Abstract: A horizontal deflection amplifying apparatus for use in an automatic main power supply such as that for a cathode ray tube is provided. The apparatus uses a microprocessor for the connection of capacitors to a horizontal deflection coil (yoke coil) by controlling the switching operation of relay switches. To prevent the drive transistor of the deflection coil driver from being destroyed or the horizontal deflection coil from being damaged due to excess current, the capacitors are connected or disconnected while the power supply voltage is off (i.e., at a 0V state) and the supply voltage is then re-applied. Thus, the horizontal deflection amplifying apparatus can be safely driven.

Abstract: A stray emission prevention circuit for a system having a cathode ray tube including a charging and discharging section for applying a system power supply voltage upon power-on of the system to charge with a constant voltage and for discharging the charged voltage upon power-off of the system, and a switching section for forming an open circuit between a high voltage unit of the cathode ray tube and a ground upon the power-on of the system and forming a closed circuit therebetween upon the power-off of the system to discharge the residual high voltage in the cathode ray tube, the circuit being provided on a circuit board of the system.

Abstract: The color monitor has a cathode-ray tube adapted to generate a single electron beam with different energy levels depending on the primary color to be displayed on a screen which has at least one layer of electroluminescent material, and a control circuit for the sequential display of the primary colors. The cathode-ray tube defines a capacitor charged to voltages which differ in value according to the color to be displayed. Generators are provided which are adapted to generate an overcurrent in the capacitor and to cause its rapid discharge at the end of the display of the color signal with higher energy.

Abstract: The physical realization of new solutions of wave propagation equations, such as Maxwell's equations and the scaler wave equation, produces localized pulses of wave energy such as electromagnetic or acoustic energy which propagate over long distances without divergence. The pulses are produced by driving each element of an array of radiating sources with a particular drive function so that the resultant localized packet of energy closely approximates the exact solutions and behaves the same.

Abstract: An arc protection circuit is disclosed for protecting a component, such as a transistor, from the effects of arcs developed in a CRT. The protection circuit includes an arc sensing circuit coupled to the component to be protected so as to sense the presence of an arc-induced transient voltage, in response to which the sensing circuit rapidly assumes a first state. An active current switch is coupled to the protected component and is responsive to the first state of the sensing circuit for rapidly assuming a low impedance state to shunt arc-induced current away from the component.

Abstract: A horizontal deflection high-voltage circuit using the diode modulation horizontal deflection circuit is provided with a means detecting the high voltage output from the flyback transformer for supplying the input terminal of the flyback transformer with a control signal which controls the high voltage to be kept constant and a means detecting a variation in the control signal for supplying one end of a modulation coil with a control signal which controls the horizontal deflection current to be kept constant, whereby a horizontal deflection high-voltage circuit practically free from irregularity of adjustment and deterioration due to aging is provided.

Abstract: A hybrid CRT display includes vector generated portions for alpha-numeric data and normal raster scan portions for symbol data. A deflection yoke for a CRT is driven by a single horizontal amplifier having switching means which operate the amplifier in three modes necessary to achieve the hybrid display, enhanced by resonant retrace during raster scanning.

Abstract: The magnitude of a DC high voltage supplied to an internal element of a CRT is varied by a thermionic valve that is located within the envelope of the CRT and that forms a voltage divider with an external load resistor. Only a small scale signal referenced near ground is needed to produce a several thousand volt change in the high voltage supplied to the internal CRT element. The variable high voltage may control a variable deflection factor, variable spot size, or in the case of a beam penetration CRT, either variable persistence or variable trace color. In a particular beam penetration color CRT having a split anode the thermionic valve comprises a tetrode flood gun coupled by an electron mirror to a plate region in the neck of the CRT.

Abstract: An electron beam or other charged particle beam tube of the compound fly's eye type having a coarse deflection system is described. The beam tube comprises an evacuated housing together with an electron gun or other charged particle beam producing means disposed at one end of the evacuated housing for producing a beam of electrons or other charged particles. A coarse deflector, a compound micro lens assembly, and a fine deflector are disposed in the housing in the path of the electron or other charged particle beam for first selecting a lenslet and thereafter finely deflecting an electron or other charged particle beam to a desired spot on a target plane.

Abstract: A line scanning or horizontal deflection circuit for a television receiver including a first scanning thyristor controlled by means of a commutating circuit comprising a second thyristor an inductance and a capacitive circuit, fed from a source which is connected to the scanning circuit by means of a further inductance. According to the invention, the gating signal of the first thyristor is derived from the signal available between the inductance and the capacitive network being taken at an output of the line.

Abstract: An electron beam tube electrostatic deflection system and method of operation is described. The electron beam tube includes an eight-fold deflector and means are provided for applying two different quadrupole correction electric potentials to selected ones of the eight-fold deflector members and for applying an octupole correction electrical potential to all eight deflector members. In the preferred embodiment, the quadrupole and octupole correction potentials applied to one set of four deflector members are represented by the respective values (V.sub.2c - V), (-V.sub.2c - V), (V.sub.2c - V) and (-V.sub.2c - V), and the quadrupole and octupole correction potentials applied to the second set of four deflector members are represented respectively by the values (V.sub.2s + V), (-V.sub.2s + V), (V.sub.2s + V) and (-V.sub.2s + V) where the quadrupole correction electric potentialV.sub.2c = [A.sub.2c (V.sub.x.sup.2 - V.sub.y.sup.2)]/V.sub.c, (1)the quadrupole correction electric potentialV.sub.2s = (2A.sub.2s V.

Abstract: A slewed-pulse display is provided for calibrating the time-base axis of an oscilloscope. In a repetitive-sweep display, the leading edges of incrementally delayed successive pulses are slewed across the display screen. Timing and linearity adjustments may be made in the time-base generator circuits so that a leading edge of a pulse is aligned with each vertically scribed graticule line overlaying the display area.

Abstract: A supply voltage arrangement in a television receiver, which arrangement is switched at line frequency. The diode of the arrangement is shunted by the series combination of a capacitor and a primary winding of a transformer, a secondary of which controls the switch in the line deflection circuit.

Abstract: The deflection system includes a first pair of deflection coils connected in series for moving the beam of a cathode ray tube in a horizontal direction and a second pair of deflection coils having a choke connected in series therebetween with a first capacitor connected in parallel with the choke and one coil and a second capacitor connected in parallel with the choke and the other coil to linearly add a relatively low and a relatively high frequency deflection signal for moving the beam in steps vertically across the cathode ray tube and linearly in small vertical sawtooths between the steps.

Abstract: A deflection circuit has a sawtooth generator with a control input and an output stage, each having a different power supply. A control voltage derived from the output stage supply is applied to the control input to decrease the flyback period as the output stage supply voltage increases.

Abstract: A horizontal deflection system is operable either from rectified and filtered alternating current line voltage or from a substantially lower voltage direct current voltage source. The need for a step-down transformer in the receiver power supply is eliminated by utilizing the horizontal output transformer to drop the rectified and filtered alternating current voltage when the receiver is operated in the alternating current line mode. The horizontal output transformer is utilized as a step-up inverter when the receiver is operated from the low voltage direct current source to produce a direct current voltage at a point on the horizontal output transformer substantially equal to the rectified and filtered alternating current line voltage.