Abstract: A spark plug adapted, in use, for association with an axial passage (38, 38', 54). The spark plug includes an insulator member (21) having an electrode (23, 23') disposed centrally thereof and projecting outwardly from one end thereof; and an electrode member (28, 47) at said one end of said insulator member surrounding and spaced from said centrally disposed electrode. The electrode member is so shaped to define, with the insulator member a pre-combustion chamber (30) surrounding the centrally disposed electrode. The electrode member has an aperture (29, 49) to receive the extreme end of said centrally disposed electrode of said insulator member. The electrode member further includes a plurality of additional separate apertures (31, 50) adjacent the central aperture (29, 49), and which allow for fluid communication between the pre-combustion chamber (30) and the associated axial passage (38, 38', 54).

Abstract: A low-pressure mercury vapor discharge lamp according to the invention is comprised of a large-stem composed of a flare part and a pinch part to which two pairs of lead wires are pinch-sealed, filament coils mounted between ends of the pairs of lead wires, respectively, two inner tubes each of which is pinch-sealed to the pinch part of the flare-stem with one end opened and the other end enclosing each of the filament coils and is bent in a predetermined shape, and a glass lamp envelope having an end portion sealed to the flare part for forming an air-tight space while enclosing the inner tubes.

Abstract: In a color cathode ray tube having an in-line electron gun with overlapping CFF lenses, the accelerating electrode apertures are critically enlarged to deepen the saddles between adjacent apertures in order to balance the asymmetry of the lensing field caused by the forcusing electrode, and eliminate beam spot distortion at the screen due to field asymmetries in the focus region.

Abstract: The invention is an improved electrooptic assembly which comprises an electrooptic device mounted on a header and enclosed by a cover with a light-transmissive window mounted therein. The header includes a base plate with two major surfaces and a minor surface connecting the major surfaces with a segment of the cover attached to the minor surface. The minor surface is non-perpendicular to the major surfaces, thus allowing adjustment of the position of the window to achieve optimum emission or detection.

Abstract: A low-pressure mercury vapor discharge lamp comprising a glass tube in which a metal oxide or phosphate layer and then a phosphor layer are formed on its inner surface, in which during operation of the lamp, the lowest temperature of the wall of the glass tube along its discharge path is kept at 80.degree. C. or above.

Abstract: Getter assembly having an annular channel for containing getter material, the bottom of the channel being provided with an annular, integral, groove of bulb-shaped cross-section extending into said channel to lock with said getter material.

Abstract: An improved superconducting cyclotron (10) particularly useful for medical or therapeutic purposes is described. The vessel (105) for liquified gas surrounding superconducting coils (101, 101a) is provided with a capillary tube (200) joined to a semi-circular tube (123) leading into an exit tube (201) from the vessel which provides Joule-Thompson effect cooling upon flow of a portion of the liquified gas in the vessel into the semi-circular tube. The cooling maintains the liquified gas in the vessel in a subcooled condition to prevent boiling. The liquified gas from the exit tube can be used to cool the magnetic poles (103, 104) and then can be vented to the atmosphere or recycled. A special external magnetic yoke (102) configuration for weight reduction is described. Also described is a flexible hose (37) for supplying the liquified gas to and from the cyclotron which is mounted in a helical coil so as to allow up to a 360.degree. of rotation of the cyclotron.

Abstract: A synchrocyclotron with superconducting coils (1) is described. The coils are provided in a vessel (4) which is supported by low heat leak members (6) in a cryostat (7). A liquified gas (helium) is provided in the vessel to cool the coils so as to render them superconducting.

Abstract: A color display tube comprising a display window which changes into a skirt which is substantially parallel to the axis of the tube via a strongly curved part. The inner surface of the window changes into the inner surface of the skirt via a strongly curved surface having a radius of curvature r. The outer surface of the window changes into the outer surface of the skirt via a strongly curved surface. The display window comprises on its inside a substantially rectangular display screen and a shadow mask at a short distance in front of the display screen, which mask is supported in the corners of the display window by suspension means fixed in the skirt. In the proximity of the strongly curved transition the skirt has a thickness d. In a plane perpendicular to the tube axis the distance D between the boundary of the luminescent material of the display screen and the outer surface of the skirt throughout the circumference of the window is substantially equally large and for r.ltoreq.

Abstract: Cyclotron permitting a better utilization of the power when an internal target is used. According to the invention, vertical defocussing coils are arranged along a circular path across which is arranged the target. The elongated, curved coils have the effect of destroying the vertical focusing and consequently widen the beam before impact takes place with the target, so that the latter is not damaged. Application to the production of radioisotopes.

