Filter Patents (Class 96/361)
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Publication number: 20030000390Abstract: The invention relates to a gas-water separator and particularly to a gas-water separator used in a washer wherein a plurality of inversed hooks are essentially provided on a surface of a baffle plate facing the air flow so that the water containing impurities can be collected on said inversed hooks and fall down to the bottom smoothly when said water containing impurities is entering into said gas-water separator. As a result, the water content carried by the exhaust air can be greatly reduced, even only dry air being exhausted. Thus, the present invention not only can improve the filtering effectiveness but also can be more environment-philic.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2001Publication date: January 2, 2003Inventor: Yew-Luen Yuan
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Patent number: 6497757Abstract: An apparatus for removing impurity substances in the air includes a first filter for removing solid substances in the air flowing in a flow passage defined by a housing; a first cooler for cooling the air to not higher than its dew-point temperature; a wet-type impurity removing mechanism for capturing gaseous substances in the air; a second cooler; and a second filter. The wet-type impurity removing mechanism includes a first liquid atomizer having a plurality of nozzle ports for spraying, arranged mutually spaced apart and facing each other in the direction of the air flow passage; first and second condensing and capturing assemblies located across the first atomizer and spaced apart from each other, with the first condensing and capturing assembly being upstream and the second condensing and capturing assembly being downstream from the first atomizer; a second atomizer for capturing any remaining gaseous substances in the air; and a third condensing and capturing assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2000Date of Patent: December 24, 2002Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co, Ltd.Inventors: Hidetoshi Wakamatsu, Mikio Matsuki, Norio Tanaka, Hiroshi Ogata
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Patent number: 6481437Abstract: The present invention is a vaporizer apparatus (1) and method for uniformly extracting active ingredients of specimen of crude natural product, or inert particulate matrix impregnated with volatile substances without pyrolysis which uses hot air (2), or a heated inert gas stream to volatilize the specimen. The heated air or gas in introduced from below (from either a hot air gun or a high-pressure tank connected to a heat exchanger), and ascends through in most embodiments through a permeable support structure (4) (e.g., fritted glass disk, etc.) subsequently causing specimen particules disposed on the permeable support structure to be suspended within the confines of an isolation chamber (5).Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2000Date of Patent: November 19, 2002Assignee: Hortapharm B.V.Inventor: David W. Pate
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Patent number: 6447574Abstract: Pollutant molecules and/or particles are removed from a stream of polluted gas utilizing moisture-containing sonic or supersonic shock waves passing through the stream of polluted gas stream to alter, change, modify, grow or otherwise change the molecules and/or particles to render then removable or separable from the gas stream.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2001Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: Global Clean Air, Inc.Inventors: James Leake Frier, Jr., Malley R. Bass, Thomas K. Ewan
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Patent number: 6391093Abstract: A weld chamber has an air intake and an exhaust or evacuating ductwork for evacuating gases and other particles from the welding chamber. The evacuating ductwork is connected to a vacuum source to remove gases and by products from the weld chamber during welding. A throttle plate is provided in the evacuating ductwork adjacent the weld chamber to adjust or regulate the air velocity evacuating from the weld chamber. The evacuating duct then leads to a sealed water filtering tank. All of the exhausted/evacuated gases and by products are led beneath the water line and bubble through the water before emerging from the sealed water. The soot and iron particles are immediately cooled and trapped in the water tank. Moreover, particles become wet and are less likely to become airborne thus leading to a substantial portion of the particles being trapped in the sealed water tank. Thee remaining gases are then evacuated to the vacuum source and further filtered by a mechanical filtration device.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2000Date of Patent: May 21, 2002Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Scott Howard French, John E. McManus, Jr., Bimal B. Patel
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Patent number: 6350302Abstract: An air filtration system for filtering smoke from the air. The system includes a filter tank for holding a volume of water. A bulkhead wall therein divides the filter tank into first and second compartments and has a hole therethrough to permit passage of water between the first and second compartments of the filter tank. A mesh screen substantially covers the hole of the bulkhead. An air intake conduit is fluidly connected to the first compartment of the filter tank for drawing unfiltered air and debris into the filter tank from a location such as a room. A water supply conduit is fluidly connected to the filter tank for supplying water to the filter tank. A vacuum device is provided for drawing air out of the filter tank. The vacuum device has an intake fluidly connected to the second compartment of the filter tank for drawing air from the filter tank into the vacuum device. The vacuum device has a first return conduit for receiving air drawn into the vacuum device through the intake of the vacuum device.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 1998Date of Patent: February 26, 2002Inventor: Wayne F. Hallstead, Sr.
