Envelope Patents (Class 313/477R)
  • Patent number: 6160344
    Abstract: A faceplate panel for a cathode ray tube includes an exterior surface having a substantially flat shape, and an interior surface having a concave shape. The interior surface curves in a direction toward the flat exterior surface with a curvature radius R.sub.p satisfying the following condition:1.2R.ltoreq.R.sub.p .ltoreq.8R,where R=1.767.times.the diagonal length of the effective screen of the panel. Furthermore, a peripheral thickness t of the faceplate panel at the diagonal end of the effective screen satisfies the following condition:B.ltoreq.t.ltoreq.A,where B is the peripheral thickness of the panel at the diagonal end of the effective screen when a curvature radius R.sub.p of the interior surface is 8R, and A is the peripheral thickness of the panel on the diagonal end of the effective screen when a ratio of the light transmission at the peripheral portion of the diagonal end of the effective screen to the light transmission at the central portion of the effective screen is 0.85.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Samsung Display Devices Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoon-hyoung Cho, Hyun-jung Shin, Do-houn Pyun, Kwang-sik Lee, Jae-jin An, Won-ho Kim, Yong-geol Kwon
  • Patent number: 6157125
    Abstract: A second film that contains a substance that secures the conductivity of conductive particles is formed on a first film that contains the conductive particles. The first film and the second film are sintered at the same time. Thus, a conductive anti-reflection film having a sufficiently low surface resistance with a sufficient transmissivity for a high transparency can be obtained with high cost performance. When the conductive anti-reflection film is used for a cathode ray tube, it can almost prevent the AEF (Alternating Electric Field), display a picture in high quality, and be excellent in cost performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hisashi Chigusa, Michiyo Abe, Katsuyuki Aoki
  • Patent number: 6150760
    Abstract: An implosion protection-enhanced cathode ray tube (CRT) includes an evacuated envelope structured from a display panel section, a neck, and a funnel section. The CRT comes with a reinforcing metal band for implosion protection clamped by thermal shrink-fit methods around the outer periphery of the panel. This implosion-protective band may be a metal strip of generally rectangular closed-loop shape. The strip is machined to have bent walls so that it resembles in shape an open-roof dome as a whole. Preferably, the band has its one edge as folded back or "curled" defining a "flip." Upon attachment to the display panel, the band is placed so that the "peak" of each bulged wall is offset in position from a mold match line of the panel toward the CRT neck. With such "band preoffset" feature, the implosion-protective band offers increased locking or clamping forces against the panel thus enhancing the CRT implosion protecting ability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasumasa Tsuchiya, Shinji Murooka
  • Patent number: 6140756
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube has a vacuum enclosure including a panel unit having a fluorescent film formed on its inner face, consisting of densely arrayed three color dot trios of a fluorescent material, a shadow mask being suspended in the vicinity of the fluorescent film; a neck unit housing an electron gun for emitting three electron beams; and a funnel unit for joining the panel unit and the neck unit. The panel unit has a diagonal diameter not more than 52 cm, wherein the effective display area on the outer face of the panel unit has a diagonal radius of curvature not less than 1,000 mm, and the dot trios of the fluorescent material are horizontally arrayed in a number not less than 1,450. As a result, it is possible to provide a color cathode ray tube which has a resolution corresponding to 2M pixels, but which has no display luminance irregularity and which can be adopted for use in a desktop terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuhiko Hosotani
  • Patent number: 6133681
    Abstract: An object is to remove unnaturalness of the picture caused by inferior flatness of the apparent screen and provide a safety-designed color picture tube device having a flatter apparent screen without deterioration of static strength of the picture tube. The upper half of the panel (the part above the Z-axis) shows the vertical-axis (V) section and the lower half (the part below the Z-axis) shows the horizontal-axis (H) section. The outside surface of the panel is in a convex form with respect to the Z-axis in the vertical-axis (V) section with a radius of curvature of ROV and is in a convex form with respect to the Z-axis in the horizontal-axis (H) section with a radius of curvature of ROH. The inside surface of the panel is in an almost linear form in the vertical-axis (V) section with a radius of curvature of RIV and is in a convex form with respect to the Z-axis in the horizontal-axis (H) section with a radius of curvature of RIH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Nakamura, Akira Inoue
  • Patent number: 6133686
