Abstract: To avoid the use of adhesives or notched parts when winding the non-radial layers of a cathode tube deflector, first a radial layer with a wide pitch is wound. This first radial layer then presents notches for winding the folllowing layers of the non-radial coil.

Abstract: A self converging deflection yoke includes saddle coils having tabs mounted on or, alternatively, spaces formed in the windings. The tabs or spaces are located intermediate a gun end and a screen end of the deflection yoke. The tabs or spaces correct misconvergence at, the 2:30, 4:30, 8:30 and 10:30 hour points of a crosshatch pattern.

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: A deflection yoke arrangement with geometry correction includes horizontal and vertical deflection coils for scanning a raster pattern on a phosphor screen of a cathode ray tube. A support housing suitable for positioning about the neck of the cathode ray tube contains the coils and has a front rim formed with a plurality of slots near the outer periphery. A plurality of brackets formed from magnetically permeable material are located in corresponding ones of the slots. Each bracket comprises two flat end sections joined to opposite sides of a flat central part at substantially right angles thereto. One of the flat end sections of each bracket collects magnetic flux generated by the coils and channels the flux via the central part to the other end section. The plurality of brackets shape the deflection magnetic field in the region about the front rim to provide the geometry correction.

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.

Abstract: The invention concerns a process and a device ensuring the fixation on the neck of a cathode tube of the deflection yoke of the tube. According to the invention, the deflection yoke 3 is fixed after its positioning has been determined between a fixed abutment 9 which may be adjustable in position and an elastic abutment 6 which presses the yoke 3 against the abutment 9. The invention applies especially to tubes adapted to be fitted to color television receiver appliances.

Abstract: The invention concerns a process and a device ensuring the fixation on the neck of a cathode tube of the deflection yoke of the tube. According to the invention, the deflection yoke 3 is fixed after its positioning has been determined between a fixed abutment 9 which may be adjustable in position and an elastic abutment 6 which presses the yoke 3 against the abutment 9. The invention applies especially to tubes adapted to be fitted to color television receiver appliances.

Abstract: The invention refers to a process and a machine making it possible to achieve improved winding of turns of electrical wire on a cathode ray tube deflection ring. According to the invention, the machine includes three axes X, Y, Z with motor means. The winders 12 rotate around axis Z to achieve turns of winding. They are supported by a rotatable column 11 around axis X to the winding plane. The deflecting ring 15 is mounted pivotally around axis X on a fixed support 4. The machine also includes pairing means for controlling electric motor means 5, 14. It is able to perform windings of desired incline without reducing the work speed of the winders 12.

Abstract: A process of analysis of convergence along two orthogonal components of the three guns in a color television tube with ganged guns involves, for example, placing an analysis slit 20 in front of the screen of the cathode-ray tube in order to observe at least three luminophore columns 15 of different colors in full width, of causing a luminous line of a single color to pass by, turning on only the corresponding gun in front of said slit, and of measuring the current in the deviator of the cathode-ray tube for which the maximum light intensity is observed through the slit, and of beginning these operations again for each of the three colors, the measured values making it possible to deduce the convergence gaps of the beams at the placement of the slit. The invention allows automatic convergence correction of the cathode-ray tube.

Abstract: The blocking voltage of an electron gun is corrected by periodically removing an input video signal and driving a cathode with a DC stabilizing voltage. A pulse perturbation is impressed upon a control grid and the cathode momentarily conducts more heavily to exceed a predetermined threshold corresponding to the limit of a black CRT picture. A feedback loop detects a response signal from the perturbation of cathode current and stores the response signal in a memory, the latter determining the corrected blocking voltage during normal operation of the gun.

Abstract: Improvements to combined power supply and horizontal deflection devices in a television receiver.According to the invention, the line transformer includes a winding W.sub.1 for maintaining an oscillation circuit including the deflector Ly of the cathode-ray tube and a winding W.sub.2 which may be connected to a power supply source E through a controlled switch I.sub.2 ; the winding W.sub.1 is not effectively put into service for the sweep until a switch I.sub.3 or I'.sub.3 using a diode D'.sub.3 with a relatively long recovery time and operating in phase opposition with respect to I.sub.2 is closed, so that the temporary short-circuit of winding W.sub.1 during a sweep trace is not felt by the power supply source E.The invention mainly permits powering all the circuits of a television set from a single transformer, the line transformer.

Abstract: A shadow-mask cathode ray tube for the visualization of colors, such as in television, where the peripheral edge of the mask is rigid with the frame fixed on the tube plate and is in contact with said frame only in areas spaced from each other. The frame is formed with bosses providing its contact in reduced cross-section areas spaced from each other with the edge of the mask.

Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for generating a blanking voltage for electron guns in cathode ray tubes, as used, for example, in color television displays. Apparatus utilizes circuitry including a video voltage amplifier having a control input. A feedback loop, connected between the junction of the cathode and video voltage amplifier output at one terminal, and the control input at the other, modifies the blanking voltage in response to samples of the cathode current taken when the video signal is zero.

Abstract: An exposure lighthouse for use in printing screen structures for cathode-ray tubes comprising a lens assembly including a diffracting optical element, a main intensity-correction filter and a supplemental intensity-correction filter in series with the main filter. Both of the filters comprise preformed carbon particles in a light - transmitting binder.