Abstract: An aperture grill for a color cathode ray tube includes a mask having a plurality of slits, a frame for securing the mask in a taut state, and a vibration suppressing unit for suppressing the vibration of the mask. The vibration suppressing unit comprises a plurality of damping wires having ends fixed on opposing sides of the frame and stretched over the mask in a lengthwise direction, and a plurality of protrusions extending from the damping wires and spaced apart from each other a predetermined distance. The protrusions make contact with or are welded to slit formation elements of the mask, or are partly inserted into the slits and contact lateral sides of the neighboring slit formation elements to suppress vibration of the slit formation elements.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube comprises a vacuum envelope in which there is mounted a shadow mask having a curved surface having a plurality of electron beam passing holes and a skirt extending downward from the margin of the curved surface. The shadow mask is supported by a mask frame having a substantially rectangular side wall. A shadow mask assembly constituted by fitting and securing the skirt into the side wall is set in the panel of the envelope, and the skirt is fitted and secured into the side wall by curving the middles of two or four facing sides of the skirt inward. Thereby, it is possible to provide a color cathode ray tube having the shadow mask assembly capable of obtaining a superior magnetic shielding characteristic by enlarging the effective region of the curved surface of the shadow mask.

Abstract: A stress reduction shadow mask of the present invention distributes the tension evenly across the entire surface so that a greater force may be applied to stretch the mask. The shadow mask comprises an effective face area constituting a central portion of the shadow mask. The effective face area has electron beam apertures, which electrons pass through. A secondary ineffective face area surrounds the effective face area and also has apertures. A frame attaching border further surrounds the secondary ineffective face area, and a primary ineffective face area at least partially surrounds the frame attaching border. Corners of the shadow are adjacent the primary ineffective face area and do not have apertures. Portions of the primary and/or secondary ineffective areas are treated with tie bar grading and/or have round corners. The mask is stretched under tension and attached to the frame at the frame attaching border while under tension.

Abstract: A cathode-ray tube including: a flat panel with an inside to which fluorescent material of Red, Green and Blue is applied; a funnel combined to a rear end of the flat panel; an electron gun provided in a neck part of the funnel and radiating electron beam; a flat tension shadow mask installed to the inside of the flat panel at regular intervals and having a plurality of passing holes formed for the passage of electron beams; a rail supporting the flat tension shadow mask for regularly maintaining interval of the tension shadow mask and a surface of the panel; and a magnetic shield shielding an external magnetic field, where the rail has a magnetic shield connecting part for installing the magnetic shield within the cathode-ray tube.

Abstract: In an exposure method for a picture tube, photoresists which are applied on an inner surface of a panel are exposed through a shadow mask to fix the photoresists on the inner surface of the pane. A position where light, which is emitted by an exposure light source and passes through an outermost slot of the shadow mask, becomes directly incident on the inner surface of the panel, and a position where light, which is emitted by an exposure light source at the same position as that of the first exposure light source or at a different position from that of the first exposure light source, passes through a slot inside the outermost slot of the shadow mask, is reflected by an outer surface of the panel, and returns, becomes incident on the inner surface of the panel are set to coincide with each other. An exposure apparatus for achieving this method is also disclosed.

Abstract: An improved color picture tube has a tensioned mask and support frame assembly. Each of the mask and the support frame is rectangular and has two long sides that parallel a central major axis thereof and two short sides that parallel a central minor axis thereof. The improvement comprises the frame including two first members, paralleling the major axis, and two second members, attached to the ends of said first members, paralleling the minor axis. Each of the second members includes a pinched section that elongates it.

