Combined Cathode Ray Tube And Circuit Element Structure Patents (Class 315/3)
  • Patent number: 5612689
    Abstract: A plurality of finger articulation units that individually mount on finger and thumb nails and together, by selected up and down movement of the fingers and thumbs (ten fingers), serve as an alternate to a keyboard and/or for any human to machine and/or computer interface. Vertical up and down movements of any single one of the ten fingers and various combinations of the fingers is translated into a range of signals recognizable as alpha-numeric numbers, digital signalling, word and picture forms or other symbol forms a user may choose. The individual finger articulation devices are each attached to the ten fingernails by clips securing a unit to each of the ten fingernails whereby movement of a particular finger, up and down is detected. The device on that finger generates a signal passed via interface control to a computer for interpretation by a program to produce a symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1997
    Inventor: Edward A. Lee, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5604401
    Abstract: An electron beam having a high current ratio between the high and the low current modes, susceptible to no significant change in beam diameter and relatively free from ripples in both modes is formed. This electron beam is used to realize a highly reliable, simple-structured and compact microwave tube which performs nearly optimal RF operations in both modes. The gate electrode or the emitter electrode, in which emitters are formed, of a field-emission cold cathode is divided into a plurality of parts, and the area in which electrons are emitted is switched over by varying the voltage applied to this divided electrode to make possible switching between two current modes, the high and the low. Alternatively, the current ratio between the high and the low current modes is made settable by making variable the connections between three or more parts into which the gate electrode or the emitter electrode are divided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1997
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hideo Makishima
  • Patent number: 5592053
    Abstract: An electron beam device includes a diamond layer positioned downstream from and in the path of an electron beam. This diamond layer has a conductance that is responsive to the electron beam. Two electrical contacts on the diamond layer provide connections to a power source and a load. When the electron beam is on, the diamond layer becomes conductive allowing electrical power to flow from the power source through the diamond layer to the load. Accordingly, the electron beam device can act as a switch, or the electron beam can be modulated to provide an amplifier. The diamond layer is capable of high temperature operation, resists crystal damage, resists corrosion, and provides a high breakdown voltage. At least one of the electrical contacts on the diamond layer preferably comprises a degeneratively doped diamond surface portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Assignee: Kobe Steel USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley A. Fox, Jeffrey T. Glass, David L. Driefus, Luka Lojk
  • Patent number: 5517082
    Abstract: A power supply for supplying the heating coils of a tube (WR), in particular a traveling-wave tube, wherein a transformer (Tr) and an inverter (S1, S2) are provided in the heating circuit of the tube (WR), and the frequency of the AC current is reduced from a high initial value to a lower value during the heat-up time of the tube (WR) in such a way that the change of the inductive voltage drop caused by this frequency change limits the heating current at the leakage inductance (LS) of the transformer (Tr).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1996
    Assignee: Ant Nachrichtentechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Franz Ohms
  • Patent number: 5491775
    Abstract: A standardized microcontroller-based fuzzy logic processing module for generating control signal values in response to variable input signal values in accordance with constraints imposed by propositions or "rules" stored in memory in a standardized format. Each rule consists of one or more input conditions and an output directive. Each input signal and the output signal values are characterizable by their degree of membership in a predetermined number of fuzzy sets, each fuzzy set being defined by a membership function. Each input condition is composed of a reference to a particular input variable, which has been preprocessed into integer (whole number) normalized form and a reference to a membership function. Each output directive includes a reference to a further membership function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1996
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Dinu P. Madau, Lee A. Feldkamp, Steven H. Seippel, Fumin Yuan, Leighton I. Davis
  • Patent number: 5440202
