Self-standing spacer wall structures

US6278066A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Candescent Technologies Corporation · US

Inventors

• Theodore S. Fahlen · San Jose, US
• Alfred S. Conte · Hollister, US
• Robert M. Duboc, Jr. · Menlo Park, US
• George B. Hopple · Palo Alto, US
• John K. O'Reilly · Campbell, US
• Vasil M. Chakarov · San Jose, US
• Robert L. Marion · San Jose, US
• Steve T. Cho · Santa Clara, US
• Robert G. Neimeyer · San Jose, US
• Jennifer Y. Sun · Mountain View, US
• David L. Morris · Overland Park, US
• Christopher J. Spindt · Menlo Park, US
• Kollengode S. Narayanan · Cupertino, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 20, 1996
• Grant date: Aug 21, 2001
• Expiry date: Dec 20, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49117
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A spacer (100 or 600/1000A/1000B) situated between a faceplate structure (301) and a backplate structure (302) of a flat panel display is configured to be self standing. In one implementation, a pair of spacer feet (111 or 113 and 112 or 114) are located over the same face surface, or over opposite face surfaces, of a spacer wall (101) near opposite ends of the wall. An edge electrode (121 or 122) is located over an edge surface of the spacer adjacent to the faceplate structure or the backplate structure. In another implementation, a spacer clip (1000A or 1000B) clamps opposite face surfaces of a spacer wall (600) largely at one end of the wall.