For Flat Cathode-ray Tube Patents (Class 315/366)
  • Patent number: 11932181
    Abstract: An electronic component includes external ground connections for connecting to a cable harness and internal ground connections electrically coupled to paired external ground connections so that the potential at each internal ground connection corresponds to the potential at the paired external ground connection. An analysis circuit determines on which internal ground connections first and second signal information is applied to infer a coding of the component from the pattern of the internal ground connections being supplied with the first and second potential. A combination circuit connects the internal ground connections to the external ground connections such that when a ground line of a cable harness is connected to precisely one of the external ground connections, the first signal information is applied to a respective different sub-quantity of internal ground connections depending on which of the external ground connections the ground line is connected to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fabian Bajfus, Stephan Fahrnbauer
  • Patent number: 9892686
    Abstract: The present invention provides an AMOLED IR drop compensation system and method. The AMOLED IR drop compensation system includes an AMOLED display panel that is divided into a plurality of zones, an image detection module, a data signal correction module, and an IR drop compensation module and may achieve zone-wise linear compensation for IR drop. The AMOLED IR drop compensation method includes dividing an AMOLED display panel in a direction of extension of a power line into a plurality of zones, applying an image detection module to detect a data signal of an image to be displayed and determine if the image to be displayed is a pure color image, applying a data correction module to convert the data signal of a pure color image to be displayed, and applying an IR drop compensation module to conduct zone-wise linear IR drop compensation for each of the plurality of zones by adjusting the variation of the data signal of each of the sub-pixels of each of the zones of the AMOLED display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jing Xu, Taijiun Hwang
  • Patent number: 9064670
    Abstract: An electron emission device includes a cathode electrode; a mesh-shaped gate electrode spaced apart from the cathode electrode; a plurality of gate spacers between the cathode electrode and the gate electrode; and a plurality of electron emission sources between the cathode electrode and the gate electrode, and alternating with the plurality of gate spacers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Il-hwan Kim, Do-yoon Kim, Yong-chul Kim, Shang-hyeun Park, Tae-won Jeong
  • Patent number: 8541961
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an electron beam crossbar switch for interconnection between communication units. The crossbar switch includes an array of electrically charged particle emitter source devices with an input connected to a slow wave structure coupled to the emitter source. An array of detectors is positioned relative to the array of emitter devices for receiving charged particles from various of the emitter devices. X and y deflection means are positioned adjacent each of the emitters for directing the charged particles from each of the emitters to at least one of the detectors to provide more signal output and a reduction in deflection accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Thomas C. Hogan
  • Patent number: 8154487
    Abstract: In a display apparatus, a plurality of pixels including light emitting elements emitting colors of R, G and B, is arranged on a single surface. To each pixel, corresponding R image signal wiring, G image signal wiring, and B image signal wiring, are connected. Wirings are arranged so that the resistance or the capacitance of each image signal wiring differs every color of corresponding pixels, and by this, the rise times of the signal for R, G and B will be substantially equal to each other. The resistance value is changed by adjusting the width, the thickness, or the specific resistance of the material of the image signal wiring, or the capacitance is changed by adjusting the thickness of the insulator or the relative dielectric constant of the material while sandwiching an insulator between the image signal wiring and a scanning wiring at the intersection of them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Osamu Yuuki, Hideo Mori, Noriyuki Shikina
  • Patent number: 7145528
    Abstract: In a display device and a driving and controlling method therefor, in order to restrain the occurrence of an unsatisfactory display state or unsatisfactory luminescence in the case where an anode potential is made to transition from a supply state to a cut-off state in response to the generation of a display completing signal, when a display signal DS is generated at time t0, an anode potential Va is raised at time t1, and at time t2 until which a predetermined time Td2 passes after the anode potential Va decreases below a threshold potential Vth with a cut-off voltage applied between cathodes and an anode, the application of the cut-off voltage is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeki Yabu, Takeo Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 7071635
    Abstract: The invention provides a flat display device which comprises for pixels arranged along drive lines a voltage drop calculator 27 for calculating a voltage drop occurring in accordance with the position of each pixel, and a video signal converter 30 and a lookup table 31 for correcting the input signal to be supplied to the pixel in accordance with the magnitude of the calculated voltage drop, whereby crosstalk due to the voltage drop is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masutaka Inoue, Haruhiko Murata, Yukio Mori, Atsuhiro Yamashita, Shigeo Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 6894444