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube panel has a glass face portion including a substantially flat outer surface facing a viewer and an inner surface on which a phosphor screen is coated. The inner surface is concavely curved with a radius of curvature R.sub.x in a direction of a horizontal axis of the cathode ray tube, and the following conditions are satisfied: ##EQU1## where W.sub.h denotes a horizontal width of an effective area of picture in the face portion, L denotes an optimum viewing distance, n.sub.1 denotes a refractive index of the face portion, and t denotes a thickness of the face portion at its center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Inoue, Yasuo Iwasaki, Minoru Hojo
  • Patent number: 6133675
    Abstract: A vacuum envelope includes a flat face plate having a phosphor screen formed on the inner surface of the face plate, and a flat rear plate opposed to the face plate with a side wall interposed therebetween. A plurality of funnels extend from the rear plate, and electron guns are respectively enclosed in the necks of the funnels. The rear plate and the plurality of funnels are integrally formed of one single plate glass and are joined to face plate through the side wall. A plurality of reference surfaces are formed on the inner surface of the rear plate, and ends of the plate support members are respectively fixed to the reference surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takashi Enomoto, Takashi Nishimura
  • Patent number: 6121723
    Abstract: A glass panel for a cathode ray tube having a substantially flat face portion and being safe and light in weight wherein the smallest value of the averaged radius of curvature of an outer face of the face portion is 25,000-50,000 mm and the outer face portion of the face portion has a compressive stress of 6-30 MPa in absolute value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsunehiko Sugawara, Toshihide Murakami, Takao Kuwashima
  • Patent number: 6111352
    Abstract: An explosion-proof film being good in visibility, scratch-resistance, and workability, and a cathode-ray tube using the film. The explosion-proof film includes a transparent plastic film as a base material; and a reflection preventive film having two or more layers, which is formed on one surface of the plastic film; wherein, of the two or more layers of the reflection preventive film, at least one has a light absorption function, and at least another has a conductive function. The explosion-proof film is stuck on a surface of a panel glass constituting a display screen of a cathode-ray tube, to thereby give an explosion-proof function to the cathode-ray tube, to achieve lightweightness of the cathode-ray tub, and to obtain the optimum visual contrast. The explosion-proof film may be formed of three or more layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hideaki Hanaoka
  • Patent number: 6094006
    Abstract: A cathode-ray tube including: a flat panel with an inside to which fluorescent material of Red, Green and Blue is applied; a funnel combined to a rear end of the flat panel; an electron gun provided in a neck part of the funnel and radiating electron beam; a flat tension shadow mask installed to the inside of the flat panel at regular intervals and having a plurality of passing holes formed for the passage of electron beams; a rail supporting the flat tension shadow mask for regularly maintaining interval of the tension shadow mask and a surface of the panel; and a magnetic shield shielding an external magnetic field, where the rail has a magnetic shield connecting part for installing the magnetic shield within the cathode-ray tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Sang-Yoon Park
  • Patent number: 6087767
    Abstract: A funnel (32) of an envelope of a cathode ray tube has a cone portion (40) and a deflection yoke (37) is mounted on the cone portion (40). The deflection yoke (37) includes a hollow magnetic core (44), and horizontal deflection coils (43H) and vertical deflection coils (43V) which are provided on an inner surface side of the core (44). Each of lateral cross-sections of an outer surface of the cone portion (40) and an inner surface of the core (44), perpendicular to a center axis of the funnel (32), has a substantially rectangular shape, and a gap between the lateral cross-sections of the outer surface of the cone portion (40) and the inner surface of the core (44) includes a non-uniform portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yuuichi Sano, Masahiro Yokota
  • Patent number: 6066914
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube comprises a panel having an effective portion. The outer surface in the effective portion of the panel is substantially flat or forms a slightly curved plane with a small curvature. The inner surface of the panel has a substantially infinite curvature radius in a direction of the longer axis in at least a central portion of the panel and is curved in a direction of the shorter axis. A difference in thickness of the effective portion of the panel between the central portion and the edge portions diagonally apart from each other exceeds 8 mm and does not exceed 20 mm, and the transmittance of the glass in the central portion of the effective portion is at least 70%. The particular construction enables the vacuum envelope of the color cathode ray tube to exhibit a mechanical strength high enough to sufficiently withstand the atmospheric pressure, though the effective portion of the panel is flattened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Norio Shimizu, Shinichiro Nakagawa, Masatsugu Inoue