    Abstract: In an electron beam device having a cathode (1), in which a high-power electron beam propagating along a beam axis (5) is generated, an anode (3) arranged behind the cathode (1) in the direction of beam axis (5), and a collector (4), arranged behind the anode (3) in the direction of the beam axis (5), for decelerating the electrons of the electron beam, the collector (4) is constructed of several collector stages (6) which are arranged successively in the direction of the beam axis (5) and which successively decrease in potential. A high-voltage direct-current supply (13), which consists of a series of similar switching stages (S1, . . . , S6) which are in each case constructed as switchable medium-voltage sources and the outputs of which are connected in series, is provided for the feed arrangement. The potentials of the collector stages (6) are provided by corresponding taps between the switching stages (S1, . . . , S6) of the high-voltage direct-current supply (13 ).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1995
    Assignee: Thomcast AG
    Inventors: Hans-Gunter Mathews, Wolfram Schminke
  • Patent number: 5436524
    Abstract: A new deflection structure (12) which deflects a beam of charged particles, uch as an electron beam (15), includes a serpentine set (20) for transmitting a deflection field, and a shielding frame (25) for housing the serpentine set (20). The serpentine set (20) includes a vertical serpentine deflection element (22) and a horizontal serpentine deflection element (24). These deflection elements (22, 24) are identical, and are interdigitatedly and orthogonally disposed relative to each other, for forming a central transmission passage (75), through which the electron beam (15) passes, and is deflected by the deflection field, so as to minimize drift space signal distortion. The shielding frame (25) includes a plurality of ground blocks (26, 28, 30, 32), and forms an internal serpentine trough (77) within these ground blocks, for housing the serpentine set (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Energy
    Inventors: Edward C. Hagen, Charles L. Hudson
  • Patent number: 5376864
    Abstract: A shielded serpentine slow wave deflection structure (10) having a serpene signal conductor (12) within a channel groove (46). The channel groove (46) is formed by a serpentine channel (20) in a trough plate (18) and a ground plane (14). The serpentine signal conductor (12) is supported at its ends by coaxial feed through connectors 28. A beam interaction trough (22) intersects the channel groove (46) to form a plurality of beam interaction regions (56) wherein an electron beam (54) may be deflected relative to the serpentine signal conductor (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Energy
    Inventors: Charles L. Hudson, Jerome Spector
  • Patent number: 5334907
    Abstract: A cooling device for microwave tubes includes a cold part and a heat-conducting member having a first surface in contact with a surface of the cold part. A second surface of the heat-conducting member is in contact with an envelope of the tube. The surface of the cold part and the first surface of the heat-conducting member are respectively concave and convex. The device can be applied to the cooling of microwave tubes including klystrons, travelling-wave tubes and gyrotrons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1994
    Assignee: Thomson Tubes Electroniques
    Inventors: Henri Desmur, Robert Duret
  • Patent number: 5313138
    Abstract: An electron gun is modulated by an optoelectronic switching device. This switching device comprises a modulated light source and at least one GaAs or Si solid-state optoelectronic switch, this switch being non-conductive when not illuminated and conductive when illuminated by the modulated light source; the device also includes components to transmit the light from the source to the switch(es). In one embodiment, the modulated light source is a laser and in a second embodiment the source is a continuous source externally modulated by a mechanical or electrooptical device. The optoelectronic switching device is connected between a high-voltage source and the cathode of an electron gun, thus modulating the cathode.The invention is particularly applicable to microwave electron tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1994
    Assignee: Thomson Tubes Electroniques
    Inventor: Henri Desmur
  • Patent number: 5245249
    Abstract: A flat display device includes no exposed part of an insulated substrate on the inner wall of electron pass holes for attaining a high intensity of a display screen, high operational stability of the display screen, and having a simple structure for manufacturing it easily. In a control electrode, resistive films are formed on the exposed part of an insulated body. When the electrons pass through electron pass holes, electron beams are controlled without charging the insulated substrate by the electrons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1993
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Sakurai, Hidenobu Murakami
  • Patent number: 5210464
    Abstract: An improved ultra-high bandwidth helical coil deflection structure for a hode ray tube is described comprising a first metal member having a bore therein, the metal walls of which form a first ground plane; a second metal member coaxially mounted in the bore of the first metal member and forming a second ground plane; a helical deflection coil coaxially mounted within the bore between the two ground planes; and a resistive load disposed in one end of the bore and electrically connected to the first and second ground planes, the resistive load having an impedance substantially equal to the characteristic impedance of the coaxial line formed by the two coaxial ground planes to inhibit cavity resonance in the structure within the ultra-high bandwidth of operation. Preferably, the resistive load comprises a carbon film on a surface of an end plug in one end of the bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1993