Abstract: A high thermal expansion member consisting of such as an Fe--Ni--Cr based alloy, a low thermal expansion member consisting of such as an Fe--Ni based alloy, and an intermediary member, which comprises one kind of metal selected from Fe, Al and Cu or an alloy comprising these metals, possesses a thermal expansion coefficient .alpha..sub.3 which is located between those of the high thermal expansion member (thermal expansion coefficient .alpha..sub.1) and the low thermal expansion member (thermal expansion coefficient .alpha..sub.2) (.alpha..sub.1 >.alpha..sub.3 >.alpha..sub.2), and is interposed therebetween, are laminated to form a thermal deformation member for an electron tube or a thermal deformation member for electric control. The intermediary member, without adversely affecting strength or long term reliability of the thermal deformation member, contributes to manufacturing cost reduction and improvement of workability.

Abstract: A shadow mask frame assembly for a color cathode ray tube including a plate shaped shadow mask (60) including electron beam passing holes (H) and having a curvature, and a frame (70) having a side wall (73), a flange (72) inwardly extending from the side wall (73), and a supporting portion (71) extending from the flange (72) as a step, wherein some peripheral edges (61) of the shadow mask (60) are attached to the supporting portion (71) and some peripheral edges (61) of the shadow mask (60) are not attached to the supporting portion (71) and slip on an upper surface of the supporting portion (71) during thermal expansion of the shadow mask (60). The present shadow mask frame assembly can be easily fabricated and assembled by eliminating the skirt portion, and can effectively compensate for thermal expansion of the mask plate.

Abstract: It is possible to improve a vibration-proof band shaped grid element in a color selecting mechanism. In a color selecting mechanism 1 for a color cathode ray tube, in which a color selecting electrode thin plate (10) having a number of band shaped grid elements (8) and a slit shaped electron beam penetrating aperture (9) formed between respective neighboring grid elements (8), is seam-welded on a frame (6), the ratio of a length a of the above mentioned slit shaped electron beam aperture (9) to a distance (b) from an end portion of the above mentioned electron beam penetrating aperture (9) to a seam-welded orbit (17) or b/a.times.100 is set equal to or less than 2.5 percent.

Abstract: A body of a shadow mask having a skirt portion around the body, wherein cut parts are formed in the skirt portion in the vicinity of corner portions and center portions of the short sides and the length of the skirt portion in the corner portions is longer than the length of the skirt portion in the center portions of the short sides. This enables residual distortion generated during welding with a mask frame and a thermal expansion generated later to be absorbed at the skirt portion, thus restraining the deformation generated by heating a curved surface of the shadow mask. As a result, it is possible to realize cost reduction and to improve productivity in manufacturing a color picture tube without deteriorating the color purity in the color picture tube by preventing the thermal deformation of the curved surface of a shadow mask during manufacturing processes of the color picture tube without a dummy baking process.

Abstract: A color selecting electrode for a color cathode-ray tube, which is capable of optimizing a displacement of the color selecting electrode on a phosphor screen side when the color election mechanism is subjected to a thermal effect. The color selecting electrode includes a frame composed of a pair of opposed supporting members and a pair of elasticity imparting members mounted between the supporting members; a large-number of ribbon-like grid elements stretchingly mounted on the frame; and metal members different in thermal expansion coefficient from the supporting members, the metal members being fixed on the supporting members over the entire lengths thereof.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a shadow mask frame assembly for a cathode ray tube comprising a burring formed by bending the open end portion of the mask frame for improving the mechanical intensity of a mask frame, a groove portion formed on predetermined positions of the burring for easily mounting the mask frame inside the face panel without interference between the stud pin and the burring, and a planar perpendicular portion, which is formed on a lower portion of the burring, parallel to an axial direction of the cathode ray tube, to which a skirt portion of the shadow mask is welded.

Abstract: A color picture tube having a mask-frame combination which consists of a rectangular frame of a first material and of a mask of a second material, wherein the mask is connected to the frame by a plurality of welding spots, and notches and decoupling slots whose dimensions have a specific ratio with one another are provided at both sides of welding spots at the shorter sides.