  • Patent number: 6054805
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a cathode ray tube includes the steps of providing a stem with a flange having an outer diameter smaller than an inner diameter of a bottom end of the neck, performing a sealing operation between the stem and the neck in such a state that a bottom side of the flange is in a position, externally distant from the bottom end of the neck less than a thickness (mm) of the flange while internally distant from it less than twice the thickness of the flange, and moving the stem downward during the sealing operation so as to elongate the sealed portion of the neck, thereby preventing it from being deflated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Samsung Display Devices Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won-sueg Park, In-kyu Park, Chul-han Bae
  • Patent number: 6043599
    Abstract: A cathode ray tube device has a neck, a funnel, a face panel, an inner conductive film disposed on an inner surface of the funnel, a first outer conductive film disposed on an outer surface of the funnel, and a deflection yoke. The inner conductive film and the first outer conductive film act as a capacitor. A second outer conductive film for electric field shielding is disposed on an outer surface of the funnel. The second conductive film is disposed between the deflection yoke and the first outer conductive film in such a way that the second outer conductive film is separated from the deflection yoke and is not covered by the deflection yoke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takayuki Nakane
  • Patent number: 6025676
    Abstract: A face panel (12) constituting a part of a vacuum envelope (20) has a substantially rectangular effective area (10), the inner surface of which is formed with a phosphor screen (14). The effective area has a long axis (X) extending in the horizontal direction and a short axis (Y) extending in the vertical direction. The outer surface of the effective area is cylindrically curved with an infinitely large radius of curvature along the long axis and a predetermined radius of curvature along the short axis. The vacuum envelope has arranged therein a shadow mask (15) in opposed relation to the phosphor screen. A mask body of the shadow mask has a substantially rectangular effective surface cylindrically curved with an infinitely large radius of curvature along the long axis and a predetermined radius of curvature along the short axis thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinji Ohama, Norio Shimizu, Shinichiro Nakagawa, Masatsugu Inoue, Kumio Fukuda
  • Patent number: 6018217
    Abstract: Accelerated thermal upshock rates in the exhaust cycle of a CRT envelope are attained for CRTs, and especially a tension mask CRT having a shadow mask-supporting rail frame affixed to a flat, skirtless front panel. The corner walls of the CRT funnel are made with thinner walls to provide an increased compliance of the normally very rigid corners of the funnel-to-panel seal area. Panel-fracturing stresses generated in the funnel-to-panel seal area corners during upshock are thus alleviated allowing for faster CRT throughput during manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: Zenith Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Mark T. Fondrk
  • Patent number: 6016028
    Abstract: A color picture tube is provided with a glass bulb in which the external surface of the effective display area of the face plate is formed substantially flat and a color selection mask, having the curvature projected toward the face plate, provided opposed to the internal surface of the face plate within the glass bulb. Therefore, the external surface is flat, the mechanical shock resistance characteristic is high, a tension can surely be applied to the color selection mask and moreover vibration of the color selection mask can be prevented even if external vibration is applied thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yukinobu Iguchi, Ichiro Utsumi, Koji Saita
  • Patent number: 6013979
    Abstract: The invention relates to a display screen having a phosphor layer of a phosphor composition of a phosphor coated with an oxygen compound of one of the elements magnesium, calcium, barium, zinc and aluminium, and with colloidal SiO.sub.2 having an average particle size of 70 nm.ltoreq.d.ltoreq.130 nm. The invention further relates to a phosphor composition of a phosphor coated with an oxygen compound of one of the elements magnesium, calcium, barium, zinc and aluminium, and with colloidal SiO.sub.2 having an average particle size of 70.ltoreq.d.ltoreq.130 nm, and to a method of manufacturing the phosphor composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Friederike Picht, Michael Bredol, Joachim Opitz, Frans Vollebregt
  • Patent number: 6013978
    Abstract: Adherence of the phosphor screen to the face panel of a color cathode ray tube is improved by placing a UV-reflective filter on the inside of the face panel prior to photolithographic forming of the screen, in order to reflect transmitted UV light back onto those areas from which the light emerged, thereby effectively increasing the exposure dosage of those areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Robert L. Donofrio
  • Patent number: 6011350
