Patents Examined by Palmer C. Demeo
  • Patent number: 5017827
    Abstract: The disclosure concerns electron tubes. A tube such as a cathode-ray tube consists of several parts, namely the stem, the neck, the cone and the screen of the front face. To build a tube such as this more compactly while, at the same time, improving the quality of the fabrication, a new construction of the neck is proposed. In the prior art, the neck is a glass tube to which there is soldered a glass stem through which pass the connection terminals towards the various electrodes, internal to the tube. Here, the neck is built in the form of a stack of alternating metallic rings and ceramic rings. The metallic rings are used for the supporting of and electrical connection to the internal electrodes. The ceramic rings are used to insulate the metallic rings. The brazings between metallic rings and ceramic rings provide for vacuum tightness. The base of the tube is a ceramic washer without drillings other than lateral ones for the connections to pass through.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1991
    Assignee: Thomson-CSF
    Inventors: Umberto Rossini, Pierre Simonin, Christine Tremblay
  • Patent number: 5015910
    Abstract: A novel electron gun for the color picture tube is disclosed, which comprises at least a cathode for emitting three electron beams in alignment and focusing electrodes for focusing the electron beams emitted from the cathode. The forcusing electrodes include first and second focusing electrodes for passing electron beams. The first focusing electrode includes a plurality of perpendicular plate electrodes arranged in such a manner as to sandwich the electron beams along the direction of arrangement thereof after being passed through the passage apertures and rim electrodes surrounding the perpendicular plate electrodes. The second focusing electrode includes a couple of horizontal plate electrodes arranged in such a manner as to hold the electron beams along the direction perpendicular to the direction of arrangement thereof after being passed through passage apertures and extending in opposed relationship with the perpendicular plate electrodes and rim electrodes along tht electron gun axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Takahashi, Sakae Ishii, Masayoshi Furuyama, Shoji Shirai
  • Patent number: 5013968
    Abstract: Metal halide vapor arc lamps for reprographic and projection processes emitting in the blue, green and red bands with excellent primary color separation and having long life and lumen maintenance contain mercury, zinc, indium, lithium, thallium, a halogen and a rare earth metal such as lanthanum, scandium or dysporsium in the arc tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1991
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Timothy D. Russell, Carl H. Hess, Paul G. Hlahol, Charles N. Stewart
  • Patent number: 5013966
    Abstract: A discharge lamp comprises a substantially straight glass bulb having a discharge gas charged therein and an electrode provided at each longitudinal end portion of the bulb on the outer surface thereof. A high frequency voltage is applied across the electrodes of the discharge lamp. Each end portion has an outer surface area per unit length of the bulb larger than that at light emitting portion of the bulb. The outer surface area may be uneven or in the shape of ridges and furrows at the end portions to create a large surface area, the electrodes being configured to the ridges and furrows. The end portions may have a larger diameter than that of the light emitting portion of the bulb so that they have a larger surface area contacting with the bulb. Each of the electrodes may have a narrow belt-shaped elongate portion on the outer surface of the bulb extending longitudinally within toward the middle portion, thereby allowing use of a lower discharge voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1991
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeo Saikatsu, Takehiko Sakurai, Yoshinori Anzai
  • Patent number: 5012237
    Abstract: An improved electrostatic angle resolver is disclosed which eliminates capacitive coupling surfaces from rotor and stator device components of the invention, thus reducing over all space necessary for the resolver. Additionally, the concept disclosed also eliminates the need for rotor guarding techniques to prevent signal loss due to stray and parasitic capacitances. Essentially, current required to maintain capacitor plates at a particular voltage is monitored, and the variations in the current are transformed into voltages, and supplied to an amplifier which, in turn, provides isolation between the sensor, and associated angular decoding circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1991
    Assignee: Cummins Electronics Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark A. Rosswurm
  • Patent number: 5010272
    Abstract: To provide a compact structure in which a base core (17, 48) can be fitted nto a metallic base sleeve (9, 40) to which a holding structure (4, 7, 34) of a halogen incandescent lamp can be attached, the base core or the sleeve are formed with interengaging rim - engagement surfaces, and the base sleeve, further, is formed with projecting tabs which engage over or into the base core, through slits and recesses formed therein, to hold the base core in position; the base sleeve is additionally formed with a positioning or locating ring or plate (10, 44) so that the lamp holding structure (4, 7, 34) can be welded to the base sleeve to accurately position the filament of the lamp with respect to the locating plate or ring so that the filament can be located with respect to the focal point of a reflector, the tabs permitting compensation for tolerances in the base core, which may be substantial when made of ceramic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1991
