Patents Examined by Diab Hamadi
  • Patent number: 5079476
    Abstract: A solid state field emission device having a cathode that is peripherally disposed about the anode and axially displaced with respect thereto. The device itself is encapsulated, readily manufacturable, and has comparable operating properties, vis-a-vis one another when manufactured in quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1992
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert C. Kane
  • Patent number: 5077530
    Abstract: A modulator circuit for a betatron includes an independent low voltage D.C. powder supply, an intermediate low voltage capacitor connected to one side of the betatron winding, and a high voltage capacitor connected to the other side of the betatron winding. Unidirectional current devices normally permit current flow from the voltage capacitor, through the betatron winding to the high voltage capacitor. Energy is thereby transferred from the power supply and low voltage capacitor through the betatron winding to the high voltage capacitor. Switches are provided selectively to reverse the direction of current flow and thereby discharge the energy stored in both capacitors into the betatron winding to excit the betatron magentic circuit. Upon discharge of the high voltage capacitor, the unidirectional current devices once again restore normal current flow, so that the energy stored in the betatron electromagnet is returned to the high voltage capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Felix K. Chen
  • Patent number: 5077504
    Abstract: A multiple section photomultiplier tube constructed as a matrix of several independent tubes in one envelope. The photocathode to dynode spacings are isolated by a separator configuration built with walls which interlock in cooperating slots, and each photocathode operates with its own independent dynode cage. One dynode in each cage is maintained electrically independent, and its connection is brought out of the envelope independently. This permits independent adjustment of the gain for each of the tube's multiple sections, so they can be adjusted to the same response for a standard radiation signal. The entire tube can then be used to monitor a large area for radiation, and will yield the same response over its entire cathode area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Assignee: Burle Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Fred A. Helvy
  • Patent number: 5075589
    Abstract: The emission properties of oxide cathodes, in which yttrium oxide, scandium oxide or a rare earth oxide is added to the electron-emissive material, are improved by using fine-grained yttrium, scandium or rare earth oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1991
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Petrus J. A. M. Derks, Carolus A. Smets
  • Patent number: 5072151
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1991
    Assignee: Videocolor S.p.A.
    Inventor: Paolo Spina
  • Patent number: 5072149
    Abstract: A cathode for an electron gun and its manufacturing method are disclosed. The cathode comprises thermoelectron emission substance layer composed of triple composite oxide of alkaline earth metal formed by thermally decomposing triple carbonate of alkaline earth metal such as barium, strontium and calcium, containing a fourth substance. The fourth substance consists of scandium nitrate or indium nitrate so that the fourth substance can be uniformly dispersed into the thermoelectron emission substance layer, and thus the thermoelectron emission characteristics and durability of the cathode can be remarkably enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1991
    Assignee: Samsung Electron Devices Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: An-sub Lee, Kyung-cheon Sohn
  • Patent number: 5066886
    Abstract: A thermally respective, monometallic article is isclosed which obviates the need for bonding of dissimilar metals as in a bimetal. The thermally responsive article is formed of an alloy or a metal and has at least two portions. The two portions are characterized by different coefficients of thermal expansion over a given temperature range, the difference being sufficiently large to result in deflection of the article when heated or cooled. In the preferred form of the article, the alloy or metal is present in a first phase in one portion of the article and in a second phase in the other portion. The process for obtaining the dual phase arrangement includes subjecting one portion of an intermediate form to cold treatment, cold reduction, decarburization, or a combination thereof, depending on the material used. A cathode ray tube employing the thermally responsive article as a temperature compensating device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1991
    Assignee: Carpenter Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Leslie L. Harner, Earl L. Frantz
  • Patent number: 5066885
    Abstract: An indirectly heated filamentary cathode capable of significantly reducing its resistance, uniformly emitting electrons therefrom and effectively elminating its insulation failure. In the filamentary cathode, a cathode substrate is constituted by a metal conductive layer of a cylindrical shape arranged so as to be contacted with and electrically insulating layer and a fine metal wire wound which are closely contacted together, so that an electron emitting layer may be deposited through the metal conductive layer on the electrically insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1991
    Assignee: Futaba Denshi Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Morimoto, Shigeo Itoh, Takeshi Tonegawa, Takahiro Niiyama
  • Patent number: 5066888
    Abstract: Cesium dispenser with a metal carrier (for example, Al or Ag) in which silicon-alkali metal compounds or germanium-alkali metal compounds are present along the grain boundaries of the carrier material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1991
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Cornelis Van Der Marel, Arnoldus D. J. Smoorenburg
  • Patent number: 5059860
    Abstract: An illuminating light source for a color image recording device comprises a glass tube having a predetermined diameter, a reflecting film coated on an inner wall of the glass tube excepting a part thereof by coating, a fluorescent film formed on the reflecting film coated on the glass tube, wherein at least one of a ultraviolet ray absorbing film and the fluorescent film is formed on the part on which the reflecting film is not formed thereby to maintain a ratio of a bright line to a fluorescence being not more than 1.3 when a fluorescent lamp current is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Sato, Izumi Takashima
  • Patent number: 5057739
    Abstract: A large area display has a plurality of cathode ray tubes mounted adjacent each other in X, Y matrix and each cathode ray tube includes a plurality of pixels arranged in an X, Y matrix on a front panel and each pixel comprises three horizontally extending stripe-shaped luminous elements aligned in the vertical direction and the front panel of the cathode ray tube is formed with a thinner portion adjacent its outer edge where it joins to the funnel to reduce the spacing between adjacent cathode ray tubes to a minimum to allow the pixels to be viewed over a wider angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Shimada, Ryuichi Kawakami, Takehisa Natori, Koji Kanbayashi
  • Patent number: 5055737