    Abstract: An improved color picture tube includes a glass envelope comprising a faceplate panel, a funnel and a neck. The faceplate panel has four sides and four corners and includes a transparent rectangular faceplate, having a cathodoluminescent screen on an interior surface thereof, and a sidewall peripherally extending from the faceplate. The end of the sidewall facing the funnel has a seal land that is sealed to the funnel. The improvement comprises the sidewall seal land having a varied width around the periphery of the panel, wherein the widest portions of the sidewall seal land are located along the panel sides and the narrowest portions of the sidewall seal land are located at the corners of the panel. The width of the sidewall seal land is from 5% to 17% less in the corners of the panel than at the centers of the sides of the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Thomas Opresko, Richard Wayne Hutzler
  • Patent number: 5973448
    Abstract: A display screen for a cathode ray tube has an adjustable transmission curve in the visible spectral range of (.lambda.) between 380 to 780 nm. The display screen includes: a glass containing an oxide compound and being recyclable by melting under oxidizing conditions and without changing its characteristics and its color; the display screen having a transmission between 70% and 90% and at least one coating applied to the glass; the coating including the oxide compound; and/or, the coating including a component which forms an oxide compound in a melt of coated display screens which oxide component is likewise contained in the glass; and/or, the coating further including TiQ.sub.2 ; and/or, the coating further including titanium or compounds of titanium from which TiO.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Schott Glas
    Inventors: Johannes Segner, Martin Heming, Manfred Freundel
  • Patent number: 5964364
    Abstract: A glass panel for a cathode ray tube including a substantially rectangular face portion and a skirt portion. Further constituting a side wall of the face portion, a compressive stress layer having a thickness of at least 1/10 of the thickness of the face portion, is formed on each of the inner and outer surfaces of a useful screen area of the face portion, so as to satisfy 0.4.ltoreq..sigma..sub.di /.sigma..sub.ci .ltoreq.1.0, where .sigma..sub.ci is the compressive stress on the inner surface at the center of the useful screen area, and .sigma..sub.di is the compressive stress on the inner surface in the vicinity of ends of diagonal axial lines of the useful screen area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1999
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoya Shimizu, Hiroshi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 5962964
    Abstract: A cathode ray tube apparatus having a vacuum enclosure defined by a neck extending into a yoke portion and further extending into a panel including a screen, wherein a deflection yoke is fixed on the outer surface of the yoke portion which is formed between the screen and the neck of a vacuum enclosure. According to the invention, if the cross-sectional configuration of the yoke portion perpendicular to the tube axis at a reference deflection position is non-circular, e.g., barrel-like or rectangle-like, the aspect ratio of scanning of the screen is M:N, lengths LA, SA and DA are defined between a tube axis and intersection points of horizontal, vertical and diagonal axes and the outer periphery of the yoke portion at the reference deflection position, the following equation is established:(M+N)/2(M.sup.2+ N.sup.2).sup.1/2 <(SA+LA)/(2DA).ltoreq.0.86whereby sufficient anti-implosion strength is achieved with reduced deflection power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yuuichi Sano, Masahiro Yokota
  • Patent number: 5959399
    Abstract: After adhesive resin is applied to a surface of a flat panel, a front panel is glued thereto. One side of the front panel is contacted to the adhesive resin layer with the front panel tilted toward the surface of the flat panel. Then, the front panel is moved slowly to be close and parallel to the front panel. Finally, the front panel is pressed to the surface of the flat panel. Afterward, the adhesive resin is hardened. It is preferable that the thickness of the adhesive resin applied to the surface of the flat panel is decreasing from the side to which the side of the front panel is contacted, to the opposite side. By the above-mentioned method, an image display apparatus having multilayer structure comprising of a flat panel for displaying image, an adhesive resin layer and a front panel can be manufactured efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Nozomu Arimoto, Takami Okamoto, Mutsuo Masuda, Hideaki Maki, Atsushi Suzuki, Tsutomu Utsumi, Tetsu Ebihara, Junichi Taira
  • Patent number: 5955831
    Abstract: A CRT assembly prevents high tension leakage from a seal. The CRT assembly includes a conductive tape for electrically connecting an outer conductive coating of a funnel part of the CRT and a tension band around a panel periphery. An insulating tape is inserted between the conductive tape and a seal of the CRT assembly so that the conductive tape is separated from the seal of the CRT assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiro Shibata, Misanobu Uozumi
  • Patent number: 5952777
