Depositing Plural Coatings Patents (Class 445/11)
  • Patent number: 10879040
    Abstract: Provided is an ion beam processing apparatus including an ion generation chamber, a processing chamber, and electrodes to form an ion beam by extracting ions generated in the ion generation chamber to the processing chamber. The electrodes includes a first electrode disposed close to the ion generation chamber and provided with an ion passage hole to allow passage of the ions, and a second electrode disposed adjacent to the first electrode and closer to the processing chamber than the first electrode is, and provided with an ion passage hole to allow passage of the ions. The apparatus also includes a power unit which applies different electric potentials to the first electrode and the second electrode, respectively, so as to accelerate the ions generated by an ion generator in the ion generation chamber. A material of the first electrode is different from a material of the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: CANON ANELVA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi Yasumatsu, Naoyuki Okamoto, Masashi Tsujiyama, Fumihito Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9647212
    Abstract: A mask plate, a method for packaging an OLED device and an OLED device are disclosed, the mask plate includes at least one opening for forming a pattern of a package layer; the side of the mask plate close to the OLED device to be packaged has an etching layer which is used to etch the material of a package layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tao Sun, Tao Wang, Song Zhang
  • Patent number: 8604685
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a glass bulb and a reflective film formed in a region having an angle of at least 230° on an outer peripheral surface of the glass bulb. The light emitting device can obtain the reflective film having a sufficient film thickness in a wide region on an outer peripheral surface of an electric discharge tube and has a uniform light intensity distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Ogino, Kiyoshi Tsutsumi, Toshiaki Murai
  • Publication number: 20130309933
    Abstract: A method to improve light extraction efficiency of a light emitting element such as an electroluminescent element is disclosed. Over a substrate, a first electrode, a light emitting layer, and a second electrode are sequentially stacked. The first electrode is a reflective electrode. The second electrode is an electrode which transmits visible light, and light emitted from the light emitting layer is extracted from the second electrode. In contact with a surface of the second electrode, many fine particles are provided. The fine particles have a refractive index which is equal to or higher than that of the second electrode. Light which passes through the second electrode is scattered and refracted by the fine particles. Accordingly, the amount of light which is totally reflected at an interface between the second electrode and a gas is reduced, and light extraction efficiency is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Hirakata
  • Publication number: 20130196564
    Abstract: An energy saving gas discharge lamp, and method of making same, is provided. The gas discharge lamp includes a light-transmissive envelope, and an electrode within the light-transmissive envelope to provide a discharge. A light scattering reflective layer is disposed on an inner surface of the light-transmissive envelope. A phosphor layer is coated on the light scattering reflective layer. A discharge-sustaining gaseous mixture is retained inside the light-transmissive envelope. The discharge-sustaining gaseous mixture includes more than 80% xenon, by volume, at a low pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc.
    Inventors: John Peterson, Daniel Marian, Paul Salvi
  • Patent number: 8357021
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for manufacturing a display device in which unevenness generated under a light-emitting element does not impart an adverse effect on the light-emitting element. It is another object of the invention to provide a method for manufacturing a display device in which penetration of water into the inside of the display device through a film having high moisture permeability can be suppressed without increasing processing steps considerably. A display device of the present invention comprises a thin film transistor and a light-emitting element, the light-emitting element including a light-emitting laminated body interposed between a first electrode and a second electrode; wherein the first electrode is formed over an insulating film formed over the thin film transistor; and wherein a planarizing film is formed in response to the first electrode between the first electrode and the insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Sakakura, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8317561
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting component, having a substrate, a first electrode arranged on the substrate, a layer stack that is arranged on the first electrode and that has at least one organic layer and a second electrode arranged on the layer stack. The layer stack is suitable for emitting electromagnetic radiation during operation. The component also has a receiver device, which is suitable for drawing energy from an alternating electromagnetic field and for converting this energy at least partially into electrical energy and for making this energy available to the layer stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Wiebke Sarfert, Carsten Tschamber, Oliver Weiss, Dirk Buchhauser, Christoph Gaerditz, Karsten Heuser
  • Patent number: 8147287
    Abstract: A dense cathode electrode layer having a step coverage is to be formed on an electron injection layer. The electron injection layer in which fine particles of an electron injection material is dispersed in an organic thin film having an electron transport property is formed by vapor co-depositing the electron transport material and the electron injection material; and a cathode electrode layer made of an alloy layer of MgAg is formed by a sputtering method. Since lower portions of the fine particles of the electron injection material dispersed in the surface of the organic thin film are buried in the organic thin film, the electron injection particles are not peeled off even if sputtering particles collide with the electron injection particles, and the upper portions are in contact with the cathode electrode layer formed by sputtering particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Ulvac, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshio Negishi
