pattern has a substantially-uniform thickness in the range of about 0.5.+-.0.2 micrometer. To reduce the times for evacuating and devacuating the frame, the pattern side of the glass plate carries an array of light-transparent islands up to about 3.0-micrometer thick. An overcoating of wax on the islands is a further aid.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of producing a phosphor screen of color picture tube wherein a light absorbing material is applied onto the inner surface of a panel, a shadow mask is provided, the surface of film of the light absorbing material is scanned and irradiated with a laser beam via the shadow mask so that portions of the light absorbing material irradiated with the laser beam are heated and burned, thereby to form a black matrix. According to this method, the number of steps for forming the black matrix is decreased, and the quality and yield of the phosphor screen are increased.

Abstract: The present invention is an improvement in a method of screening a line screen slit mask color picture tube. Such method includes coating a faceplate panel of the tube with a photosensitive material, inserting a slit shadow mask into the panel and exposing the photosensitive material by passing light from a line light source through the slits of the mask. Such method further comprises positioning a generally cylindrical shaped lens between the line light source and the faceplate panel during exposure of the photosensitive material. The longitudinal axis of the lens is oriented perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the line light source. The improvement comprises moving both the faceplate panel and the cylindrical shaped lens in synchronization in a direction parallel to the line light source during the exposing step.

Abstract: The present invention is an improvement in a method and apparatus for screening a line screen slit mask color picture tube. Such method includes coating a faceplate panel of the tube with a photosensitive material, inserting a slit shadow mask into the panel, and exposing the photosensitive material by passing light from a line light source through the slits of the mask. The improvement comprises positioning, between the light source and the shadow mask, means for varying the effective length of the line light source when viewed from different locations on the faceplate panel.In a preferred embodiment, the means for varying the effective length of the line light source are curved louvers placed adjacent the light source which, when viewed from the center of the panel, shadow the ends of the light source, but which, when viewed from the ends of the minor axis of the panel, expose an effectively longer light source.

Abstract: The present invention is an improvement in a method of screening a line screen slit mask color picture tube. Such method includes coating a faceplate panel of the tube with a photosensitive material, inserting a slit shadow mask into the panel and exposing the photosensitive material by passing light from a line light source through the slits of the mask. The improvement comprises positioning a generally cylindrical shaped lens between the line light source and the faceplate panel during exposure of the photosensitive material. The longitudinal axis of the lens is oriented perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the line light source. Because of the presence of the lens, the images of the line light source projected through the slits of the mask onto the photosensitive material at locations off the major and minor axes of the panel are rotated toward parallelism with the minor axis thereby resulting in exposure of straight smooth lines on the photosensitive material.

Abstract: In the novel method, light passes upwardly from a light source, through an optical element and then is incident upon a photosensitive layer. A transparent optically-neutral sheet, which may be of glass or plastic, closely spaced above the optical element intercepts extraneous matter that would normally fall on the optical element. At least during the exposing step, the sheet is moved with respect to the optical element to wash out degrading effects of the intercepted material.

Abstract: The present invention is an improvement in a method of screening a line screen slit mask color picture tube. Such method includes coating a faceplate panel of the tube with a photosensitive material, inserting a slit shadow mask into the panel and exposing the photosensitive material by passing light from a line light source through the slits of the mask. The improvement comprises positioning a generally cylindrical shaped lens between the line light source and the faceplate panel during exposure of the photosensitive material. The longitudinal axis of the lens is oriented perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the line light source. Because of the presence of the lens, the images of the line light source projected through the slits of the mask onto the photosensitive material at locations off the major and minor axes of the panel are rotated toward parallelism with the minor axis thereby resulting in exposure of straight smooth lines on the photosensitive material.

Abstract: Phosphor characters to supply feedback information for an automatic convergence system are applied to the gun side of the shadow mask of a color cathode ray tube by a method of applying layers of a positive-working photoresist and phosphor, exposing the layers through a positive photomask, back exposing to clear the shadow mask apertures, developing to remove the exposed areas, and baking to remove the photoresist.

Abstract: A method of making a colour display screen for a television display tube is disclosed. On the window portion of the tube an electron-absorbing layer is provided which is scanned by means of an electron beam via the shadow mask. The charge image on the layer is then developed xerographically. The layer is preferably photoconductive so as to be able to remove the charge remaining after the development by means of a uniform exposure.

