Patent ID: 7692370

Claim:
An image display apparatus, comprising: a front substrate which has a phosphor screen including a plurality of phosphor layers arranged at a specific pitch in a first direction and at another specific pitch in a second direction intersecting at right angles to the first direction and including a light-shielding layer divided metal-back layers laid on the phosphor screen and divided, in the first and second directions divided getter films laid on the metal-back layer and divided, in the first and second directions, and a thin-film dividing layer formed on divided portions of at least one of the divided metal-back layers and the divided getter-films; a rear substrate which is opposed to the front substrate and on which are arranged a plurality of electron-emitting elements configured to emit electrons toward the phosphor screen; a plurality of spacers which support the front substrate and the rear substrate against the atmospheric pressure applied to the substrates, and spacer-abutting layers are discretely arranged near the thin-film-dividing layer, at positions where the spacer-abutting layers abut the spacers, wherein ends of each spacer-abutting layer, which are spaced in the second direction, overlap four divided metal-back layers, two of which are positioned at one of the sides of the thin-film-dividing layer, as viewed in the second direction, and the remaining two of which are positioned at the other side of the thin-film-dividing layer.