Appeal No. 97-2457 Page 3
Application No. 08/366,376
Each second substrate 4 can be tested before incorporation
into the display. Accordingly, the risk of having to discard
an entire substrate and a large number of good emitters is
reduced or avoided.
Claim 1, which is representative of the invention,
follows:
A display device mounted in a vacuum area between a front
panel and a first base substrate, said front panel including
an element for emitting light when struck by electrons and an
anode electrode, said display device comprising:
a plurality of second substrates each having a smaller
area than said first base substrate and arranged side-by-side
on and supported by said first base substrate, each of said
second substrates having electron emitting elements arranged
on a surface thereof and each of said electron emitting
elements having at least one emitter in electrical
interconnection with a cathode.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims follow:
Kuroda et al. (Kuroda) 4,084,114 Apr. 11, 1978
van der Wilk 4,950,949 Aug. 21, 1990
Spindt et al. (Spindt) 5,015,912 May 14, 1991
Nomura et al. (Nomura) 5,185,554 Feb. 9, 1993
(filed March 1, 1990).
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