Abstract: A color CRT has a shadow mask formed from a bilayer composite of steel and invar. The thicknesses of steel and invar are chosen to take advantage of the lower thermal expansion coefficient of invar and the room temperature formability and higher modulus of elasticity of steel. Such composite masks exhibit reduced doming when compared to steel masks, and can be formed at room temperature.

Abstract: A shadow mask including a perforated portion that has a desired curved surface shape is obtained by pressing a flat mask having electron beam apertures. The press-molded perforated portion of the shadow mask is compressed in its thickness direction in a manner such that it is sandwiched between a first compression mold, having a convex surface that faces a concave surface of the perforated portion in which smaller holes of the electron beam apertures open and a plurality of projections on the convex surface, and a second compression mold, having a smooth concave surface that faces the convex surface of the perforated portion in which larger holes of the electron beam apertures open. In doing this, the perforated portion is locally compressed by means of the projections of the first compression mold, whereby a plurality of recesses are formed on the concave surface side of the perforated portion.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube includes a panel having a substantially rectangular effective surface and a substantially rectangular skirt portion standing on the periphery of the effective surface, a shadow mask having a substantially rectangular mask body and a mask frame supporting the mask body and opposed to the skirt portion, and a holder provided between the skirt portion of the panel and the mask frame of the shadow mask and elastically suspending the mask frame to the panel. The holder comprises a first member having an engagement portion engaged with a stud pin attached on the skirt portion, and a second member having a fixing portion fixed to the mask frame. The plate-thickness of the first member is smaller than that of the second member, and the length of a first slanting portion of the first member is smaller than the length of a second slanting portion of the second member.

Abstract: Magnetic shield materials used in color picture tubes which have excellent inner magnetic shield characteristics and an excellent handling strength, method for producing the materials and color picture tubes produced by incorporating the materials are provided. The magnetic shield materials produced by subjecting hot rolled low carbon steel strips essentially consisting of equal to or less than 0.006 weight % of C, equal to or less than 0.002 weight % of N, equal to or less than 0.5 weight % of Mn, 0.5-2.5 weight % of Si, Fe as a balance and unavoidable impurities to a cold rolling and subsequently annealing the cold rolled steel strip at a temperature of 500-700.degree. C. and applying a nickel plating thereto after annealing.

Abstract: A color cathode-ray tube including a panel portion, a neck portion and a funnel portion connecting these two portions and having an internal magnetic shield, wherein the internal magnetic shield is disposed in the funnel portion and made of a substantially quadrangular pyramid-shaped frame structure which has a substantially rectangular first opening of small diameter at one end adjacent to an electron gun and a substantially rectangular second opening of large diameter at the other end adjacent to a shadow mask and creased lines formed between corresponding corners of the first and second openings, side faces of the internal magnetic shield opposite to each other being formed with substantially V-shaped notches respectively in the portions thereof adjacent to the first opening, and each of the creased lines of the internal magnetic shield is formed in such a manner that an end of an imaginary line extension of the creased line adjacent to the second opening is located on a projected plane parallel to the sec

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube includes a shadow mask structure with its mask spring having 1.2-2.0 times the coefficient of thermal expansion of its support frame. This structure serves to reduce the difference in thermal expansion between the mask spring and the support frame, so that the beam landing shift is reduced to prevent the deterioration of color purity. Therefore, the color cathode ray tube can constantly maintain color purity regardless of the temperature variation in the set.

Abstract: A colour display tube 1 has a shadow mask 12 in a supporting frame 20. The supporting frame comprises at least two sides 22 which bend when the temperature increases. This causes the distance between the shadow mask and the display screen to change. An improvement of "overall doming" is possible.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube has a shadow mask. The shadow mask is provided with a layer of a material having an average Z number below 20 on the side facing the phosphor screen. The layer is preferable deposited by means of electrodeposition.

