529results about "Electrode assembly support/mounting/spacing/insulation" patented technology

A protected faceplate structure of a field emission display device is disclosed in one embodiment. Specifically, in one embodiment, the present invention recites a faceplate of a field emission display device wherein the faceplate of the field emission display device is adapted to have phosphor containing areas disposed above one side thereof. The present embodiment is further comprised of a barrier layer which is disposed over the one side of said faceplate which is adapted to have phosphor containing areas disposed thereabove. The barrier layer of the present embodiment is adapted to prevent degradation of the faceplate. Specifically, the barrier layer of the present embodiment is adapted to prevent degradation of the faceplate due to electron bombardment by electrons directed towards the phosphor containing areas.

An organic electroluminescence device which comprises a cathode, an anode and an organic thin film layer comprising at least one layer comprising a light emitting layer and disposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein at least one layer in the organic thin film layer comprises an anthracene derivative having a specific structure singly or as a component of a mixture, and an anthracene derivative having a specific asymmetric structure and providing an organic electroluminescence device exhibiting a great efficiency of light emission and having a long life, are provided.

A backlight unit is disposed beneath a display panel. The backlight unit includes an illumination means, which is used to provide a light source, and a diffuser positioned between the illumination means and the display panel, which is used to scatter the light generated by the illumination means. The diffuser, which is composed of liquid crystal particles and polymer, has a plurality of regions. The region thatis closer to the illumination means has greater scattering effect. In addition, the region with the greatest scattering effect has a shape corresponding to the illumination means.

An image formation apparatus is disclosed which includes, within an enclosure configured by a pair of substrates placed face to face and an external frame placed between the substrates, an electron source placed on one of the pair of substrates, an image formation material placed on the other substrate, and spacers placed between the substrates, characterized in that the spacers and the external frame is conductive and device is provided for electrically connecting the spacers and the external frame so that the equipotential surfaces between the spacers and the external frame are quasi-parallel when driven.

An organic electroluminescence element comprising: an anode; a first emitting layer comprising at least a first host material and a first dopant; a second emitting layer comprising at least a second host material and a second dopant; and a cathode in the order mentioned: wherein the energy gap Egh1 of the first host material, the energy gap Egd1 of the first dopant, the energy gap Egh2 of the second host material, and the energy gap Egd2 of the second dopant satisfy the following formulas; and the luminescent intensity I1 at the maximum luminescent wavelength of an emission spectrum derived from the first emitting layer, and the luminescent intensity I2 at the maximum luminescent wavelength of an emission spectrum derived from the second emitting layer satisfy the following formula: Egh1>Egd1 Egh2>Egd2 Egd1>Egd2 I1>3.5×I2.

A display includes a front panel and a back panel with a light control material in between. One of the panels includes a rigid substrate, for example made of glass or rigid plastic. The other of the panels includes a flexible substrate, for example made of a flexible plastic film. The panel with the flexible substrate may be made by a roll-to-roll process, with various fabrication operations formed while the flexible substrate is still part of a web of material. The panel with the rigid substrate may be separately fabricated, then combined with the other panel on the web through a pick and place operation that accurately locates the front panel relative to the back panel. The display may be any of a variety of displays, such as liquid crystal displays (LCDs), and electroluminescent displays, such as polymer light emitting devices (PLEDs) and organic light emitting devices (OLEDs).

The invention relates to a fluorescent lamp (1) adapted for cold environments, which comprises an elongated main tube (11), fixing devices (12) at each end of the fluorescent lamp (1) for fixing the fluorescent lamp (1) in a light fitting (27), two electrodes (15) placed inside the main tube (11), a heat-insulating outer tube (20) that surrounds the main tube (11) and creates an airspace (22) between the main tube (11) and the outer tube (20). Each fixing device (12) comprises an end cap (41) with a radial part (41b), that delimits an outer end plane of the fluorescent lamp (1), and with an axial peripheral part (41a), that is connected to an end of the outer tube (20). An axial spacer (29, 31) with low heat conductivity has a first end part (33) that is connected to an end (34) of the main tube (11) and a second end part (38) that adjoins the outer end plane and keeps the main tube (11) separate from the end cap (41) in order to reduce the transmission of heat from the main tube (11) to the end cap (41) and the outer tube (20).

The disclosed method for forming a field emission display includes forming a cathode and an anode, forming a plurality of photoresist posts over the cathode, and coating the posts with a coating material. The coating material forms sidewalls around the posts. The photoresist posts may then be removed from within the sidewalls. The anode may then be fitted onto the sidewalls so that the sidewalls function as spacers in the field emission display.

