Abstract: A cathode-ray tube comprises a color-selection frame/mask assembly, the mask being held under tension by being welded onto the ends of the long sides of the frame, the frame/mask assembly being suspended within the tube with the aid of supports capable of serving to augment the mechanical rigidity of the sides onto which these supports are welded and to cause the long sides of the frame to approach closer to each other during the phases of manufacture at high temperature.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube comprises a color selection mask stretched in at least one direction, the mask comprising on its peripheral surface mask vibration damper means in the form of a coupled oscillator of the type comprising a central part attached to the surface of the mask and two wings extending on either side of the central part.

Abstract: An improved color picture tube (10) has a shadow mask (24) mounted therein in spaced relation to a viewing screen (22) thereof. The mask has a rectangular periphery with two long sides and two short sides. A major axis (X) passes through the center of the mask and parallels the long sides thereof, and a minor axis (Y) passes through the center of the mask and parallels the short sides thereof. The mask has an aperture array (35) that includes slit-shaped apertures (36) aligned in columns (37) that essentially parallel the minor axis and end at a border of the aperture array. The improvement comprises the column-to-column spacing (aH) parallel to the major axis including a pseudo-cyclic variation at least in a portion of the mask, wherein a complete cycle within the pseudo-cyclic variation occurs in the column-to-column spacings between no more than nine consecutive columns.

Abstract: A liner of a deflection yoke is provided with non-threaded sleeves. A slide pin is inserted into the sleeve until a head portion of the pin comes in contact with a funnel of a cathode ray tube on which the yoke is mounted. After adjustment, a wedge is inserted into a hollow part of the pin for expanding radially the wall of the pin. Thereby, the pin is locked within the sleeve. In this way, the position of the yoke relative to the tube is secured.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a metallized luminescent screen for a CRT. At least one phosphor layer is deposited (10) on an inner surface of a faceplate panel to form the luminescent screen. The panel containing the screen is then preheated (12) to a temperature equal to, or in excess of, a minimum film-forming temperature and prewetted (14) by applying water to the screen. An aqueous filming emulsion containing a copolymer of acrylates and methacrylates with an average molecular weight of from 250,000 to 500,000 is applied (16) to the prewetted screen and dried (18) to form a film layer. Next, a layer of aluminum is deposited (20) onto the film layer, and the panel, bearing the metallized screen, is sealed to a funnel by heating the panel and the funnel through a sealing cycle. The sealing cycle(22) has a first rate of temperature increase to a first temperature and a second rate of temperature increase, less than the first rate, to a second temperature.

Abstract: According to the present invention, an anti-glare, anti-static coating (37) applied to a reflective-transmissive surface (39) comprises a thiophene-based, electroconductive polymer and a siliceous material. A composition for reducing glare and for providing an anti-static property when applied to the reflective-transmissive surface (39) also is disclosed, as is a method of applying the coating (37) to an exterior surface (39) of a faceplate panel (27) of a CRT (21).

Abstract: A process of manufacturing a cathode-ray tube (21) having a faceplate panel (27) with an exterior surface (39) having thereon an anti-glare, anti-static, dark coating (37) is described. The process is characterized by the steps of (a) forming a substantially homogeneous initial carbon dispersion containing substantially equal parts, by weight, of carbon particles and an organic vehicle; and (b) combining a sufficient quantity of the homogeneous initial carbon dispersion with an aqueous solution of lithium polysilicate to form a final dispersion suitable for application to the faceplate of the CRT.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a phosphor screen (22) on an interior surface (23) of a faceplate panel (12) is characterized by the steps of: forming a light-absorbing matrix (24) on an interior surface (23) of the faceplate panel (12); applying an aqueous surfactant solution thereto to solubilize oily contaminants and emulsify undissolved oily contaminants of the matrix (24); and serially applying three light-emitting phosphors (G, B, R) to the interior surface (23) of the faceplate panel (12) to form the phosphor screen (22).

Abstract: An improved color picture tube, operable in a multistandard television receiver, includes a viewing screen, a shadow mask and an electron gun for generating and projecting three electron beams through the shadow mask and onto the screen. The screen includes phosphor lines that extend in a first direction. The electron beams are subject to deflection in the first direction and in a second direction, that is substantially perpendicular to both the first direction and the phosphor lines. The shadow mask includes elongated slit-shaped apertures that are aligned in columns that substantially parallel the phosphor lines. The adjacent apertures in each column are separated from each other by tie-bars in the mask, and the tie-bars in one column are offset from the tie-bars in adjacent columns in the first direction. The improvement includes the tie-bars in alternate columns lying on substantially straight lines that form an angle of approximately 2 degrees with respect to the second direction.