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Patent number: 6346141Abstract: A system and method are provided for supplying breathable gas to an underwater habitat submerged in water. A flow of respired gas that includes metabolically-produced carbon dioxide is extracted from the underwater habitat and mixed with water from the surrounding environment. As a result of such mixing, carbon dioxide in the respired gas is substantially absorbed by the water while a first gas is produced. Moisture in the first gas is filtered out to produce a breathable gas which is then introduced back into the underwater habitat.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2000Date of Patent: February 12, 2002Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Marshall L. Nuckols, Jeremy A. Pelstring, Benjamin M. Stinespring
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Patent number: 6312504Abstract: For purifying dust-containing air, particularly in underground mining and tunnel construction, a dust separator 1 in the form of a rotary washer 1 is proposed. The drive 5 of said rotary washer 1 is equipped with a gear unit 10 in order to enable long-term operation with a straight characteristic. Furthermore, disposed downstream of the fan impeller 6 is a special separating element 11 in the form of a demister 20, which is disposed so as to be suspended approximately horizontally in the air stream. Clogging of the demister 20 is therefore effectively prevented and so uniform and reliable operation is guaranteed. The demister 20 together with its associated jetwashing device 22 may be swivelled by a positioning motor 23 into an, in each case, optimum position.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1999Date of Patent: November 6, 2001Assignee: CFT Gmbh Compact Filter TechnicInventors: Reinhold Both, Christian Haubold
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Patent number: 6250301Abstract: A vaporizer apparatus and method for uniformly extracting active ingredients of a specimen of crude natural product or inert particulate matrix impregnated with volatile substances, without pyrolysis, which uses hot air or a heated inert gas stream to volatilize the specimen. The heated air or gas is introduced from below (from either a hot air gun or a high pressure tank connected to a heat exchanger) and ascends through a permeable support structure (e.g., fritted glass disk, etc.), subsequently causing specimen particles disposed on the permeable support structure to be suspended within the confines of an isolation chamber. This allows a maximized gas extraction exposure for each suspended particle, and promotes a uniform extraction of the aggregate charge through its periodic mixing. A filter prevents the particles from being inhaled by the user. During device disuse, the heated airstream flows through an optional side-arm of the vaporizer apparatus, preventing wasteful loss of active ingredients.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 1997Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: Hortal Harm B.V.Inventor: David W. Pate
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Patent number: 6197093Abstract: The exhaust gas enters via an exhaust gas line into a washing apparatus. In the washing apparatus solid matter particles are predominantly separated. The pre-washed exhaust gas flows from the washing apparatus through a droplet removing conduit to a trickling filter device in order to be subjected to an activated sludge treatment for the separating of gaseous contaminants. In order to reduce the point of condensation and accordingly the absolute humidity of the exhaust gas for the activated sludge treatment either fresh air is added through a feed line to the pre-washed exhaust gas or the washing water which is led in a closed circuit through the washing water line of the washing apparatus is cooled in a heat exchanger in a cooling tower. A portion of the washing water of the washing apparatus is led through a first solid matter removing apparatus of which a portion of the filtrate is led to an activated sludge basin located under the trickling filter device.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1999Date of Patent: March 6, 2001Assignee: Alois Sceuch GmbHInventor: Emil A. J. Wieser-Linhart
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Patent number: 6174349Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided which continuously filters scrubbed gases prior to emission to the atmosphere. In particular, the method and apparatus can continuously scrub the effluent stream from a chemical vapor deposition process, such as the process used to deposit epitaxial silicon. In order to provide this continuous scrubbing, a separation housing having a filter housing is provided that permits the filter to be replaced during and without interruption of the scrubbing and filtering process. The filter housing can define a pair of tracks that guide the insertion and removal of a filter such that inserting a clean filter into one end of the pair of tracks causes a spent filter to be pushed out of the opposed end of the tracks as the clean filter is slid down the tracks.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 1999Date of Patent: January 16, 2001Assignee: SEH America, Inc.Inventor: Gennaro Nicholas DeSantis
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Patent number: 6102992Abstract: An improved method and device for decontamination of a contaminated process area is provided whereby a fine aerosol of an encapsulant for use in encapsulating the contaminants within the contaminated environment is generated. The aerosol is generated by a plurality of ultrasonic transducers located below the surface of a reservoir containing a capture liquid. The output of the transducers is focused to a point near the surface of the liquid to cause a surface disturbance which results in the formation of an aerosol of encapsulant from the capture liquid. A pressurization fan is used to force ambient air through the pressurization chamber to transport the aerosol to the process area to be treated. The aerosol forms a thin coating of encapsulant over the hazardous material thereby allowing the hazardous material to be safely removed from the process area or permanently adhered to the walls of the process area.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 1998Date of Patent: August 15, 2000Assignee: Encapsulation Technology, LLCInventors: Robert O. Berg, William F. Rigby, John P. Albers
