Abstract: Shadow mask is suspended from glass envelope by spring steel suspension elements which are connected to the envelope by metal connectors which are plastically deformed at low temperatures, avoiding thermal stresses on the glass.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube deflection unit comprising a field coil system with two diametrically opposite field deflection coils and a line coil system with two diametrically opposite line deflection coils. Each coil has a front end segment (15, 18), a rear-end segment (16, 19) and conductors (17, 20) extending between such segments.

Abstract: The deflection yoke apparatus has horizontal deflection coils, vertical deflection coils and a deflection core, and the horizontal deflection coils are electrically insulated from the vertical deflection coils by a coil separator. The coil separator is provided with an expanded chamber for accommodating the bend part of the horizontal deflection coil, and the first and second auxiliary magnetic field generating means is provided on the wall of the expanded chamber. The compensating current of a vertical deflection cycle is supplied to this means to compensate misconvergence.

Abstract: A fluoroescent display panel has at least one indirectly heated cathode which is easy to manufacture, at a low cost. The cathode produces a uniformly lit display across the entire read out. An indirectly heated cathode comprises a metal sleeve having a layer of electron emissive material. A heating wire passes through the metal sleeve. The metal sleeve and the heating wire are electrically isolated from each other by an insulative layer on the heating wire, except at one portion where the metal sleeve and the heating wire are mechanically and electrically connected to each other.

Abstract: Improved bonding in a cathode ray tube (CRT) between its glass funnel and glass faceplate is achieved by applying a thin base layer of a priming agent to an aft portion of the faceplate adjacent to the periphery thereof as well as to the forward edge of the funnel prior to positioning of the CRT components in contact. An intermediate layer of sealing glass frit is then deposited upon either of the aforementioned layers of the priming agent and adheres to the two priming agent layers without forming a re-entrant geometry. By "priming" the two abutting glass surfaces over an area which extends beyond the area of high loading with the priming agent prior to joining these surfaces, bond integrity is ensured and high stress concentration in the seal is avoided. The sealing glass frit may be comprised of a conventional glass cement paste and is also used as the priming agent in a preferred embodiment.

Abstract: A cathode-ray tube includes a rectangular faceplate which has an exterior surface having curvature along both the minor and major axes. The exterior surface of the faceplate includes a rectangular contour near its periphery which substantially lies in a plane which is perpendicular to the central longitudinal axis of the tube.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube electromagnetic deflection unit comprising a support (4) having a flange (8) at its constricted end (5) which has a tangential groove into which radial grooves (14) merge. Two sets of deflection coils (18, 19) are wound on the support (4), the turns thereof running through the radial grooves (14) and the turns of one set bending into the tangential groove. The coils of the coil system 18 are for line deflection, and the two halves thereof are wound in the opposite winding sense and are energized during operation in such a manner that the highest voltage in both coils occurs at the coil turns adjacent plane of separation between the two coils and the lowest voltage occurs at the coil turns most remote from such plane of separation.

Abstract: An arc lamp of the type having an internally integral reflector including an electrode which has an inlet passageway which deliver fluid to a point below the electrode tip and also has an outlet passageway to withdraw fluid from the electrode. The arc lamp further includes a housing which has an internal cavity which houses the body of the arc lamp. The internal cavity of the housing has a spiral passageway which directs fluid around the body of the lamp for improved cooling efficiency.

Abstract: A vacuum-to-air interface (10) is provided for a high-powered, pulsed particle beam accelerator. The interface comprises a pneumatic high speed gate valve (18), from which extends a vacuum-tight duct (26), that termintes in an aperture (28). Means (32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48) are provided for periodically advancing a foil strip (30) across the aperture (28) at the repetition rate of the particle pulses. A pneumatically operated hollow sealing band (62) urges foil strip (30), when stationary, against and into the aperture (28). Gas pressure means (68, 70) periodically lift off and separate foil strip (30) from aperture (28), so that it may be readily advanced.

Abstract: In a color picture device having a tube envelope and an in-line type electron gun assembly disposed in a neck section of the tube envelope, a deflection unit includes a pair of first deflecting coils for deflecting three electron beams in a horizontal scanning direction coinciding with the in-line arranged direction, and a pair of second deflecting coils for deflecting the electron beams in a vertical scanning direction perpendicular to the horizontal scanning direction. A pair of permanent magnet plates is arranged individually between a funnel section and the second deflecting coils, and adapted to form a deflection magnetic field of a direction opposite to the vertical scanning direction.

Abstract: A system for post analysis acceleration of an ion beam to a selected energy without beam blow-up. A group of electrodes extablish a non-linear voltage gradient along the beam axis for accelerating and then decelerating the beam to the selected energy level with focusing.