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Energy
    Inventors: Mark E. Dunham, Charles L. Hudson
  • Patent number: 5172029
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a helical coil deflection structure of a CRT are described and illustrated which provide shielding between adjacent turns of the coil on either three or four sides of each turn in the coil. Threaded members formed with either male or female threads and having the same pitch as the deflection coil are utilized for shielding the deflection coil with each turn of the helical coil placed between adjacent threads which act to shield each coil turn from adjacent turns and to confine the field generated by the coil to prevent or inhibit cross-coupling between adjacent turns of the coil to thereby prevent generation of fast fields which might otherwise deflect the beam out of time synchronization with the electron beam pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: Neil J. Norris, Charles L. Hudson
  • Patent number: 5153483
    Abstract: A display device capable of exhibiting sufficient luminescence using FECs as a plane electron source. The display device includes a substrate section or a cathode substrate and a display substrate section or an anode substrate. The substrate section includes TFT sections and FEC sections each connected to one electrode of each of the TFT sections. The display substrate section includes three anodes arranged in a manner to be divided from each other. On each of the anodes is deposited a phosphor layer. Both substrate sections are arranged opposite to each other through a vacuum atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1992
    Assignee: Futaba Denshi Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takao Kishino, Yoichi Kobri
  • Patent number: 5146296
    Abstract: A wafer of neutron transmutation doped silicon having a p-n junction between extended opposite surfaces is formed with bevelled edges. A single or plurality of reverse biased signal contacts is disposed on one surface to provide a single or integrated array of avalanche photodiodes. In addition, an avalanche photodetector (APD) capable of detecting a single photoelectron or imaging multiple photoelectrons comprises a light sensitive photocathode, similar to that in a photomultiplier tube, acting as a converter to produce photoelectrons, which are then accelerated to an anode. The anode comprises a single avalanche photodiode (AP) for detecting or an array (APA) for imaging photoelectrons. The energetic photoelectrons striking the AP or the APA serve as the AP or APA's input signal, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1992
    Assignee: Xsirius Photonics, Inc.
    Inventor: Gerald C. Huth
  • Patent number: 5099175
    Abstract: The invention discloses a wiggler used in synchrotron radiation sources and free electron lasers, where each pole is surrounded by at least two electromagnetic coils. The electromagnetic coils are energized with different amounts of current to provide a wide tunable range of the on-axis magnetic flux density, while preventing magnetic saturation of the poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: Ross D. Schlueter, Gary A. Deis
  • Patent number: 5077497
    Abstract: A cathode ray tube having an electron gun assembly in which a plurality of electrodes constitute an electron beam generating unit for generating electron beams, and an electron lens unit for focusing the generated beams on a predetermined location on a phosphor screen. The electron gun assembly further contains a pair of insulating support rods for supporting the electrodes, a resistor unit for applying a voltage to at least one of the electrodes. A metal ring is mounted in contact with a predetermined electrode of the electron lens unit and surrounds the insulating support rods. Terminal voltage pickup terminals apply a voltage to the resistor unit. At least a first and second intermediate voltage pickup terminal supply a voltage from the resistor unit to a first and second electrode. The first and second intermediate voltage pickup terminals are located in relation to the metal ring such that a discharge is prevented and image quality is preserved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Eiji Kamohara, Shinpei Koshigoe, Taketoshi Shimona
  • Patent number: 5025196
    Abstract: An image forming device having an electron beam generating device is provided which comprises a plural number of electron beam generating sections and a deflecting means capable of deflecting the group of electron beams emitted from this electron beam generating device in the two directions of X and Y.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1991
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ichiro Nomura, Toshiaki Majima, Mitsuru Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 4956578
    Abstract: A surface conduction electron-emitting device includes a high-potential electrode provided on a substrate surface, an electron-emitting region provided in contact with the periphery of an exposed part of the high-potential electrode, and a low-potential electrode in contact with the periphery of the electron-emitting region. The low-potential electrode may project upward in the thickness direction of the substrate to a higher level than the high-potential electrode. A device for applying a voltage may further provided between the high-potential electrode and low-potential electrode. The low-potential electrode may be divided into plural numbers and potential may be applied to each of the low-potential electrodes independently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1990
