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Class 445/41 - By gettering


Subclass of Class 445 - Electric lamp or space discharge component or device manufacturing
Definition: Method which includes introducing a chemical material such
No. of patents: 53
Last issue date: 06/14/2011


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NumberTitleIssue Date
7959483Airtight container manufacturing method involves irradiating an electron beam to a non-evaporable type getter so as not to activate it before a sealing process
Provided is a manufacturing method of forming an airtight container including an electron beam irradiation process for irradiating an electron beam to a non-evaporable type getter that has not been activated so as not to activate the non-evaporable type getter, and ...
06/14/2011
7371335Curable thick film compositions for use in moisture control
The invention is directed to a thick film getter composition comprising: (a) desiccant material; dispersed in (b) organic medium comprising (1) curable organic polymeric binder; (2) monomer; and (3) photoinitiator. ...
05/13/2008
7326095Recycling 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
7152433Method of manufacturing image display apparatus and apparatus for manufacturing the same
A method of manufacturing an image display apparatus is provided and includes the steps of bringing panel members that constitute a display panel of the image display apparatus into a bake processing chamber, subjecting to bake processing the display panel members, ...
12/26/2006
7131883Field emission display manufacturing method 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 ...
11/07/2006
7074105Catalyst used to form carbon fiber, method of making the same and electron emitting device, electron source, image forming apparatus, secondary battery and body for storing hydrogen
A catalyst for promoting growth of carbon fiber, which is capable of growing satisfactorily at a low temperature without needing complex process and applicable to such as electron emitting device. The catalyst used for growth of carbon fiber contains Pd and a...
07/11/2006
7005047Film deposition apparatus and film deposition method
A particle film deposition apparatus and method are provided, with which ultra fine particles are generated by arc heating. The generated ultra fine particles can be efficiently sucked up into a transfer tube regardless of an arc voltage, and the resulting film can ...
02/28/2006
6936854Optoelectronic substrate
An optoelectronic substrate comprises an electronic device, an optical device, and an optical wiring layer, the optical wiring layer comprising a photonic crystal. An optoelectronic substrate comprises an electronic device, an optical device, and an optical wiring l...
08/30/2005
6888294Field emission device using a reducing gas and method for making same
The invention concerns a device comprising at least one field effect electron source within a sealed structure, which encompasses an internal space that contains a reducing gas whose purpose is to prevent oxidation of the emissive material of the electron source, wh...
05/03/2005
6860779Method for manufacturing airtight vessel and image-forming apparatus using airtight vessel
A method for manufacturing an airtight vessel seals an evacuation tube after evacuating the inside of the vessel using the evacuation tube. A getter previously disposed in the vessel is activated followed by fusing a part of the evacuation tube to seal the vessel wh...
03/01/2005
6851997Process for depositing calcium getter thin films inside systems operating under vacuum
The present invention relates to a process for depositing a calcium getter thin film inside a system operating under vacuum. The process comprises the steps of introducing into the system under vacuum at least one evaporable getter device with an air-stable calcium ...
02/08/2005
6717363Control of leachable mercury in fluorescent lamps by gelatin
The formation of leachable mercury upon disposal in a landfill or during TCLP testing of mercury vapor discharge lamps is substantially prevented by incorporation of an amount of gelatin or a degradation product of gelatin which is effective to substantially prevent...
04/06/2004
6652343Method for gettering an image display apparatus
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...
11/25/2003
6648710Method for low-temperature sharpening of silicon-based field emitter tips
A low temperature process for silicon-based field emitter tip sharpening. A rough silicon-based field emitter tip is exposed to xenon difluoride gas in a process chamber to carry out low-temperature, isotropic etching of the rough silicon-based field emit...
11/18/2003
6607417Suction device used in aging process of a microwave tube
A suction device used in aging process of a microwave tube includes an ion pump and a suction unit respectively connected to an electron gun and a collector located in two opposite ends of the microwave tube. The suction unit includes a barrel communicate...
08/19/2003
6565401Cathode ray tube manufacturing method and cathode ray tube manufacturing system
A getter film is formed on an inner surface of a funnel portion of a cathode ray tube, and an inner conductor of the cathode ray tube is heated by a heating unit. According to this heating, the gas which is physically adsorbed by the inner conductor of th...
05/20/2003
6531818Pumping tube for pumping and filling flat display panel
The invention proposes a pumping tube shape which makes it possible, on the one hand, to guide the pumping tube when positioning the latter on the tile and when producing the seal by heating and, on the other hand, to prevent runs inside the pumping hole....
03/11/2003
6517403Visual display
The apparatus for sealing face plates (753) and cathodes (754) has three stations (701, 702, 703). The first (701) is a preheater, the second (702) is an alignment and irradiation station and the third (703) is a controlled cooling station. Beneath each s...
02/11/2003
6459198Seal and method of sealing devices such as displays
A method of fabricating a high vacuum display with flat form factor, and the display, include an envelope with two major, parallel spaced apart glass sides and a continuous edge therebetween. An opening is formed through one of the glass sides of the enve...
10/01/2002
6383050Process for forming non-evaporative getter and method of producing image forming apparatus
The invention provides a getter of high performance capable of immediately absorbing a gas generated in an image forming apparatus, and an image forming apparatus exhibiting little luminance variation with the lapse of time and little luminance fluctuatio...