    Abstract: A shadow mask is formed by lapping a main mask and an auxiliary mask on each other. The auxiliary mask includes a porous portion having electron beam passage holes, nonporous portions situated individually at the opposite ends of the porous portion, a pair of skirt portions extending individually from the nonporous portions and lapped on the skirt portion of the main mask, and second beads formed individually on the skirt portions and overlapping first beads of the main mask. The height or width of the first beads and the second beads in a superposed portion in which the main mask and the auxiliary mask are lapped on each other is differentiated from that of the beads in non-superposed portions outside the superposed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takeshi Nakayama, Takuya Mashimo, Tohru Takahashi, Hiroyuki Oda
  • Patent number: 6891340
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a tracking picture tube of the type in which comb-shaped electrodes or optical detecting means (12, 13) are used for generating a signal related to the position of an electron beam with respect to the strips (5). The tube is characterized in that the deflection unit is arranged to deflect the beams (21r, 21g, 21b) onto selected strips (22r, 22g, 22b) having coincident sides which neighbour finger portions (14, 15) of the same electrode (12, 13), and the selected strips (22r, 22g, 22b), excited by the electron beams, are separated by at least one unexcited strip, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Hendrikus Bernardus Van Den Brink, Hans-Helmut Bechtel, Marcellinus Petrus Carolus Michael Krijn
  • Patent number: 6891169
    Abstract: An e-beam system generates a set of massively parallel beams of order of magnitude 1,000 by employing a flash eprom to store calibration data and to receive on/off signals directed through the address system of the memory array, the individual electron sources being mounted above the memory array in a geometric array that tracks the structure of the memory array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Scott Josef Bukofsky, Bomy Able Chen, Sara Jennifer Eames, Qiang Wu
  • Publication number: 20040212328
    Abstract: A shadow mask is formed by lapping a main mask and an auxiliary mask on each other. The auxiliary mask includes a porous portion having electron beam passage holes, nonporous portions situated individually at the opposite ends of the porous portion, a pair of skirt portions extending individually from the nonporous portions and lapped on the skirt portion of the main mask, and second beads formed individually on the skirt portions and overlapping first beads of the main mask. The height or width of the first beads and the second beads in a superposed portion in which the main mask and the auxiliary mask are lapped on each other is differentiated from that of the beads in non-superposed portions outside the superposed portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Inventors: Takeshi Nakayama, Takuya Mashimo, Tohru Takahashi, Hiroyuki Oda
  • Publication number: 20040183483
    Abstract: The invention provides a flat display device which comprises for pixels arranged along drive lines a voltage drop calculator 27 for calculating a voltage drop occurring in accordance with the position of each pixel, and a video signal converter 30 and a lookup table 31 for correcting the input signal to be supplied to the pixel in accordance with the magnitude of the calculated voltage drop, whereby crosstalk due to the voltage drop is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Masutaka Inoue, Haruhiko Murata, Yukio Mori, Atsuhiro Yamashita, Shigeo Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20040183484
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide an improved flat panel type display apparatus allowing a low cost and a simplified wiring process. First and second terminal groups adjacent to each other as well as a third terminal group separated from the first and second terminal groups and are formed on the outside edge of a rear glass substrate of display section main body of the display apparatus. The first terminal group is comprised of connection terminals formed with wiring patterns connected to display electrodes. The second and third terminal groups and are connected to each other by predetermined wiring patterns. On connection end of TCP equipped with a driver IC, there are formed connecting terminals corresponding to the first and second terminal groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Applicant: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeo Ide, Tomihiro Oguchi
  • Patent number: 6747630
    Abstract: A bi-cosine filter having a scaling technique to process images for up-scaling that does not lead to loss of the high frequency content of the generated image nor leads to image artifact known as waxing and waning is disclosed. The two tap filter (100) includes an input node (102) coupled to receive the image data. A first multiplier (104) couples to receive a first coefficient (C0) and the image data input. The first multiplier (104) multiplies the image data input by the first coefficient (C0) to provide a first product. The image data input is feed through a delay element (106) to delay the image data by a predetermined time period. Delay element (106) connects to a second multiplier (108) that couples to receive a second coefficient (C1). The second multiplier (108) multiplies the time-delayed image data by the second coefficient (C1) to provide a second product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Bharat Pathak