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Shimizu, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Masahiko Okunuki, Haruhito Ono, Ichiro Nomura, Yoshikazu Banno, Toshihiko Takeda, Tetsuya Kaneko
  • Patent number: 4945284
    Abstract: An electron gun for color-picture tube device comprises a final accelerating electrode and a focusing electrode divided into plural electrode units in the axial direction of the tube. A first focusing electrode unit adjacent to the final accelerating electrode is connected to a second focusing electrode unit adjacent to the first focusing electrode unit through a resistor. A focusing voltage being change in synchronous with the deflection of an electron beam is applied to the first focusing electrode unit. The resistor is used for removing the a.c. components from the focusing voltage. Then, the removed focusing voltage is applied to the second focusing electrode. For the electron beam deflected on the peripheral part of the screen, a quadrupole lens is formed. On the first focusing electrode unit side opposite to the second focusing electrode unit are formed first electron beam path holes whose major axes extend horizontally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Taketoshi Shimoma, Shinpei Koshigoe, Takahiro Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 4935663
    Abstract: In an electron gun assembly, three electron beams emitted from cathodes are passed through an electrode arrangement in which two intermediate electrodes are arranged between focusing are accelerating electrodes. A focusing voltage which is varied depending on an deflection of the electron beam is applied to the focusing electrode and an accelerating voltage is applied to the accelerating electrode. A resistor is connected between the accelerating electrode and the earth through a variable resistor and intermediate points of the resistor are connected to the intermediate electrodes. Thus, convergent and divergent lenses are formed between the focusing electrode and the intermediate electrode and between the accelerating electrode and the intermediate electrode. The lens powers of the convergent and divergent lenses are varied in accordance with the adjustment of the variable resistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Taketoshi Shimoma, Shinpei Koshigoe, Takahiro Hasegawa, Masakazu Takaki
  • Patent number: 4926094
    Abstract: This invention relates to a high-performance gyrotron for the production of electromagnetic millimeter or submillimeter waves with a quasi-optical resonator. The latter is formed by two concave mirrors (1, 2) placed mutually opposite one another on an optical axis. For increasing the decoupling efficiency as well as for reducing the radiation into the environment the quasi-optical resonator is placed in a housing (4), which at least in sections is electrically conductive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1990
    Assignee: Centre for Recherches En Physique Des Plasmas
    Inventors: Anders Bondeson, Bernhard Isaak, Andre Perrenoud, Minh Q. Tran
  • Patent number: 4912367
    Abstract: A high-power microwave/mm-wave oscillator is filled with an ionizable gas at a pressure of about 1-20 mTorr, into which an electron beam is injected at a high current density of at least about 1 amp/cm.sup.2, but typically 50-100 A/cm.sup.2. A plasma is formed which inhibits space-charge blowup of the beam, thereby eliminating the prior requirement of a magnet system to control the beam. The system functions as a slow-wave tube to produce narrow-band microwaves for a gas pressure of about 1-5 mTorr, and as a plasma wave tube to produce broadband microwave/mm-wave radiation for a gas pressure of about 10-20 mTorr.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1990
    Assignee: Hughes Aircraft Company
    Inventors: Robert W. Schumacher, Julius Hyman, Jr., Robin Harvey, Joseph Santoru
  • Patent number: 4910434
    Abstract: An enclosure for a video-amplifier printed wiring board (PWB) located in close proximity to, and substantially structurally separated from the cathode ray tube (CRT) connector base in a video display terminal (VDT). The enclosure combines the functions of a structural support for the board on the VDT chassis, of an EMI/RFI shield for the board, and of an expanded heat transfer-surface heatsink. The enclosure comprises a one-piece casting with a cavity formed by a bottom wall, side walls adjacent to the bottom wall, and an open side opposite to the bottom wall. It further has integral mounting features to locate and structurally support the board in the cavity with the high heat-dissipation components facing the inner surface of the cavity's bottom wall. The outer surface of the bottom wall is provided with integral, heat-dissipating fins to form an expanded heat-transfer surface heatsink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1990
    Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: George A. Doumani, Victor M. Samarov
  • Patent number: 4890036