Abstract: An improved color picture tube has a viewing screen, a shadow mask located adjacent to the screen, and an electron gun for generating and directing a plurality of electron beams through the mask to the screen. The mask has a rectangular periphery with two long sides and two short sides. A major axis passes through the center of said mask and parallels the long sides, and a minor axis passes through the center of the mask and parallels the short sides. The mask includes slit-shaped apertures aligned in columns that essentially parallel the minor axis. Adjacent apertures in each column are separated by tie bars in the mask. The beams are scanable over the screen in scanning lines that parallel the major axis. The improvement comprises the length of the apertures, measured in the direction of the minor axis, being approximately equal to a multiple of the center-to-center distance between adjacent scanning lines, measured in the direction of the minor axis.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improved method of forming a shadow mask for a color picture tube from a flat apertured mask. The mask has an central apertured portion, a solid border portion and a skirt portion. The improved method comprises several steps. First, a flat apertured mask is placed beneath an upper punch. Next, the periphery of the mask at the skirt portion is clamped. The punch then is pressed against the mask to contour the mask in its central apertured and solid border portions. Thereafter, the periphery of the mask at the skirt portion is unclamped, and the solid border portion of the mask is pressed between a bead die and the punch to form a peripheral bead in the solid border portion of the mask. Finally, the skirt portion is swept back to substantially parallel a central longitudinal axis of the formed mask, while the border portion is held between the bead die and the punch.

Abstract: An improved cathode ray tube has a shrink-fit implosion protection band surrounding a portion of the tube envelope. The band includes a plurality of lugs for supporting the tube. The improvement comprises the band including a plurality of embossments arranged around the band. The embossments extend outwardly from the tube for a preselected distance to form cavities between the tube envelope and the embossments. The embossments include smooth outer surfaces to which the lugs are attached by welds. The embossments have indentations at the locations of the welds that extend into the cavities. The cavities have depths greater than the depths of penetration of the indentations into the cavities. By utilizing the embossments, the indentations, caused by welding, remain out of contact with the tube envelope.

Abstract: The improved color picture tube includes an evacuated glass envelope having a rectangular faceplate panel. The panel includes a shadow mask assembly mounted therein by support means located at the four corner of the panel. Each support means includes a stud attached to the glass envelope. The improvement comprises the support means also including, at each of the four corners, a first spring and a second spring. Each spring is elongated, with a first portion thereof attached to the mask assembly and a second portion thereof cantilevered away from the assembly. The first spring extends peripherally in a first direction with respect to the assembly, and the second spring extends peripherally in a second direction with respect to the assembly. The first spring includes an aperture within the second portion that engages a respective stud. A section of the second portion of the second spring overlaps the second portion of the first spring.

Abstract: This invention enables the control of the electron beam position within a picture tube. Control is achieved by the use of a magnetized strip which is formed into a ring around the neck and secured by an adhesive film. In one implementation of this invention the strip has at least one end tapered in thickness for preventing an increase in thickness at the ring overlap. The strip ends are overlapped to provide a continuous ring of magnetic medium for optimum control capability.

Abstract: A compensating coil for a scanning electron beam display such as a color television tube reduces undesirable deflection of the electron beams due to ambient magnetic fields, in particular the geomagnetic field. A first coil section has at least one winding disposed to encircle the tube neck, perpendicular to the Z axis. Upper and lower coil sections are disposed above and below the first coil section, each inclined forwardly along the Z axis and having a loop encompassing an area extending in the X and Y directions generally following the surface of an internal magnetic shield. The coil sections are coupled in series. The upper and lower coil sections have a wider X axis dimension proceeding forwardly along the Z axis, being keystone shaped. Lateral lengths of the upper and lower coils sections connect to the first coil section at lateral sides, such that the compensating coil is a continuous winding. The first coil section may have two passes for each pass of the upper and lower coil sections.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improvement in a cathode-ray tube that includes a rectangular faceplate having two long sides and two short sides wherein the ratio of the length of the long sides to the length of the short sides is approximately 16 to 9. The tube includes a major axis which parallels the two long sides and a minor axis which parallels the two short sides. The improvement comprises the ratio of the equivalent radius of the faceplate curvature along the major axis to the equivalent radius of the faceplate curvature along the minor axis being in the approximate range of 1.5 to 1.6, the ratio of the equivalent radius of the faceplate curvature along the long sides of the faceplate to the equivalent radius of faceplate curvature along the major axis being in the approximate range of 1.12 to 1.

Abstract: An improved color picture tube includes an evacuated envelope having a rectangular faceplate panel. The panel includes a viewing screen on an inner surface thereof and a shadow maskframe assembly mounted therein by support means located at the four corners of the panel. The shadow mask-frame assembly includes an apertured shadow mask and a peripheral frame to which the mask is attached. The frame has two flanges arranged in an L-shaped cross-section. The support means are attached to the corners of the frame. The improvement comprises the frame being formed by four sections that are welded together at their ends. Each section includes a side of the frame and two angled corners of the frame at each end of each section. The sections overlap each other at their ends, with both of the flanges of each section in surface-to-surface contact with each other.