  • Patent number: 8038494
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device (OELD) and a method of manufacturing the OELD are provided. The OELD includes a substrate, an anode electrode stacked on the substrate, an organic light emitting layer that is stacked on the anode electrode and has a plurality of protrusions on the organic light emitting layer, and a cathode electrode that covers the protrusions formed on the organic light emitting layer and is formed of a metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoon-sun Choi, Jin-Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 7704677
    Abstract: A method of patterning a conductive polymer, an organic light emitting device (OLED) manufactured using the method of patterning a conductive polymer, and a method of manufacturing the OLED are provided. The method of patterning a conductive polymer includes forming a conductive polymer layer on a substrate, aligning a shadow mask above the conductive polymer layer, and forming a conductive polymer pattern area and an insulating area in the conductive polymer layer by radiating charged particle beams through the shadow mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Yeol Kim, In-Nam Kang, Tae-Woo Lee, Bon-Won Koo, Sang-Hoon Park, Yu-Jin Kim, Mu-Gyeom Kim, Jong-Jin Park
  • Publication number: 20080265740
    Abstract: A plasma display panel is disclosed, which includes a first panel provided with an address electrode, a first dielectric, and a phosphor on a first substrate, and a second panel bonded to the first panel by interposing a barrier therebetween, including a transparent electrode, a bus electrode, a second dielectric provided with high dielectric particles, and a protective layer on a second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventors: Young Han Lee, Ho Seong Choi, Sung Chun Choi
  • Publication number: 20080238312
    Abstract: A plasma display panel (PDP) includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, an upper dielectric layer on the first substrate, a plurality of discharge electrodes between the first and second substrates, and a plurality of barrier ribs to define a plurality of discharge cells between the first and second substrates, each of the barrier ribs having a first portion and a central portion, the first portion having a width different than a width of the central portion, and each of the barrier ribs having a complimentary color with respect to a color of the first substrate and/or a color of the upper dielectric layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventor: Jung-Suk Song
  • Publication number: 20080197768
    Abstract: An organic light emissive device, which comprises: an anode; a cathode; and an organic light emissive region between the anode and the cathode, which region comprises: a layer of blue light electroluminescent organic material which emits light having first CIE co-ordinates by exciton radiative decay; and a layer of longer wavelength electroluminescent organic material which intrinsically emits light having second CIE co-ordinates by exciton radiative decay; wherein the layers of blue light and longer wavelength materials are selected so that the organic light emissive region emits white light falling within a region having a CIE X coordinate equivalent to that emitted by a black body at 3000-9000K and CIE ? co-ordinate of said light emitted by a black body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2005
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicants: CAMBRIDGE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY LIMITED, CDT OXFORD LIMITED
    Inventors: Natasha M. Conway, Nalinkumar Patel, Richard Wilson, Ilaria Grizzi
  • Patent number: 7396271
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for achieving desired spectral emission characteristics in plasma lamps is disclosed. The apparatus and method use multi-layer thin film optical interference coatings to selectively reflect a portion of the light such that it can be absorbed in the plasma. The multi-layer thin film coating is applied to any surface of the lamp, which substantially surrounds the plasma. The number and thickness of the layers in the coating are selected to ensure that significant portion of the selected light emitted from the plasma is reflected by the coating and absorbed by the plasma. The properties of the coating, reflectance, transmittance and absorption are determined as a function of plasma and lamp characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Advanced Lighting Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Krisl, Abbas Lamouri, Leonid Pekker, Paul Morand, Juris Sulcs, Norman L. Boling
  • Publication number: 20080106179
    Abstract: A flat light module and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. A first substrate and a second substrate with a plurality of electrodes are assembled. The discharge gas is filled between both substrates. A first dielectric layer with a first pattern and a second dielectric layer with a second pattern are covered on the electrodes in order, wherein the first pattern is used as a stopper and the second pattern is used as a mask to remove a portion of the second dielectric layer to form a plurality of protrusions and to expose a portion of surface of the second dielectric layer. Next, the first pattern and the second pattern are removed to expose a portion of surface of the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer, and then a fluorescent layer is coated on the exposed surfaces, the upper surface of the second substrate except for the surface of forming the electrodes and the first dielectric layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Applicant: CHUNGHWA PICTURE TUBES, LTD.