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a miniature traveling wave tube which will have most of the advantages of solid state circuitry but with higher efficiency and without being highly sensitive to temperature and various types of electromagnetic radiation and subatomic particles as are solid state devices.The traveling wave tube which is about 2.5 cm in length includes a slow wave circuit (SWS) comprising apertured fins with a top cover which is insulated from the fins by strips or rungs of electrically insulating, dielectric material.Another object of the invention is to construct a SWS of extremely small size by employing various grooving or etching methods and by providing insulating strips or rungs by various deposition and masking techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1989
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventor: Henry G. Kosmahl
  • Patent number: 4885505
    Abstract: In an electron gun assembly, three electron beams emitted from cathode are focused by focusing electrodes and directed to accelerating electrodes through intermediate electrode. Three electron beams are converged on a predetermined point near a screen by accelerating electrodes. The accelerating electrodes are supplied with a first potential and are connected to a ground through a resistor and a stem pin. The intermediate electrodes are connected to the resistor and are maintained at a second potential. The focusing electrodes are connected to another stem pin and supplied with a third potential through another stem pin so that the third potential can be independently adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1989
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinpei Koshigoe, Takeshi Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 4855644
    Abstract: A helix slow-wave circuit for use in a linear-beam microwave tube device, comprises a first helix formed by a first wire-like member wound in a first sense at a plurality of turns, and a second helix formed by a second wire-like member wound at a plurality of turns in a second sense opposite to the first sense so as to coaxially surround and superpose on the first helix so that the first and second helixes intersect each other at suitable intervals along an axial direction of the helixes. The first helix is fixed to the second helix in at least some of intersecting points between the first and second helixes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1989
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuzo Orui, Yasuhiro Itagaki, Toshio Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 4839561
    Abstract: A gyrotron device including an electron gun for emitting a hollow electron beam, solenoid coils for generating magnetic fields so as to produce a cyclotron movement to the electron beam emitted from the electron gun, a plurality of ring mirrors arranged in the direction of the beam axis of the electron beam, and an optical resonator for resonating the electromagnetic waves produced when the electron beam is injected along the magnetic field lines. The optical resonator includes a slotted reflecting mirror so that a portion of the electromagnetic waves propagating within the resonator is reflected upstream to intersect and interact with the electron beam plural times. In order to maximize energy absorption by the electromagnetic waves, the solenoid coils are separately excited so as to shift the radius of the electron beam .lambda./4 within the resonator, .lambda. being the wavelength of electromagnetic waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Ito
  • Patent number: 4829527
    Abstract: An orotron for generating near millimeter wavelength radiation at a selectable output frequency within a wide frequency range, in which the orotron output power is automatically tuned electronically at the selected output frequency. A piezoelectric electromechanical positioning device is connected between the two mirrors forming the open resonator of the orotron to determine the mirror separation in accordance with a position control signal. The electron beam acceleration voltage, which determines the orotron output frequency, and the position control signal are adjusted simultaneously so as to tune the output power at a single oscillation mode of the orotron resonator over a wide frequency range. In the preferred embodiment, the actual output frequency is detected and compared with the selected output frequency, and the beam acceleration voltage and mirror separation simultaneously adjusted to continuously tune and maintain the orotron output at the selected frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1989
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Donald E. Wortman, Herbert Dropkin, Richard P. Leavitt
  • Patent number: 4827184
    Abstract: An electron beam device such as a cathode ray tube in which spherical aberration is reduced by optimising the axial potential distribution in the focusing lens of the electron gun. In one embodiment of the invention the electron gun comprises a beam forming part and a segmented focusing lens (25). The focusing lens (25) comprises a preformed glass tube (22) having a high-ohmic resistive layer (23) on the interior wall thereof, the resistive layer (23) comprises helical segments (33 to 37) alternated with intermediate segments (42 to 47). A focusing voltage is applied to the intermediate section (42) closest to the beam forming part and a higher voltage is applied to the end segment (47). The lengths of the helical segments (33 to 37) increase in a direction from the point of application of the focusing voltage whereas the lengths of the intermediate segments (42 to 46) decrease. The lengths of the helical segments (33 37) are such as to produce the desired axial potential distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Tjerk G. Spanjer, Gerardus A. H. M. Vrijssen