  • Publication number: 20040012348
    Abstract: An image distortion compensating apparatus controls a convergence yoke, and includes a compensation value generator for calculating a convergence compensation value for compensating a convergence distortion which occurs while an image signal is emitted onto a display apparatus, the compensation value generator outputting the convergence compensation value after compensating for a phase and a gain of the convergence yoke; an amplifier for D-class amplifying of the convergence compensation value; and a convergence yoke attached to the display apparatus for controlling a path of electron beams corresponding to the image signal, based on the convergence compensation value as amplified at the amplifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoung-Geun Lee, Chung-Wook Roh, Joon-Hwan Lee
  • Patent number: 6661186
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube has an electron gun including three in-line cathodes, first and second grid electrodes arranged in the order named, and plural electrodes for focusing three electron beams from the cathodes onto the phosphor screen. The following inequalities are satisfied: E≦1.4A−0.2B−2.7C−2D, and A≦0.35 mm, where A (mm) is a diameter of an electron-beam transmissive aperture in the first grid electrode, B (mm) is a diameter of an electron-beam transmissive aperture in the second grid electrode, C (mm) is a thickness of a portion of the first grid electrode immediately surrounding the electron-beam transmissive aperture in the first grid electrode, D (mm) is a spacing between the cathodes and the electron-beam transmissive aperture in the first grid electrode, and E (mm) is a spacing between the first grid electrode and the second grid electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoki Nakamura, Hirotsugu Sakamoto, Shinichi Kato, Syoji Shirai
  • Publication number: 20030173888
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a flat panel display, and more particularly, to a flat panel display in which the main skeletal structure of a horizontal deflecting electrode is arranged in a horizontal direction to enhance structural strength and the structure of an electrode to which voltage is applied is shaped symmetric to eliminate over-converging of electron beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Inventors: Sung Woo Ko, Nam Jae Koh, In Jue Kim
  • Patent number: 6614189
    Abstract: A color CRT having a body portion coupled to a panel, a neck portion in which an electron gun is installed and a yoke portion formed to be connected between the body portion and the neck portion and in which a deflection coil is mounted, wherein an outer face of the yoke portion satisfies a relational expression of 0.6<&Dgr;HV/L<0.71, of which ‘L’ indicates a diagonal length of an outer face of the yoke portion, ‘H’ indicates a long axis length of the outer face of the yoke portion, ‘V’ indicates a short axis length of the outer face of the yoke portion, &Dgr;H indicates a difference between the diagonal length ‘L’ and the long axis length ‘H’, &Dgr;V indicates a difference between the diagonal length ‘L’ and the short axis length ‘V’, &Dgr;HV indicates the sum of &Dgr;H and &Dgr;V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Thae Seok Yoon
  • Patent number: 6608454
    Abstract: An inner surface of the panel is formed to satisfy at least one of the following relationships: ZPH/LPH≦0.0050, and ZPV/LPV≦0.050 where LPH represents a distance from a center of the effective section to a long axis end of the effective section. LPV represents a distance from the center to a short axis end of the effective section, ZPH represents a fall of the effective section at the long axis end along the tube axis, and ZPV presents a fall of the effective section at the short axis end along the axis of the tube axis. At least one of each long side and each short side of a mask surface is curved such that a central portion thereof projects outwardly, and satisfies at least corresponding one of the following relationships: YML/LML≦0.015, and XMS/LMS≦0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Norio Shimizu, Takuya Mashimo, Masatsugu Inoue
  • Patent number: 6573667
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for matching of a picture tube, comprising a product carrier arranged to carry the picture tube along a matching line to a matching position, said carrier being connected to a voltage source, and a matching means, located in the matching position for performing the matching of the tube. The device further includes a connecting socket, adapted to be mounted onto and electrically connected to said picture tube base connector. The connecting socket comprises a first terminal for connection of the cathode pre heating filament to said voltage supply via the carrier, and a plurality of second terminals for separate, simultaneous connection of said matching means directly to said socket. With the invention, the need for long wiring between the base connector and the carrier is eliminated, and the carrier is simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Adrianus Henricus Martinus Van Gurchom
  • Publication number: 20030080698
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a picture display device for reducing cathode drive-induced deflection errors in an index type cathode ray tube (CRT), and especially a flat intelligent tracking (FIT) CRT. The method comprises the steps of generating at least one electron beam; driving said beam by modulating a cathode potential; predicting a deflection error for the beam due to the cathode drive; and controlling compensation means in accordance with said prediction for reducing said deflection error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Inventors: Willem Lubertus Ijzerman, Marcellinus Petrus Carolus Michael Krijn, Jozef Johannes Maria Hulshof, Dirk Johan Adriaan Teuling