    Inventors: CHAO-JEN CHANG, CHENG-KAI HSU, CHIA-HUA AI
  • Patent number: 7300327
    Abstract: A method for constructing a scotopic after-glow lamp for use in an electric lamp with the scotopic lamp having a lamp wall is provided. The method comprises combining scotopic enhanced phosphors with after-glow phosphors, and layering the combined phosphors on the lamp wall with at least a portion of the after-glow phosphors being against the lamp wall and at least a portion of the scotopic phosphors being exposed to the electric arc of the lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Inventors: Charles Bolta, Donald P. Northrop
  • Patent number: 7256541
    Abstract: An organic layer (1) is applied to a transparent carrier (2) in such a way that different partial regions with different refractive indices are formed in the layer. Owing to deflection at the phase boundaries within the layer, fewer photons remain trapped in the layer as a result of wave-guiding losses than in the case of homogeneous layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Birnstock, Jörg Blässing, Karsten Heuser, Marcus Scheffel, Matthias Stössel, Georg Wittmann
  • Patent number: 7195531
    Abstract: An image display unit having a structure in which a heat-resisting fine particle layer is formed on a metal back layer disposed on a phosphor layer, and a getter layer is deposited/formed on the heat-resisting fine particle layer by vapor-depositing. The fine particle layer is desirably formed in a specified pattern, and a filmy getter layer is formed in a pattern complementary to the former pattern. The average particle size of heat-resisting fine particles which may use SiO2, TiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3 is 5 nm to 30 ?m. Since abnormal discharging is restricted, the destruction and deterioration of an electron emitting element and a phosphor screen are prevented to provide a high-brightness, high-grade display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takeo Ito, Tsuyoshi Oyaizu, Takashi Nishimura, Satoshi Koide, Hitoshi Tabata
  • Patent number: 7112113
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a display device of the present invention includes the steps of forming insulating barriers which surround electrode and project upward from the surface of the electrode, and bringing the whole substrate into contact with water after applying the solution including an acceptor in wet process. According to the present invention, an organic conductive layer can be uniformly formed over a substrate in wet process even if the substrate does not have a smooth surface and has distribution in wettability of the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Tokuda
  • Patent number: 7008283
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Candle Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih Yung Liu, De-An Chang, Sheng Chih Wan
  • Patent number: 6844667
    Abstract: A panel for a cathode ray tube having an inner surface with predetermined roughness, including a plurality of black matrix layers formed on the inner surface and a phosphor layer composed of red, green and blue phosphors between the black matrix layers, and the phosphor layer and the black matrix layer are formed on the inner surface of the panel after forming a transparent dielectric film, can prevent degradation of brightness and color purity of a screen caused as a result of grinding process which gives roughness to an inner surface of the panel in order to prevent mirror surface reflection on the inner surface of the panel caused by external light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Lg. Philips Displays Korea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Tae Choi, Bum-Sik Seo
  • Patent number: 6391504
    Abstract: A phosphor pattern for a field emission display panel (FED) is provided. The phosphor pattern is formed by a process whichh comprises the steps of: (I) forming (A) a photosensitive resin composition layer containing a phosphor on a substrate to which a conductive layer is formed; (II) selectively irradiating active light to (A) the photosensitive resin composition layer containing a phosphor, for forming a pattern; (III) selectively removing (A) the photosensitive resin composition layer to which active light has been selectively irradiated by development, to form the pattern; and (IV) calcining the pattern to remove an unnecessary portion, to form the phosphor pattern. Also provided ar this process for forming the phosphor pattern, a photosensitive element for a FED and a field emission display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Tai, Yoshiyuki Horibe, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Takeshi Nojiri, Kazuya Satou, Naoki Kimura, Mariko Shimamura
