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Minutes of JT-6 Color CRT's Committee
September 5, 2002
Radisson Hotel, Corning, NY

1.0 Committee Organization and Membership

1.1 Agenda additions, changes and priorities
1.1.1 Ed Mikoski distributed copies of the EIA/ECA Legal Guides for the conduction of activities through committees, sections, divisions, departments, affiliates, board of directors and board of governors. He emphasized the importance of following these guidelines during the meetings and commended the group for their adherence to the guide.
1.1.2 There were no additions, changes or priority adjustments made to the agenda.

1.2 Membership Changes
1.2.1 The Chair announced that his company has changed its name from Thomson Multimedia Inc. to Thomson.
1.2.2 Future representative change was announced. Phil Goldman will be retiring at the end of the year. Steve Milillo will become the designated representative for Corning Asahi Video Products.
1.2.3 Tad Kowalski of Matsushita is still working in the industry says Chairman Tolliver, but has not appeared at recent meetings. Also, Victor Lee from Panasonic (out of Secaucus, NJ) also indicates that he has conflicts in scheduling and has not been able to attend recently. An effort should be made to get them participating again.
1.2.4 Mikoski to check out to see if Sony might begin attending. They participate in the ECA ED&TD meetings.
1.2.5 The group thought that Hughes CRT might be a potential participant. It is believed that the group merged with a couple of others and is now known as Video Display Corp. They are active on the EIA Environmental Issues Council.
1.2.6 Discussion pursued regarding the status of Philips. Dave Rigdon was the representative to the committee in the past, and JT-32 was attended by Tony Otto out of Ottawa. Mr. Otto is evidently not working at the implosion lab there anymore. Chairman Tolliver believes that there is a representative on the ED&TD and he will speak with them about getting representation on the JT-6 committee.

1.3 Approval of minutes
1.3.1 The minutes of the 28 January 2002 meeting in Scottsdale, AZ were unanimously approved with the following modifications:
On the website copy of the minutes make editorial correction: change spelling of member company from "Thompson" to "Thomson".

1.4 Correspondence
1.4.1 IEC Safety Standards correspondence will be discussed at the JT-32 meeting following this meeting.
1.4.2 Mr. Mikoski mentioned that if any of the members desire quick access to a set of minutes, they simply have to go to the ECA website at http://www.ec-central.org or go to the EIA website at http://www.eia.org and click on the ECA logo at the top of the page. The committee successfully complied and all had downloaded a set of minutes for the meeting.

1.5 Committee Coordination
1.5.1 JT-31 met during May 2002 in Boston in conjunction with the SID show. They will be again meeting at NIST on 26 September.

2.0 International Standards

2.1 The Chair mentioned that there had been discussion internationally about the feasibility of a merger of IEC Technical Committees TC39 and TC47 merging. There were enough perceived differences that it is unlikely to transpire.

3.0 Standards and Document review

3.1 WTDS Electronic Registry Proposal
3.1.1 Mr. Mikoski announced that a listing of registrations received from the other participating organizations in the WTDS since the last meeting have been posted on the website. The group felt that this was very helpful. It was also agreed to keep the paper distribution of the registrations received from the other participating organizations. This distribution should go out to the JT-6 participants.
3.1.2 The Chair reported on the planned JT-6 Special Task Group meeting on the WTDS registration system. The meeting had not taken place since the last meeting due to multiple reasons. The group will attempt to meet later this year. A detailing of the selection lists for each item will be identified so a layout of the proposed web page template can be prepared. This template would be used by those member companies wishing to register a CRT in the system. The following comments surfaced in the discussion during the previous meeting in Scottsdale:
3.1.2.1 There should be a gate to either Reservation or Registration. The reservation option should be secured so access is only from the originator and EIA staff. Registration should be open to everyone.
3.1.2.2 What items should be listed in any drop-down boxes will be decided at the next Special Task Group meeting.
3.1.2.3 Each drop-down box should also have an "other" option with a blank to fill out.
3.1.2.4 Items that might be minimum required should be marked with an asterisk.
3.1.2.5 A 6-month time limit should be set for the reservation option with a notice before expiration.
3.1.2.6 There should be the option to save the document in the partially completed state so it could be completed in several visits.
3.1.2.7 It would be preferable to be able to copy a previously completed family registration so that minor changes to create a new registration would not require the necessary completion of an entire form where most of the information already exists.

4.0 Task Force for Machine readable Glass Markings

4.1 No action has taken place since the last meeting. The subject of machine-readable glass markings such as laser etching is a subject of interest. Due to priorities, the activity has been dormant, but will remain on the agenda and activate sometime in the future. The technology is perceived as being too costly to implement. There is also a problem as to where to place the markings for accessibility throughout the process. It would be a nice item to have for lot control. It would be nice if all the tube makers would agree to have it in the same location. Each company agreed to report on progress on this issue at future meetings. At present it is perceived as being worth the effort only if something goes wrong. When things are running right, it becomes a non-issue.

5.0 Surface Compression of True Flat CRT's

5.1 Schott was to make a presentation on this during this meeting of JT-6. Gregor Grosse since indicated he would not be able to attend the meeting. Factory trials are about to begin on the process. This process is basically shooting a laser in through the flat panel setting up an interference pattern. The spacing of the dots correlates with the stress pattern on the panel. In theory, one could use this technique to detect stress patterns and conceivably re-run a panel through part of the manufacturing process to reduce the indicated compressive stress.

6.0 New Business

6.1 Drop Testing
A short discussion pursued on the subject. Is there interest in the group on developing and industry standard for a tube drop test without packaging? The group indicated that JT-7 might wish to address the issue. Should their tests be updated? What does the TV set industry have to follow as a drop test? The question is being raised because Flat Panels can not typically stand the same drop as conventional CRTs. Dan Stamp is to work with the Chair of JT-7 to see if there is interest in addressing the issue.

7.0 Next Meeting

7.1 The Special Task Group on Electronic Registration plans to meet at EIA headquarters later in 2002. Chairman Swank to coordinate with Ed Mikoski.

7.2 The next full committee meeting is tentatively scheduled in conjunction with JT-32. To be held in Scottsdale on the date to be determined by JT-32. [JT-32 met the day subsequent to this meeting. It decided to meet on 03 FEB 2003 and have JT-6 meet on 04 FEB 2003. The back up dates will be 17 & 18 FEB 2003.]

8.0 Adjournment

8.1 The meeting was adjourned at approximately 11:00 AM

This meeting was conducted in accordance with the EIA Legal Guides and the Manual of Organization and Procedures.

Harry Swank, Chairperson
Signature on file

Edward F. Mikoski, Jr., Secretary
Signature on file

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