With Non-beaming Gun Patents (Class 313/396)
  • Patent number: 9030389
    Abstract: A display device in which the current load of wirings are distributed and display variations due to voltage drop are suppressed. An active matrix display device of the invention comprises a first current input terminal, a second current input terminal, and a plurality of current supply lines extending parallel to each other. Each current supply line is connected to a plurality of driving transistors in a line. One end of each current supply line is connected to the first current input terminal via a first wiring intersecting with the current supply lines, and the other end thereof is connected to the second current input terminal via a second wiring intersecting with the current supply lines. Accordingly, a current is supplied to each current supply line from both the first and the second current input terminals. The first and the second current input terminals are provided separately from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Tanada
  • Patent number: 8749461
    Abstract: A display device in which the current load of wirings are distributed and display variations due to voltage drop are suppressed. An active matrix display device of the invention comprises a first current input terminal, a second current input terminal, and a plurality of current supply lines extending parallel to each other. Each current supply line is connected to a plurality of driving transistors in a line. One end of each current supply line is connected to the first current input terminal via a first wiring intersecting with the current supply lines, and the other end thereof is connected to the second current input terminal via a second wiring intersecting with the current supply lines. Accordingly, a current is supplied to each current supply line from both the first and. the second current input terminals. The first and the second current input terminals are provided separately from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Tanada
  • Patent number: 8446348
    Abstract: A display device in which the current load of wirings are distributed and display variations due to voltage drop are suppressed. An active matrix display device of the invention comprises a first current input terminal, a second current input terminal, and a plurality of current supply lines extending parallel to each other. Each current supply line is connected to a plurality of driving transistors in a line. One end of each current supply line is connected to the first current input terminal via a first wiring intersecting with the current supply lines, and the other end thereof is connected to the second current input terminal via a second wiring intersecting with the current supply lines. Accordingly, a current is supplied to each current supply line from both the first and the second current input terminals. The first and the second current input terminals are provided separately from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Tanada
  • Patent number: 8308520
    Abstract: A light emitting device has a cathode-ray tube and power supply. The cathode-ray tube in an embodiment is optimized for emitting a broad electron beam, in one variation a dome-shaped diffusing grid is used to spread the beam. In another embodiment, the device has a base adapted for attachment to a standard lighting fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Vu1 Corporation
    Inventors: Charles E. Hunt, Bearnard K. Vancil, Richard N. Herring, Richard Gale Sellers
  • Patent number: 8217864
    Abstract: A display device in which the current load of wirings are distributed and display variations due to voltage drop are suppressed. An active matrix display device of the invention comprises a first current input terminal, a second current input terminal, and a plurality of current supply lines extending parallel to each other. Each current supply line is connected to a plurality of driving transistors in a line. One end of each current supply line is connected to the first current input terminal via a first wiring intersecting with the current supply lines, and the other end thereof is connected to the second current input terminal via a second wiring intersecting with the current supply lines. Accordingly, a current is supplied to each current supply line from both the first and the second current input terminals. The first and the second current input terminals are provided separately from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Tanada
  • Patent number: 8058789
    Abstract: A light emitting device has a cathode-ray tube and power supply. The cathode-ray tube in an embodiment is optimized for emitting a broad electron beam, in one variation a dome-shaped diffusing grid is used to spread the beam. In another embodiment, the device has a base adapted for attachment to a standard lighting fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Vu1 Corporation
    Inventors: Charles E. Hunt, Bernard K. Vancil, Richard N. Herring, Richard Gale Sellers
  • Patent number: 7557779
    Abstract: A display device in which the current load of wirings are distributed and display variations due to voltage drop are suppressed. An active matrix display device of the invention comprises a first current input terminal, a second current input terminal, and a plurality of current supply lines extending parallel to each other. Each current supply line is connected to a plurality of driving transistors in a line. One end of each current supply line is connected to the first current input terminal via a first wiring intersecting with the current supply lines, and the other end thereof is connected to the second current input terminal via a second wiring intersecting with the current supply lines. Accordingly, a current is supplied to each current supply line from both the first and the second current input terminals. The first and the second current input terminals are provided separately from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Tanada