  • Patent number: 5645461
    Abstract: To manufacture a cathode-ray projection tube, a glass face panel with a skirt portion is provided. The glass face panel is formed to satisfy the following formula 0.85.ltoreq.B/A, where A is a long edge length of the inner surface of the glass face panel and B is a short edge length of the inner surface of the glass face panel. Then, high and low refraction materials are alternately evaporated to form an optical multiple layered interference film having a substantially uniform thickness on the inner surface of the glass face panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuo Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 5356657
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electroluminescent device including a substrate and an electroluminescent film on the substrate wherein the electroluminescent film is composed of a II-VI group compound semiconductor matrix and an electroluminescent center element; the improvement being present in that the electroluminescent film has a crystal structure of a hexagonal system, and contains the electroluminescent center element in a concentration (Ci) of 0.5 to 4 at. % within a thickness of 0.2 micrometer from the side of the substrate and in a concentration (Cr) of 0.15 to 0.7 at. % at the residual portion, and Ci is larger than Cr, and the process for preparing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1994
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kousuke Terada, Akiyoshi Mikami, Kouji Taniguchi, Koichi Tanaka, Masaru Yoshida, Shigeo Nakajima
  • Patent number: 5156563
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a color picture tube capable of minimizing the thermal deformation of the shadow mask is disclosed. A getter is filled with a Ba material, a high or low vaporizing material having a different vaporizing temperature compared with that of the Ba material, and the getter is installed within the color picture tube. The getter is heated by a microwave heating device, so that the Ba material is vaporized so that the vacuum level of the color picture tube is raised. The high or low vaporizing material is vaporized and coated onto an aluminum film of a panel or on the surface of the shadow mask. This vaporizing material layer coated on the aluminum film or on the surface of the shadow mask absorbs the heat generated by the shadow mask, so that the thermal expansion and the thermal deformation of the shadow mask is inhibited, thereby improving the colorimetric purity of the phosphor screen and extending the life expectancy of the color picture tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1992
    Assignee: Samsung Electron Devices Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung-Soon Park, Hun-Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 4898557
    Abstract: Process for producing extraction grids for ion sources. A mounting plate (1) of a thermostable material is provided on both sides with a continuous metal coating (2, 3). An essentially congruent pattern of holes is produced in the mounting plate (1) and in the metal coatings (2, 3). In such an extraction system, the metal coatings, electrically separated on either side, form extraction grids or electrodes. By disposing a core region (1a) of a conducting or semiconducting material in the mounting plate (1), a third electrode can be produced for controlling the ion beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1990
    Assignee: Leybold Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Jurgen Engemann
  • Patent number: 4797302
    Abstract: The electric lamp has a lamp vessel (1) of which a wall portion (4) is mirror-coated at its inner surface with an aluminum layer. This wall portion (4) has a boundary (5) near the largest diameter (2) of the lamp vessel (1). This boundary (5) is adjoined by a zone (10) coated with a transparent aluminum oxide layer. In the lamp, a dark zone caused by a very thin aluminum layer adjoining the boundary (5) is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1989
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corp.
