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US 8,618,726 B2Granted
Field emission panel, liquid crystal display having the same, field emission display having the same and method for packaging field emission panel
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsHyun-seung Cho, Jun-ho Sung, Sang-hyuck Ahn
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Abstract
A field emission panel includes: a first glass plate which comprises a phosphor layer, a second glass plate which is disposed in parallel to the first glass plate and comprises a plurality of electron emission elements; and a sealing member which is interposed between the first and the second glass plates to seal a space between the first and the second glass plates, wherein a part of the sealing member is hidden inside the first and the second glass plates and the other part of the sealing member is exposed to outsides of the first and the second glass plates.
Claims21
A field emission panel comprising:
- a first glass plate which comprises a phosphor layer;
- a second glass plate extends in a parallel direction with respect to the first glass plate and comprises a plurality of electron emission elements;
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- a one-piece seal member which is interposed between the first and the second glass plates to seal a space between the first and the second glass plates,
- wherein a part of the seal member is disposed between the first and the second glass plates so as to be hidden inside the field emission panel and another part of the seal member protruding from the first and second glass plate in the parallel direction and is exposed to an outside of the field emission panel,
- wherein the seal member comprises a first attachment surface attached to the first glass plate and a second attachment surface attached to the second glass plate,
- wherein the first attachment surface is bonded to the first glass plate by a first seal frit and the second attachment surface is bonded to the second glass plate by a second seal frit, and
- wherein the first seal frit and the second seal frit comprise inner sealing parts disposed inside the field emission panel and outer sealing parts disposed outside the field emission panel.
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A liquid crystal display (LCD) comprising:
- a field emission panel comprising:
- a first glass plate comprising a phosphor layer, the phosphor layer comprising red-phosphors, green-phosphors, and blue-phosphors which are distributed therein,
- a second glass plate extending in a parallel direction with respect to the first glass plate, the second glass plate comprising a plurality of electron emission elements, and
- a one-piece seal member interposed between the first and the second glass plates to seal a space between the first and the second glass plates and protruding from the first and second glass plate in the parallel direction;
- a liquid crystal panel disposed in front of the field emission panel which converts white light generated from the field emission panel into a color image;
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- a housing which houses the field emission panel and the liquid crystal panel,
- wherein a part of the seal member is disposed between the first and the second glass plates so as to be hidden inside the field emission panel and another part of the seal member is disposed outside of the field emission panel,
- wherein the seal member comprises a first attachment surface attached to the first glass plate and a second attachment surface attached to the second glass plate,
- wherein the first attachment surface is bonded to the first glass plate by a first seal frit and the second attachment surface is bonded to the second glass plate by a second seal frit, and
- wherein the first seal frit and the second seal frit comprise inner sealing parts disposed inside the field emission panel and an outer sealing part disposed outside the field emission panel.
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A field emission display comprising:
- a field emission panel which comprises:
- a first glass plate comprising a phosphor layer, the phosphor layer comprising a plurality of phosphor groups which are distributed in a pattern, each of the plurality of phosphor groups comprising a red-phosphor, a green-phosphor, and a blue-phosphor,
- a second glass plate extending in a parallel direction with respect to the first glass plate, the second glass plate comprising a plurality of electron emission elements, and
- a one-piece seal member interposed between the first and the second glass plates to seal a space between the first and the second glass plates and protruding from the first and second glass plate in the parallel direction;
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- a housing which houses the field emission panel,
- wherein a part of the seal member is disposed between the first and the second glass plates so as to be hidden inside the field emission panel and another part of the seal member is exposed to an outside of the field emission panel,
- wherein the seal member comprises a first attachment surface attached to the first glass plate and a second attachment surface attached to the second glass plate,
- wherein the first attachment surface is bonded to the first glass plate by a first seal frit and the second attachment surface is bonded to the second glass plate by a second seal frit, and
- wherein the first seal frit and the second seal frit comprise inner sealing parts disposed inside the field emission panel and outer sealing parts disposed outside the field emission panel.
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A method for packaging a field emission panel, the method comprising:
- preparing a first glass plate comprising a phosphor layer, a second glass plate comprising electron emission elements, and a seal member;
- coating attachment surfaces of the seal member with a seal frit;
- placing the first glass plate and the second glass plate in parallel and aligning the seal member between the first and the second glass plates so that the attachment surfaces partly extend out from sides of the first and the second glass plates in the parallel direction;
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- sintering the first and the second glass plates between which the seal member is interposed at a temperature higher than a melting point of the seal frit for a predetermined time and cooling the first and the second glass plates at a temperature lower than the melting point of the seal frit for a predetermined time.
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A method for packaging a field emission panel, the method comprising:
- preparing a first glass plate comprising a phosphor layer, a second glass plate comprising electron emission elements, and a seal member;
- coating a first attachment surface and a second attachment surface of the seal member with a seal frit;
- aligning the seal member on the first glass plate so that a part of the first attachment surface extend out from sides of the first glass plate;
- sintering the first glass plate and the seal member at a temperature higher than a melting point of the seal frit for a predetermined time and cooling the first glass plate and the seal member at a temperature lower than the melting point of the seal frit for a predetermined time;
- aligning the second glass plate with respect to the seal member and the first glass plate so that the second glass plate is in parallel to the first glass plate and a part of the second attachment surface extend out from sides of the second glass plate in the parallel direction;
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- sintering the first and the second glass plates and the seal member at a temperature higher than a melting point of the seal frit for a predetermined time and then cooling the first and the second glass plates and the seal member at a temperature lower than the melting point of the seal frit for a predetermined time.
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A field emission panel comprising:
- a first glass plate which comprises a phosphor layer;
- a second glass plate which extends in a coplanar direction with respect to the first glass plate and comprises a plurality of electron emission elements;
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- a one-piece frame which is disposed between the first and the second glass plates to form an enclosed space between the first and the second glass plates,
- wherein an inner portion of the frame overlaps with the first and the second glass plates so as to be disposed in between the first and the second glass plates and an outer portion of the frame protrudes out from sides of the first and the second glass plates in the coplanar direction,
- wherein the frame comprises a first attachment surface attached to the first glass plate and a second attachment surface attached to the second glass plate,
- wherein a first hidden surface and a first exposed surface of the first attachment surface is bonded to the first glass plate by a first seal frit and a second hidden surface and a second exposed surface of the second attachment surface is bonded to the second glass plate by a second seal frit, and
- wherein the first seal frit and the second seal frit comprise inner sealing parts disposed inside the field emission panel and outer sealing parts disposed outside the field emission panel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.