US 6,998,578 B2Granted

Baking system for plasma display panel and layout method for said system

AssigneesNGK Insulators, Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

InventorsHiroyasu Tsuji, Makoto Morita, Masanori Suzuki, Hihuo Noiri, Michiro Aoki, Takahiro Takeda

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Abstract

A baking system for a plasma display panel which comprises a clean room 1 and a baking furnace having an upper passage 11 for conveying a plasma display panel glass substrate 5 during baking from an inlet 15 of the furnace 3, and a lower passage 13 for conveying the baked substrate 5 in the upper passage 11 towards an outlet of the furnace 3, both of the inlet and the outlet being provided at the same end of the furnace 3, characterized in that only the inlet 15 and the outlet 17 are connected to a clean room 1, while keeping a body thereof outside the clean room 1. Also, there is disclosed a layout method for such a baking system.

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Dependent claims

A baking system for plasma display panel comprising a baking furnace for a plasma display panel;

said furnace having an upper passage for conveying a plural number of plasma display panel glass substrates placed on respective setters while baking the substrates during conveying and a lower passage for conveying thus baked plasma display panel glass substrates during conveying in the upper passage in a direction opposite to the conveying direction of the substrates for baking in the upper passage, and further being provided with an inlet for introducing the plasma display panel glass substrates into the upper passage and an outlet for carrying out the baked plasma display panel glass substrates from the lower passage at the same end thereof, and a clean room, characterized in that only the inlet and the outlet are connected to the clean room, but a body of the baking furnace is disposed outside the clean room.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.