With Screen Patents (Class 313/415)
  • Patent number: 7777196
    Abstract: An electron emitter for a display provides an electron source, an electron accelerator, an electron collector disposed between the electron source and the electron accelerator, and one or more electron deflectors to selectively deflect electrons in an electron beam or electron plane towards the electron collector phosphorous coating on a display screen, within a non-metallic vacuum chamber having an adjustable vacuum. Pinhead electrode electron deflectors may each control one color of a pixel, and each set of three adjacent pinhead electrodes may comprise a complete pixel on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Inventor: Wesam Khalil
  • Patent number: 7122977
    Abstract: A prefocus lens section is formed by a screen electrode and an additional electrode. A main lens section is formed by a focus electrode, an anode electrode and an intermediate electrode that is disposed between the focus electrode and the anode electrode. Each of the focus electrode and the intermediate electrode has a cylindrical electrode on at least one of opposed faces thereof. The intermediate electrode and the anode electrode have cylindrical electrodes on opposed faces thereof. A voltage with a level higher than a focus voltage and lower than an anode voltage is applied to the additional electrode and the intermediate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ueno, Tsutomu Takekawa
  • Patent number: 6903519
    Abstract: Apparatus and method are provided for using a multi-element field emission cathode in a color cathode ray tube. The field emission cathode may have from four to ten field emission arrays linearly arranged. The arrays are preferably formed from carbon-based material. An electron gun assembly focuses electron beams from each array on to a phosphor stripe or dot on the screen of the cathode ray tube. Deflection apparatus moves the beam from each field emission array according to clock signals. Clock signals also turn on or turn off voltage to contacts controlling electron current from the array. Values of voltage applied, determined by a video signal, determine the intensity of electron current from each array, which controls the intensity of the light emitted by each color stripe or dot of phosphor on the phosphor screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Trepton Research Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Byron G. Zollars, John J. Lorr, Kent R. Kalar
  • Patent number: 6833679
    Abstract: Apparatus and method are provided for using a multi-element field emission cathode in a color cathode ray tube. The field emission cathode may have from four to ten field emission arrays linearly arranged. The arrays are preferably formed from carbon-based material. An electron gun assembly focuses electron beams from each array on to a phosphor stripe or dot on the screen of the cathode ray tube. Deflection apparatus moves the beam from each field emission array according to clock signals. Clock signals also turn on or turn off voltage to contacts controlling electron current from the array. Values of voltage applied, determined by a video signal, determine the intensity of electron current from each array, which controls the intensity of the light emitted by each color stripe or dot of phosphor on the phosphor screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: Trepton Research Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Byron G. Zollars, John J. Lorr, Kent R. Kalar
  • Patent number: 6833662
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cathode ray tube comprising means (5) for generating an electron beam (6,7,8), means (51) for deflecting the electron beam, and a coil (14′) for influencing a deflection of the electron beam (6,7,8). The coil (14′) comprises an electrically conductive coil holder (46) and coil windings (47,48) having an electrically conductive outer layer (44). The electrically conductive layer (44) of the coil wires (41) and the coil holder (46) cooperate with each other so as to form a conductive path A between successive coil windings (47,48). Due to the outer layer (44) of the wires and the conductive coil holder (46) an electrical path A between successive windings (47,48) is created that provides damping and by which ringing is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Dirk Willem Harberts, Ralph Wilhelmus Lambertus Johannus Dams
  • Patent number: 6825621
    Abstract: An electron gun for a color cathode ray tube includes a cathode which is a source for emitting an electron beam, a control electrode, through which the electron beam emitted from the cathode passes, having first electron beam passing holes each including a first vertically elongated indented portion formed at an output side surface of the control electrode and a first electron beam passing hole portion formed in the first indented portion, a screen electrode installed adjacent to the control electrode and having second electron beam passing holes formed in the screen electrode, a plurality of focusing electrodes for forming a plurality of quadrupole lenses, sequentially installed from the screen electrode and respectively having electron beam passing holes having a predetermined shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Seok Song, Sung-Jun An, Do-Hyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 6633142
