Rca Inc.

Thomson Consumer Electronics Inc.

George Simon Gadbois

Frank R Ragland, Jr

John J Moscony

Robert A Duschl

Anthony Stanley Baran

Samuel Pearlman

Glenn William Brunner

Frank Thomas DiAugustine

The novel method for producing a coded marking on a CRT faceplate panel having an exterior and an interior surface with a viewing area surrounded by a periphery and having a luminescent screen with a plurality of different light-emitting phosphors separated by light-absorbing material includes the steps of: depositing a suitable photoresist on the interior surface of the panel to form a layer that extends across the viewing area and onto the periphery; illuminating areas of the photoresist on both the viewing area and the periphery with actinic radiation to selectively change the solubility of the photoresist; developing the photoresist to remove the more soluble areas, thereby exposing underlying portions of the interior surface of the panel while leaving retained areas of less soluble photoresist. The retained areas of the photoresist and the exposed portions of the interior surface of the panel are then overcoated with a light-absorbing material which is dried to form a coating. The light-absorbing coating is developed by removing the retained areas of the photoresist having the overlying light-absorbing coating thereon, while leaving the coating of light-absorbing material adhered to the exposed portions of the interior surface of the panel. The developing step forms openings in the light-absorbing coating on the viewing area and a coded marking, including a pattern of light-absorbing material and open areas, on the periphery of the panel.

Coded marking on an interior surfaces of a CRT faceplate panel and

When precision etching a succession of articles from a strip of metal having random variations in thickness and moving along a prescribed path, the thickness of the metal strip is monitored, and the etching step is adjusted in response to the monitored thickness to compensate for the thickness variations.

Etching a succession of articles from a strip of sheet metal

The average aperture width in a small area of an apertured member, such as a shadow mask for a cathode ray tube, is determined by passing a beam of substantially monochromatic light through an area of the member to form an interference pattern, detecting the intensities of at least two light fringes of the interference pattern, generating electrical signals which are representative of the detected intensities and then deriving the average width of apertures in the lit area of the members from the generated signals.

Method and apparatus for determining the average size of apertures in an

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George Simon Gadbois