    Inventors: Johannes W. Ingeveld, Albert J. Westerhof
  • Patent number: 4745329
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube is disclosed having a front assembly with a shadow mask characterized by having circular apertures at the mask center, and apertures at least in the mask periphery increasingly elongated radially outwardly as a function of distance from the center. The elongation of the apertures is effective to reduce or eliminate the distortion of the deposits on the mask periphery produced by diffraction effects during photoscreening, and to form phosphor deposits compatible in size and shape with the electron beamlets. The screen of the tube according to the invention may have circular or near-circular phosphor deposits thereon. Tube types to which the invention can be applied include the conventional curved-screen/curved-mask tube, and the substantially flat faceplate tube that has a foil shadow mask suspended in tension a predetermined distance from the screening surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1988
    Assignee: Zenith Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Leonard Dietch
  • Patent number: 4568567
    Abstract: A method of processing a bialkali-antimonide photoemissive cathode to remove trace quantities of alkali metal impurities is disclosed. The cathode is formed by heating alkali vapor sources comprising the chromates of two alkali materials which include trace impurities of two other alkali materials of higher vapor pressures than the aforementioned two alkali materials to sufficiently high temperatures to produce alkali vapors. The temperature of the substrate onto which the various alkali vapors condense is maintained at a sufficiently high temperature for a sufficiently long period of time to drive off the trace quantities of the higher vapor pressure other alkali materials from the substrate. Additionally, after the alkali vapor sources are heated to temperatures sufficient to vaporize the alkali chromates therein, the temperatures of the sources are lower and maintained at sufficient levels to accelerate the removal of reduced alkali vapors from the sources and from the photomultiplier tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1986
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventor: Richard D. Faulkner
  • Patent number: 4534744
    Abstract: The method of making a display panel 10 comprising forming an assembly of a glass base plate having a set of longitudinal first slots in which anode electrodes are secured and having an array of cathode electrodes seated on the top surface of the base plate and oriented transverse to the anodes. An apertured electrode plate is disposed adjacent to the base plate and its electrodes, and a face plate assembly is prepared by providing a glass plate and forming on one surface, in order, a large-area electrode and one or more insulating layers, after which an apertured insulating layer is formed thereon by a photo-etching process. The face plate assembly carrying the apertured insulating layer is assembled with the other parts of the panel, and the panel is processed to completion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1985
    Assignee: Burroughs Corporation
    Inventor: Philip Kuznetzoff
  • Patent number: 4416642
    Abstract: A method is proposed for preventing so-called halo-blocked apertures in color picture tubes. The halo-blocked apertures are caused by insulative negatively-charged particles attached to the inside surface of the shadow mask which deflect the transmitting portions of an electron beam. The method comprises depositing a conductive primary metal film on the insulative particle to render the particle conductive so that the particle cannot deflect the beam. This conductive film is applied during the initial tube processing after the tube has been agitated and oriented so as to dispose any loose insulative particles within the tube to a location where the conductive primary metal film can be deposited thereon, and prior to the step of depositing a getter material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1983
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventor: David D. VanOrmer
  • Patent number: 4407857
    Abstract: A method is provided for making a lithium-sodium-antimony photocathode including the step of forming a base layer including antimony on a substrate. Sodium is then deposited onto the base layer at an elevated temperature to a first peak value of responsivity, thereby forming a sodium-antimony surface. Next, at room temperature, lithium is deposited onto the substrate containing the sodium-antimony surface until the lithium-sodium-antimony photocathode develops a hazy brown color. The photocathode is sensitized by heating the substrate to an elevated temperature until a second peak value of responsivity, greater than the first peak value, is obtained. Antimony, sodium and lithium are then alternately deposited on the photocathode in order to stabilize the second responsivity peak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1983
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventor: Gilbert N. Butterwick
  • Patent number: 4398897
    Abstract: A method is proposed for eliminating so-called halo blocked apertures in color picture cathode-ray tubes. The cathode-ray tube comprises an evacuated envelope having therein a luminescent viewing screen, an electron gun for producing at least one electron beam for exciting the screen to luminescence and an apertured mask closely spaced from the screen for selectively intercepting and transmitting portions of the electron beam. A getter is provided for coating an interior surface of the apertured mask with a gas-sorbing, conductive getter material film. The halo blocked apertures are caused by insulative negatively-charged particles attached to the interior surface of the apertured mask. The conventional tube processing includes the steps of getter flashing, cathode discharge ball gap, cathode conversion, hot shot, first low voltage age, implosion proofing, external coating, frit breakdown check, radio frequency spot knock and final low voltage age.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1983
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventors: Jawdat I. Nubani, Frank S. Sawicki