Abstract: A CRT comprising a front panel coated with a fluorescent layer on the inner surface thereof, a shadow mask, a mask frame separating the shadow mask at a distance from the front panel, a funnel extending outwardly from the front panel forming an envelope surrounded by the front panel and the funnel, and an inner shield inside such an envelope to shield against earth and other external magnetic fields. The mask frame and the inner shield are welded together at their ends.

Abstract: A shadow mask, or color selection electrode, in a color cathode ray tube (CRT) is in the form of a thin metal foil and includes a large number of apertures through which electron beams are directed onto the phosphorescent coating on the CRT's display screen for forming a video image. The apertured shadow mask is also used with a light source during CRT manufacture to form a large number of spaced phosphor elements in the phosphorescent coating. Ideally, all of the beam passing apertures and phosphor elements are circular in cross-section, but the shadow mask is stretched and maintained under high tension when mounted in the CRT causing some of the apertures, particularly those adjacent its four corners, to also become stretched and assume an oval shape.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cathode ray tube having an inner magnetic shield and to a method for fixing the inner magnetic shield. The inner magnetic shield is fixed to a frame supporting a shadow mask simply with fixing members. First engagement holes are provided on each side of a first flange portion of the frame, and second engagement holes are provided on each side of a second flange portion of the inner magnetic shield. Each side of the second engagement hole is provided with a folding portion. The fixing member is inserted so as to put into the first engagement hole and the second engagement hole facing the first engagement hole from the side of the inner magnetic shield.

Abstract: An apertured shadow mask directs electron beams toward phosphor elements on the inside surface of the face plate of a CRT. The mask is fixed to a rectangular frame having corner brackets connected by light-weight diaphragm strips and resilient plates molded to the brackets. The resilient plates have holes toward the distal ends thereof which engage pins embedded in a skirt surrounding the face plate. The plates are precipitation hardened stainless steel having a thickness of 0.20 mm to 0.30 mm and provide sufficient spring force to retain the mask and frame as well as the internal magnetic shield which is fixed to the corner brackets by clips.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube is provided which comprises a face panel having an inner surface on which phosphors are formed, a funnel connected to the rear portion of the face panel, an electron gun housed in the neck portion of the funnel, a frame attached to pins on the inside of the face panel through springs provided on two short sides of the frame and one long side thereof, and a shadow mask attached to the frame at a predetermined distance from the phosphor surface. The operation length of the spring on the short side is longer than that of the spring on the long side, so that the amount of upward displacement of landing points during the entire doming phenomenon is decreased. Thus, the deterioration in the uniformity of the luminance of white quality is reduced in the color cathode ray tube.

Abstract: Disclosed are Fe-Ni alloys used for electron gun parts and press punched electron guns, typically a electron gun electrode manufactured by press punching, comprising: all by weight, 30 to 55% of Ni; 0.0010 to 0.0200% of S; 0.1 to 0.8% of Mn; no more than 0.3% of Si; no more than 0.05% of Al; no more than 0.005% of O; and the balance of substantially Fe and inevitable impurities; said alloy preferably having a crystal grain size of not less than 7.0 in grain size number based on JIS G 0551. When oxide-type inclusions are included, Mn and S which form MnS combine with the oxide-type inclusions, so that MnS which is effective for improvement of punching properties do not sufficiently precipitate. Therefore, the invention controls contents of elements forming oxides in proper ranges.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improvement in a CRT (10) having a tension mask (24) and support frame assembly (35). The support frame assembly (35) is rectangular and has two long sides that parallel a central major axis thereof and two short sides that parallel a central minor axis thereof The mask (24) has a substantially cylindrical contour, being curved along the major axis and straight along the minor axis. The frame assembly (35) includes two first members (36, 38; 136, 138) that parallel the major axis and two second members (40, 42), attached to the ends of the first members, that parallel the minor axis. Each of the first members (36, 38; 136, 138) includes a rigid section (50; 150) and a compliant section (52; 152) cantilevered from the rigid section (50; 150). The compliant sections (52; 152) have a distal end (54; 154) and a proximal end (56; 156). The mask (24) is attached to the distal ends (54; 154) of the compliant sections (52; 152).