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Patent number: 6068686Abstract: A scrubber for removing pollutants from a fluid and having an inlet for receiving the fluid and an outlet for emitting the fluid, the scrubber comprising a first scrubber coupled with the fluid intermediate the inlet and the outlet for removing a first measure of pollutants from the fluid, a second scrubber coupled with the first scrubber intermediate the inlet and the outlet, the second scrubber for removing a second measure of pollutants from the fluid, and a third scrubber coupled with the second scrubber intermediate the inlet and the outlet, the third scrubber for removing a third measure of pollutants from the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 1997Date of Patent: May 30, 2000Inventors: Ian W. Sorensen, Edward A. Lamb
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Patent number: 6019826Abstract: A vacuum cleaner having a suction path at least partially submerged in a container of water is subdivided into two parts. An upper part supports a suction motor assembly, and a lower part includes a container of water engaged perimetrically by hooking means to the upper part, and a tubular jacket inside the container partially immersed in the water, so that an annular interspace is formed between respective side facing walls. The interspace forms a siphon to allow suction motor means to draw air and/or liquid from the outside. Also included is a perforated separating diaphragm submerged in the water, and a first removable funnel shaped deflector means placed in an almost suspended position inside the tubular jacket above the water level.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 1997Date of Patent: February 1, 2000Assignee: W.S. S.P.A.Inventor: Silvano Pietrobon
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Patent number: 5972078Abstract: Exhaust components of a coating apparatus can be cleaned to remove coating material therein and/or can be periodically treated so as to prevent the buildup of coating material with exhaust components. Moreover, coating materials and cleaning liquids can be separated from the exhaust stream and collected to a drain. An exhaust manifold includes an integral rinsing mechanism and a fluid separator. Rinsing can be controlled automatically or manually.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 1997Date of Patent: October 26, 1999Assignee: FSI International, Inc.Inventors: Jimmy D. Collins, Steven G. Tollefson
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Patent number: 5958113Abstract: An improved water vacuum extraction machine having a modular design allowing the detergent container to be removed when the machine is used in the vacuum mode when the detergent solution is not required. The water vacuum extraction machine includes a removable water filter to allow for the hydro filtration tank to be cleaned more easily. Further, an added filter is provided downstream of the suction motor to thereby reduce the amount of particles which are released into the environment. Specifically, the machine includes an outer casing including a bottom wall and a top wall and defining a chamber therein and a recovery tank removably positioned within the chamber. The hydro filter is disposed within the recovery tank and includes an inner tube and an outer which are concentrically arranged to define an annular space therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1997Date of Patent: September 28, 1999Assignee: Thermax, Inc.Inventors: Gary W. Collins, Kehl T. LeSourd
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Patent number: 5919285Abstract: Processes and systems to recover at least one perfluorocompound gas from a gas mixture are provided. In one embodiment the inventive process comprises the steps of a) providing a gas mixture comprising at least one perfluorocompound gas and at least one carrier gas, the gas mixture being at a predetermined pressure; b) providing at least one glassy polymer membrane having a feed side and a permeate side; c) contacting the feed side of the at least one membrane with the gas mixture; d) withdrawing from the feed side of the membrane as a non-permeate stream at a pressure which is substantially equal to the predetermined pressure a concentrated gas mixture comprising essentially the at least one perfluorocompound gas; and e) withdrawing from the permeate side of the membrane as a permeate stream a depleted gas mixture comprising essentially the at least one carrier gas.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 1998Date of Patent: July 6, 1999Assignees: American Air Liquide, Inc., l'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et, l'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges ClaudeInventors: Yao-En Li, Joseph E. Paganessi, David Vassallo, Gregory K. Fleming
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Patent number: 5893943Abstract: The present invention discloses a process for removing undesired particles from a gas stream including the steps of contacting a composition containing an adhesive with the gas stream; collecting the undesired particles and adhesive on a collection surface to form an aggregate comprising the adhesive and undesired particles on the collection surface; and removing the agglomerate from the collection zone. The composition may then be atomized and injected into the gas stream. The composition may include a liquid that vaporizes in the gas stream. After the liquid vaporizes, adhesive particles are entrained in the gas stream. The process may be applied to electrostatic precipitators and filtration systems to improve undesired particle collection efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1993Date of Patent: April 13, 1999Assignee: ADA Environmental Solutions, LLCInventors: Michael Dean Durham, Richard John Schlager, Timothy George Ebner, Robin Michele Stewart, Cynthia Jean Bustard