05/07/2002
6283815Electron source and image forming apparatus as well as method of providing the same with means for maintaining activated state thereof
An electron source comprises one or more electron-emitting devices, especially of surface conduction type, and is provided with means for supplying an activating substance to device(s). The means comprises preferably a substance source and a heater or ele...
09/04/2001
6186849Process for the production of flat-screen grids coated with non-evaporable getter materials and grids thereby obtained
A process is disclosed for making grids for flat-panel displays. The screen grids are coated with non-evaporable getter materials and the metal sheet forming the grid is coated with a coating that is as thick as the resulting grid and having at least the ...
02/13/2001
6172460Display device
Display device, in particular a PALC device, having a plasma space provided with a capsule (46) comprising getter material for supplying guest material to the plasma, e.g. H2, HD, D2. The capsule remains closed until the critical hig...
01/09/2001
6149484Method of making field emission display having a mechanical support/getter assembly
A field emission display (400) includes a cathode plate (410), an anode plate (430), and a mechanical support/getter assembly (300) being disposed between the cathode plate (410) and the anode plate (430). The mechanical support/getter assembly (300) incl...
11/21/2000
6139390Local energy activation of getter typically in environment below room pressure
A getter (50) situated in a cavity of a hollow structure (40-46), such as a flat-panel device, is activated by directing light energy locally through part of a hollow structure and onto the getter. The light energy is typically provided by a laser beam (6...
10/31/2000
6100640Indirect activation of a getter wire in a hermetically sealed field emission display
A getter wire formed in a closed configuration in a vacuum sealed package is inductively heated until it evaporates, thereby forming a thin film on the inner walls of the package to getter gas molecules within the sealed package....
08/08/2000
6042443Field emitter flat display containing a getter and process for obtaining it
A process for producing a field emitter flat display includes providing a supported porous layer of a non-evaporable getter material by depositing the non-evaporable getter material on a substrate followed by sintering the deposited material. The substrat...
03/28/2000
6033278Field 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...
03/07/2000
5973445Device and method for efficient positioning of a getter
A FED is provided comprising: an emitter located on a cathode; a pixel located on an anode positioned to receive electrons from the emitter; and a getter located on the anode. According to another aspect of the invention, a method of making an FED is prov...
10/26/1999
5964630Method of increasing resistance of flat-panel device to bending, and associated getter-containing flat-panel device
A flat-panel device is fabricated by a process in which a pair of plate structures (40 and 42) are sealed along their interior surfaces (40A and 42B) to opposite edges (44A and 44B) of an outer wall (44) to form a compartment. Subsequently, exterior suppo...
10/12/1999
5934964Field emitter flat display containing a getter and process for obtaining it
A process for producing a field emitter flat display includes providing a supported porous layer of a non-evaporable getter material by depositing the non-evaporable getter material on a substrate followed by sintering the deposited material. The substrat...
08/10/1999
5865658Method for efficient positioning of a getter
A FED is provided comprising: an emitter located on a cathode; a pixel located on an anode positioned to receive electrons from the emitter; and a getter located on the anode. According to another aspect of the invention, a method of making an FED is prov...
02/02/1999
5849442Method of manufacturing a flat panel field emission display having auto gettering
A new method for forming an anode plate for a color flat panel Field Emission Displays (FEDs) having improved gettering, was accomplished. The method involves forming on a transparent insulating plate (glass) an array of pixels of three phosphors comprisi...
12/15/1998
5800235Process for manufacturing incandescent lamps having gettering agents
Filaments having a thin exterior tungsten phosphide layer for use in incandescent lamps are made by exposing tungsten filaments to vapors of elemental phosphorous at approximately 675° to 725° C. in an evacuated vacuum furnace. The tungsten phosphide la...
09/01/1998
5769678Method of sealing vacuum ports in low pressure gas discharge lamps
A low pressure gas discharge lamp has a low profile which includes at least one glass plate with a tube envelope channel having a cover plate covering the evacuation tube which is substantially flush with the plate....
06/23/1998
5700176Method of gettering and sealing an evacuated chamber of a substrate
A fabrication process is disclosed using process steps (S1-S18) similar to those of semiconductor integrated circuit fabrication to produce lateral-emitter field-emission devices and their arrays. In a preferred fabrication process for the simplified anod...
12/23/1997
5698951Electrodeless discharge lamp and device for increasing the lamp's luminous development
An electrodeless fluorescent lamp containing a fill of a rare gas and mercury and a flag (14) disposed therein at a predetermined location in the lamp for increasing the rate of luminous development in the lamp. The flag (14) includes a pair of spaced-apa...
12/16/1997
5693438Method of manufacturing a flat panel field emission display having auto gettering
A new method for forming an anode plate for a color flat panel Field Emission Displays (FEDs) having improved gettering, was accomplished. The method involves forming on a transparent insulating plate (glass) an array of pixels of three phosphors comprisi...
12/02/1997
5688708Method of making an ultra-high vacuum field emission display
A ultra-high vacuum field emission display (100, 200) is disclosed including an anode (102, 202), a cathode (106, 206), side members (112, 212), a first non-evaporable getter material (120, 220) which is activated during the sealing and evacuation of the ...
11/18/1997
5589731Internal support structure for flat panel device
A flat panel device contains a faceplate, a backplate, a light-emitting mechanism, and a spacer. The faceplate is connected to the backplate to form a sealed enclosure. The spacer is situated within the enclosure and supports the two plates against forces...
12/31/1996
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