Rca Inc.

Thomson Licensing S.a.

Thomson Consumer Electronics Inc.

Thomson Licensing

Istvan Gorog

Peter M Ritt

Richard William Nosker

Arthur Herbert Firester

Philip Michael Heyman

William Ronald Roach

James Regis Matey

Joey John Michalchuk

Richard LaPeruta, Jr

David Paul Ciampa

Robert E Simms

Alan Weir Bucher

Marvin Allan Leedom

Robert L Quinn

Michael T Gale

Nitin V Desai

Bruce G Marks

Wilber Clarence Stewart

Leonard P Wilbur, Jr

Edward Richard Garrity, Jr

Charles M Wetzel

John Prickett Beltz

Walter David Masterton

John P Russell

George M Ehemann, Jr

Brown F Williams

Peter D Southgate

Robert A Duschl

Owen H Roberts, Jr

Theodore Frederick Simpson

Michael J Lurie

Anthony Stanley Baran

Leonard P Fox

James P Wittke

Leonard Pratt Wilbur, Jr

Kelly Eugene Hamm

Samuel Pearlman

Gregory James Cohee

Craig Clay Eshleman

Paul Kuczer

Anthony Socrates Poulos

Robert L Covey

Roger Pieri

John Alan Holtzapple

Joseph Dale Knox

Tony Tuan Vu

Danielle Helene Herford

Pabitra Datta, Deceased

Peter Michael Ritt

An LCD display has a programmable backlight device that produces multiple different color fields from multiple different phosphor elements. The backlight device can be a low resolution FED device. The phosphor is applied by an electrophotographic screening process or direct electrostatic screening process. The FED device can further incorporate a wide gamut phosphor.

Liquid crystal display having a field emission backlight

A monitoring apparatus and method for measuring light output gradient of a faceplate panel includes a top plate having a center detector and a plurality of corner detectors mounted along a major surface thereof. Lenses are optically coupled to a respective detector, and radiometers are electrically coupled to a respective detector. A bottom plate spaced apart from the top plate has a plurality of light outputs mounted along a major surface thereof and positioned to be opposite each detector. A light source is optically coupled to each light output through a splitter. A computer is electrically coupled to the light source for receiving feedback therefrom and for controlling the light source. The computer is also electrically coupled to each radiometer for recording data therefrom. During monitoring, a faceplate panel having a matrix applied thereto is accurately positioned between the top and bottom plates such that the center detector is located approximately above the center of the faceplate panel. Light is passed from the light sources through the faceplate panel to the detectors under control of the computer. The light output measurements at each detector are recorded by the computer and calculation is made of a light output gradient based upon a comparison of the light output at the center detector to the light output at the corner detector.

Apparatus and method for monitoring of cathode ray tube panel manufacturing to reduce CRT cost and improve performance and yield

The present invention provides an improved tension mask frame assembly in which mask support members are provided with side walls and a back wall that are held together primarily by means of either tabs formed along an edge of the back wall received into respective apertures in the side wall or by means of a ridge formed in the side wall which abuts the back wall

Weld-free mask support blade structure

The present invention relates to a cathode ray tube (CRT) having an improved electrical connector. An electrical connector is provided for detachably coupling an electrical lead to the electron gun through the neck of the CRT. The connector has a through passage defined by a diameter greater than the diameter of the neck. The neck is inserted in the passage and the connector is secured to the outer surface of the neck. Adjacent the passage is a plurality of integral resilient leaf springs extending toward the stem at a plurality of circumferentially spaced locations. The leaf spring elements include base elements for terminal engagement and tip ends projecting and bias toward the electrical leads of the electron gun to provide electrical connection to the cathode ray tube. The passage of the connector is preferably defined by an opening in a printed circuit board or other electrical terminal contact from which the leaf springs extend.

Cathode ray tube electrical connector with through passage and leaf springs

The present invention provides a tension mask for a cathode-ray tube. The tension mask has an active aperture portion formed by a plurality of parallel strands extending between cantilevers on opposed sides of a mask support frame. The tension mask further comprises border shields mounted over each end of the frame cantilevers, whereby the strand ends are held to the cantilevers in a predetermined spaced-apart relationship. The border shields on opposing sides of the frame extend toward the active aperture portion of the tension mask and is substantially aligned with the screen matrix of the CRT. The tension mask has a lower coefficient of thermal expansion than that of the mask frame, cantilevers, and border shield.