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Patent number: 5843214Abstract: An apparatus for extracting condensable materials from exhaust gases which are produced by combustion. In a steam injected gas turbine driven powerplant, water is extracted from the exhaust gasses and returned to the cycle for steam raising and injection into the combustor. Exhaust gases pass flow co-currently with a cold water fog, water vapor in the fog condenses on the fog drops, the flow passes through a de-mister coalescing the drops so as to produce a warm rain of condensate, the condensate is cooled with a heat exchanger using a cooling medium such as seawater, and the cooled condensate is returned to the cycle.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1996Date of Patent: December 1, 1998Assignee: California Energy CommissionInventor: Clarence W. Janes
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Patent number: 5800598Abstract: According to a generator for producing a narrowly size-distributed aerosol, the solution is atomized into the first droplets including a predetermined small-sized range of droplets by the atomizer, and then using the droplet depositor, the larger droplets from the predetermined small-sized range of droplets are deposited in the first droplets, and wherein the second droplets are formed from the first droplets, and then a particulate screening and separating device is used to extract the third droplets smaller than the predetermined small-sized range of droplets within the second droplets, and the predetermined small-sized range of droplets can be obtained thereof. Therefore, a aerosol generator can function as a device characterized with the alternative distributions of a narrowly size-distributed aerosol with high concentration in mass, and the liquid or solid aerosol can be generated thereof. The Geometric Standard Deviation (GSD) of the droplet size distribution can be kept under 1.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 1996Date of Patent: September 1, 1998Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Hung-Min Chein, Charles C. K. Chou
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Patent number: 5785741Abstract: Processes and systems to recover at least one perfluorocompound gas from a gas mixture are provided. In one embodiment the inventive process comprises the steps of a) providing a gas mixture comprising at least one perfluorocompound gas and at least one carrier gas, the gas mixture being at a predetermined pressure; b) providing at least one glassy polymer membrane having a feed side and a permeate side; c) contacting the feed side of the at least one membrane with the gas mixture; d) withdrawing from the feed side of the membrane as a non-permeate stream at a pressure which is substantially equal to the predetermined pressure a concentrated gas mixture comprising essentially the at least one perfluorocompound gas; and e) withdrawing from the permeate side of the membrane as a permeate stream a depleted gas mixture comprising essentially the at least one carrier gas.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1996Date of Patent: July 28, 1998Assignees: L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges, Claude, American Air LiquideInventors: Yao-En Li, Joseph E. Paganessi, David Vassallo, Gregory K. Fleming
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Patent number: 4168450Abstract: A color picture tube is disclosed which comprises an electron gun for emitting an electron beam and a shadow mask including a plurality of slots and a plurality of bridges each interposed between adjacent slots along the longitudinal axis thereof. When X and Y axes are assumed passing through the central point of the surface of the shadow mask in the direction of horizontal deflection of the electron beam and passing through the same central point in the direction perpendicular to the X axis, respectively, the angle that each bridge forms with the X axis as viewed from the electron gun is determined in relation to the incident angle of the electron beam impinging upon the bridge, in accordance with the distance of the bridge from the X and Y axes.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1977Date of Patent: September 18, 1979Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masaaki Yamauchi, Katsuyoshi Tamura, Hiromi Kanai
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Patent number: 4159177Abstract: The bridges between apertures located at the edge of the shadow mask of a color display tube are made at least 20% wider than the others. The width of the bridges increases linearly from row to row from the center to the edge of the mask whereby a continuously varying brightness distribution is obtained. The reproduction mask used in the fabrication of such a shadow mask can be made photographically by exposing photosensitive material through a pattern of bridges, rotating the pattern and repeating the exposure.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 1977Date of Patent: June 26, 1979Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventors: Leonardus A. M. Elshof, Herman F. Van Heek
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Patent number: 4157215Abstract: Method of making a CRT screen structure includes projecting a light field through an IC filter having a tailored light transmission, through a photographic master, and incident upon a photosensitive layer. The IC filter, which adjusts the light intensity across the field, comprises a cermet layer constituted of inorganic light-absorbing metal particles in an inorganic light-transmitting medium; for example, a nickel-silica cermet.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 1978Date of Patent: June 5, 1979Assignee: RCA CorporationInventor: Joseph J. Hanak