    Abstract: A cathode ray tube is provided having an electron gun equipped with a main lens having a function of controlling a shape of an electron beam spot which is deflected to the peripheral portion of a display screen, to improve a resolution at the peripheral portion of the screen of the cathode ray tube for use in a direct view color television receiver or a color display terminal. To reduce the dynamic correction voltage of the electron gun, an electrostatic quadrupole lens with a simple structure is used, thereby reducing deterioration due to the deflection aberration of the electron beam spot at the peripheral portion of the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Shirai, Kenichi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 6603252
    Abstract: A cathode ray tube includes an electron gun directing electrons towards a faceplate having an electrode biased at screen potential. The electron beam is magnetically deflected to scan across the faceplate to impinge upon phosphors thereon to produce light depicting an image or information. A neck electrode near the tube neck is biased at or below screen potential and a second electrode between the neck electrode and the faceplate is biased at or above screen potential. As a result, the electrons are deflected over a greater total angle than is obtained from the magnetic deflection. A third electrode proximate the faceplate is biased at or below screen potential to direct electrons towards the faceplate, thereby to increase the landing angle of the electrons thereon. A metal and ceramic support includes a resistive voltage divider to which ones of the electrodes connect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignees: Sarnoff Corporation, Orion Electric Company, LTD
    Inventors: Joseph Michael Carpinelli, Dennis John Bechis, Jeffrey Paul Johnson, David Arthur New, George Herbert Needham Riddle
  • Patent number: 6525459
    Abstract: A 90 percent electron gun aperture astigmatism is used in conjunction with a four-pole electromagnet to make a CRT electron beam just focus point and minimum beam width occur closer to the same focus voltage. A single grid may have the 90 percent astigmatism, or astigmatisms in two or more grids may combine to produce an effective 90 percent astigmatism. A four-pole electromagnet is positioned around the focusing grid and current driving the electromagnet is varied with beam position during normal operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Ogura
  • Patent number: 6492766
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube has excellent focusing characteristics over the whole screen thereof, as well as a total length which is short, thus providing a compact monitoring device. The Cathode ray tube has an electron gun in which the ratio between the diagonal size De of a phosphor screen and the distance Lg from the center of the phosphor screen to an end portion of a focusing electrode which forms a main lens portion of the electron gun and faces an anode electrode in an opposed manner is set to De/Lg>1.5. The focusing electrode and the anode electrode have single opening portions whose opening size in the horizontal direction is not less than 68% of the outer diameter of a neck portion and end surfaces of the opening portions face each other in an opposed manner in the tube axis direction along which the electron beams pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Tsuzurahara, Kenichi Watanabe, Syouji Shirai, Shinichi Kato, Go Uchida, Hirotsugu Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 6437500
    Abstract: A CRT for the display of a large screen television set which includes a tube envelope having a pair of tube necks and a phosphor display screen, a pair of electron guns arranged in a same horizontal plane and each positioned in a different one of the tube necks, for directing dual electron beams to impinge upon the phosphor display screen, and magnetic deflection yokes for horizontally deflecting the dual electron beams to produce a visual display of partially overlapping dual raster scans on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: James Kevin Leahey, Ajay Sharma
  • Patent number: 6339300
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube has G1-G5 electrodes and an anode. The G5 electrode is divided into sub-electrodes supplied alternately with a first fixed focus voltage and a second focus voltage which is a second fixed voltage superposed with a dynamic voltage, at least one electrostatic quadrupole lens is formed between adjacent ones of the sub-electrodes, and two of the sub-electrodes are supplied with the second focus voltage. The following inequalities are satisfied: 0.0625×L (mm)≦B−20A/(3&phgr;)≦22.0 mm, L (mm)≦352 mm, where A is an axial length of the G4 electrode, &phgr; (mm) is an average diameter of a center aperture in the G4 electrode, B (mm) is a length from a cathode side end to a phosphor screen side end of said G5 electrode to the phosphor screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuharu Yatsu, Tomoki Nakamura, Shoji Shirai
  • Patent number: 6304026