    Abstract: Disclosed is a color cathode ray tube including an in-line electron gun, in which a high-resistance film whose resistance R at T.degree.C. has a resistance-temperature characteristic represented by d(Log R(T))/dT.gtoreq.-0.01 at least at a temperature ranging from 20.degree. C. to 40.degree. C. and is approximately 5.times.10.sup.13 .OMEGA. or less at about 25.degree. C. is formed on the inner wall of the neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shigeru Sugawara, Takahiro Hasegawa, Fumihito Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5939821
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube includes a faceplate and a phosphor screen provided on the inner surface of the faceplate and including red, green, and blue phosphor layers. A color filter layer is interposed between the inner surface of the faceplate and the phosphor screen. The color filter layer includes color filters opposed individually to the phosphor layers of the phosphor screen and having colors corresponding thereto. Color filters of each color have a higher transmittance for light beams with wavelengths which are in a range of .+-.20 nm of the maximum emission spectrum wavelength of the phosphor layers of the corresponding color than for light beams with wavelengths which are outside the range and which are between 400 nm and 650 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takeo Itou, Hidemi Matsuda, Hajime Tanaka, Tomoko Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 5936339
    Abstract: A color image receiving tube comprising three color (red, green and blue) phosphor screens on an inner surface of a face-plate; wherein at least two of said three color phosphor screens are coated with pigments; and wherein said three color phosphor screens have a total reflective brightness less than 70% that of three color phosphor screens with no pigment coating. According to the above-mentioned constitution, a color image receiving tube having a higher emisson brightness and contrast is achieved as compared to a color image receiving tube having the same reflective brightness, where the reflective brightness is obtained by lowering the light transmittance of its face-plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hidekazu Hayama, Toshihide Takahashi, Masao Gotoh, Naoyuki Tani
  • Patent number: 5929559
    Abstract: A funnel of a cathode ray tube includes a yoke attachment portion on which a deflection yoke is mounted so as to deflect the electron beam emitted from an electron gun along horizontal and vertical axis. At least one cross section of the yoke attachment portion, perpendicular to the tube axis, has an inner contour which is substantially rectangular with four sides. The sides are defined by convexities curved toward the tube axis and each having a peak on the horizontal or vertical axis. The inner contour of the cross section faces the electron beam passage region with a substantially constant gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yuuichi Sano, Masahiro Yokota, Tadahiro Kojima, Eiji Kamohara
  • Patent number: 5925977
    Abstract: A glass bulb for a cathode ray tube in which a compressive stress is formed in a surface of a panel portion by physically strengthening; the maximum wall thickness t.sub.F of a face portion 7 on at least one axis of a long axis and a short axis of the face portion and the maximum wall thickness t.sub.R of a blend R portion satisfy 1.0.ltoreq.t.sub.R /t.sub.F .ltoreq.1.4; and the absolute value of a compressive stress value by physically strengthening in an area where a tensile vacuum stress is distributed after the assembling of the cathode ray tube is 7-30 MPa, whereby there is a small possibility of implosion of the glass bulb even when the wall thickness of the panel portion is made thin in comparison with a conventional glass bulb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsunehiko Sugawara, Toshihide Murakami
  • Patent number: 5889362
    Abstract: Color display tube comprising an in-line electron gun, a self-convergent deflection coil, a shadow mask having a pattern of apertures and a display screen having a pattern of phosphor dots. The aperture pattern consists of apertures arranged in vertical rows with a substantially equal vertical aperture spacing between the centers of each pair of consecutive apertures in each row. The vertical rows of apertures are alternately staggered through half the vertical aperture spacing. The electron gun generates three electron beams in the vertical plane through the axis of the color display tube. The phosphor dots are arranged in vertical triplets. Both the apertures and the phosphor dots are horizontally elongated. The horizontal spacing between the vertical rows of apertures is preferably smaller than 1/2*.sqroot.3 times the vertical aperture spacing. A better definition due to a reduced deflection defocusing is achieved with this color display tube, without Moire phenomena occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Piet G. J. Barten
  • Patent number: 5886463
