IP Library Granted Patent US 7,491,107
Granted Patent B2
US 7,491,107 · App. 10/511,750 · Granted Feb 17, 2009

Plasma display panel producing method, and plasma display panel

Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
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Patent No.
US 7,491,107
App. No.
10/511,750
Granted
Feb 17, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a PDP that prevents a defect from occurring in a structure of the PDP; and also suppresses retroflexion, exfoliation, and the like, of the structure. In photolithography, exposure is performed twice with a first and a second photomasks, each having a different aperture width, but the same exposure pattern. The amount of exposure is different between first exposure region (A′) through the first photomask; and second exposure region (B′) through the second photomask.

Claims (23)

1. A method of manufacturing a plasma display panel, wherein:

a structure of the plasma display panel is formed with photolithography;

at least one of a display electrode, a black layer, an address electrode or a partition wall of the structures of the plasma display panel, in a process of forming the structure, is exposed using a plurality of photomasks with a same pattern and a different aperture width of an exposure part, with a different amount of exposure, an exposure amount radiated from the light source when the exposure is made by a photomask with a longer aperture width is larger than an exposure amount radiated from the light source when the exposure is made by a photomask with a shorter aperture width, wherein the exposure amount is determined by exposure intensity or exposure time; and

a portion of the at least one of the display electrode, the black layer, the address electrode or the partition wall exposed by the photomask with the longer aperture width is also exposed by the photomask with the shorter aperture width.

2. A method of manufacturing a plasma display panel, wherein:

a stripe structure of the plasma display panel is formed with photolithography;

an exposure process of forming at least one of a display electrode, a black layer, an address electrode or a partition wall in structures of the plasma display panel, in a process of forming the structure, is processed twice using a photomask and a first exposure amount and a second exposure amount are different, wherein the exposure amount is determined by exposure intensity or exposure time, and

a portion of the at least one of the display electrode, the black layer, the address electrode or the partition wall exposed with the first exposure amount is also exposed with the second exposure amount.

3. A method of manufacturing a plasma display panel as claimed in claim 2 , wherein a larger amount of exposure is approximately two thirds of a total amount of exposure required.

4. A method of manufacturing the plasma display panel as claimed in claim 2 , wherein either the first exposure amount or the second exposure amount is approximately two thirds of a total amount of exposure required.

5. A method of manufacturing the plasma display panel as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least one of the structure, immediately after the exposure, a progress speed of a cross-linking reaction is different between at an edge part and a central part of the pattern shape, and the central part proceeds the edge part.

6. A method of manufacturing the plasma display panel as claimed in claim 2 , wherein at least one of the structure, immediately after the exposure, a progress speed of a cross-linking reaction is different between at an edge part and a central part of the pattern shape, and the central part proceeds the edge part.

7. A method of manufacturing the plasma display panel as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the exposure process is a process for forming an address electrode, and the exposure is made to a photosensitive Ag paste film.

8. A method of manufacturing the plasma display panel as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the exposure process is a process for forming an address electrode, and the exposure is made to a photosensitive Ag paste film.

9. A method of manufacturing the plasma display panel as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the exposure amount is determined by controlling the exposure intensity.

10. A method of manufacturing the plasma display panel as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the exposure amount is determined by controlling the exposure time.

11. A method of manufacturing the plasma display panel as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the exposure amount is determined by controlling the exposure intensity.

12. A method of manufacturing the plasma display panel as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the exposure amount is determined by controlling the exposure time.

13. A method of manufacturing the plasma display panel as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the exposure amount is determined by controlling the exposure intensity or exposure time.

14. A method of manufacturing the plasma display panel as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the exposure amount is determined by controlling the exposure intensity or exposure time.

15. A method of manufacturing the plasma display panel as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the exposure amount radiated from the light source when the exposure is made by the photomask with the longer aperture width is two thirds of a total amount of exposure required.

16. A method of manufacturing the plasma display panel as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the exposure amount radiated from the light source when the exposure is made by the photomask with the shorter aperture width is one third of a total amount of exposure required.

17. A method of manufacturing the plasma display panel as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the first exposure is two thirds of a total amount of exposure required and the second exposure is one third of the exposure amount required.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 27, 2008
From: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 021738/0878 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 19, 2004
From: ADACHI, DAISUKE
To: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD
Reel/Frame 016747/0653 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2003-052851 · Feb 28, 2003 · national
Continuity (1)
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