  • Patent number: 4825129
    Abstract: A video display apparatus includes a cathode ray tube and a high voltage transformer. The high voltage transformer incorporates a high voltage winding having a tap which provides a focus voltage for the electron gun assembly of the cathode ray tube. The transformer also includes a supply winding which provides power to the electron gun assembly drive circuit. The supply winding is wound to be closely coupled to the portion of the high voltage winding not associated with the generation of focus voltage so that increasing beam current produces nonuniform loading of the high voltage winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1989
    Assignee: RCA Licensing Corporation
    Inventor: Leroy W. Nero
  • Patent number: 4819238
    Abstract: A free electron laser (FEL) is disclosed in which the phase of the output electromagnetic beam is inherently adjustable without the use of any extraneous optical phase shifting materials. This is accomplished by implementing the FEL as a pair of series-connected wiggler cavity sections, and varying the relative phases of the bunched electron flow in the first cavity section relative to the second. In a preferred embodiment a series of electrodes are provided in a transition region between the two cavity sections, and variable voltages are applied to the electrodes to electrostatically control the electron transit time through the transition region, and the electron velocity upon exiting from that region. This translates into a control over phase and frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Hughes Aircraft Company
    Inventor: Robin J. Harvey
  • Patent number: 4801847
    Abstract: A charged particle accelerator is provided with quadrupole electrodes with surfaces that are opposed to each other and are undulated, and with an external resonance circuit. The external resonance circuit consists of a capacitor formed by the opposing electrodes, a variable capacitor provided in parallel with said capacitor, and a coil. The resonance frequency is variable. A direct current and an alternating current may be applied in a superposed manner to the quadrupole electrodes. The thus constructed accelerator can be employed for an ion implanter to implant a heavy-current ion beam of several hundred KeV to several MeV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1989
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Sakudo, Katsumi Tokiguchi, Hidemi Koike, Osami Okada, Norio Saito, Susumu Ozasa
  • Patent number: 4786842
    Abstract: A resistor assembly built into an electron tube, comprising a resistor element having at least one hole, an inner connector fitted in the hole, and an outer connector which formed integrally with the inner connector, or fixed thereto. The inner connector is electrically connected to the resistor element. The outer connector is secured and electrically connected to a part in the electron tube, whereby the resistor element is electrically connected to said part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1988
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Taketoshi Shimoma, Eiji Kamohara, Takahiro Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 4785219
    Abstract: A cathode ray tube display device which has an arrangement for mounting a deflection unit on the conical portion of a cathode ray tube envelope. In order to permit a rapid mounting of the deflection unit in a manner which provides shock resistance, and resistance temperature fluctuations in the deflection unit and the envelope, three V-shaped, sheet metal connecting devices connect the deflection unit to the conical portion of the envelope. The free ends of the devices are attached to the deflection unit in such a manner that the vertices of the devices are substantially tangential to the surface of the conical portion. After adjustment of the deflection unit the vertices of the devices are secured to the conical portion in such a manner that the connections are loaded with a shearing force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Hermanus M. J. R. Soemers, Johan F. J. M. Caers, Joseph A. Meertens
  • Patent number: 4761584
    Abstract: This invention discloses an improved undulator comprising a plurality of electromagnet poles located along opposite sides of a particle beam axis with alternate north and south poles on each side of the beam to cause the beam to wiggle or undulate as it travels generally along the beam axis and permanent magnets spaced adjacent the electromagnetic poles on each side of the axis of said particle beam in an orientation sufficient to reduce the saturation of the electromagnet poles whereby the field strength of the electromagnet poles can be increased beyond the normal saturation levels of the electromagnetic poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1988
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventor: Klaus Halbach
  • Patent number: 4760311
    Abstract: A sub-nanosecond rise time megavolt pulse generator is disclosed. The generator utilizes an induction energy store together with electron beams for generating a sub-nanosecond high voltage pulse wave-front. The electron beams are deflected to establish the wave-front. In a preferred form multiple electron beams together with a waveguide of particular shape provide simultaneous converging wave-fronts that are directed to a local area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1988
