Electrostatic Patents (Class 313/439)
  • Patent number: 4812707
    Abstract: An electron beam deflection structure (10) of the traveling wave type effectively cancels the longitudinal voltage gradients and the associated electron beam defocusing that are characteristic of such deflection structures. The deflection structure comprises a first helical coil member (48) and a second helical coil member (50) that are coaxial with the longitudinal axis (26) of the tube. Each of the coil members has wide and narrow segments which alternate along the length of the coil in sequence with the turns of the coil. The first coil member has its wide segments (92a) positioned on the bottom and its narrow segment (92b) on top of the coil member. The second coil member has its wide segments (94a) positioned on top and its narrow segments (94b) positioned on the bottom of the coil member. The narrow segments from one of the coil members are interleaved with the wide segments from the other coil member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1989
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventor: Ronald E. Correll
  • Patent number: 4792721
    Abstract: A cathode-ray tube comprises an electron beam generating section provided at one end of the tube, a target provided at the other end of the tube, and a group of electrodes provided on an inner wall of the tube for focusing and deflecting an electron beam. The electrode group includes first and second electrodes between the one and other ends of the tube in the mentioned order. The first electrode has a lead electrode portion for supplying an electric potential to the second electrode. The lead electrode portion extends along the tube axis with a zigzag form in which an angle .angle.MZN of a convave apex M and a convex apex N adjacent thereto spanning in a circumferential direction centering the tube axis Z is not smaller than 115.degree. or a spiral form which rotates centering the tube axis at a rotation angle not smaller than 420.degree..
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1988
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Oku, Masanori Maruyama, Masakazu Fukushima, Shinichi Kato
  • Patent number: 4779024
    Abstract: An improved electron deflection system for a light valve of the type used in Schlieren dark field projectors is disclosed. The deflection system eliminates one set (D box 25) of three sets of deflection electrodes used in such projectors. This is accomplished by modifying the d.c. voltages and a.c. voltages applied to the deflection electrodes. A quadrupole d.c. voltage is added to the first control box set of electrodes (61, 62) and a second quadrupole voltage of opposite sense is added to the focus deflection box set of electrodes (63, 65). This modifies the vertical and horizontal beam angles differentially and the vertical and horizontal beam trajectories differentially in a manner to compensate for the composite effects of spherical aberrations, deflection focusing aberrations, and the static starfish lens generated by the interaction of the square box electrode structure against the round drift ring assembly (21) of the deflection system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1988
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Alfred G. Roussin
  • Patent number: 4739218
    Abstract: A short cathode ray tube (CRT) is formed wherein the axes of deflection in the X and Y directions are separated, and by bending the electron beam path in a region between the separated axes. The deflections and beam bending may be accomplished magnetically or electrostatically. The CRT may use a single electron gun or a multiple gun assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1988
    Inventor: Samuel A. Schwartz
  • Patent number: 4728855
    Abstract: An improved vertical and horizontal deflection electrode system for an electrostatic deflection cathode ray tube which comprises a glass bulb and an electron beam source and vertical and horizontal deflection electrodes formed in patterns and which are applied to the inner surface of the glass bulb and wherein the ratio of the area of the vertical deflection electrodes to the area of the horizontal deflection electrodes is selected to be approximately equal to the deflection aspect ratio of the electron beam and the horizontal and vertical directions which results in the voltage required in the deflection system being substantially decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1988
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takehiro Kakizaki
  • Patent number: 4697120
    Abstract: A color display system includes a cathode-ray tube and yoke. The yoke is a non-converging type. The cathode-ray tube has en electron gun assembly for generating and directing three electron beams, located at the corners of an equilateral triangle, along paths toward a screen of the tube. The electron gun assembly comprises three electron guns each including electrodes that comprise a beam-forming region and electrodes that form a main focusing lens in the path of each electron beam. The main focusing lens is formed by at least two focusing electrodes. The focusing electrode closest to the beam-forming region includes a separated part adjacent to the paths of each of the electron beams. Each separated part forms a portion of the dipole lens structure in the path of an electron beam. Means are provided for applying dynamic signals to the separated parts which are related to the deflection of the electron beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1987
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventors: Roger C. Alig, Stanley Bloom, Eric F. Hockings
  • Patent number: 4651050
    Abstract: A cathode ray tube comprises an envelope, an electron beam source positioned at one end of the envelope, a target positioned at another end of the envelope, and an electrostatic lens means positioned between the electron beam source and the target. The lens means has a first cylindrical electrode and a second cylindrical electrode positioned along the electron beam path to focus the electron beam. The second cylindrical electrode is divided into four patterned electrodes, and each of the deflection electrodes has a lead which is formed across the first cylindrical electrode but is isolated therefrom. The portion of the leads is positioned to cause a predeflection to the electron beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1987
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Tagawa, Shoji Araki, Shinichi Numata
  • Patent number: 4560905
    Abstract: A charged particle accelerating assembly provided with a predetermined ratio of parametric structural characteristics and with related operating voltages applied to each of its linearly spaced focusing and accelerating quadrupoles, thereby to maintain a particle beam traversing the electrostatic fields of the quadrupoles in the assembly in an essentially laminar flow throughout the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1985
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventor: Alfred W. Maschke
  • Patent number: 4427917
    Abstract: A television camera tube with electrostatic focusing comprising a triode section at the first stage having a cathode a first grid and a second grid, an electrostatic focusing lens section at the next stage having a third, fourth and fifth grids of cylindrical electrode configuration, and a sixth grid with mesh electrode configuration at the last stage, these electrodes being coaxially arranged in a cylindrical glass envelope, the length of the fourth grid is greater than 1.15 times the inner diameter thereof but equal to or smaller than 2.30 times the inner diameter thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1984
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Mizushima, Shigeru Ehata, Masanori Maruyama, Masakazu Fukushima
  • Patent number: 4321470
    Abstract: An electron flood exposure apparatus is disclosed which is comprised of an electron gun for providing an electron beam; a dispersing means for converting the electron beam into an electron flood; a post dispersion collimation and acceleration grid; and a target holder for holding a microlithographic resist which is to be exposed by the flood of electrons after collimation and acceleration by the acceleration grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1982
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Kaplan, Eugene S. Poliniak, Dietrich Meyerhofer
  • Patent number: 4218635
    Abstract: Shifting of the electron beam emitted from an electron gun is eliminated by placement of deflection electrodes between the electron gun anode and object electrode, whereby the electron beam, during blanking, is deflected away from the electron gun central axis and caused to totally impinge upon blanking and spray electrodes. For deflections less than the deflection required for total blanking, the electron beam is diminished in intensity but is not moved in position from the central gun axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1980
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James F. Bedard, William C. Hughes
  • Patent number: 4205253
    Abstract: In an electron-optical system of the mixed field type in which magnetic and electric fields are respectively operative to project a focused image of an object of the system upon a target structure and to simultaneously scan such image across the target structure, beam landing errors are eliminated by dimensioning and locating the solenoid for generating the magnetic field and the electrostatic yoke for generating the electric field so that the landing errors due to non-uniformity of the electric field, for example, by reason of field-free regions at the opposite ends thereof, are substantially cancelled by landing errors due to non-uniformity of the magnetic field, for example, as constituted by flare field regions at the opposite ends of the magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1980
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takehiro Kakizaki, Susumu Tagawa, Masahide Sawai