    Abstract: A luminescent screen includes a screen plate containing a substance capable of emitting luminescent light in response to stimulating light applied thereto, and a regular array of convexes on one surface of the screen plate for trapping emitted luminescent light that is directed into the screen plate and for directing the trapped luminescent light toward a display surface of the screen plate. The brightness of the display surface is therefore increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1991
    Assignee: Pioneer Electronic Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Murata, Fumio Matsui
  • Patent number: 5053673
    Abstract: Structures and methods of manufacture for field emission cathodes having cathode tips of minute size, whereby a block formed of pairs of substrates each having a patterned thin layer of cathode material sandwiched therebetween is sliced into a plurality of sections, to obtain array substrates each having an array of exposed regions of cathode material. A metal layer for constituting electron extraction electrodes and corresponding extraction apertures is formed over these exposed regions and appropriately shaped, after first forming mask layer portions upon the exposed cathode material regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1991
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Tomii, Akira Kaneko, Toru Kanno
  • Patent number: 5051652
    Abstract: A panel with an anti-reflective multi-layered film thereon comprises a glass substrate, an electricity collector for leading static electricity which is formed by baking an electric conductive frit paste on the glass substrate, and has a rough surface, an anti-reflective multi-layered film formed on the glass substrate so as to cover at least a portion of the electricity collector and wherein the film includes an inner electric conductive layer to provide antistatic effect, wherein the thickness of the anti-reflective multi-layered film is less than the maximum height of the surface roughness of the electricity collector, and a lead terminal for earth provided on the outermost layer of the anti-reflective film and above the electricity collector, whereby static electricity produced on the glass substrate with the anti-reflective multi-layered film is collected at the electricity collector through the electric conductive layer so that the static electricity is led to the outside through the lead terminal for e
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1991
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Isomura, Tsunemitsu Koizumi
  • Patent number: 5051650
    Abstract: A film consisting of a fine powder of zinc oxide and titanium oxide and an inorganic binder is formed on the outer surface of a light source. The fine powder serves as an absorbent for ultraviolet radiation emitted from the light source. The film is formed on the outer surface by spraying a coating agent prepared by dispersing the above components in an organic solvent on the outer surface of the light source and heating and drying the coating agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1991
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Sumitomo Cement Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Taya, Keiji Hatakeyama, Kanehiro Saito, Mitsumasa Saito, Kazuhiko Osada
  • Patent number: 5049778
    Abstract: A tension mask color cathode ray tube includes a glass faceplate having on its inner surface a centrally disposed, rectangular screening area, and on opposed sides thereof a non-metal shadow mask support structure of predetermined Q-height. The mask support structure has a metal element embedded in the apex of the structure. The apex of the structure and the metal element are ground to define a surface for receiving a tensed foil shadow mask. The surface contains a metal portion to which the mask may be welded, and a non-metal portion which supports the metal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: Zenith Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond G. Capek, Lawrence W. Dougherty
  • Patent number: 5049779
    Abstract: A phosphor composition and a lamp having a phosphor film formed of the composition. The composition contains red, green and blue luminescence components. The blue component emits blue light by the excitation of 253.7-nm ultraviolet light. It has a main luminescence peak wavelength of 460 to 510 nm, and a half width of the main peak of a luminescence spectrum of not less than 50 nm. The color coordinates of the luminescence spectrum of the blue component falls within a range of 0.15.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.0.30 and of 0.25.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.0.40 based on the CIE 1931 standard chromaticity diagram. The blue component has a spectral reflectance of not less 80% at 380 to 500 nm, assuming that a spectral reflectance of a smoked magnesium oxide film is 100%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: Nichia Kagaku Kogyo K.K.
    Inventors: Yuji Itsuki, Keiji Ichinomiya
  • Patent number: 5047684
    Abstract: A tension mask color cathode ray tube includes a glass faceplate having on its inner surface a centrally disposed, rectangular screening area. A shadow mask support structure located on opposed sides of the screening area has a mask-receiving member embedded therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1991
    Assignee: Zenith Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond G. Capek, Lawrence W. Dougherty, Andrew S. Parry
  • Patent number: 5043623
    Abstract: An electric lamp includes an arc tube assembly mounted in a lamp envelope including a reflector, a lens and a base for connection to an electrical source. The arc tube assembly includes an arc tube having a longitudinal axis aligned with the optical axis of the reflector, a light-transmissive shroud disposed around the arc tube, first and second clips attached to opposite ends of the arc tube, a connection member attached to the first and second clips such that the shroud is retained between the first and second clips in a fixed position relative to the arc tube, and upper and lower electrode supports for mechanically supporting the arc tube in the lamp envelope entirely from the base region and for coupling electrical energy to the arc tube. A support ring is positioned in a heel region of the lamp envelope and is attached to the connection member. The support ring cushions the arc tube assembly when the lamp is subjected to mechanical shock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1991
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: John A. Scholz, Robert S. White
  • Patent number: 5041755
    Abstract: A gas-discharge lamp has an envelope which accommodates a longitudinally extending high-pressure inner tube which is secured to current leads sealed in a stem of the envelope. At least one-half of the entire inner surface of the envelope has a reflector coating applied in such a manner that a plane drawn through extremities of the reflector coating runs in parallel with a longitudinal axis of the high-pressure inner tube. The envelope is of a cross-sectional configuration in which the distance from the axis of the inner tube to the surface of the reflector coating varies continuously. The ratio of the shortest distance (r.sub.min) from the axis of the inner tube to the surface of the reflector coating to the respective maximum distance ranges from 0.6 to 1.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1991
    Inventors: Vladimir M. Pchelin, Jury A. Arkhipov, Gennady R. Shakhparuniants