An image formation apparatus is disclosed which includes, within an enclosure configured by a pair of substrates placed face to face and an external frame placed between the substrates, an electron source placed on one of the pair of substrates, an image formation material placed on the other substrate, and spacers placed between the substrates, characterized in that the spacers and the external frame is conductive and device is provided for electrically connecting the spacers and the external frame so that the equipotential surfaces between the spacers and the external frame are quasi-parallel when driven.

A lighting device comprising: a light emitting diode lighting panel having first and second opposing surfaces; light emitting diodes at a periphery of light emitting diode lighting panel for emitting light through the first surface; a reflective surface at the second surface of the light emitting diode lighting panel; and a power supply unit connected to the light emitting diode panel, the power supply having first and second ends, and electrical circuitry for converting alternating current to direct current between the first and second ends, wherein the first end is for insertion into the a socket.

In an organic EL panel having a device glass substrate provided with an organic EL element on a surface thereof, a sealing glass substrate attached to the device glass substrate and a desiccant layer formed on a surface of the sealing glass substrate, spacers are disposed between a cathode of the organic EL element and the desiccant layer. A heat-conductive layer can be formed on a surface of the sealing glass substrate including a pocket portion. The heat-conductive layer can be formed by vapor depositing or sputtering a metal layer such as a Cr layer or an Al layer. This inhibits damaging the organic EL element and increases a heat dissipating ability, thereby inhibiting deterioration of a device property caused by temperature rise.

A display apparatus includes an array substrate including a display area composed of a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, and a sealing substrate disposed to be opposed to the array substrate. The display area includes a pixel switch that selects a pixel, a drive control device connected to the pixel switch, and an organic EL device driven by the drive control device. A support section is disposed in a frame shape on an outer peripheral portion of the display area such that a predetermined gap is provided between the array substrate and the sealing substrate.

An electronic display device includes a display unit including a plurality of scan lines along a first direction, a plurality of data lines along a second direction, and a plurality of pixels at intersection regions of the scan and data lines, and a barrier unit including a plurality of barrier regions extending along a direction of the data lines, the barrier unit including a plurality of first electrodes in each of the barrier regions, the first electrodes extending on a substrate along the first direction and being spaced apart from each other along the second direction, a plurality of second electrodes on the substrate at a different height than the first electrodes as determined with respect to the substrate, the first electrodes partly overlapping the second electrodes in a direction perpendicular to the substrate, and a dielectric layer on the substrate between the first and second electrodes.

The invention relates to a fluorescent lamp (1) adapted for cold environments, which comprises an elongated main tube (11), fixing devices (12) at each end of the fluorescent lamp (1) for fixing the fluorescent lamp (1) in a light fitting (27), two electrodes (15) placed inside the main tube (11), a heat-insulating outer tube (20) that surrounds the main tube (11) and creates an airspace (22) between the main tube (11) and the outer tube (20). Each fixing device (12) comprises an end cap (41) with a radial part (41b), that delimits an outer end plane of the fluorescent lamp (1), and with an axial peripheral part (41a), that is connected to an end of the outer tube (20). An axial spacer (29, 31) with low heat conductivity has a first end part (33) that is connected to an end (34) of the main tube (11) and a second end part (38) that adjoins the outer end plane and keeps the main tube (11) separate from the end cap (41) in order to reduce the transmission of heat from the main tube (11) to the end cap (41) and the outer tube (20).

A flat-type display comprising a first panel AP and a second panel CP which are bonded to each other in their circumferential portions and having a space between the first panel AP and the second panel CP, the space being in a vacuum state, a spacer being disposed between a first panel effective field and a second panel effective field that work as a display portion, said spacer being fixed to the first panel effective field and / or the second panel effective field with a low-melting-point metal material layers 33A and 33B.

Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent device including: a panel; a partition that defines a plurality of hollows arranged in an anisotropic form in a plan view on the panel; a luminescent portion formed by individually coating a coating solution containing an electroluminescent material on each of the plurality of hollows and drying out the coating liquid coated on the hollows; and a drain means that is formed in the partition to drain part of the coating liquid coated on the hollow so that a surface of the luminescent portion can be flattened.

An electron beam apparatus including a hermetic container provided with an electron source, in which, when a first member is arranged in the hermetic container, at least part of the first member is coated with a film, and the film is configured in such a manner that it includes two regions, a first region and a second region different in electron density from the first region and the second region forms a network in the first region. This three-dimensional network structure allows a member being charged to be preferably controlled. Thereby, it is possible to control the effects of a member being charged which is used in an electron beam apparatus.

An improved transparent support substrate in an organic light emitting diode (OLED) device comprises an organic polymer support film and a composite layer on the support film which is disposed intermediate the support film and the diodes of the OLED; the composite layer has first and second discrete coating layers bonded together in opposed facing relationship; the layers are of material impermeable to oxygen and water vapor but contain inadvertent discontinuities which result in discontinuity-controlled permeation of oxygen and water vapor.