  • Publication number: 20030076043
    Abstract: A cathode ray tube (CRT) has an electron gun including a cathode for emitting electron beams, a control electrode for controlling emission of the electron beams from the cathode, and a screen electrode for accelerating the flow of the electron beams passing the control electrode are arranged in series. In the CRT, during a scanning period, a voltage applied to at least one of the control electrode and the screen electrode changes in response to a voltage of a data signal applied to the cathode. The control electrode and screen electrode each include three mutually electrically insulated sections for independently controlling each of three electron beams passing through the electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Applicant: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woo-seok Huh, Min-cheol Bae
  • Patent number: 6545435
    Abstract: A capacitor for outputting a reference signal is formed by using a part of an envelope. A reference signal according to an anode voltage is output from the capacitor for outputting a reference signal. An unnecessary signal component included in an index-detection signal which is output via the capacitor for outputting an index signal is eliminated on the basis of the reference signal. With the configuration, only the required index-information signal is extracted from the index detection signal with high accuracy at a high SN ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shoichi Muraguchi, Hiromu Hosokawa, Takahiro Inoue
  • Publication number: 20030057891
    Abstract: In color display tubes (1) with a dotted shadow mask (13) structure and an in-line electron gun (10), the geometry of the screen (6) and the deflection field produced by the deflection unit (11) cause triad rotation, which is a rotation of the three phosphor dots (red, green and blue) corresponding to one aperture of the shadow mask (13) with respect to the horizontal scan lines (35). This problem can be solved by giving the horizontal lines (35) a curved shape. However, in the prior art situation a parabolic shape is used, leading to severe moiré problems, because the vertical pitch asv (38) is influenced too strongly at the vertical screen edges. This problem can be overcome by using fourth order or even sixth order terms in the shape of the horizontal lines (35). A pure fourth order function reduces the vertical pitch asv 38 variation by 50% with respect to the parabolic prior-art situation, and a pure sixth order function even leads to a reduction by 67%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Inventor: Leonardus Antonius Maria Elshof
  • Patent number: 6538256
    Abstract: A method and system for electron beam lithography at high throughput with shorter electron beam column length, reduced electron-electron interactions, and higher beam current. The system includes a photocathode having a pattern composed of a periodic array of apertures with a specific geometry. The spacing of the apertures is chosen so as to maximize the transmission of the laser beam through apertures significantly smaller than the photon wavelength. The patterned photocathode is illuminated by an array of laser beams to allow blanking and gray-beam modulation of the individual beams at the source level by the switching of the individual laser beams in the array. Potential applications for this invention include electron beam direct write on wafers and mask patterning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Marian Mankos, Vidhya Krishnamurthi, Kim Y. Lee
  • Patent number: 6495975
    Abstract: A CRT display apparatus including a CRT having an electron gun is disclosed. The electron gun includes a cathode, and a G1 electrode, a G2 electrode and a G3 electrode disposed in that order for drawing electrons from the cathode. The electron gun further includes a modulating electrode disposed between the G2 electrode and the G3 electrode. The CRT display apparatus is provided with a controller for controlling a value of a voltage applied to the modulating electrode in order to suppress or interrupt an electron beam flowing from the cathode to a screen of the CRT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hironobu Yasui, Akinori Heishi
  • Patent number: 6462486
    Abstract: The invention relates to a control process for a structure with field effect elements, the structure comprising a cathode (1) equipped with field effect elements, an anode (2), an extraction grid (7) and an additional grid (14). The process comprises at least one phase in which electrons are emitted to the anode by field effect elements, and at least one regeneration phase during which the electrons output from the elements are not transmitted to the anode. The regeneration phase is implemented by applying an electron blocking voltage (VB) to the additional grid (14) such that electrons drop back to the cathode. The invention is applicable to flat image display screens and any device comprising a field effect cathode (x-ray tube, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: François Levy, Denis Sarrasin
  • Publication number: 20020140382
