Abstract: A process and circuit arrangement for exciting a solenoid coil to operate an iron core. Power from an AC power source is full-wave rectified, and then allowed to flow to a solenoid coil by a switch element located between the full-wave rectification circuit and the solenoid coil, which coil is made electrically conductive only for each short period of time corresponding to the top and its vicinities of the voltage wave-form of the rectified power so that the current is allowed to flow to the solenoid coil. Therefore, no current flows to the solenoid for each period of time corresponding to the trough and its vicinities of voltage wave-form of the rectified power. Thus, excitation and non-excitation of the solenoid is continuously alternated to give a dither effect to the iron core associated with the solenoid coil.

Abstract: A color picture tube having a shadow mask is disclosed in which, with a view to making occurrence of moire imperceptible, electron beam transmissive apertures of the shadow mask are formed in such an array that a plurality of trains of the electron beam transmissive apertures each arrayed in the vertical direction with a pitch P.sub.y are juxtaposed to one another, wherein, assuming that the order of the harmonics is represented by n and m is an odd number smaller than 2n, there exist the relations (n-0.5)P.sub.l .ltoreq.P.sub.y .ltoreq.(n+0.05)P.sub.l and (m-0.35)P.sub.y /2n.ltoreq..DELTA.y.ltoreq.(m+0.35)P.sub.y /2n among the pitch P.sub.y, pitch P.sub.l of scanning lines and vertical deviation .DELTA.y between two adjacent apertures in the horizontal direction.

Abstract: A color picture tube having a shadow mask provided with a plurality of vertical aperture rows arranged as horizontally juxtaposed to one another, each vertical row comprising the electron beam transmissive apertures vertically arranged in line with a predetermined pitch P.sub.y. With a view to making possibly occurring moires imperceptible, the arrangement of the apertures are made such that, when spatial deviation in the vertical positions between any two apertures in the horizontally adjacent aperture rows is represented by .DELTA.y, there may be included combinations of at least two different type aperture rows of different deviations .DELTA.y which satisfy the following condition ##EQU1## at least when n is equal to 1, 2, 3 or 4 and k is an odd number smaller than 2n.