Abstract: A pallet constructed to have a panel placed on its surface and formed with a through hole for storing a shadow mask, located below the panel placed on the pallet, and a conveying method using such pallet. The conveying method consists in conveying the pallet supporting the panel to the vicinity of a treating device, removing the shadow mask from the panel by moving same downwardly and holding same in the through hole of the pallet, conveying the panel to the treating device to subject same to a predetermined treatment, and placing the treated panel on the pallet. An apparatus for removing the shadow mask from the panel on the pallet and having same held by the pallet is also disclosed.

Abstract: In an electrophotographic process for producing a display screen on the window of a color display tube, a step is performed which increases the potential difference between areas of the screen which have been charged to attract charged particles of a screening material and areas of the screen not charged to attract such particles. This increased potential difference increases the attraction force, thereby improving particle retention until the screening material is permanently attached.

Abstract: The light intensity-exposure time product of a lighthouse used in the manufacture of phosphor screens for color picture tubes is held constant despite changes in the shadow mask light transmission characteristic and power supply variations. The power provided to the exposing lamp is monitored and converted to a square wave output having a frequency which varies with the power. The frequency variations change the exposure time inversely with the frequency changes to maintain the light intensity-exposure time product constant.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and to elements for the execution of the method for the inspection of the reproduction quality of drawing elements which are exposed by means of a cathode ray tube on light-sensitive photo material. A simple and feasible development of the quality control of exposed photo material or other printing masters produced in this manner is achieved. The inspection ensues in that additional raster points are exposed which behave differently in response to different exposure and development conditions.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for altering the exposure time of a master timer in a CRT light house to accommodate masks having different aperture sizes. For each expected aperture size, an exposure time modifier is pre-stored, the aperture size of a mask is sensed, and the modifier corresponding to the mask's aperture size is automatically selected. The selected modifier is used to alter the rate at which the master timer times out so as to provide an exposure interval appropriate for the mask being processed.

Abstract: Color filter arrays for color imaging devices are disclosed. The arrays are formed in a single layer of a transparent binder containing at least one cationic photo-bleachable dye. The layer has a thickness less than 10 microns, and the dye is present in the layer in an amount sufficient to impart a density to the layer of at least about 0.5 in that portion of the spectrum in which it selectivity absorbs. A method of making the arrays is also disclosed which includes the steps of (1) forming a layer of a transparent binder containing the photo-bleachable dye or dyes and a sensitizer; (2) exposing the layer to a pattern which represents a set of filter elements so as to photo-bleach the photo-bleachable dye; and (3) fixing the layer by leaching the sensitizer from the layer. In particularly preferred embodiments, the dyes are chosen so that those which absorb at longer wavelengths have a lower bleaching efficiency than those which absorb at shorter wavelengths.

Abstract: A system for determining the exposure time required for a lighthouse to expose the screen of a television panel in accordance with the light transmission characteristics of the shadow mask includes means for providing the actual light transmission characteristics of the shadow mask. The minimum and maximum acceptable transmission values are subtracted to form a transmission range. The actual transmission characteristics and the minimum transmission value are combined to provide a transmission difference signal. The transmission difference and the transmission range are converted into a ratio which is used to determine a transmission percentage. The percentage is combined with a maximum transmission time to establish the exposure time.

Abstract: In a method of exposing to light a fluorescent screen of an in-line dot type color picture tube wherein an inner surface of a panel of the tube coated with a photosensitive film, a shadow mask, and a linear type extra-high pressure mercury lamp covered by a shielding plate having an opening are disposed substantially in parallel so as to expose the inner surface of the panel to light passing through apertures of the shadow mask, a plurality of openings are formed in the shield plate with a mutual spacing of n.times.B.sub.p (L/Q) where B.sub.p represents a lateral pitch between adjacent apertures of the shadow mask, L a distance between the mercury lamp and the inner surface of the panel, Q a distance between the shadow mask and the inner surface of the panel, and n a positive integer, and the inner surface of the panel is exposed to light from the plurality of openings through the apertures of the shadow mask.

Abstract: A method for printing a viewing-screen structure including projecting, at least three times, a light field from a light source, through a lens, an optical filter and incident upon a photosensitive layer. During one of the projecting steps, the light source and the nominal axes of the light source, the lens, the filter and the layer (which are substantially parallel to one another) are aligned along a common axis. During each of the other two projecting steps, the light source and the axis of the lens remain aligned along the common axis, and the axes of the filter and the layer are offset prescribed distances on opposite sides of the common axis.