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to enable production of a flat color selecting mechanism in which no floating of a damper wire is produced, accompanied by flattening of a cathode-ray tube screen. A color selecting mechanism frame over which a color selecting electrode thin plate is stretched is formed so as to have at least one point of inflection between a center portion and end portions of the frame.

Abstract: A positional relation between a fluorescent film 11 and a shadow mask 2 is maintained in the optimal state with respect to the thermal expansion of a face panel 10 by providing hook springs 5 of stainless steel on minor side wall portions 3a of a rectangular frame 3 for fixedly supporting the shadow mask and a hook spring 6 of bimetal on a major side lower wall portion 3b of the frame 3.

Abstract: A cathode-ray tube includes a tension mask attached to a rectangular support frame assembly that has two long sides paralleling a central major axis thereof and two short sides paralleling a central minor axis thereof. The frame assembly includes two first members, having oppositely disposed ends, paralleling the major axis, and two resilient U-shaped second members, having a first leg and a second leg attached to the oppositely disposed ends of the first members, paralleling the minor axis. Each of the first members has a compliant portion and a base portion. The mask is attached to the distal ends of the compliant portion. A detensioning rod assembly is disposed between the first and second legs of each of the second members to facilitate varying the tension of the mask.

Abstract: There is provided a shadow mask assembly for a color cathode ray tube (CRT), including a mask plate through which a multitude of electron beam passing holes are formed, a rim portion which extends from the edges of the mask plate and has a smaller radius of curvature than the radius of curvature of the mask plate, a skirt portion which extends perpendicularly from at least one of the longer and shorter edges of the rim portion, and a frame which is combined with the skirt portion and supports the skirt portion.

Abstract: In color cathode ray tubes, a magnetic field of mask frame corner parts is sensitive to changes in the earth's magnetic field, so resistance holes are drilled in corner parts of a mask frame to increase resistance and to decrease the strength of magnetism for preventing decline of calorimetric purity of screen corner parts. These resistance holes are able to advance degaussing efficiency, to disperse the earth's magnetic field to insert resistance parts on the corner parts, and a magnetic field of the inner corner parts of a mask frame is not affected by resistance holes.

Abstract: A shadow mask opposed to a phosphor screen of a panel has a rectangular mask body and a rectangular mask frame fixed to the periphery of the mask body. The mask body has a pair of long side edges and a pair of short side edges, and the long side edges are respectively welded to long side walls of the mask frame while the short side edges are respectively welded to short side walls of the mask frame. The long and short side walls of the mask frame are respectively supported on the panel by mask holders. Each mask holder has a fixed portion welded to the mask frame and an engaging portion engaged with a stud pin of the panel. Welding positions between the long side edges of the mask body and the long side walls of the mask frame are shifted from the short axis, and welding positions between the short side edges of the mask body and the short side walls of the mask frame are shifted from the long axis.

Abstract: A display device comprising a display tube having a display screen with a pattern of phosphor elements. To reduce mislandings of electron beams, the display tube is accommodated within an external magnetic shield which is formed by one or more individual frames composed of bars of a magnetizable material and one or more excitable coils. The coils may be arranged, for example, alongside the frames.