There is provided a method of producing an organic EL light-emitting device which enables prevention of crosstalk between adjacent pixels of the same color. Provided is a method of producing an organic EL light-emitting device which has banks provided in a row direction and in a column direction, and a plurality of organic EL light-emitting portions isolated from each other by the banks. The method includes the steps of forming banks such that a height of a bank portion of a row direction and a height of a bank portion of a column direction are different from each other; and applying an organic EL material in a continuous manner along the bank portion which is higher of the bank portion of the row direction and the bank portion of the column direction, between the banks of the higher bank portion.

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A method according to the present invention is for electrifying a plurality of electric conductors arranged on a substrate including the step of setting an average temperature difference during electrifying processing between a region S0 in that the plurality of electric conductors on the substrate are arranged and a circumferential region S1 of the region S0 at 15° C. or more, and the substrate satisfies the relational expression:L1 / L0>EαΔT / σth−1.where L0[m]: the width of the region S0 L1[m]: the width of the region S1 ΔT[K]: the average temperature differenceE[Pa]: the Young's modulus of the substrateα[ / K]: the coefficient of linear thermal expansion of the substrateσth[Pa]: the material constant of the substrate.

An electron beam apparatus in which a spacer having a high-resistance film coating a surface of a base material is inserted between a rear plate having electron emitting elements and row-direction wires, and a faceplate having a metal back. The row-direction wires and the metal back are electrically connected via the high-resistance film. An electric field near an electron emitting element near the spacer is maintained to substantially constant irrespective of the positional relationship between the spacer and the electron emitting element near the spacer. When a sheet resistance value of the high-resistance film on a first facing surface of the spacer that faces a row-direction wire is represented by R1, and a sheet resistance value of the high-resistance film on a side surface adjacent to the electron emitting element is represented by R2, R2 / R1 is 10 to 200.

A spacer (140) suitable for use in a flat panel display is formed with ceramic, transition metal, and oxygen. At least part of the oxygen is bonded to the transition metal or / and constituents of the ceramic to form a uniform electrically resistive material having a resistivity of 105-1010 ohm-cm and a secondary electron emission coefficient of less than 2 at 2 kilovolts.

Provided is a dielectric barrier discharge-type electrode structure for generating plasma. The electrode structure, according to the present invention, comprises: an upper conductive body electrode and a lower conductive body electrode; at least one conductive body electrode protrusion portion, which is formed on at least one surface of the upper conductive body electrode and / or the lower conductive body electrode; a dielectric layer which is formed on at least one of the inner surfaces of the upper conductive body electrode and the lower conductive body electrode that face each other, so as to have a substantially uniform thickness; and a specific gap (d) which is formed between the upper and lower conductive body electrodes and the dielectric layer, or between dielectric layers, due to the protruding effect of the conductive body electrode protrusion portion when the upper conductive body electrode and the lower conductive body electrodes come into close contact, wherein the plasma is generated by applying a pulse power or an alternating power to the upper conductive body electrode and the lower conductive body electrode.

High voltage high current regulator circuit for regulating current is interposed between first and second terminals connected to an external circuit and comprises at least one main-current carrying cold-cathode field emission electron tube conducting current between the first and second terminals. First and second grid-control cold-cathode field emission electron tubes provide control signals for first and second grids of the at least one main-current carrying cold-cathode field emission electron tube for positive and negative excursions of voltage on the first and second terminals, respectively. The current regulator circuit may be accompanied by a voltage-clamping circuit that includes at least one cold-cathode field emission electron tube. At least two cold-cathode field emission electron tubes, configured to operate at high voltage and high current, are preferably contained within a single vacuum enclosure and are interconnected to provide a circuit function, so as to form a high voltage high current vacuum integrated circuit.

The present invention is concerned with an electron beam apparatus comprising: a hermetic container; an electron source disposed within the hermetic container; and a spacer; wherein the spacer includes at least a region where a layer containing fine particles exists, a sheet resistance measured at the surface of the region of the spacer is 10<7 >Omega / □ or more, and the fine particles are 1000 Å or less in the average diameter of the particles and includes at least metal elements. The electron beam apparatus exhibits the excellent display quality which suppresses the displacement of the light emission point with the charge and the creeping discharge, and the long-period reliability.

A surface-conduction electron emitter includes a substrate, two electrodes disposed on the substrate and parallel to each other, and a plurality of line-shaped carbon nanotube elements fixed on at least one electrode. One end of each carbon nanotube element points to the other electrode. An electron source using the surface-conduction electron emitter includes a substrate, a plurality of electrodes disposed on the substrate and parallel to each other, and a plurality of line-shaped carbon nanotube elements fixed on at least one electrode. One end of each carbon nanotube element points to the other electrode.