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Patent number: 4154613Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement in a material adapted for imagewise exposure to actinic light comprising a transparent or translucent support having a positive-acting quinone diazide light-sensitive coating composition in direct contact with one surface thereof, the improvement comprising that the surface of said coating in direct contact with said support is substantially photodecomposed, and that a gradient exists in said coating wherein the percentage of undecomposed light-sensitive quinone diazide increases with increasing distance from said support. The invention also relates to a method for preparing the novel material.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1977Date of Patent: May 15, 1979Assignee: American Hoechst CorporationInventor: August P. Doering
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Patent number: 4152154Abstract: A window part for a color CRT is coated with a photosensitive layer which is exposed through the apertures of a shadow mask to a rotating light source having a direction of greatest light intensity directed to the center of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 1977Date of Patent: May 1, 1979Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventors: Constant J. M. Geenen, Johannes C. A. Van Nes
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Patent number: 4150990Abstract: A process for fabricating matrix cathode ray tubes having phosphor receiving areas smaller than the areas exposed through an apertured mask includes the steps of coating the inner surface of a viewing panel with a first film of photo-sensitive resist material; exposing the first film through an apertured mask to provide insolubilized areas of a given size; depositing a second film of resist material onto said first film; removing the second film, soluble areas of the first film, and portions of the insolubilized areas of the first film to provide insolubilized areas of the first film of a size smaller than said given size; overcoating with an opaque film, removing the overcoated insolubilized areas of a size smaller than the given size; and depositing phosphors in place of the removed insolubilized areas of a size smaller than said given size.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 1978Date of Patent: April 24, 1979Assignee: GTE Sylvania IncorporatedInventor: John W. Stetz
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Patent number: 4149885Abstract: An improved electroluminescent display panel having an X-Y array of display elements upon a planar insulating substrate. Integral thin film transistor circuit elements and drive signal buses are interconnected on the panel with individual electroluminescent electrodes covering a large area of the panel to increase the active display area. The electroluminescent electrode is a multilevel electrode with a first level portion disposed on the insulated substrate, a second level electrode portion disposed over an insulative polymerized layer which covers the thin film circuit areas and the drive signal buses, and a connecting electrode portion which extends between the first and second level electrode portions.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1976Date of Patent: April 17, 1979Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.Inventors: Fang-Chen Luo, Thomas P. Brody, David H. Davies
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Patent number: 4139657Abstract: In a process for producing a color television picture tube which comprises at least the step of coating phosphor slurries onto the inner surface of a panel to form a phosphor layer, the step of forming two layers each consisting of an aqueous filming emulsion containing an acrylic resin, the step of forming a metal film on the second layer, and the step of baking out the organic substances, a color television picture tube having a metal film which contains a few pores and cracks and no blister can be produced by using said phosphor slurries containing an acrylic resin and using the first aqueous filming emulsion containing an acrylic resin having an elongation of 10% or more and using the second aqueous filming emulsion containing an acrylic resin having an elongation of less than 10%.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 1977Date of Patent: February 13, 1979Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventor: Naomitsu Watanabe
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Patent number: 4135930Abstract: In a process for exposing a photosensitive layer formed upon the inside of the faceplate of a color-picture tube so as to form a desired pattern of phosphor dots or temporary dots or the like, an optical correction system for causing the light beam to precisely impinge at a point where the electron beam impinges is interposed between a light source and a shadow mask. The system comprises an optical lens system for correcting .DELTA.S deviation characteristics and an optical lens system for correcting .DELTA.P deviation characteristics consisting of a first optical correction system and a second optical system. The first optical system is so designed as to attain the average correction depending only upon the deflection angle regardless of each of the radial directions of deflection while the second optical system is so designed as to attain the individual .DELTA.P deviation characteristics depending not only upon the deflection angle but also upon each of the radial directions of deflection.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 1976Date of Patent: January 23, 1979Assignee: Matsushita Electronics CorporationInventors: Kakuichiro Hosokoshi, Hiroto Nakamura, Akira Sato, Masakazu Maeda
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Patent number: 4135959Abstract: A large area integrated solid-state flat panel display is detailed in which thin film transistor addressing and drive circuitry is provided at each individual picture point with a display medium. The preferred display medium is an electroluminescent phosphor layer. An insulating layer of laminated photoresist is disposed over all electrical circuit elements except the electroluminescent drive electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1977Date of Patent: January 23, 1979Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.Inventors: Fang-Chen Luo, Thomas P. Brody
