Zenith Electronics Corporation

Zenith Radio Corporation

Alfred Adamski

Lawrence W Dougherty

Thomas P DeFranco

A color cathode ray tube is disclosed having an envelope including a faceplate with an electrically conductive screen, and a funnel having an electrically conductive film on its inner surface charged to a high electrical potential. An electrically insulative glass shadow mask support assembly is sealed between the faceplate and the funnel has a shelf extending into the envelope for mounting a metallic foil shadow mask in tension adjacent to the screen. The shelf has at least one hole therethrough for receiving electrical conduction means according to the invention. The electrical conduction means includes a center member for insertion into the hole, and contacting means at both extremities for contacting the electrically conductive coating on the funnel, the shadow mask, and the metallic film on the screen. As a result, and according to the invention, the high electrical potential on the conductive film of the funnel is electrically conducted through the electrically insulative glass shadow mask support assembly to the shadow mask and the screen to establish the components at a common high potential.

Electrical conduction means for use in tension mask color cathode ray

A conductive connector arrangement for use in a CRT comprising a funnel having an internal Aquadag coating, a faceplate having a luminescent screen deposited upon its display surface, a ring formed of a non-conductive material having at least one recess thereon and interposed between the funnel and faceplate for supporting a mask in registration with the screen and an internal magnetic shield disposed within the funnel. The connector arrangement serves to establish the Aquadag, the screen, the mask and the shield at a common electrical potential. To this end the connector comprises a clip formed of a resilient conductive material and configured for retention in the ring recess. A first contact supported by the clip effects a conductive engagement between the screen and the clip. A second contact, also supported by the clip, effects a conductive engagement between the funnel coating and the clip. An electrical connection is effected between the clip and the mask. Finally, a mechanical and electrical connection is effected between the clip and the magnetic shield. In this manner, the screen, the Aquadag, the mask and the magnetic shield are established at a common potential by a unitary self-supporting arrangement.2CRT61R

Internal electrical connector for a tension mask tube

This application depicts a rectangular color cathode ray tube having a faceplate and a mating funnel, on the faceplate of which is a system of four suspension devices, one at each corner of the faceplate, for detachably supporting a nonself-rigid shadow mask adjacent a screen-bearing inner surface of the faceplate. At least three of the mask suspension devices each comprise mask-mounted and envelope-associated components, the device being characterized by one of the components including an axially extending, non-folded leaf spring which is cantilevered such that it deflects with an arc of motion in a plane perpendicular to the mask and preferably passing through the mask axis, and which has at its distal end provision for detachably engaging a mating provision on the other of the components. The leaf spring is arranged such that the force exerted by it on the mask is preferably through the mask along a diagonal thereof so as to preclude the imposition of any substantial moment on the mask. The leaf spring has a relatively low spring rate, (stiffness), i.e., in the flexure out of its plane, yet is very stiff in its own plane such that the three devices acting in concert precisely fix and hold the mask in a predetermined spatial position relative to the faceplate against translational or rotational displacement, in spite of any thermal expansion or contraction of the mask, demounting and remounting of the mask, or mechanical shocks and do so without deforming the mask.

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Elmhurst, IL, United States of America

Alfred Adamski