    Abstract: The thin-type display device (1) has a transparent front wall (3), which is provided with a display screen, and a rear wall (24) which extends parallel to said front wall (3), and said display device comprises at least an electron source and a duct structure. The display device (1) is characterized in that the rear wall (24) and walls (22, 22', 22") of the ducts of the duct structure are manufactured in a single piece. Preferably, the walls (22, 22', 22") of the ducts widen in the direction of the rear wall (24), with the angle, which opposing faces of the walls (22, 22', 22") of the ducts make with each other, ranging from 1.degree. to 30.degree.. Preferably, the rear wall (24) further comprises at least an upright side wall (32), which is integral with the rear wall (24). Preferably, the walls (22, 22', 22") are made from a glass having a temperature interval between the operating temperature and the softening temperature of less than 420.degree., perferably less than 360.degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Johannes H.M. Damen, Hermanus N. Tuin, Johannes T.H. Leijten, Cornelus H.M. Van Bommel, Wilhelmus N.M. Selten, Martinus G.F.C. Sanders, Franciscus M.H. Van Laarhoven, Marcel Niestadt
  • Patent number: 5880557
    Abstract: Disclosed are an ultrafine particle film which is effective for the prevention of an electrostatic charge and reflection and can be applied to a large area at a low cost, a cathode ray tube to which the ultrafine particle film is applied, and image display plate to which the ultrafine particles is applied, and a process for producing the ultrafine particle film which comprises attaching a coating solution bath to a Braun tube surface and the like, introducing a containing solution containing anti-reflection SiO.sub.2 ultrafine particles and antistatic SnO.sub.2 ultrafine particles, and elevating up or down on the Braun tube surface and the like at a constant rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshishige Endo, Masahiko Ono, Toshihiro Yamada, Takao Kawamura, Hiromitsu Kawamura, Katsumi Kobara, Takeshi Araya
  • Patent number: 5877583
    Abstract: Apparatus for sealing a chamber having a liquid coolant used for dissipating heat generated by a CRT. The apparatus includes a chassis for housing the CRT, wherein the chassis includes a tapered fill port having an inner wall. In particular, the fill pole is in fluid communication with the chamber and is used for introducing liquid coolant into the chamber. A sealing element is then positioned in the fill port. The sealing element is fabricated from a material having resilient properties and is sized larger than the fill port such that a press fit is formed wherein said sealing element is urged against said inner wall to form a seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Charles A. Meglio, Hiroyuki Takezawa
  • Patent number: 5874801
    Abstract: A anti-reflection member provided with an antistatic function and an electromagnetic radiation shielding function and having a reflection preventing optical thin film excellent in adhesion with the hard coat layer.The anti-reflection member comprises a laminate composed of substrate, hard coat layer, and reflection preventing optical thin film having at least two layers, the first layer of the reflection preventing optical thin film provided in contact with the hard coat layer comprises a transparent conductive oxide film (for example, SnO.sub.2, ZnO, In.sub.2 O.sub.3, or ITO) formed by reactive physical vapor phase deposition, and the second layer of the reflection preventing optical thin film consists of a material (for example, SiO.sub.2 or MgF.sub.2) having a refractive index smaller than that of the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomio Kobayashi, Hideaki Hanaoka
  • Patent number: 5831381
    Abstract: A flat cathode-ray tube includes a three-component structure of a front panel, a screen panel, and a funnel which are jointed by frit paste. The funnel is inwardly projected from the front panel and the screen panel in the horizontal direction to form a level-difference portion for storing fused frit over the whole inner periphery of the joint surface, whereby occurrence of defected sealing can be decreased, and occurrence of resultant air leakage can be decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Miura, Yoji Kono
  • Patent number: 5814933
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube includes a front panel having a phosphor screen deposited on its interior surface. A contour of the interior surface is configured such that a radius Rx of a surface curvature of sections parallel to a horizontal axis and a radius Ry of a surface curvature of sections parallel to a vertical axis of the front panel are substantially constant, respectively, within a screen area of the phosphor screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Iwata, Mutsumi Maehara, Hiroshi Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 5777430
    Abstract: A funnel for a cathode ray tube, which includes a neck tube; the neck tube having an end enlarged to provide a flare zone; and the flare zone having an opened end for coupling a stem for supporting stem pins thereto; wherein the flare zone has at least an outer shape constituted by a tapered surface and a substantially straight surface continuous therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Ueda, Shinie Inamura, Yukio Morisawa
  • Patent number: 5763995
