Method for sealedly forming envelope

• US 5,693,111 A
• Filed: 07/06/1995
• Issued: 12/02/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Futaba Denshi Kogyo KK
• Original Assignee: Futaba Denshi Kogyo KK
• Inventors: Kogure, Youich, Itoh, Shigeo, Tonegawa, Takeshi, Kadowaki, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): Czaja, Donald E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): VINCENT, SEAN E
• Application Number:
  US08/498,802
• Time in Patent Office: 880 Days
• Field of Search: 65/33.5, 65/33.6, 65/36, 65/40, 65/43, 65/58, 65/59.1, 156/107, 156/109, 156/308.4
• US Class Current: 65/43
• CPC Class Codes: C03B 23/203 Uniting glass sheets C03B23/24 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 2329/00 Electron emission display panels, e.g. field emission display panels
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 9/261 the vessel being for a flat panel display for flat discharge lamps H01J9/268

Abstract

A method for sealedly forming an envelope and an apparatus therefor capable of sealedly bonding an anode substrate and a cathode substrate to each other while preventing misregistration therebetween. A sealing glass material is arranged on a periphery of one of the substrates and the other substrate is put on the one substrate. Then, both substrates are registered with each other and then a laser beam is downwardly irradiated on the sealing glass material through the anode substrate to locally melt the sealing glass material, to thereby temporarily bond both substrates to each other. Then, both substrates are heated in an oven, to thereby sealedly bonded to each other, resulting in sealedly forming an envelope.

Claims

1. A method for sealedly forming an envelope, the method comprising the steps of:

applying a sealing glass material to a periphery of at least one of a first substrate made of a glass material and a second substrate made of a glass, metal or semiconductor material;

registering said first and second substrates with each other while superposing said first and second substrates on each other through said sealing glass material;

locally heating said sealing material by a local heating means after the registration between said first substrate and the second substrate to temporarily bond said first and second substrates to each other at least at two locations thereof; and

heating said registered and temporarily bonded first and second substrates in an oven to sealedly bond said substrates to each other and sealedly form an envelope.

2. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein said local heating means utilizes a laser beam.

3. A method as defined in claim 2, wherein said laser beam is applied in such a manner that a pulse height of the laser beam is initially increased and then gradually decreased.

4. A method as defined in claim 2 or 3, wherein a portion of said first and second substrates in proximity to said at least two locations at which said temporary bonding is carried out is heated by a heater.

5. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein said sealing glass material comprises amorphous glass of a low melting point having lead incorporated therein.