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube has an electron gun including three in-line cathodes, first and second grid electrodes arranged in the order named, and plural electrodes for focusing three electron beams from the cathodes onto the phosphor screen. The following inequalities are satisfied: E≦1.4A−0.2B−2.7C−2D, and A≦0.35 mm, where A (mm) is a diameter of an electron-beam transmissive aperture in the first grid electrode, B (mm) is a diameter of an electron-beam transmissive aperture in the second grid electrode, C (mm) is a thickness of a portion of the first grid electrode immediately surrounding the electron-beam transmissive aperture in the first grid electrode, D (mm) is a spacing between the cathodes and the electron-beam transmissive aperture in the first grid electrode, and E (mm) is a spacing between the first grid electrode and the second grid electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventors: Tomoki Nakamura, Hirotsugu Sakamoto, Shinichi Kato, Syoji Shirai
  • Patent number: 6459219
    Abstract: A simple and cheap dynamic S-correction circuit compensates the higher order errors like the so-called moustache effect and the inner linearity distortion. This is achieved in a known way by connecting an additional proper tuned S-capacitor in parallel with the original one during the start and end of the scan interval. Duty cycle modulation of the on/off times as a function of the frame compensates the inner-pin distortion (also called inner-linearity or modulated S-correction). The duty cycle or the switch on and off instants required to compensate the horizontal distortion or moustache effect is derived by comparing the AC parabolic waveform generated on the S-capacitors with a DC-voltage. Duty-cycle modulation required for compensation of the inner-pin distortion is, in this way, automatically obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Ferdinand R. Antheunes, Christianus H. J. Bergmans
  • Publication number: 20020125841
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to an electron gun that generates an electron flow and the application of this gun to produce rf energy or for injectors. The electron gun comprises an electrostatic cavity having a first stage with emitting faces and multiple stages with emitting sections. The gun is also comprised of a mechanism for producing an electrostatic force which encompasses the emitting faces and the multiple emitting sections so electrons are directed from the emitting faces toward the emitting sections to contact the emitting sections and generate additional electrons and to further contact other emitting sections to generate additional electrons and so on then finally to escape the end of the cavity. The emitting sections preferably provide the cavity with an accelerating force for electrons inside the cavity. The multiple sections preferably include thin forward emitting surfaces. The forward emitting surfaces can be of an annular shape, or of a circular shape, or of a rhombohedron shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2001
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventors: Frederick M. Mako, Amnon Fisher
  • Publication number: 20020101180
    Abstract: Even if an output voltage from a high-voltage power source includes a ripple, this invention reduces the influence on a luminance output and suppresses the capacitances of a high-voltage power source transformer and smoothing capacitor. An electron-beam apparatus adopts line-sequential driving of allowing a plurality of electron-emitting devices to simultaneously emit electrons in an arrangement in which an accelerating potential for accelerating electrons includes a ripple. At the same time, sets of devices allowed to simultaneously emit electrons are sequentially switched. The frequency of the ripple is synchronized with the selection frequency of line-sequential driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Inventor: Kenji Shino
  • Publication number: 20020070690
    Abstract: A color CRT is driven by focusing and accelerating an electron beam emitted from a cathode by forming a plurality of electron lens including a quadrupole lens by applying a predetermined voltage to the cathode of an electron gun installed at a neck portion of a funnel and each of electrodes, focusing the electron beam on a fluorescent film by applying a voltage having a horizontal dynamic waveform having a ratio of slopes of 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2001
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Inventors: Min-Cheol Bae, Yong-Geol Kwon
  • Patent number: 6384527
    Abstract: A flat panel display is disclosed which includes a faceplate with a faceplate interior side, and a backplate including a backplate interior side in an opposing relationship to the faceplate interior side. Side walls are positioned between the faceplate and the backplate. The side walls, faceplate and backplate form an enclosed sealed envelope. A plurality of phosphor subpixels are positioned at the faceplate interior side. A plurality of field emitters are positioned at the backplate interior side. The field emitters emit electrons which strike corresponding phosphor subpixels. A plurality of scattering shields surround each phosphor subpixel and define a subpixel volume. The scattering shields reduce the number of scattered electrons exiting from their corresponding subpixel volume. This reduces the number of scattered electrons from charging internal insulating surfaces in the envelope, as well as striking the non-corresponding phosphor subpixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Candescent Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher J. Spindt, John E. Field, Duane A. Haven
  • Publication number: 20020047670
