Frit-sealing process used in making displays
OwnerChad Byron Mooreinventor
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Abstract
A process for frit-sealing together a panel of a fiber-based information display includes assembling the panel and sealing, after the step of assembling, the panel by forcing a glass frit to flow between the two glass plates that comprise the panel using narrow strips of glass. The glass frit-seals the top and bottom glass plates together and covers the wire electrodes at the end of the fibers to dielectrically isolate them from each other. The process of assembling and frit-sealing the panel is particularly suitable for use in an information display, such as plasma emissive displays, plasma addressed liquid crystal displays, and field emissive displays
Claims14
A flat-panel display comprising two glass plates enclosing at least one array of fibers, which serves to form structure within said display, where one of said two glass plates is larger than the other in all directions in a plane of said glass plates.
A flat-panel display that has a vacuum tube attachment where a glass frit to seal a vacuum tube to said panel is forced to flow into a tube panel junction using a glass washer over said vacuum tube.
A curved-panel display comprising two glass plates enclosing two orthogonal fiber arrays, which serves to form a structure within said display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.