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventor: Roy E. Wootton
  • Patent number: 4748437
    Abstract: A picture tube connecting device, including a common integral insulating housing, connector contacts in the common housing for electrically contacting a picture, and at least one potentiometer, including a focus adjusting potentiometer in the housing, electrically connected to the connector contacts for conducting electrical current to the picture tube via the connector contacts. A high voltage connector is provided for electrically connecting a high voltage to the focus adjusting potentiometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1988
    Assignee: Telefunken Fernseh und Rundfunk GmbH
    Inventor: Walter Goseberg
  • Patent number: 4745336
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vircator with improved efficiency. An elongated anode is aligned with an elongated cathode so as to produce an elongated virtual cathode when a direct current voltage source is electrically connected to the elongated cathode. A surface wave having a velocity near the velocity of light will be produced on the virtual cathode. Waveguide means enclosing the virtual cathode is disposed so as to propagate microwave radiation in a direction parallel to the direction of elongation of the cathode, anode and virtual cathode. The waveguide is designed to match the phase velocity of the microwave to the velocity of the virtual cathode surface wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1988
    Assignee: GA Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Tihiro Ohkawa
  • 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: 4728860
    Abstract: An external cavity klystron vacuum tube has a ceramic cylindrical wall surrounded by an external cavity within which is an output probe. The cylindrical wall section is sealed at its ends to other components of the tube--to enable the interior to be evacuated--by sealing means such as to avoid a sharp edge projecting inwardly towards the interior of the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1988
    Assignee: English Electric Valve Company Limited
    Inventors: Maurice Esterson, Jennifer Harley nee May
  • Patent number: 4727288
    Abstract: Digital wave observation apparatus includes first and second A/D converters to convert input signals of first and second channels into corresponding first and second digital signals. First and second delay circuits selectively delay the first and second digital signals, and a wave memory stores signals output from the first and second delay circuits for purposes of display. A first command device receives channel designating data corresponding to the first channel and desired delay value setting data, and provides first delay data to a first delay value setting device coupled to the first delay circuit. A second command device receives designating data corresponding to the second channel and desired delay value setting data, and provides second delay data to the first delay value setting device and a second delay value setting device coupled to the second delay circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1988
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Nakatsugawa, Aiichi Katayama, Hitoshi Sekiya
  • Patent number: 4706154
    Abstract: A silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) is connected between a selected electrode of a CRT and a reference potential level that is negative relative to the selected CRT electrode. The SCR remains non-conductive so long as the voltage between the selected electrode and the reference potential level remains below the breakdown voltage of the SCR and the SCR's dv/dt rating is not exceeded. If the voltage between the electrode and the reference potential level increases at a rate that exceeds the threshold rate for the SCR, the SCR turns on and shorts the selected electrode to the reference potential level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1987
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventor: Bruce K. Baur
  • Patent number: 4705988
    Abstract: A device for guiding an electron beam from an electron gun to a microwave resonator in a microwave source operating according to the gyrotron principle, including a beam duct for guiding the electron beam, wherein the beam duct encloses the electron beam and has an electrically highly conductive surface area. For damping unwanted wave modes inside the beam duct, a plurality of damping openings are provided in the surface area of the beam duct. The characteristic aperture size (a) of the damping openings is larger than the wavelength of the modes to be damped. A particularly simple implementation employs wire mesh with an appropriate mesh size used as the material for the surface area of the beam duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1987
    Assignee: Centre de Recherches en Physique des Plasma (CRPP)
    Inventors: Minh Q. Tran, Anders Bondeson
  • Patent number: 4703228
