Abstract: A plasma reactor including a first dielectric having at least one capillary defined therethrough, and a segmented electrode including a plurality of electrode segments, each electrode segment is disposed proximate an associated capillary. Each electrode segment may be formed in different shapes, for example, a pin, stud, washer, ring, or disk. The electrode segment may be hollow, solid, or made from a porous material. The reactor may include a second electrode and dielectric with the first and second dielectrics separated by a predetermined distance to form a channel therebetween into which the plasma exiting from the capillaries in the first dielectric is discharged. The fluid to be treated is passed through the channel and exposed to the plasma discharge. If the electrode segment is hollow or made of a porous material, then the fluid to be treated may be fed into the capillaries in the first dielectric and exposed therein to the maximum plasma density.

Abstract: A mask frame comprises a sidewall portion in the form of a rectangular frame including a pair of long sidewalls opposed to each other, a pair of short sidewalls opposed to each other, and corner sidewalls between the long and short sidewalls, and a base portion extending from the sidewall portion toward the center of the rectangular frame. The base portion has beads located near the corner sidewalls and connecting the long and short sidewalls.

Abstract: A deflection yoke for preventing fluctuation of the deflection yoke by maintaining a firmly engaged state while preventing fracture and damage thereof caused by an assembling shock generated when assembling a printed circuit board and a rear cover. The printed circuit board has upper hook flaps protruded from a side surface of the rear cover including a plurality of slide grooves and lower hook flaps provided on the side of the upper hooks for penetrating holes is provided, the hook flaps are composed of supporting ribs and protrusions. Especially, the protrusions of the upper hook flap have an inclined angle to assemble the printed circuit board that is combined the rear cover stably.

Abstract: An electrode of an electron gun for a cathode ray tube with an improved structure so as to enhance the flatness of the electrode. The electrode includes an electron beam passing plane on which one or more electron beam passing holes are formed, an upper sloping portion of a truncated cone shape, slantingly extending downward and outward from the peripheral edges of the electron beam passing plane, and a vertically extending portion of a cylindrical shape, extending downward from the lower portion of the upper sloping portion and extending substantially perpendicular to the electron beam passing plane.

Abstract: A display arrangement utilizes a fluorescent screen 3 to provide readily alterable bright displays. The arrangement can provide a fairly large display surface, but can be of very small thickness. It contains electron emissive cathodes 5, and field electrodes 7 positioned closely adjacent to the cathode to control the emission of free electrons. Electrons which are freely emitted are accelerated to a mesh electrode 4 which is held at a modest positive voltage. A fluorescent screen 3 having a positive potential of several thousand volts is positioned closely in front of the mesh electrode. In preferred embodiments of the invention, a number of separate cathodes and/or separate field electrodes are provided, so that selected regions of the screen can be illuminated to provide desired display patterns. Individual regions of the screen can be switched on and off (i.e. rendered bright or dark) by the application of very low switching potentials to the field electrodes and/or the cathodes.

Abstract: A high definition page display system for graphics and text utilizing multiple beams in a CRT is disclosed. Information for the several lines which are written simultaneously is made available in parallel. The invention is described in terms of a character set and text generation, but the same principles apply to any other graphic or bit map and to storage in ROMs or loadable RAMs. Each beam of a multiple CRT tube is biased to generate a portion of a character of graphic as it scans across the tube. It takes 12 lines to scan a character with a N-beam tube, 12 over N character scans are therefore required. With the same scanning speed as with a single beam, this factor can be used to increase definition (i.e. number of lines). Also the advantage of multiple beams can be used to reduce scanning speed, if this is useful to improve brightness or spot definition, or to increase the number of dots per line.

Abstract: A high definition page display system for graphics and text utilizing shaped beams in a CRT is disclosed. Information for the several lines which are written simultaneously is made available in parallel. The invention is described in terms of a character set and text generation, but the same principles apply to any other graphic or bit map and to storage in ROMs or loadable RAMs. Each beam of a multiple CRT tube is biased to generate a portion of a character or grahic as it scans across the tube. It takes 12 lines to scan a character with a N-beam tube, 12 over N character scans are therefore required. With the same scanning speed as with a single beam, this factor can be used to increase definition (i.e. number of lines.) Also the advantage of multiple beams can be used to reduce scanning speed, if this is useful to improve brightness or spot definition, or to increase the number of dots per line.

Abstract: A control plate for a gas discharge display device has a mechanically stable carrier plate of an electrically insulating material which has metallized column conductor tracks on one side and metallized row conductor tracks on an opposite side which in combination form a matrix of perpendicular rows and columns. The carrier plate has perforations extending through plate at points of intersection of the rows and columns. Each row and column is separately energizeable for selected transfer of electrons in the display device from one side of the plate to the other. The metallized tracks on each side extend a distance into the perforations so as to prevent charge accumulation within the perforations which would otherwise impair the control obtainable by the plate. The metallized portions of the perforations are separated by a ring of exposed carrier plate which is substantially nonconducting having a resistance of 100 megaohms or greater.

Abstract: A display arrangement consists of a cathode ray tube in which electrons from a flood gun pass through a segmented mesh electrode, different portions of which can be selectively switched to enable the electrons to reach only selected portions of a fluorescent screen. As very low switching voltages are applied to the mesh electrode to control the passage of electrons from the flood gun, the cathode is heated to the temperature at which electrons are emitted by the application of relatively short high current pulses. Electrons are allowed to pass through the mesh electrode only during the intervals between these pulses.

Abstract: A character selector for a shaped beam cathode ray tube comprising an orthogonal pair of air core deflection coils each of which consists of two identical halves formed to fit snugly over the neck of the cathode ray tube. The coils are continuous windings of electrically conductive material and comprise three sections which in operation cause an on-axis electron beam to be sequentially deflected off-axis, converged back to the axis and then referenced along the axis so that the final path of the beam, sequentially deflected on off-axis excursion paths through various shaping apertures in a stencil, is dependent of its off-axis excursion. The character selector may include magnetic material placed over at least a portion of the windings to provide a fine adjustment of the relative magnetic field strength as well as for enhancing the magnetic efficiency and shielding of the device.

Abstract: A signal display system having a visual display and a display signal generator in which a semiconductor junction target has a high conductivity P layer, a low conductivity N layer, and a surface layer of insulating material having holes in the shape of letters or other characters. The target semiconductor junction is reverse biased so that when an electron beam striking the target is scanned over the character apertures, it will produce carrier multiplication in the target and an output signal several orders of magnitude greater than a conventional monoscope. The same principle may be used for a camera pickup tube when beam electrons returning from a light sensitive target are multiplied on striking a reverse biased junction target.