Zenith Electronics Corporation

Yong S Park

James R Fendley

John M Jarosz

Howard G Lange

Thomas M Remec

Kazimierz Lapinski

Charles J Brazak, Iii

A system for standardized printing of CRT screens is disclosed. A preferred embodiment utilizes a standardized photoexposure stencil made without the use of a shadow mask aperture pattern and projection printing. The stencil is then placed in proximity to the screening surface during exposure. Front panel and mask support topography preparation methods and apparatus are disclosed, as are means and methods for compensating for variations among panel assemblies utilized in standardized printing of the screens. The system thereby produces high resolution screens which may accept interchangeable shadow masks.

System of printing standardized cathode ray tube screens

In recovering flat glass faceplates used in color cathode ray tubes (CRTs) where the CRT is rejected during manufacture, the faceplate is cleaned for re-use with a high pressure vapor blast incorporation small particles in a slurry form. The particles may be comprised of small plastic beads or pellets, with walnut shells reduced to particle size on the order of 40-100 mesh and pressures in the range of 20-30 p.s.i. used in a preferred embodiment.

Cleaning of flat glass CRT faceplate with internal anti-glare surface

An apparatus is disclosed for curing a defect in a grille formed on an interior face of a color cathode ray tube panel. The apparatus includes a support structure including a first rail member onto which is mounted a camera including a magnifying lens for viewing on a display monitor the grille of the panel. The panel is seated on a positioning apparatus which allows the panel to be adjusted such that the defect to be removed is centered on cross-hairs located on the monitor. The support structure includes a second rail member to which is mounted a laser apparatus which produces a beam of laser energy to remove the defect from the grille.

Apparatus and method for curing a defect in a grille formed on a panel

This disclosure depicts method and apparatus useful in fabricating a screen of a color cathode ray tube of the slot mask, stripe-screen type and more particularly method and apparatus for exposing a photosensitive coating on the concave inner surface of the faceplate of such a tube through a slot mask serving as an exposure master. Latent screen stripe images are formed whose width increases with increasing radial distance along the screen 'pitch' axis perpendicular to the screen stripe images. The method comprises supporting a curved faceplate which has on its concave inner surface a photosensitive coating; supporting adjacent the faceplate inner surface a slot mask defining an array of columns of spaced slots; supporting a line source of radiation actinic to said coating on or near a central axis of the faceplate and spaced from said coating, with the source axis aligned parallel to said columns of spaced slots in said mask, said light source producing a linear light-emitting volume having a major cross-sectional axis which is parallel to the faceplate central axis and a major axis dimension which is substantially greater than the minor cross-sectional axis dimension of said light-emitting volume; and exposing said coating to said light source, such that the latent screen stripe images formed on said coating through said slots, for uniform exposure time and slot width, increase in width in a radial direction away from said screen center along said screen pitch axis.

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South Barrington, IL, United States of America

Yong S Park