    Abstract: The cathode ray tube apparatus comprises a main lens constructed by focus, intermediate, and final acceleration electrodes. The main lens includes a focusing area positioned in a side of the focus electrode, and a diverging area positioned in a side of the final acceleration electrode. A focusing force curve expressing the focusing force along the tube-axis direction in the focusing area has two convex parts respectively being at first and second levels, and a concave part provided between the convex parts and being at a third level sufficiently lower than the first and second levels. The third level is set to a lowermost level at which a focusing or diverging force is not substantially effected on the electron beam. An intermediate electrode having a non-circular shaped hole is positioned near an area of the lowermost level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Inventor: Osamu Ono
  • Publication number: 20020047651
    Abstract: A landing correction coil is provided at the rear of a horizontal deflection coil of a deflection yoke or at a position where it is closely coupled with the horizontal deflection coil. The landing correction coil is fixed so as to generate a magnetic field perpendicular to the axis of a CRT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Inventors: Kyousuke Aoki, Teizo Takase
  • Publication number: 20020047660
    Abstract: A beam index type cathode ray tube for preventing distortion of index signals due to high frequency noises by protecting an optical detector and an index circuit part from the influence of high frequencies which are generated during the operation of the cathode ray tube, which includes a phosphor screen formed on an inner surface of a panel and having index stripes, an electron gun for emitting electron beams toward the phosphor screen, index light incident part formed on outer peripheral surfaces of respective light receiving windows of a funnel to be provided with the index light signals emitted from the index stripes via the respective light receiving window, optical cables respectively connected to the index optical incident parts for transmitting optical signals, an optical detector converting the optical signals provided from the optical cables to index current signals, an index circuit part synchronizing the index current signals with a color switching signal so as to transmit a precise color switching
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Inventor: Tae-Sung Kim
  • Publication number: 20020047663
    Abstract: A center electrode assembly, a nonreciprocal circuit device, and a communication apparatus are provided which have stable physical properties and high reliability, and which eliminate the risk of line breakage of the center electrodes thereof. The center electrode assembly includes an electrode assembly wherein a plurality of center electrodes extend outward from the center planar portion (ground electrode) thereof at a predetermined angular distance; and a ferrite. The center planar portion is abutted against the bottom surface of the ferrite, then the center electrodes are wrapped around the top surface of the ferrite across the side surface thereof, and these center electrodes are crossed with one another on the top surface of the ferrite. At least one center electrode is formed of one line, and the line width of the center electrode is set to be partly larger at the ferrite edge portion on the cold-end side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Ohira, Takashi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20020047661
    Abstract: An image-forming apparatus of the present invention includes: a vacuum container constituted by disposing in opposition to each other a rear plate with an electron source formed thereon, and a face plate having an image display region provided with at least phosphors for being irradiated with electrons emitted from the electron source to form an image and anodes disposed on the phosphors; anode potential supplying means for supplying an electric potential higher than that of the electron source to the anode; at least one electroconductive member provided at a site outside of the image display region on an inner surface of the face plate; potential supplying means for supplying to the electroconductive member an electric potential at a level between a lowest electric potential of those which are applied to the electron source and an electric potential applied to the anode; first and second resistant members electrically connected between the anode and the electroconductive members, having resistances higher th
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Inventors: Koji Yamazaki, Tomoya Onishi
  • Publication number: 20020047662
    Abstract: A capacitor for outputting a reference signal is formed by using a part of an envelope. A reference signal according to an anode voltage is output from the capacitor for outputting a reference signal. An unnecessary signal component included in an index detection signal which is output via the capacitor for outputting an index signal is eliminated on the basis of the reference signal. With the configuration, only the index information signal required is extracted from the index detection signal with high accuracy at a high SN ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Inventors: Shoichi Muraguchi, Hiromu Hosokawa, Takahiro Inoue
  • Patent number: 6377002
    Abstract: Strips of field emitters arranged in rows overlap grid electrodes when viewed in the viewing direction to define pixel dots. Scanning electrical voltages are applied to the rows of field emitters to perform scanning and data potentials are applied to the grid electrodes to control the brightness of the display. Potentials applied to the grid electrodes also focus the electrons from the field emitters. A metal mesh with grid electrodes fabricated thereon to form an integrated structure greatly simplifies the manufacture of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Pixtech, Inc.