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Patent number: 4132470Abstract: An exposure device for the manufacture of display screens of color television display tubes is disclosed comprising a filter of non-uniform transmittance which includes a transparent plate provided with a large number of parallel opaque linear regions. The transmission of the filter is varied by varying the width of the linear regions.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 1977Date of Patent: January 2, 1979Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventor: Herman F. van Heek
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Patent number: 4123563Abstract: In a process for the production of color television picture tubes which comprises at least the step of forming a phosphor layer on the inner surface of a panel, the step of coating said inner surface of the panel including said phosphor layer with an aqueous emulsion of a water-insoluble film-forming resin to form a volatilizable substrate layer, the step of forming a metal film on the substrate layer and the step of volatilizing the organic substances, a color television picture tube in which the blister or separation of the metal film can be prevented in said volatilization step and the undecomposed resin does not remain and which has an improved brightness can be produced by forming said substrate layer from at least two layers each of an emulsion, adding colloidal silica, an aqueous ammonium oxalate solution and aqueous hydrogen peroxide to the first layer emulsion, and adding polyvinyl alcohol-boric acid complex and a small amount of ammonium hydroxide to the emulsion of the layer contacting directly witType: GrantFiled: February 23, 1977Date of Patent: October 31, 1978Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Koichi Mitobe, Yasuhiko Uehara
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Patent number: 4122461Abstract: Apparatus for manufacturing cathode ray tube display screens having a face plate with an affixed layer of photosensitive material and an apertured mask spaced from the photosensitive layer and attached to the faceplate includes an exposure chamber having a source of actinic energy spaced from the faceplate and a shutter intermediate the actinic energy source and the faceplate with the shutter movable in one given direction to initiate and to interrupt impingement of the faceplate by light rays from the actinic energy source.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1977Date of Patent: October 24, 1978Assignee: GTE Sylvania IncorporatedInventors: James E. Morean, Carl W. Penird
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Patent number: 4117177Abstract: The mosaic image screen of a shadow mask color tube has a plurality of sets of elemental screen areas, each of which areas includes a phosphor for emitting light of one of three primary colors and a filter which is transmissive of that color but otherwise is essentially a visible light attenuator. The color filter for the first set is formed by applying a thin film of a metallic resinate of a particular color onto the faceplate, directing a laser beam to the elemental screen areas for the other two primary colors to liquify the film and to withdraw the liquefied film from these areas, and heating the entire film to raise the energy threshold at which liquefaction occurs. Second and third metallic resinate films of the other two colors are similarly processed, and then all three films are heated to volatilize their respective organic material to form the color filters.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 1976Date of Patent: September 26, 1978Assignee: GTE Laboratories IncorporatedInventor: John D. Schlafer
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Method for manufacturing the picture display screen of a color television tube using a cylinder lens
Patent number: 4111694Abstract: An exposure device for establishing the phosphor dots of a shadow mask color television tube. The apertures in the shadow mask are optically projected from a light source onto a photosensitive layer on the window of the tube. Arranged between the light source and the shadow mask is a cylinder lens with its axis in the direction of one of the main directions of the deflection coil system.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1974Date of Patent: September 5, 1978Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventors: Jan Hendrik Duistermaat, Johannes Cornelis Adrianus VAN Nes -
Patent number: 4110760Abstract: The method of manufacturing a striped screen for a colored cathode-ray tube having a shadow mask with rows of elongate apertures. Adjacent apertures in each row are separated by a solid bridge. The photosensitized screen is exposed to light from a elongate light source parallel to the longitudinal directions of the apertures. By moving the light source uniformly during the exposure over a distance substantially equal to an integral number of times the length of the light source and the direction of the longitudinal axis, a line structure is exposed on the photosensitized screen, and the width of the lines is very constant.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1976Date of Patent: August 29, 1978Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventor: Johannes Cornelis Adrianus van Nes
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Patent number: 4106937Abstract: A cathode ray storage tube provided with a storage target having a multiplicity of segments of the collector electrode extending through the dielectric layer of the storage target. These segments comprise dots or continuous or broken protrusions of conductive particles that have been photo-deposited into position onto the collector electrode and then the storage dielectric layer is applied thereover which has proper thickness so that the segments extend above the dielectric thereby providing collector areas for collecting secondary emitted electrons from the dielectric.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 1976Date of Patent: August 15, 1978Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.Inventors: Gerald E. McTeague, Kenneth R. Stinger