    Assignee: Patent Treuhand Gesellschaft fur elektrische Gluhlampen mbH
    Inventors: Fritz Eckhardt, Peter Helbig, Walter Schoenherr
  • Patent number: 5010271
    Abstract: A color picture tube includes a screen and an improved inline gun for generating and directing three inline electron beams along separate paths toward the screen. The gun includes a plurality of cathodes and at least six electrodes longitudinally spaced from the cathodes. The improvement comprises the first, second and fourth electrodes from the cathodes being of materials having lower coefficients of thermal expansion than the coefficients of thermal expansion of the materials of the other electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1991
    Assignee: RCA Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Loren L. Maninger, Bruce G. Marks
  • Patent number: 5006751
    Abstract: An improved bulb and adapter socket is provided with a ribbed base wherein the ribs are equally spaced about an external surface of the base and receivable within elongate slits within an adapter socket. A spring ring is receivable within an annulus within the base to effect electrical contact with the base, wherein the adapter and bulb are receivable within a conventional threaded electrical socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1991
    Inventor: Rodney G. Marshall
  • Patent number: 5006754
    Abstract: In a color display tube of the so-called "in-line" type, the magnetic field which extends substantially parallel to the plane through the beam axes is distorted so as to be locally pincushion-shaped by means of field shapers at the end of the electron gun system. This effects coma correction for the rasters produced by the three electron beams at the display screen, without causing substantial deflection defocusing of the side beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1991
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Piet G. J. Barten
  • Patent number: 5006755
    Abstract: To improve mass production of fluorescent lamps, and introduction of merc within the interior thereof, the lamp mount includes an electrically conductive strip, band or wire secured within the vessel, to which a heater wire (11, 31, 40) is connected, the heater wire being melt-connected to extend into the glass capsule, forming therein a narrow V, or U-shaped structure. Upon application of a high frequency field, the heater wire will heat and open the glass capsule in the region of the melt-through connection thereof, thus liberating mercury previously introduced into the glass capsule, for example in the form of a drop, a pellet of porous substance with mercury dispersed therein, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1991
    Assignee: Patent Treuhand Gesellschaft fur elektrische Gluhlampen m.b.H.
    Inventors: Horst Wittmann, Michael Dietrich, Erolf Weinhardt
  • Patent number: 5003222
    Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) display panel comprising a flexible substrate film for supporting an EL display unit, a lead electrode provided on an extended portion of the flexible substrate film, the lead electrode leading out of the EL display unit, an adhesive provided on the lead electrode formed on the flexible substrate film, and a wiring board for carrying a driving circuit for the EL display unit, the wiring board being connected to the EL display unit by the adhesive. The EL display unit is a thin-film type or a powder type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1991
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Junichi Washo
  • Patent number: 5003218
    Abstract: A color selection electrode is suspended in a color display tube from pins which are provided in the corners of the display window. The suspension means comprise a resilient element which is secured to the color selection electrode, and a slide plate slidably secured relative to the flat resilient element rigidly secured to the pin. During the suspension the position of the color selection electrode is adjusted, and the slide plate is rigidly secured to the resilient element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1991
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Johannes H. N. Gijrath, Jean Winters
  • Patent number: 5001384
    Abstract: Electric gas discharge lamp having a stem and a discharge vessel accommodated in an outer envelope. Resilient elements constituted by a bent wire piece are mounted on a free end portion to secure the frame and discharge vessel within the outer envelope. The bent wire pieces have a curved portion which engage the inner surface of the outer envelope which prevents scratching of the outer envelope during insertion of the stem frame into the outer envelope during lamp assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Florentinus L. M. Bens, Robert R. M. Delen
  • Patent number: 5001396
    Abstract: An arc tube including a tubular ceramic envelope; a chemical fill within the envelope; a seal button at each end of the envelope, the seal button having an aperture therethrough for receiving a feedthrough member; a feedthrough member having an electrode projecting therefrom passing through the seal button aperture and being oriented such that the electrode projects into the tubular ceramic envelope; frit material sealing the seal buttons into the ends of the envelope and the feedthrough members into the seal buttons; and means for interrupting the seal interface between the feedthrough member and the frit material around the total circumference of at least a portion of the feedthrough member. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the means for interrupting the seal interface includes a coating disposed around the periphery, or circumference, of the feedthrough member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: Richard A. Snellgrove, Elliot F. Wyner