Abstract: A shadow mask type color cathode ray tube includes a generally rectangular shadow mask having a curved apertured portion having a multiplicity of electron-transmissive apertures, a curved imperforate portion surrounding and integral with the apertured portion and a skirt portion bent back from a periphery of the curved imperforate portion to form a rearwardly extending wall, and a generally rectangular support frame for suspending the shadow mask by spot welding the skirt portion thereto, within a panel portion of the color cathode ray tube, and at least one of short and long sides of the skirt portion contains only a pair of embossments extending in a direction parallel to a longitudinal axis of the color cathode ray tube on opposite sides of the spot welding point of the support frame and the skirt portion at a center of the at least one of short and long sides of the skirt portion within a distance of one fourth or less of a length of the at least one of short and long sides of the generally rectangular sh

Abstract: The frame (30) comprises flat sides (30a, 30b, 30c, 30d) disposed along the lateral faces of a right prismatic surface. The sides (30a, 30b, 30c, 30d) of the frame (30) comprise an outer panel (31) and an inner panel (32) which are assembled and fixed to each other and are each constituted by a portion of a thin metal strip preferably reinforced by ribs. Devices (34) for suspending the frame (30) in the glass case of the cathode ray tube may be fixed by clipping or by welding on corner portions (33) of the frame (30).

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube for permitting electron beams emitted from an electron gun to pass through apertures of a shadow mask and collide onto phosphors coated on the inner surface of a panel to thereby reproduce image information includes a magnetic shielding body which, for decreasing an influence of a terrestrial magnetic field, is formed of a rectangularly-shaped magnetic material and has one ends supported by the shadow mask to be symmetrical along the horizontal and vertical axes of the tube, and a plurality of notches formed into the magnetic shielding body are classified by the horizontal and vertical axes to be distributed asymmetrical with respect to the horizontal or vertical axes within four quadrants partitioned by the horizontal and vertical axes. Thus, the quantity of the landing variation in a specific portion having the greater quantity of the landing variation is reduced during the change of an outer magnetic field or the direction shift of the cathode ray tube.

Abstract: In a shadow mask of the present invention applicable to a color CRT (Cathode Ray Tube), a part of slots located at the opposite edges of the mask each has a horizontal section so configured as to intercept or reduce the quantity of direct light contained in exposing light, while allowing reflections from, e.g., the casing of an exposing device to pass therethrough.

Abstract: A shadow mask assembly 1 includes a shadow mask 2 of invariable curvature and rotatable by a minimum required amount when the ambient temperature changes. The shadow mask assembly includes a shadow mask 2 having a number of electron beam apertures, a support frame 3 for holding the shadow mask 2, and mask springs 4 for holding the support frame 3 inside a panel of a color picture tube, wherein the shadow mask 2 is made of a metal material composed chiefly of invar, and the support frame 3 and the mask springs 4 are made of low-expansion stainless steel or metal material having a coefficient of thermal expansion of not larger than 1.19.times.10.sup.-5 such as stainless steel whose chromium content is 11% to 16% by weight. In the shadow mask assembly 1 using such metal materials, the curvature at the peripheral edges of the shadow mask 2 does not locally change during the fabrication.

Abstract: A combination structure of the shadow mask and the mask frame is a combination structure including a shadow mask, being disposed inside a panel of a color cathode-ray tube and a mask frame, supporting the shadow mask. The combination structure is that the shadow mask is inserted in the mask frame so as to touch internally the skirt portion of the shadow mask on the flange portion, and then their contact portions are adhered to each other by welding process so as to serve to decrease the amount of doming together with miss-landing of electron beams, and to improve color purity of the screen when it is applied to a color cathode-ray tube. And the flange portion is curved from the welding point where the flange portion and the skirt portion are welded, toward the outer direction of the mask frame.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube has a panel portion 1 with a phosphor layer 5 formed on its inner face, a neck portion 2 accommodating an electron gun 9, a funnel portion 2 for coupling the panel portion 1 to the neck portion 2 and a color selective electrode assembly 6 having a number of electron beam passing openings arranged opposite to the phosphor layer 5 with a space therebetween. The color selective electrode assembly is installed within the panel portion 1. An electron beam reflection film of a bismuth oxide thin film 6R having a bulk density of from 4 to 9.3 g/cm.sup.3 is formed on the face of the color selective electrode assembly 6 against which the electron beams 14 emitted from the electron gun 9 collide. The cathode ray tube is capable of displaying high density and high resolution image.