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Patent number: 4101440Abstract: A chemically digestive agent for releasing photoresist films comprising hydrogen peroxide and sulfamic acid is particularly suitable for the production of the fluorescent screen of a black matrix color television image receiving tube in that it has a strong releasing action for various photoresist films and low corrosiveness for machinery and appliances. The addition of a fixed amount of iron ion can further improve the characteristics of the chemically digestive agent.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1976Date of Patent: July 18, 1978Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Motoo Akagi, Hazime Morishita, Saburo Nonogaki, Makoto Tanaka, Tadao Kaneko
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Patent number: 4095134Abstract: The electrophotographic manufacture of the phosphor patterns for a display screen of a color television display tube. This process is performed in as many stages as there are different phosphor zones and possibly also for a light-absorbing intermediate pattern. Contamination of a phosphor which has already been precipitated may easily occur with a next phosphor in this case. According to the invention this is obviated by an intermediate rinsing operation with a solution of an antistatic agent, in an apolar solvent. The antistatic agent is selected from the group consisting of soaps of bivalent metals, soaps of multivalent metals and mixtures thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 1976Date of Patent: June 13, 1978Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventor: Francis Bernardus Strik
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Patent number: 4094678Abstract: This disclosure depicts a low cost method of making curved color cathode ray tube shadow masks having interregistrable beam-passing aperture patterns. The method comprises providing flat mask master means and curved mask master means, the flat and curved master means having correlative master stencil patterns. Using the flat mask master means, there is photochemically formed in at least one side of a flat shadow mask blank a pattern of blind mask apertures whose individual blind aperture location is related to the end-product mask aperture location and whose individual blind aperture size, at least in a direction corresponding to the direction of electron beam scan across the mask, is greater than the desired end-product mask aperture size by a predetermined misregister tolerance value. The flat mask blank is precision-shaped into a predetermined three-dimensional configuration with the pattern of blind apertures referenced to indexing means defined by the mask.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1976Date of Patent: June 13, 1978Assignee: Zenith Radio CorporationInventor: Kazimir Palac
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Patent number: 4092651Abstract: A device and method is disclosed for achieving true color picture display during the warm-up phase as well as during the operating phase of a color television picture tube. The device is a screen-coating lens which has been corrected so as to assure that the light source, when exposing the phosphor materials, will correspond to the point of maximum arching of the shadow mask. The method involves exposing the phosphor dots through a corrected lens which takes into account the maximum arching of the shadow mask during the warm-up phase of a color television.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 1976Date of Patent: May 30, 1978Assignee: International Standard Electric CorporationInventor: Hans Rothfuss
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Patent number: 4089687Abstract: Method comprises (a) applying to a supporting surface a coating comprised of a photosensitizable water-soluble polymer, a soluble dichromate photosensitizer for the polymer, a soluble vanadate, and particles of the pattern material; (b) exposing the coating to a pattern of actinic radiation until exposed portions of the coating are rendered insoluble; (c) and flushing the exposed coating with an aqueous solvent to remove soluble portions of the coating, while retaining the insoluble portions of the coating in place.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 1973Date of Patent: May 16, 1978Assignee: RCA CorporationInventor: Stanley Arthur Harper
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Patent number: 4087280Abstract: This invention relates to a method for reducing the amount of ambient light which is reflected by the phosphor located on the inside surface of a color television picture tube face plate. More particularly, the invention contemplates placing a green-absorbing optical filter in front of the red and blue phosphor areas. The filter is produced from gold-containing glass.In carrying out the preferred embodiment of the invention, an opaque mask having holes of the desired shape and in the proper pattern is placed near a CeO.sub.2 -activated, photosensitive gold-containing glass, the glass is exposed through the mask to ultra-violet radiation, and thereafter subjected to a prescribed heat treatment to yield the color filters. The phosphors are applied in dot or slot-shaped configurations in the conventional manner with the blue and red phosphors being placed over the filters and the green phosphor in the clear area.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 1977Date of Patent: May 2, 1978Assignee: Corning Glass WorksInventors: Stanley Donald Stookey, Brent Merle Wedding