  • Patent number: 5001389
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved cathode-ray tube. The neck of the tube envelope is closed at one end by a stem that includes a plurality of electrically conductive pins extending therethrough. The pins are interconnected to various electrodes of the gun by electrical leads that are welded to respective pins. The improvement comprises at least one of the leads having a bend therein that positions a nonwelded portion of the lead between a lead-to-pin weld location and the neck of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: RCA Licensing Corporation
    Inventor: Karl G. Herngvist
  • Patent number: 4996458
    Abstract: A laminated shadow mask assembly for use in a color picture tube including an evacuated envelope having a longitudinal axis and also having a phosphor deposited screen lying generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, which assembly comprises a finely perforated, laminated shadow mask having a plurality of apertures defined therein in a predetermined pattern; a support frame for the support of the laminated shadow mask; and expansion compensating couplings disposed around the support frame for connecting the support frame in position within the evacuated envelope with the laminated shadow mask held generally parallel to the phosphor deposited screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1991
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Hattori, Mabito Hanajima, Masaharu Moriyasu, Toshikazu Iwamoto, Kazuhiko Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 4994707
    Abstract: To reliably retain a filament (13) axially aligned in a bulb (2) of a halogen incandescent lamp, a first current supply lead (8) is shaped to engage the inner wall (14) of the bulb at spaced corners or bend points (16, 21, 22, 424), the corner or bend points being connected by connecting legs (17, 18, 425). The legs and corner points can be arranged in triangular configuration (FIGS. 1-3; FIGS. 10-13) or in cross shape (FIGS. 4-9), and the remote end (15) of the filament, weld or push-connected to the connecting legs or end portions of the current supply lead. The polygonal corner and bend point engagement with the inner wall of the tube provides for substantially improved resistance against vibration of the filament; the engagement of the first corner or bend point, which bends the upper portion of the current supply lead towards the interior of the bulb and towards the filament, upon vibration, results in axial deflection, thereby maintaining the filament in axial position and preventing lateral excursion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignee: Patent-Treuhand Gesellschaft fur elektrische Glum.b.H.
    Inventor: Roland Stark
  • Patent number: 4994705
    Abstract: A water-cooled low pressure gas or mercury vapor lamp which utilizes a cooling system to keep the lamp cool in the area where useful radiation is emitted. This is accomplished by means of a cooling chamber directly adjacent to the gas or mercury vapor discharge chamber. A cooling fluid is injected into the cooling chamber through a cooling inlet and exits the cooling chamber through a cooling outlet after traveling the cooling chamber's entire length. The cooling fluid removes the heat generated by the radiation and allows the useful emission to be optimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignee: Hughes Aircraft Company
    Inventors: Jacques F. Linder, Steven H. Boland
  • Patent number: 4994753
    Abstract: An industrial compact synchrotron radiation source includes, for the purpose of prolonging lifetime of a charged particle beam, beam absorbers made of a material having a low photodesorption yield and disposed inside a bending section/vacuum chamber at at least positions upon which the synchrotron radiation is irradiated, and electrically conductive beam stabilizers disposed at positions inside the bending section/vacuum chamber which are distant by a predetermined distance from an orbit of the charged particle beam toward the outer circumferential wall of the bending section/vacuum chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Nippon Telephone & Telegraph Corp., Hitachi Service Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Ikeguchi, Manabu Matsumoto, Shinjiroo Ueda, Tadasi Sonobe, Toru Murashita, Satoshi Ido, Kazuo Kuroishi, Akinori Shibayama
  • Patent number: 4994712
    Abstract: A mounting arrangement for a foil shadow mask includes a plurality of elongated, generally linear spacers affixed to an inner surface of the flat glass faceplate of a color cathode ray tube (CRT) and arranged in a generally rectangular array. Attached to each spacer substantially along the length thereof is a respective elongated mounting spring. Each mounting spring includes a first portion attached to its associated spacer and a second flexible, resilient U-shaped portion to which a mask anchor is securely attached. Each peripheral edge portion of the foil shadow mask is attached to a respective mask anchor for maintaining the foil shadow mask in registration with light emitting phosphor elements on the CRT's faceplate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignee: Zenith Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Paul Strauss