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube includes a phosphor screen, an in-line type electron gun having an electron beam generating section for projecting three electron beams arranged in parallel with each other in a horizontal plane toward the phosphor screen, a focus electrode, and an anode adjacent to the focus electrode and forming a main lens in cooperation with the focus electrode for focusing the electron beams on the phosphor screen. The focus electrode includes at least a first focus sub-electrode and a second focus sub-electrode on the order named from the cathode, the first focus sub-electrode and the second focus sub-electrode forming an electrostatic quadrupole lens therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoki Nakamura, Shoji Shirai, Yasuharu Yatsu
  • Patent number: 6294865
    Abstract: Display device having an in-line electron gun with a main lens, in which the anode voltage ranges between 16 and 22 kVolt and the parameter Va0.5.p3/2 is greater than 50 kVolt0.5 mm3/2. A reduction of the total power can be achieved without sacrificing front-end performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Joseph W. J. M. Van Der Heijden
  • Patent number: 6225765
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube includes a phosphor screen, cathodes, a G1 electrode, a G2 electrode, a G4 electrode, a G5 electrode and an anode for focusing the electron beams on the phosphor screen. The G5 electrode is divided into plural sub-electrodes arranged to be supplied alternately with a first focus voltage and a second focus voltage, at least one electrostatic quadrupole lens is formed between two of the sub-electrodes supplied with the first and second focus voltages, respectively, at least one lens for correcting curvature of the image field is formed between two of the sub-electrodes supplied with the first and second focus voltages, respectively. The G4 electrode, the G5 electrode and the phosphor screen satisfy following inequalities: 0.0625×L (mm)≦B−20A/(3&phgr;)≦22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuharu Yatsu, Tomoki Nakamura, Shoji Shirai
  • Patent number: 6208067
    Abstract: In a color cathode ray tube comprising a panel with a substantially rectangular effective portion whose outside face is almost flat or slightly curved and whose inside face has a curvature in the direction of minor axis near the short sides of the portion, and a fluorescent substance screen having a substantially rectangular effective region formed on the inside face of the effective portion of the panel, the short sides in the outer circumference of the effective region of the fluorescent substance screen are projected toward the center of the effective region. This improves the flatness of images appearing on the fluorescent substance screen provided on the inside face of the effective portion in the color cathode ray tube with the outside face of the effective portion of the substantially rectangular panel being almost flat and the inside face having a curvature in the direction of minor axis at least near the short sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinichiro Nakagawa, Norio Shimizu, Takuya Mashimo, Masatsugu Inoue
  • Patent number: 6061038
    Abstract: A display has a cathode ray tube (CRT) provided with a multiplicity of electron beams or beam sets. Each of the beams has its own auxiliary beam control assembly including deflection means. Each beam assembly is directed to energize a prescribed portion of the display format area. The typical application may employ two to six beam sets and is useful to reduce total depth and bulk of CRT's having high aspect ratios and/or large size. The displayed area shows substantially no visible boundaries (tiling) between portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Inventor: Clayton A. Washburn
  • Patent number: 5779920
    Abstract: The present invention provides luminescent screens with a mask layer, methods of manufacturing the screens, and display devices incorporating the screens. The mask layer is attached to a matrix defining the pixels in the screen and preferably includes voids formed therethrough corresponding to each pixel. The voids in the mask layer preferably have a size generally corresponding to that of the pixels near the phosphor material and narrow in the direction of the electron source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Surjit S. Chadha, Dean A. Wilkinson
  • Patent number: 5572084
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube equipped with an in-line electron gun includes a main lens made up of two cylindrical electrodes arranged in a spaced relationship. Each of the electrodes has an opening and having therein a plate electrode with a beam passing area. The electrodes are given different voltages, wherein the D and S values are in the region where all of the following inequalities are satisfied;5.0>S,D>S, and55S-20D.gtoreq.145.5S being a beam spacing between central axes of adjacent electron beams, and D being a diameter in a direction perpendicular to an in-line arrangement of the electron beams, of the cross section of an opening at opposing ends of the electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1996
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Go Uchida, Syoji Shirai
  • Patent number: 5434471