Abstract: A multicolor luminescent article comprises a layer of a first luminescent semiconductor having a discontinuous layer, pattern or image comprised of a second luminescent semiconductor on at least one surface thereof.

Abstract: This invention provides an improved electric lamp with a self-mounting frame member for mounting a light source capsule within an outer envelope. The improvement lies in the lamp's inclusion of means for substantially preventing rotational movement of the frame member when the frame member is mounted and secured by a base member. Rotational movement preventing means is located about the outer envelope's neck portion and forms part of the frame member. Rotational movement preventing means includes a grooveless brim on the neck portion, a pair of grooves on the outer surface of the neck portion and a frame member with mounting means positioned about the brim and mated with the grooves of the neck portion.

Abstract: To provide for pre-heating of low-power small metal halide high-pressure charge lamps (1), at least one of the electrodes (16) is formed as a heater wire by introducing a thin tungsten wire, in V shape, into one end of the elongated bulb (2), and carrying out each one of the legs of the V, separately, and electrically insulated within an end press seal (4) by parallel foils (10, 11) externally of the bulb. Continuous heater current is caused to flow through the V-shaped wire electrode, thus heating the discharge vessel, to complete vaporization of the fill. To start the lamp, the two legs of the V, of the heater electrode, are connected in parallel and across the lamp operating voltage and then a high-voltage pulse is applied between the V-shaped heater electrodes, for example between one or both of the external conductors and the other electrode (9). Light output, upon starting, is substantially accelerated from a lamp of this type with respect to non-preheated lamps.

Abstract: A computer touch panel filter assembly that absorbs and grounds radiation induced currents. The panel assembly is used in combination with a computer screen having light beams that intersect in front of touchable regions to provide an indication of the location touched when the light beams are interrupted.

Abstract: In a color picture tube, curvature of outside face of said face panel is defined by ##EQU1## wherein Z is a distance in a direction of tube axis from an X-Y plane tangential at the center of the face, r is a distance from the center of the face panel to said point therealong, and A and B are constants of positive integers, respectively; thus the face panel excludes point of inflection and the reproduced picture thereon has a flat appearance, without trouble of undesirable doming of shadow mask.

Abstract: Low-pressure mercury vapor discharge lamp having a discharge vessel sealed in a gas-tight manner and filled with mercury and a rare gas. The discharge vessel comprises four parallel extending straight tubular portions positioned in a square which are connected together by means of coupling joints to form a discharge passage. Two electrodes arranged at the ends of two tubular portions (4, 6) and are positioned side-by-side on one end of the discharge vessel. A discharge arc is maintained between the two electrodes through the discharge passage during lamp operation. A supporting member the four outer walls of the tube parts located between the four table parts engages the four outer walls of the tube parts near the ends of the tube parts remote from the electrodes.

Abstract: To prevent carburation of a tungsten filament, the fill within the bulb is ormed by an inert gas, for example xenon or krypton, and an additive which is formed by a single halogenated hydrocarbon in which iodine is bound, and further includes at least one atom of bromine or chlorine; suitable additives are: CH.sub.2 ClI, CHCl.sub.2 I, CHClI.sub.2, CHClBrI, CH.sub.2 BrI, present in from between about 1.times.10.sup.-8 to 5.times.10.sup.-6 mol per cm.sup.3 of the internal volume of the bulb; particularly preferred are chlor iodine methane (CH.sub.2 ClI), present in about 1-3.times.10.sup.-7 mol per cm.sup.3 of the internal volume of the bulb.

Abstract: An LED display particularly adapted to be used as part of a design on articles of clothing such as tee-shirts, includes a flexible circuit board to which individual LED dies are secured in desired position. The individual dies are electrically connected to traces on the circuit board and are encapsulated on the board so as to protect the individual dies and connections and so that the encapsulating material forms lenses for the dies. In most instances, the display so formed will be completely covered with a protective layer of covering material having a design thereon and having transparent or translucent means over the encapsulated LED dies so that light given off by the LEDs is transmitted through the layer. Control circuitry is provided to supply power to the LEDs, preferably in a predetermined pattern, to cause them to illuminate.

Abstract: A spark igniter is disclosed. The igniter comprises a metal shell having a firing end which terminates at its lower end in an annular ground electrode, an insulator, a center electrode and a plurality of inserts embedded within and bonded to the metal shell. The insulator is sealed within the metal shell and has a central bore within which the center electrode is sealed and a surface extending inwardly toward the bore from the ground electrode. The center electrode has a firing end which is in spark gap relation with the ground electrode of the metal shell and is so positioned that a spark discharge between the firing end and the ground electrode occurs along the inwardly extending surface of the insulator. The inserts are composed of an oxidation and erosion resistant material, for example iridium, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, osmium, tungsten or an alloy or ductile alloy of one of the foregoing metals.