    Abstract: An electron gun for emitting a modulated electron beam. The gun includes an evacuated envelope having an output end with a photocathode positioned in the envelope and responsive to light to emit electrons. An anode is positioned between the photocathode and the output end for accelerating the electrons emitted by the photocathode. The gun further includes a source of potential interconnecting the anode and the photocathode for maintaining the anode electrostatically positive relative to the photocathode. A first laser provides a first laser beam at a first frequency illuminating the photocathode, and a second laser provides a second laser beam at a second frequency illuminating the photocathode at the same time. The first frequency differs from the second frequency by a beat frequency, whereby the photocathode provides the electron beam with the electrons spacially bunched in accordance with the beat frequency. A method of providing a modulated electron beam is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1987
    Assignee: GA Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: William P. West
  • Patent number: 4672615
    Abstract: An ion or electron beam is steered or focussed by a circular magnetic field produced by passing a large electrical current through a straight conducting wire, the magnetic field being co-axial with the wire. Annular beams of charged particles coaxial with the straight wire can be focussed onto a circular spot or, depending upon the entry radius of the annular beam and the magnetic field strength, can be induced to follow a looping trajectory. The effect of the steering or focussing system can be enhanced by the provision of a cylindrical conductor which is co-axial with the straight conducting wire such that the particle beam passes between the wire and the cylindrical conductor. The beam steering or focussing systems is applicable to the fields of beam current density intensification, ion implantation, ion separation and free electron lasers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1987
    Assignee: Unisearch Limited
    Inventors: John C. Kelly, Glenn W. Kentwell
  • Patent number: 4672272
    Abstract: A flat picture reproducing device includes a vaccum-tight envelope containing an electrode matrix formed of row conductors and column conductors disposed in front of the row conductors and having holes at respective crossings thereof, the matrix dividing the interior of the envelope into a rear and a forward chamber; an areal electron source in the rear chamber; elongated vertical deflection electrodes disposed in the forward chamber in a plane parallel to the plane of the matrix and, respectively, running between rows of the holes parallel to the row conductors, a respective single one of the vertical deflection electrodes being disposed between respective hole rows of adjacent pairs of the hole rows; the envelope having a wall on the forward side thereof coated with a layer of material luminescent when excited by electrons; an addressing circuit for scanning the row conductors sequentially to construct a picture line-by-line, each of the row conductors remaining addressed for at least one picture-row period
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1987
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Burkhard Littwin
  • Patent number: 4659964
    Abstract: A display tube comprising in an evacuated envelope (1) an electron gun system (6) for generating and focusing by means of a focusing lens at least two electron beams (28 to 35) on a display screen (5), which electron beams are deflected by deflection means and describe a frame on the display screen. The electron gun system (6) comprises at least two electron sources (20 to 26), the electrons in each electron beam being accelerated immediately after leaving the electron source by means of an electric field having a field strength exceeding 600 V/mm. The central axes (36) of the electron beam extend substantially parallel to each other, and all beams are converged by the focusing lens in the immediate proximity of the focus of the focusing lens, after which each separate beam is focused on the display screen by the focusing lens to form a spot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1987
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Johannes H. T. van Roosmalen
  • Patent number: 4656430
    Abstract: A generator for producing an intense relativistic electron beam having a subnanosecond current rise time includes a conventional generator of intense relativistic electrons feeding into a short electrically conductive drift tube including a cavity containing a working gas at a low enough pressure to prevent the input beam from significantly ionizing the working gas. Ionizing means such as a laser simultaneously ionize the entire volume of working gas in the cavity to generate an output beam having a rise time less than one nanosecond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1987
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventor: Craig L. Olson
  • Patent number: 4647815
    Abstract: A resistor for use in a cathode ray tube comprises an insulating plate provided thereon with at least first and second electrode terminals for use respectively with relatively high and low voltages in the cathode ray tube, a coating insulator provided on the insulating plate for covering the same, and a resistive layer provided in a predetermined pattern on the insulating plate between first and second electrode terminals to be covered by the coating insulator and accompanied with a piece of conductive layer provided on the insulating plate at an area between first and second electrode terminals including a high potential difference position where a relatively large potential difference is applied to the coating insulator when the resistor is used in the cathode ray tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1987
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshirou Ishikawa, Kazuyuki Ohta, Shinobu Mitsuhashi