Abstract: A shadow mask support assembly for a color cathode-ray tube prevents partial thermal deformation generated by welding a shadow mask and a mask frame. Also, the shadow mask support assembly for a color cathode-ray tube includes a mask frame suspended and supported in the inner face of the panel, a shadow mask inserted in the inner circumference of the mask frame, and an elastic band for supporting the inner circumference of the mask frame body which presses a skirt portion of the shadow mask from its outer circumference to prevent welding the mask frame and the shadow mask.

Abstract: A magnetic cathode ray tube (CRT) which has an iron or cobalt based amorphous alloy layer on the surface of a glass bulb shows an excellent magnetic shielding effect and has simple structure.

Abstract: A cathode-ray tube consuppress deterioration and reduce unevenness in color of a picture by preventing an electrode element thereof from being twisted. The color cathode-ray tube includes a frame and an aperture grill stretched across and fixed on the frame and having an electrode element. The aperture grill is stretched across and fixed on the frame in a state that the frame is applied with a compressive force and the aperture grill is applied with a tension. In a process of stretching and fixing the aperture grill across and on the frame, of the tension applied to the aperture grill, a maximum tension applied to the electrode element is set within the range from 30% to 85% of a tensile strength of the electrode element.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube in which the structure of a shadowmask frame assembly is improved. The color cathode ray tube includes a panel, a funnel sealingly coupled to the panel, an electron gun installed in a neck portion of the funnel, a deflection yoke installed around a conical portion of the funnel, a shadowmask frame assembly including a shadowmask in which a multiplicity of electron beam passing holes are formed and a frame installed at an inner edge of the panel for supporting the shadowmask, and a heater for thermally expanding the frame in the same direction as the thermal expansion direction of the shadowmask. According to the color cathode ray tube, it is possible to stabilize an initial screen.

Abstract: A color-selecting apparatus of a color display device which can effectively suppress vibration generated in a color-selecting electrode system, wherein one side of a supporting plate spring is fixed to a frame via a holder, and the other side of the supporting plate spring is fixed to the frame. The supporting plate spring is constituted by laminating flat plate springs, and the flat plate springs relatively move by deformation accompanying the vibration from the outside. The vibrational energy is consumed by the frictional energy generated between them.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube (CRT) has a panel having a fluorescent film consisting of a number of groups of phosphors each radiating in a particular color. A shadow mask adjoins the fluorescent film and is formed with a number of apertures by etching. Electron guns are located at the side opposite to the fluorescent film with respect to the shadow mask, and emit electron beams for causing the phosphors to radiate. An insulating glass layer covers the edges of the apertures on the side of the shadow mask that faces the fluorescent film. The glass layer increases the mechanical strength of the shadow mask and enhances landing accuracy.

Abstract: A color selecting electrode assembly for color cathode ray tubes which includes an apertured grill composed of fine-strand grids, a frame over which the aperture grill is stretched and which provides a tensioning force to the apertured grill, and a supporting structure body which is mounted at one end to said frame and engages the other end with the panel side wall of a color cathode ray tube so as to support said frame, wherein the wall thickness of said apertured grill is not greater than 0.032 mm. To assure the characteristic frequency of the aperture grill, it becomes unnecessary to manufacture individually frames having rigidities corresponding to respective slit pitches of the apertured grill. The frame can be a general purpose one (i.e., one used in common with others), thereby allowing the manufacture to be simplified. Further, the suppoting member can be also used in common with others, thereby allowing the design to be simplified.

Abstract: In a color cathode ray tube apparatus, a shadow mask is fixed on a frame with a predetermined tension for cancelling a thermal expansion of the shadow mask during normal operation of the color cathode ray tube apparatus. The mechanical strength of the longer sides on the frame is higher than that of the shorter sides of the frame by fixing reinforcing plates or ribs on the longer sides in order that the tension of the shadow mask not become uneven.