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Patent number: 4086090Abstract: The present invention affords a process for forming a pattern having a surface area substantially equal to or smaller than area of apertures of shadow-mask through which beams pass on a photoresist film, which contains an acrylamidediacetoneacrylamide copolymer and a water-soluble aromatic bisazide compound, by exposing said photoresist film to light through a mask having the pattern and then developing the film.The use of said photoresist film for the preparation of a phosphor screen of a color picture tube of a black matrix or black stripe type does not require a special technique such as post-etching of a shadow mask and makes it possible to form a three primary color phosphor pattern having a surface area substantially equal to or smaller than the area of apertures of the shadow mask through which lightbeams pass, without mutual "bridging" between phosphor dots. Thus, an excellent phosphor screen of a color picture tube of a black matrix or black stripe type can be prepared.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 1975Date of Patent: April 25, 1978Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Kohashi, Motoo Akagi, Yoichi Oba, Saburo Nonogaki, Makoto Tanaka, Tadao Kaneko, Yoshifumi Tomita
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Patent number: 4086089Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for producing patterned color-triad arrays in glass for use in color television picture tubes, such arrays being capable of acting as spectrally-selective filters and to provide the desired color information when the television tube is operating. The color-triad arrays are produced by sequentially or simultaneously exposing a polychromatic glass through an electron shadow mask to high energy or actinic radiation and thereafter following the heat treatment and re-exposure practice known to develop colors within polychromatic glass. The filtering action provided by the color triads integrally present within the glass can enhance the contrast of the color image produced. Also, the presence of the color triads in the glass permits the use of a single "white" phosphor, rather than a red, a green and a blue phosphor as are presently used in the conventional color television picture tube.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 1977Date of Patent: April 25, 1978Assignee: Corning Glass WorksInventors: Thomas Philip Seward, III, Brent Merle Wedding
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Patent number: 4078239Abstract: This disclosure depicts method and apparatus for screening slot-mask, stripe screen type color cathode ray tubes particularly method and apparatus for improving screen stripe uniformity and edge definition. The method involves supporting a curved, approximately rectangular faceplate which has on its concave inner surface a photosensitive coating and which has supported adjacent its inner surface an exposure mask defining an array of columns of spaced slots oriented parallel to the minor axis of the faceplate. A line source of radiation actinic to said coating is supported on or near a central axis of the faceplate. The disclosed method includes producing a virtual image of the line source which appears, when viewed from off-axis points on the faceplate, to be rotated in a direction effective to decrease an unwanted rotational displacement of the mask slot images induced by the relative geometry of the line source, the mask slots and the faceplate inner surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 1976Date of Patent: March 7, 1978Assignee: Zenith Radio CorporationInventors: Charles J. Prazak, Yong S. Park
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Patent number: 4070498Abstract: A method for manufacturing a fluorescent screen of a color picture tube by the steps of forming a coating of opto-hardening material on the inner surface of the faceplate of the panel of a color picture tube and exposing to a light and hardening selectively the coating thereby to form a matrix of stripes of the opto-hardening material, in which the selective exposure is performed by projecting a light derived from a light source having a predetermined width from each of at least two positions which are separated from the inner surface of the faceplate by a predetermined distance and also separated from each other onto the coating of the opto-hardening material formed on the faceplate through a slot of a predetermined width of a mask located between the inner surface of the faceplate and the light source, whereby the width of the stripe changes little even when the luminous intensity of the light source changes.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 1976Date of Patent: January 24, 1978Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Nishizawa, Takehiko Ueyama
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Patent number: 4061529Abstract: The method comprises applying to a surface to be etched a coating of a liquid composition comprising an acid-precipitated casein, alkali dichromate photosensitizer, sodium borate and water. The layer is dried, photoexposed, developed and baked to produce an etch-resistant stencil.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1977Date of Patent: December 6, 1977Assignee: RCA CorporationInventors: Abraham Goldman, Pabitra Datta
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Patent number: 4059834Abstract: A light exposing apparatus for use in forming a phosphor screen of a color cathode ray tube is disclosed in which a control means is connected to a movable platform for relatively moving a light sensitive film mounted on an inner surface of a face panel relative to an exposing light source facing said light sensitive film with a shadow mask interleaved therebetween. An electrical signal is supplied to said control means each time the accumulated value of ultraviolet ray emitted from said light source reaches a predetermined value, and said movable platform is moved lengthwise of slots in said shadow mask depending on the magnitude of said electrical signal during the light exposing process.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 1975Date of Patent: November 22, 1977Assignee: Matsushita Electronics CorporationInventors: Kakuichiro Hosokoshi, Hikoshi Yamamoto, Masayuki Tanaka, Shinichi Omura