    Abstract: This cathode ray tube includes a vacuum envelope having a substantially rectangular panel, a funnel formed contiguous to the panel, and a cylindrical neck formed contiguous to the small-diameter end portion of the funnel, an electron gun assembly disposed in the neck to generate electron beams, and a deflection yoke mounted on the outer side of the funnel near the neck side over a predetermined range to form a magnetic field in the funnel, thereby deflecting the electron beams along the major and minor axes of the panel. Of the predetermined range of the funnel, at the neck side, the funnel is formed to have an outer shape with a section which is gradually deformed, from the neck side to the panel side, from a circular shape to a non-circular shape having a maximum diameter along a direction other than the major and minor axes. The funnel of the predetermined range is formed to have an outer shape with a section that satisfies a relation:0.3.ltoreq..DELTA.HV/L.ltoreq.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yuuichi Sano, Masahiro Yokota, Tadahiro Kojima, Eiji Kamohara
  • Patent number: 5760539
    Abstract: In a color cathode-ray tube, the effective area of the panel is formed to be smaller than panel projected area of the apertured area of the shadow mask. The effective area of the panel having straight outlines and right-angled corners to form a rectangular shape, and each of apexes thereof coincides with that of the panel projected area. To obtain the above rectangular effective area, the present invention adopts means for restricting exposing extent between the light source and the panel, in the exposure of black matrix (FIG. 6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Assignee: Orion Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young Ho Park
  • Patent number: 5760540
    Abstract: A CRT display device including an envelope having a faceplate of a predetermined light transmissivity, a luminescent screen disposed on an inner surface of the faceplate and electron beam producing means disposed within the envelope for exiting the screen to effect production of a luminescent image, a neutral density transmissivity filter means disposed adjacent an outer surface of the faceplate, wherein for viewing under high ambient light conditions the total transmissivity T.sub.t is 10%.ltoreq.T.sub.t .ltoreq.30%, and during operation of the display device the electron beam producing means produce a beam current density on the screen such that the contrast C.sub.4000 is 4.ltoreq.C.sub.4000 .ltoreq.8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Jan H. Duistermaat
  • Patent number: 5751103
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improvement in a color picture tube 10 of a type that has a glass envelope 11 with a substantially rectangular faceplate panel 12, a funnel 16 and a neck 14. The glass envelope 11 has three orthogonal axes, a major axis, X--X, substantially parallel to a wider dimension of the faceplate panel 12, a minor axis, Y--Y, substantially parallel to a narrower dimension of the faceplate panel 12, and a longitudinal axis, Z--Z, extending through the center of the neck 14 and the center of the faceplate panel 12. The funnel 16 has a main body portion 30 and a yoke region 32 which is sealed to the neck 14. The weight of the funnel 16 is reduced by reducing the thickness of a sidewall 31 within the main body portion 30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Thomas Opresko, Richard Wayne Hutzler
  • Patent number: 5751094
    Abstract: A phosphor screen is formed on an inner surface of a faceplate and has a plurality of regions which are dividedly scanned by electron beams emitted from a plurality of electron guns. Support units are arranged between the faceplate and a rear plate of an envelope so as to support the faceplate and rear plate under atmospheric pressure. Each of the support units includes a plurality of support members, each having one end abutting against the faceplate and the other end abutting against the rear plate, and a plurality of connecting members each connecting a predetermined number of support members and fixed to the faceplate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takashi Nishimura, Toru Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5698939
    Abstract: A display device having a cathode ray tube which comprises a display window. The radius of curvature of the inside of the display window along the diagonal (R.sub.diag) is greater than 1.6.times.1.767.times.D and smaller than 3.0.times.1.767.times.D, where D is the length of the diagonal of the display window. For the inside surface it holds that the quotient of the sagittal height at the end of the diagonal (21) and the sum of the sagittal heights at the end of the long axis (22) and at the end of the short axis (23) ranges between 0.75 and 0.95. In embodiments, the inside surface also complies with the formula 1.5<R.sub.x (0,0)/R.sub.x (x.sub.max, O)<4, where R.sub.x (0,0) and R.sub.x (x.sub.max, 0) are the radii of curvature along the long axis in the centre of the display window and at the end of the long axis, respectively. By virtue thereof, an improved picture display as regards reflection, local doming and raster distortion can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Leendert Vriens, Johannes C. A. Van Nes, Frank Gersmann
  • Patent number: 5691597
    Abstract: A shadow mask is arranged in an envelope and opposes a phosphor screen formed on an inner surface of a face plate. The shadow mask includes a plurality of mask pieces arranged in series. Each of the mask pieces has effective portions in which a number of electron beam passage apertures are formed. A plurality of mask frames supporting the respective mask pieces are fixed to the inner surface of the face plate. A plurality of stages are provided on the inner surface of the face plate. Each of the stages has a first end in contact with the inner surface of the face plate and a second end in contact with one of the mask piece, so as to define a distance between each of the mask pieces and the phosphor screen and to apply a tensile force to the mask piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takashi Nishimura, Toru Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5682077