  • Patent number: 6369498
    Abstract: A dual-gun, single neck CRT focuses two beams, with significantly differing energies, onto a secondary emission target while maintaining compatibility with a standard fourteen-rotation stem and achieving FTU in excess of 95%. A pair of Einzel guns (write and erase) are mounted in parallel and aligned in the vertical direction rather than the horizontal inside the CRT. The write and erase guns are configured to share a common second accelerator electrode, a common final accelerator electrode, mounting beads and a magnetic deflection yoke. The guns' focus voltages are independently adjusted so that both the write and erase beams have the same focal length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas A. Skupien
  • Patent number: 4352043
    Abstract: A cathodoluminescent lamp for use for general lighting service includes an anode constituted by an electrically conducting coating, which may be partly internally reflective, on the interior surface of the bulb wall, a phosphor coating over the whole of the bulb wall interior, a dome-shaped metal mesh grid located near the junction of the bulb with the envelope neck and supported on a hollow metal cylinder, and an electron emissive cathode mounted within the grid/cylinder assembly. The cathode may be a "wreath" filament or indirectly heated disc located near the grid, or a linear filament located near the open end of the cylinder remote from the grid. In the latter case a metal disc, connected to the negative lead to the cathode, is located near the open end of the cylinder, to repel electrons emerging therefrom. A circuit, which may be incorporated in the lampholder, converts the supply to unidirectional operating voltages applied to the anode, grid and cathode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1982
    Assignee: The General Electric Company Limited
    Inventor: Sydney A. R. Rigden
  • Patent number: 4275355
    Abstract: A flood gun assembly for use in a cathode ray storage tube for uniformly distributing flood electrons over the surface of a storage target includes a mounting member for mounting the flood assembly within the storage tube and on which first flood gun means are mounted. Extensions provided by the mounting member extending toward the corners of the storage target and having second flood gun means mounted thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1981
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventor: Melvin A. Holznagel
  • Patent number: 4193014
    Abstract: An addressable display in which data is presented in the form of a rectangular dot array is provided by means of an evacuated cathode ray tube, which enables large bright displays to be achieved. The cathode ray tube contains two segmented mesh electrodes each consisting of separately addressable stripes. Electrons from a flood gun are passed by both electrodes only at the crossing point of two stripes, one on each electrode, when predetermined potentials are applied to them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1980
    Assignee: English Electric Valve Company Limited
    Inventor: Ralph D. Nixon
  • Patent number: 4185226
    Abstract: A quadripolar lens incorporated in the spray gun of direct vision image storage tubes enables the density of electrons in the spray beam to be controlled, over a wide range, by acting on the potential of the control grid of the gun, without varying the acceleration potentials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1980
    Assignee: Thomson-CSF
    Inventor: Roger Heymann
  • Patent number: 3970889
    Abstract: In a charge storage device, such as a high resolution scan converter tube, flood guns are incorporated to scan the target with substantially unfocused high current electron beams to provide the erasure thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1973
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1976
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventor: G. Harold Cobb
  • Patent number: 3956712
    Abstract: A plurality of thermionic filaments are arranged in side-by-side relationship. A spreader electrode which may be in the form of a flat plate is placed on one side of the filaments, while an anode is placed on the other side of the filaments, with a grid being interposed between the filaments and the anode. The various aforementioned elements are given dimensions and positioned relative to each other and the voltages thereon adjusted so as to shape the trajectory of the electrons to provide a uniform distribution of electrons at the anode with a minimum dissipation of energy in the grid and spreader electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1976
    Assignee: Northrop Corporation
    Inventor: William Hant
  • Patent number: 3939378
    Abstract: A storage cathode-ray-tube having a single off-axis flood gun is described including auxiliary coils defining electromagnets placed, one electromagnet on either side of the cathode-ray-tube to correct non-symmetrical geometry in optical representations produced on the fluorescent screen of the cathode-ray tube caused by interaction of the conventional principle electron beam under the control of electrical signals during storage operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1976
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Johnnie Everett Schmauder, James Kipling Richardson