Appeal No. 2003-1249
Application 09/386,972
OPINION
We reverse the aforementioned rejection and remand the
application to the examiner. In our discussion of the examiner’s
rejection we need to address only the independent claims, i.e.,
method claims 4 and 11 and device claims 17 and 23.
Method claims 4 and 11
Konuma discloses a method for cleaning and exhausting a
cathode ray tube (CRT), at pressures which can reach as low as
10-9 Torr, and then sealing the CRT (col. 3, lines 66-67; col. 4,
lines 6-7; col. 5, lines 20-24 and 44-47; col. 6, line 67 -
col. 7, line 2). Konuma places a getter in the CRT, heats the
getter for 20 seconds to absorb gases in the CRT, heats an
electron lens for 5 seconds, impresses a voltage on the CRT’s
cathode and cathode cone for 0.5-2 minutes to emit electrons
which collide with gases emitted though heating the getter,
thereby forming ions which sputter-clean the cathode cone, and
then seals a tube used to provide the vacuum in the CRT (col. 4,
lines 5-18; col. 5, lines 1-49; col. 5, line 60 - col. 6, line 5;
col. 6, line 24 - col. 7, line 55). This method also can be
applied to a flat panel display (col. 7, lines 56-59).
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