    Abstract: A display device comprising a cathode ray tube is provided with a holder which comprises a faceplate and which is arranged in front of the display window. The space between the faceplate and the display window is filled with a liquid or a gel. An improved image display, in particular an improved contrast and a flatter image are obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1997
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Peterus H. C. Hanssen, Martinus A. M. Van Den Heuvel, Johannes M. G. Verhoeven, Henry A. Schweitz, Adrianus L. G. Van Den Eeden
  • Patent number: 5663610
    Abstract: When an outer surface of an effective portion 20 of a panel 20 is substantially spherical, a diagonal axis of the effective portion, a long axial effective diameter, land a short axial effective diameter are Sd, Sh, and Sv, the panel is shaped to satisfy the relationship, Dp/Sd<0.05, V<H<D, 2V<Dp<2H where Dp an amount of drop at an end of the effective diameter of the diagonal axis, H an amount of drop at the end of the effective diameter of the long axis, V an amount of drop at the end of the effective diameter of the short axis, the relationship, Ah/Sh<A/Sv where Ah a distance in the long axial direction of a thicker region on the long axis and Av a distance in the short axial direction of the thicker region on the short axis, wherein, in the thicker region, the panel has a thickness larger than the average thickness Ta of the effective portion, and the relationship between a maximum thickness T max and a minimum T min, (Tmax-Ta)>(Ta-Tmin) or .vertline.T max-Ta.vertline.>.vertline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1997
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masatsugu Inoue, Satoshi Tsunokawa, Takashi Murai, Norio Shimizu
  • Patent number: 5619095
    Abstract: A projection cathode ray tube having an improved target assembly (22) for minimizing target tilt and hot focus drift is disclosed. The target member (24) is supported by a shaft screw (37) secured to a face plate (20) of the projection tube by an adjustment pad (58) external to the tube in cooperation with a biasing spring (46) internal to the tube that exerts a tensile load on the shaft screw (37). A shaft screw tapered shoulder (36) and threaded mounting stud (34) engage a tapered seat (32) and threaded mounting bore (30) of the target (24), with the taper angle (.theta.) common to the shoulder and seat calculated to maintain constant contact between the abutting surfaces of the shoulder (36) and the seat (32) during thermal expansion and contraction of the target member (24) and shaft screw (37).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1997
    Assignee: Hughes Aircraft Company
    Inventors: Kenneth S. Salyer, Stanley J. Tofield, Anthony B. Harrup
  • Patent number: 5606217
    Abstract: Curve surface shapes Z.sub.X, Z.sub.Y on the long axis and short axis of at least the outer surface of a face plate are approximated by Z.sub.X =A.sub.1 X.sup.2 +A.sub.2 X.sup.4 +A.sub.3 X.sup.6 and Z.sub.Y =A.sub.4 Y.sup.2 +A.sub.5 Y.sup.4 +A.sub.6 Y.sup.6, and the curved surface shapes P.sub.X, P.sub.Y of at least the outer surface of the face plate panel at points (X=X.sub.1, Y=Y.sub.1) of effective screen boundary portions are given by P.sub.X =A.sub.1 X.sub.1.sup.2 /(A.sub.1 X.sub.1.sup.2 +A.sub.2 X.sub.1.sup.4 +A.sub.3 X.sub.1.sup.6) and P.sub.Y =A.sub.4 Y.sub.1.sup.2 /(A.sub.4 Y.sub.1.sup.2 +A.sub.5 Y.sub.1.sup.4 +A.sub.6 Y.sub.1.sup.6), wherein 0.6<P.sub.X .ltoreq.0.9 and 0.6.ltoreq.P.sub.Y .ltoreq.1.0 are satisfied. The curvature radii R (mm) of the effective screen boundary portion of the short side and long side satisfy the relationship: 2.0 (42.5 V+45.0)<R.ltoreq.4.0 (42.5 V+45.0), where the effective diagonal diameter of the face plate panel is V (inches).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryoji Hirai, Yuuichi Inoue
  • Patent number: RE36838
    Abstract: A glass panel 3 for a glass tube for a cathode ray tube has a flat panel face portion 7 and a reduced thickness while maintaining a sufficient strength without increasing a difference of brightness, and with less shrinking deformation due to the cooling and solidification of the glass panel.Compressive stress layers 20, 21 having a thickness of t.sub.o /10 or more are formed in outer and inner surfaces of the face portion 7 of the glass panel 3 respectively. The relation to the wall thickness t.sub.d of the central portion of the face portion to the wall thickness t.sub.o of a portion near an edge portion on a diagonal line is 1.0.ltoreq.t.sub.d /t.sub.o .ltoreq.1.2. Compressive stress layers 22, 23 are formed in outer and inner surfaces of a skirt portion 6 wherein the compressive stress value of the face portion 7 is larger than the compressive stress value of the skirt portion, and the compressive stress value of the outer surface 20 of the face portion is larger than that of the inner surface 21.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsunehiko Sugawara, Naoki Morihiro, Toshikazu Ikezawa, Toshihide Murakami, Yusuke Kobayashi