Tension mask for a cathode-ray-tube

A tension mask frame assembly for a color cathode-ray-tube including a frame having four respective sides, two of the sides paralleling each other and having insert receiving brackets for supporting strand termination inserts therein and vertical mask strands welded to said termination inserts. The strands have a plurality of cross-wires extending perpendicular to the strands and attached thereto by a conductive bonding material. The wires and termination inserts are composed of materials having a first coefficient of thermal expansion. The frame and receiving brackets are composed of materials having a second coefficient of thermal expansion. The termination inserts thermally expand and contract independently of the frame and receiving brackets, whereby movement of the strands in the horizontal dimension is controlled by thermal expansion and contraction of the termination inserts and cross-wires.

Tension mask frame assembly for a CRT

The invention includes an apparatus,for developing a latent charge image formed on a photoreceptor,disposed on an interior surface of a faceplate panel,. The apparatus,comprises a developer tank,having a sidewall,closed at one end by a bottom portion,and at the other end by a panel support,having an opening,therethrough to provide access to the faceplate panel,. A back electrode,has a potential applied thereto to establish an electrostatic drift field between the back electrode and the photoreceptor,, which is grounded. Triboelectrically-charged, dry-powdered, light emitting phosphor material, having a charge of the same polarity as the potential applied to the back electrode,, is sprayed into the developer tank,, between the back electrode,and the faceplate panel,. The triboelectrically charged phosphor material is directed toward the photoreceptor,on the faceplate panel,by the applied electrostatic drift field. A bias shield,comprising two pairs of insulative shield members,and,disposed around a peripheral sidewall,of the faceplate panel,. At least one conductive strip,is provided on one of the major surfaces of the shield members to repel the triboelectrically charged phosphor material from the panel sidewall,and to influence the deposition of the phosphor material on the photoreceptor, at the edge thereof. A method of developing the latent charge image utilizing the bias shield also is described.

Bias shield and method of developing a latent charge image

A color picture tube includes an evacuated envelope having a rectangular faceplate panel with two approximately parallel long sides, two approximately parallel short sides and four corners. The panel comprises a faceplate and a peripheral sidewall, and includes a shadow mask-frame assembly mounted therein by springs located at the four corners of the panel. The springs have apertures engaging studs that are located on the peripheral sidewall at the four corners. The panel includes additional studs on the peripheral sidewall located near the centers of at least one pair of approximately parallel sides of the panel. Brackets are located on opposite sides of the shadow mask-frame assembly at the locations of the additional studs. The brackets include slots therein. The slots are open on sides thereof facing the faceplate. The additional studs are positioned within the slots.

Color picture tube having improved shadow mask-frame assembly support

A color picture tube has a tensioned mask supported by a support frame mounted within said tube. The mask has a significantly lower coeffiecient of thermal expansion than the frame. Intermediary members are located between the mask and the frame. The intermediary members are of a material similar to that of the mask. Each of the members is attached to the frame at a single location and the mask is attached to edges of the intermediary members. Further included are guides for holding the intermediary members to the frame while permitting expansion of the frame relative to the intermediary members.

Color picture tube having a low expansion tension mask attached to a higher expansion frame

A color picture tube has a tensioned mask supported by a support frame mounted within the tube. The mask has a significantly lower coefficient of thermal expansion than the frame. The mask has an active apertured portion formed by a plurality of parallel vertically extending strands, through which electron beams pass during operation of the tube, and two opposite side border portions outside the active apertured portion. The two opposite side border portions have tie bars that extend between the vertical strands of the mask. The tie bars accommodate expansion of the frame, while substantially maintaining the positions of the vertical strands in the active portion of the mask.

A light-absorbing matrix 23, having openings therein, is formed on an interior surface of a faceplate panel 12 of a cathode-ray tube 10 by providing a photoreceptor thereon, electrostatically charging the photoreceptor 72 to a substantially uniform level of charge, and exposing the photoreceptor to light through openings 33 in a color selection electrode 24 to selectively discharge the more intensely illuminated areas of the photoreceptor, without substantially discharging the less intensely illuminated areas. The photoreceptor 72 comprises a plurality of layers including a photoresist layer 56, a conductive layer 62, and a photoconductive layer 66. The openings 33 in the color selection electrode 24 have a dimension substantially greater than the dimension of the openings in the resultant matrix 23. The photoreceptor 72 is contacted with a liquid toner having charged pigment particles which form toner lines 84 on the less intensely illuminated areas of the photoreceptor. The photoreceptor 72 is exposed to UV radiation to selectively change the solubility of the photoresist portion 56 thereof into areas of greater and lesser solubility. The photoreceptor 72 is serially developed to expose portions of the interior surface of the panel 12, while leaving the areas of lesser solubility intact. Next, the interior surface of the panel and the areas of lesser solubility are coated with a matrix suspension which is dried to form the matrix 23. The areas of lesser solubility and the overlying light-absorbing matrix material thereon are removed, thereby forming in the matrix 23 a plurality of openings having a width less than the width of the openings 33 in the color selection electrode 24.

