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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7413814 | Multilayer getter structures and methods for making same Getter multilayer structures are disclosed, embodiments of which include at least a layer of a non-evaporable getter alloy having a low activation temperature over a layer of a different non-evaporable getter material having high specific surface area, both preferab... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7372201 | Sub-miniature arc lamp The disclosure has described a sub-miniature arc lamp and a method to make a sub-miniature arc lamp. An embodiment of the sub-miniature arc lamp includes a sapphire body having a first end and a second end, the first end being coupled to a first cap and the second e... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7348721 | Display device A display device is disclosed for providing improved brightness and definition. The device includes a substrate which has anodes and phosphors formed on an inner surface thereof and a plurality of cathode lines that extend in one direction and include electron sourc... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7326095 | Recycling method and manufacturing method for an image display apparatus In a recycling method for an image display apparatus including a vacuum container structured by sealing a front panel having a phosphor and a rear panel having an electron emitter for irradiating electrons onto the phosphor, the rear panel is separated from the vacu... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7288882 | Lamp electrode and method for delivering mercury A lamp electrode adapted to deliver mercury during an assembly process has a supporting electrical lead attached to the proximal end of a metallic shell. The proximal and a distal ends of the metallic shell each lie along a central axis. A container with a vitreous ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7205712 | Spiral cold cathode fluorescent lamp A light tube for a cold cathode fluorescent lamp includes a light tube body, anode and cathode disposed in the light tube body and an activated gas absorber. The light tube body contains inert gas, mercury substance and a layer of phosphor coating on its inner surfa... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7143927 | Manufacturing method of airtight container, manufacturing method of image display device, and bonding method A bonding method using a bonding agent is provided, which has the steps of forming an underlayer on a first member, providing a bonding agent on the underlayer, forming a contact member, different from the bonding agent, on a second member, bringing the bonding agen... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7129630 | Display device In a display device which includes a back substrate, a face substrate, a support body which is interposed between both substrates and surrounds a display region, thus forming an inner space, and a sealing material is provided which hermetically seals the support bod... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7122815 | Infrared radiation emitter An emitting source capable of radiating substantial energy in the near infrared spectrum and suitable for use in non-dispersive infrared gas analyzers or other devices is described. Operation can be steady state (DC) or pulsed at high frequency with excellent modula... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7091662 | Image display device and method of manufacturing the same In an image display device having in an airtight container an electron source and an image display member that receives electrons from the electron source, an evaporating getter and a non-evaporating getter are stacked in the airtight container. This makes it possib... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7049748 | DISPLAY DEVICE EMPLOYING GAS DISCHARGE TUBES ARRANGED IN PARALLEL BETWEEN FRONT AND REAR SUBSTRATES TO COMPRISE A DISPLAY SCREEN, EACH TUBE HAVING A LIGHT EMITTING SECTION AS PART OF THE DISPLAY SCREEN AND A CLEANING SECTION CONNECTED TO THE LIGHT EMITTING SECTION BUT DISPLACED FROM THE DISPLAY SCREEN A gas discharge tube has a phosphor layer formed and a discharge gas enclosed within an elongated tube which is to serve as the gas discharge tube. The gas discharge tube includes a light-emitting section and a cleaning section for cleaning the discharge gas. The cl... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7045958 | Vacuum device having a getter A vacuum device, including a substrate and a support structure having a support perimeter, where the support structure is disposed over the substrate. In addition, the vacuum device also includes a non-evaporable getter layer having an exposed surface area. The non-... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7045959 | Spiral cold electrode fluorescent lamp A light tube for a cold electrode fluorescent lamp includes a light tube body, a first electrode and a second electrode disposed in the light tube body and an activated gas absorber. The light tube body contains inert gas, mercury substance and a layer of phosphor c... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7016471 | Miniature X-ray source device A miniature X-ray source device connected to a distal end of a guiding wire for insertion towards a desired location within an animal body for effecting radiation thereby. The X-ray source device at least includes a vacuum tube containing a cathode and an anode spac... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6963165 | Field emission display having integrated getter arrangement A field emission display (FED) and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The FED includes a getter portion isolated outwardly from an active display region. This getter portion includes a non-evaporable getter layer for absorbing gas and an electron emission ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6916223 | Discharge lamps using hollow cathodes with integrated getters and methods for manufacturing same A hollow cathode having at least a portion of the inner, outer or both surfaces coated with a layer of a getter material is described. Some methods for the production of the hollow cathode of the invention are also described, which include cathodic and electrophoret... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6825613 | Mercury gas discharge device A mercury gas discharge device comprises an envelope with inert gas and mercury vapour contained within it. The mercury gas discharge device further comprises a pair of electrodes. One or more sintered metal portions are also located inside the envelope. The sintere... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6762547 | Image display device An image display device of the present invention includes a container having a substrate; an electron source provided thereon; and an image display member which opposes the electron source substrate and which displays an image when being irradiated with electrons em... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6707251 | Flash discharge lamp A flash discharge lamp includes a pair of electrodes i.e. an anode and a cathode, oppositely disposed in at both ends of the glass bulb. An electro-conductive member is provided on the outer surface of the glass tube. A triggering electrode is mounted on the cathode... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6670753 | Flat panel display with gettering material having potential of base, gate or focus plate A flat panel display is provided including a baseplate for carrying a first potential, the baseplate having emitters for emitting electrons positioned thereon and a faceplate for carrying a second potential, the faceplate having phosphors thereon. The bas... