Patent ID: 7812510
Filing Date: 2010-10-12
Classification: H01J

Abstract:
1. A flat-type display, comprising: a first panel and a second panel which are bonded to each other in their circumferential portions and having a space between the first panel and the second panel, the space being in a vacuum state; a spacer extending, as viewed in cross-section, longitudinally in the space between the first panel and the second panel to terminate in a first end spacer surface and an opposite second end spacer surface and laterally between a pair of spaced-apart spacer side walls to define a thickness therebetween; a first electrode member fabricated as a unitary construction from an electrically-conductive material and extending across and connected to one of the first panel and the second panel, the first electrode member, as viewed in cross-section, formed with a recess having a pair of facially-opposing recess side walls and a recess bottom wall interconnecting the pair of recess side walls; a second electrode member fabricated from an electrically-conductive material, extending across and connected to a remaining one of the first panel and the second panel; a first low-melting-point metal layer and a second low-melting-point metal layer, each one of the first and second low-melting-point metal layers being fabricated from an electrically-conductive material having a low melting point; and a first conductive material layer and a second conductive material layer, each one of the first and second conductive material layers being fabricated from an electrically-conductive material, wherein the spacer electrically connects the first and second electrodes, wherein the first end spacer surface, the first conductive material layer and the first low-melting-point metal layer are disposed in the recess with the first conductive material layer disposed between and in contact with the first end spacer surface and the first low-melting-point metal layer and the first low-melting-point metal layer being in contact with and disposed between the first conductive material layer and the recess bottom wall and wherein each one of the pair of recess side walls is in contact with the first conductive material layer and the first low-melting-point metal layer while the pair of spacer side walls at a first end portion of the spacer positioned inside the recess is spaced apart from the pair of recess side walls.