Method of manufacturing a matrix for a cathode-ray tube

The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a luminescent screen structure 22 with a light-absorbing matrix 23, having a plurality of substantially equally sized openings therein, on an inner surface of a CRT faceplate panel 12. A color selection electrode 24 is spaced a distance, Q, from the inner surface. The method includes providing a first photoresist layer 50, whose solubility is altered when it is exposed to light, on the inner surface of the faceplate panel 12. The first photoresist layer 50 is exposed to light from two symmetrically located source positions +G and -G, relative to a central source position, 0. Then the more soluble regions 54 of the photoresist layer 50 are removed, overcoated with a light-absorbing material 58 and developed to remove the retained, less soluble regions 52 of the first photoresist layer with the light-absorbing material thereon. First guardbands 60 of light-absorbing material remain on the interior surface of the faceplate panel 12. The process is repeated twice more, using second and third photoresist layers 70 and 90 and two asymmetrically located light source positions +B, -B and +R, -R, respectively to produce second and third guardbands 80 and 100.

Method of manufacturing a luminescent screen assembly for a cathode-ray

The invention includes an apparatus 40, 140 for developing a latent charge image formed on a photoreceptor 36 disposed on an interior surface of a faceplate panel 12. The apparatus 40, 140 comprises a developer tank 42 having a sidewall 44 closed at one end by a bottom portion 46 and at the other end by a panel support 48 having an opening 50 therethrough to provide access to the faceplate panel 12. The back electrode 52 has a potential applied thereto to establish an electrostatic drift field between the back electrode and the photoreceptor 36, which is grounded. Triboelectrically-charged, dry-powdered, light emitting phosphor material, having a charge of the same polarity as the potential applied to the back electrode 52, is injected into the developer tank 42, between the back electrode 52 and the faceplate panel 12. The triboelectrically-charged phosphor material is directed toward the photoreceptor 36 on the faceplate panel 12 by the applied electrostatic drift field. Panel skirt sidewall shields 66, 68 are disposed around a peripheral sidewall 18 of the faceplate panel 12 to repel the triboelectrically-charged phosphor material from the panel sidewall 18. The method of developing the latent charge image formed on the photoreceptor 36 that is disposed on an interior surface of a faceplate panel 12 includes the steps of placing the faceplate panel 12 on the panel support 48 of the apparatus 40, 140 and positioning the panel skirt sidewall shield means 66, 68 in proximity to the sidewall 18 of the of the faceplate panel 12. The photoreceptor 36 is grounded and a potential is applied to the back electrode 52. Triboelectrically-charged phosphor materials, having a charge of the same polarity as the potential applied to the back electrode 52 are introduced into the developer tank 42, between the back electrode 52 and the faceplate panel 12. The phosphor material is directed toward the photoreceptor 36 on the faceplate panel 12 by the applied electrostatic drift field and repelled from the sidewall 18 of the faceplate panel by the panel skirt sidewall shields 66, 68.

Apparatus and method of developing a latent charge image

A CRT 10 has an evacuated envelope 11 comprising a funnel 15 having a neck 14 and an open end. The funnel 15 is sealed at the open end to a faceplate panel 12 having a luminescent screen 22 formed on a viewing area of an interior surface of the faceplate panel by an electrophotographic screening process. The screen 22 comprises a multiplicity of different color-emitting phosphor elements. A light absorbing matrix 23 has a first portion that includes a multiplicity of openings therein overlying the viewing area of the faceplate panel, and a second portion providing an imperforate border 123 extending beyond the viewing area. The phosphor elements are disposed within the openings in the matrix. A color selection electrode 25 is mounted within the faceplate panel 12, in proximity to the screen 22. An electron gun 26 is centrally disposed within the neck 14 for generating and directing a plurality of electron beams 28 toward the screen 22. The screen structure is improved by having at least one of the phospor elements disposed on the imperforate border 123 of the matrix 23.

Color cathode-ray tube having phosphor elements deposited on an

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Istvan Gorog