    Abstract: An electron gun for a color picture tube having heaters, cathodes, a control electrode, a screen electrode, a focusing electrode and a anode, the focusing electrode for forming a main lens and said anode further having elongated octagonally shaped apertures. The electron gun thus configured enables the convergence and resolution of the color picture tube to be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Assignee: Goldstar Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bong K. Jeong
  • Patent number: 5399932
    Abstract: An electron beam for a color CRT is equipped with three cathodes such that three electron beams may be emitted therefrom. Three grids are provided with beam passing holes for each of the three electron beams and are positioned in the path of the electron beams. The beam passing openings of the third grid are shifted from alignment with the beam passing openings of the first and second grid by a degree sufficient to focus the three beams appropriately relative to a central focal axis of the electron gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Anzai, Yukinobu Iguchi
  • Patent number: 5017829
    Abstract: A framing camera comprises a photocathode, a first deflection means for scanning electron beams emitted from the photocathode, a slit plate having a single slit for converting the electron beams with a spatial picture image information into electron beams with a picture image of temporal sequence and a second deflection means for scanning the electron beams passed from the slit plate to have them impinge upon a phosphor screeen to thereby produce a plurality of framed patterns, in which deflection voltages supplied to the first and second deflection means are adjustable independently of each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1991
    Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Musubu Koishi, Motoyuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 4625143
    Abstract: A multicolor cathode-ray tube for use as a light source in a giant display system such as a display board for a sports stadium. The cathode-ray tube includes a plurality of electron guns and respective fluorescent screens, the latter receiving the beam from a corresponding electron gun. Each of the screens is slanted towards the longitudinal axis of the tube. The screens may be either flat or curved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1986
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 4469987
    Abstract: A high-resolution color television electron gun is disclosed for use in a high-brightness cathode ray tube having an unsegmented cathodoluminescent screen for producing a monochromatic image. The electron gun provides three horizontally oriented in-line beams lying in the deflection plane of the tube and converged into substantial coincidence on the screen. The diameters of the beams and hence resolution of the monochromatic image is inversely related to the magnitude of the beam currents. The gun includes associated cathode means and grid electrode means for forming each of the beams. A main focus lens for each of the beams includes at least a focusing electrode and an accelerating electrode for receiving a predetermined pattern of applied voltages for establishing beam-forming and accelerating electrostatic fields. The magnitude of the applied voltages are such that the beam currents are relatively low providing for small beam diameters and consequent high resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1984
    Assignee: Zenith Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Allen P. Blacker, Khem K. S. Garewal
  • Patent number: 4181870
    Abstract: This disclosure depicts a novel apparatus for use in a color television picture tube having a faceplate attached to the mouth of a funnel portion. The faceplate has an electron excitable phosphor screen deposited on the inner surface thereof, the phosphor screen having groups of at least two different types of phosphor elements. The funnel portion has a neck attached thereto opposite the mouth, the neck containing an electron gun assembly having at least two electron guns for directing at least two streams of electrons towards the phosphor screen. The two types of phosphor elements differ in the intensity of their light output for a predetermined current in the impinging electron stream, that is, they have different functional dependencies on the current of the electron stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1980
    Assignee: Zenith Radio Corporation
    Inventor: Michael T. Stevens
  • Patent number: 4121130
    Abstract: An insulating substrate is provided with a plurality of discrete electrode pads on a surface thereof. A thermionic line cathode, e.g., a directly heated filament, is positioned to one side of the substrate surface and extends across a surface of each one of the electrode pads. An apertured electrode is positioned in spaced relation to the cathode in a direction away from the surfaces of the electrode pads. The apertured electrode may include a single slit-shaped aperture or a plurality of colinear apertures. The structure may also include a pair of spaced parallel filter plates whose surfaces are disposed in parallel relation to the longitudinal axis of the line cathode and in orthogonal relation to the surfaces of the electrode pads. The filter plates function to collimate the electron flow emitted from the cathode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1978
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventor: Robert Allen Gange