Abstract: The photosensitivity of a photomultiplier dynode to white light or infrared radiation is greatly reduced by coating the dynode with a layer of an alkali halide material having good secondary electron emission characteristics. A method of applying the coating to the dynode is also described.

Abstract: A low-pressure mercury vapor discharge lamp comprising a discharge vessel (2) which is sealed in a vacuum-tight manner and in which during operation of the lamp a discharge is present, while this discharge vessel contains a small quantity of an alloy (11) which forms with mercury an amalgam, which alloy is composed of bismuth, lead and silver.

Abstract: A color picture tube comprising three electron-gun systems, in which on the shadow mask or a part connected thereto, phosphorescent marks are attached to the rear side thereof. These marks can be used for checking the exact position of the electron beams during adjustment. By suitably delaying the chrominance signals it is possible to improve the E-W convergence.

Abstract: A display tube comprising in an evacuated envelope (1) a display screen (7) provided on the inside of a display window (2) in the wall of the envelope (1), which display screen (7) comprises luminescent material (13), and a multilayer interference filter (12) is provided between this material and the display window and comprises a number of layers (HL) which alternately are manufactured from a material having a high (H) and a material having a low (L) refractive index. If the filter is composed substantially of 6 to 30 layers, each having an optical thickness nd, wherein n is the refractive index of the material and d is the thickness, which optical thickness is between 0.2.lambda..sub.f and 0.3.lambda..sub.f and preferably between 0.23.lambda..sub.f and 0.25.lambda..sub.f, wherein .lambda..sub.f is equal to p x.lambda., wherein .lambda. is the desired central wavelength which is selected from the spectrum emitted by the luminescent material (13) and p is a number between 1.15 and 1.

Abstract: This invention provides a small metal halide lamp which has a power input of 100 W or less, provided with: an arc tube having a pair of electrodes spaced apart from each other and containing a rare gas, mercury, sodium halide and scandium halide therein; and an envelope for housing the arc tube. The mixing ratio of sodium halide to scandium halide based on weight is 3:1 to 10:1, and the total content of the sodium halide and the scandium halide is 10 to 40 mg per unit volume (cc) of the arc tube. At least one phospor selected from the group consisting of a manganese-activated magnesium fluorogermanate phosphor and a cerium-activated yttrium aluminate phosphor is applied to the inner surface of the envelope. In addition, a green-emitting phosphor is preferably coated on the inner surface of the envelope.

Abstract: A faceplate arrangement for a monochromatic cathode ray tube includes a compound filter disposed between the faceplate and a light scattering luminescent screen. The compound filter includes a multilayer interference edge filter adjacent the screen and a multilayer matching filter adjacent the faceplate. The edge filter reflects back into the screen light rays received from the screen which would contribute to halo, and the matching filter matches the optical admittances of the edge filter and the faceplate.

Abstract: Lumen maintenance and spectral output of fluorescent lamps is improved by applying over the phosphor a vapor deposited film consisting of yttrium oxide and at least one activator. The vapor is generated by electron beam bombardment of the activated yttrium oxide target and the film is most efficacious when applied to a thickness of from about 0.2 microns to about 1.5 microns.

Abstract: A self-adhering base for a cathode ray tube has a circular array of connector pin apertures, three of which are sized to create a force fit with their associated pins. A first high voltage pin aperture is sized smaller than its associated pin, and the remaining two apertures, which are located approximately equidistantly from the first aperture, are slot-shaped. The slots are oriented to have their long axes intersect the first aperture. Such a self-adhering base is useful both as an in-process base during tube manufacture, and also as a permanent base on the finished tube.

Abstract: The electric reflector lamp according to the invention has a blown glass lamp envelope, of which a concave internally mirror-coated wall portion, a translucent wall portion and a tubular wall portion constitute a single blow moulding. Within the lamp envelope is arranged a metal reflector body, which has a concave spherically curved reflecting surface facing the mirror-coated wall portion. Its axis and its center of curvature coincide with the axis and the focus, respectively, of the mirror-coated wall portion. A light source surrounds the focus. The lamp does not or substantially does not, emit stray light and concentrates the generated light very effectively.

Abstract: An electron-gun system is described in which the segments of the particularly long electrode neighboring the other electrodes are made of a material having a temperature expansion coefficient differing from that of the other electrodes.