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6597103 | Display tube The invention relates to a display tube comprising an envelope portion 2 having an inner surface provided with a first electrically conductive layer 7 and a faceplate 1 having an inner surface provided with a second electrically conductive layer 8, which ... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6570959 | X-ray tube metal frame gettering device A metal frame x-ray tube (1), includes a gettering system (90) which, when activated, provides a layer (147) of gettering material (98) on a grounded conductive portion (72, 74) of a metal frame or envelope (14). The envelope defines an evacuated chamber ... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6570318 | Color cathode ray tube and getter assembly A color cathode ray tube and a getter assembly for use in such a cathode ray tube. The getter assembly comprises a conducting strip for contacting a high-voltage contact with a magnetic screening cone inside a cone portion of the tube. Due to the relative... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6559596 | Getter, air tight chamber and image forming apparatus having getter, and manufacturing method of getter A getter which can maintain an absorption ability and secure sufficient characteristics even when a high-temperature low-vacuum is experienced in a process as compared with a conventional getter. The getter has an undulation on the surface, and is formed ... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6489720 | Image-forming apparatus and fabrication method therefor Image-forming apparatuses include getters that are suitably placed. The getters can be fixed using inorganic adhesives and function effectively by suitably setting weight ratios between getter powder and the adhesives.... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6472818 | Light bulb Providing a light bulb having a long life by preventing filament coil breakage. A glass bulb (1) has a sealing portion (4) at one end thereof and contains a filament coil (5). The filament coil (5) is suspended between lead-in wires (7, 8) extended extern... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6465954 | Cathode structure with getter material and diamond film, and methods of manufacture thereof A cathode structure comprising a getter material provided with a diamond film. The getter material may include zirconium, vanadium and iron. Cathode structures may have a substantially rounded configuration including a substantially straight portion. Othe... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6422824 | Getting assembly for vacuum display panels A getter assembly for use in a vacuum display panel is described. The novel getter assembly can be provided including both a non-evaporative getter and an evaporative getter which are uniquely positioned juxtaposed to each other such that ions emitted by ... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6407500 | Electrode structure in flat vacuum envelope A flat vacuum envelope is provided where an anode electrode is conductively connected to the contact portion of a high-voltage supplying lead with high reliability so that the connection electrode plate is not stripped from the anode electrode (a). A fiel... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6396207 | Image display apparatus and method for producing the same An image display apparatus is provided with an external housing constituted by members including first and second substrates positioned with a gap therebetween, an electron source positioned on the first substrate in the external housing, and a fluorescen... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6369508 | Mercury short-arc lamp with niobium getter The invention proposes arranging a getter (7) made from niobium on the electrode rod (4) of a mercury short-arc lamp, the two following conditions being fulfilled: D>1.8.multidot.d and ࣙ20°. In this case, D and d denote a diameter of the relevant ele... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6356015 | Getter flash shield The invention is directed to an improved hollow cathode lamp (15). In the preferred embodiment, the lamp is comprised of a stem (23), a cathode lead (18) which passes through the stem, and a getter (26). The improvement includes a flash shield (28) positi... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6278234 | Image display apparatus with gettering substance provided electrically connected to wires An image-forming apparatus comprises an electron source and an image-forming member disposed in an envelope. The image-forming member includes a fluorescent film and a metal back covering the fluorescent film. The metal back contains a gettering substance... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6236156 | Micro vacuum pump for maintaining high degree of vacuum and apparatus including the same The present invention provides a micro vacuum pump capable of enhancing the performance of exhausting rare gases as well as active gases thereby to ensure quality, good repeatability and stable getter action of the micro vacuum pump over a long time. The ... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6127777 | Field emission display with non-evaporable getter material The present invention provides an FED with a getter material deposited and activated on the substrates of the faceplate and the baseplate of the FED. In one embodiment of the invention, a large FED includes a faceplate, a baseplate, and an unactivated non... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6121729 | Metal halide lamp A metal halide lamp and a method for making the same, in which one end of each electrode projects into a discharge chamber to form a light-emitting portion and the other end thereof is supported by a pinch-sealed portion. A coil is wound around at least t... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6107737 | Device for dispensing mercury, sorbing reactive gases, shielding electrodes in fluorescent lamps and a process for making such device A mercury dispensing support strip capable of dispensing mercury and sorbing reactive gases. In one embodiment, the support strip of the invention includes at least one track of mercury releasing material deposited on one face of the support strip. At lea... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6034472 | Vacuum tube having a getter apparatus A vacuum tube including a getter apparatus is provided. The getter apparatus includes a sheet-like support with an applied getter layer which is used to maintain vacuum in the vacuum tube during operation. The support has the shape of a strip, and is posi... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5936342 | Image display apparatus and method of activating getter An image-forming apparatus includes an electron source and an image-forming member disposed in an envelope. The image-forming member includes a fluorescent film and a metal back covering the fluorescent film. The metal back contains a gettering substance ... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5923121 | Fluorescent lamp having an attachment therein for reduction of soluble mercury in the lamp and to act as a fail-safe at the end of lamp life A fluorescent lamp having an attachment mounted therein for reduction of soluble mercury contained in the lamp, and to act as a fail-safe at the end of lamp life, comprises a collar of iron mesh providing an iron surface area sufficiently large to reduce ... | 07/13/1999 |