    Inventors: Shichao Ge, Lap Man Yam, Charles S. Leung, Xi Huang
  • Patent number: 6373202
    Abstract: In a color cathode ray tube having a flat panel exterior surface, the screen distortion and the convergence give rise to problems. To overcome these problems, by arranging bar magnets in such a manner that they are disposed parallel to a screen and are shifted from upper and lower ends of a horizontal deflection coil of a deflection yoke by not less than 10 mm in the direction perpendicular to a tube axis, the distortion of the screen and the characteristics of the convergence can be simultaneously improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Ito, Takeshi Kaneki, Mitsuru Watanabe, Souichi Sakurai
  • Patent number: 6348758
    Abstract: A flat type color cathode ray tube (CRT) includes a bulb consisting of a flat type panel where a fluorescent film on which inner surface a fluorescent pattern and black matrix are coated is formed, and a funnel extended from the panel, and a frame assembly having a flat type shadow mask installed adjacent to the panel in the bulb and having a plurality of strips for forming a plurality of slits and a tie bar for connecting neighboring strips, wherein a vertical pitch of the black matrix formed on the fluorescent film is less than or equal to a vertical pitch of the tie bar of the flat type shadow mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wan Kim, Soon-Cheol Shin
  • Patent number: 6348770
    Abstract: There is provided a field leak preventing coating film of a cahtode ray tube, comprising a vacuum case comprising the panel section, a neck section and a funnel section connecting the panel section and the neck section; a fluorescent film applied on an inner face of the panel section; and an electron gun, stored in the neck section, for emitting three electron beams toward the fluorescent film, by adhering a double coating film composed of a conductive first layer mainly composed of particles of one or more kinds of metal among noble metal elements of gold (Au), silver (Ag) or platinum (Pt) and a second layer mainly composed of silicon dioxide (SiO2) or magnesium fluoride (MgF2) on an outer face of a faceplate of a panel section of the color cathode ray tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Nishizawa, Norikazu Uchiyama, Toshio Tojo
  • Patent number: 6329769
    Abstract: To provide an electron beam irradiation device capable of avoiding a problem of convergence of an electron beam at the maximum scanning points, and constantly obtaining an irradiated region of uniform energy density, an electron beam irradiation device comprising an electron beam source 12, an accelerating tube 13 for accelerating electrons emitted from said electron beam source, a focusing electromagnet 16 for applying a magnetic field to a high energy electron beam, which is formed by the accelerating tube, for controlling the beam diameter of the electron beam, and an electromagnet 17 for deflecting and scanning the beam-diameter-controlled electron beam by applying a magnetic field to the electron beam, wherein an electric current component IF which is synchronized with an electric current IS of the scanning electromagnet 17 is superimposed on an electric current IF of the focusing electromagnet 16, thereby controlling the electric current IF of the focusing electromagnet in a manner that said beam diamet
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihiko Naito
  • Patent number: 6304043
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement for signal coupling between circuit parts having supply lines isolated from one another wherein a) the circuit arrangement comprises a first circuit part (1) and at least one further circuit part (2), the first circuit part (1) being connected to a first supply line (3) having a first ground potential (GND1), and the other circuit part(s) (2) being connected to a supply line (4) which is different than the first supply line (3) and has an associated second ground potential (GND2), the supply line (4) or the associated line for the ground potential (GND2) being able to be connected and disconnected at least in one of these further circuit parts (2), b) there are one or more signal paths (6, 7, 8, 9) between the first circuit part and the other circuit part(s), each of these signal paths (6, 7, 8, 9) containing a coupling capacitor (11, 12, 13, 14) for capacitively transmitting useful signals (N1, N2, N3, N4) between the first circuit part and the other circuit part(s), c) each circuit
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventor: Dieter Klostermeier
  • Patent number: 6291940
    Abstract: A multipixel electron emission source is generated by separating a point electron source from a plasma region. The point electron source produces an electron beam that is passed through the plasma region. The plasma region diffuses the electron beam thereby producing electrons with uniform energy. Moreover, the maximum current of the device is advantageously controlled by the maximum electron current produced by the point electron source and not the characteristics of the plasma and wall interactions as found in conventional devices. The electrons are then pulled out of the plasma region by an aperture grid that is also used as a blanking array. A focusing chamber is positioned down stream of the plasma region and aperture grid. The aperture grid includes a base electrode and a blanker electrode, which is isolated from the base electrode. The base electrode is held at a potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventor: Bart Scholte Van Mast
  • Patent number: 6268704
    Abstract: There is provided a field leakage preventing coating for a cathode ray tube, including a vacuum envelope having a panel section, a neck section and a funnel section connecting the panel section and the neck section; a fluorescent film applied on an inner face of the panel section; and an electron gun, mounted in the neck section, for emitting three electron beams toward the fluorescent film. The field leakage preventing coating is formed by adhering a double coating film composed of a conductive first layer mainly composed of particles of one or more kinds of metal among noble metal elements of gold (Au), silver (Ag) and platinum (Pt) and a second layer mainly composed of silicon dioxide (SiO2) or magnesium fluoride (MgF2) on an outer face of a faceplate of a panel section of the color cathode ray tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignees: Hitachi, LTD, Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Nishizawa, Norikazu Uchiyama, Toshio Tojo
  • Publication number: 20010008367
    Abstract: Frame assembly in a flat cathode ray tube, the flat cathode ray tube including a panel glass 1 having a fluorescent material coated on an inside surface, a funnel glass 2 fixed to rear of the panel glass 1 having a neck portion formed as one unit with an electron gun sealed therein for emission of electron beams 6 toward the fluorescent material, a deflection yoke 5 fitted on an outer circumference of the neck portion for deflection of the electron beams 6 emitted from the electron gun, a shadow mask 3 fitted to an inside surface of the panel glass 1 having a plurality of apertures for selecting colors, and a frame assembly 7 having a main frame 7a fitted to the shadow mask 3 and a subframe 7b connecting both ends of the main frame 7a, wherein a ratio of second moment of inertia (Ixx/Izz) of the subframe 7b is designed to be within 0.5˜2.7 for avoiding a resonance between the frame assembly 7 and the shadow mask 3, thereby preventing occurrence of howling, effectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2001
    Publication date: July 19, 2001
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Soo Kil Park
  • Patent number: 6225761
    Abstract: A field emission display (100, 200, 300) includes a plurality of offset phosphors (126) and a cathode plate (110). Cathode plate (110) has a plurality of non-electron-emissive structures (112), a plurality of electron-emissive pixels (108), and a plurality of focusing electrodes (106). Offset phosphors (126) are aligned one each with non-electron-emissive structures (112) of cathode plate (110). Focusing electrodes (106) are disposed to cause a plurality of emission currents (134), which are generated by electron-emissive pixels (108), to be directed one each toward offset phosphors (126). Ions liberated from offset phosphors (126) are received by non-electron-emissive structures (112) of cathode plate (110), thereby ameliorating ion bombardment of electron-emissive pixels (108).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence N. Dworsky, Curtis D. Moyer
  • Patent number: 6208091
    Abstract: A vacuum electron device comprises an evacuated envelope containing a cathode for supplying electrons to form an electron beam, an anode spaced from the cathode for receiving the electron beam, and a sensor electrode located between the cathode and the anode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Beeteson, Andrew Ramsay Knox