Rca Inc.

Thomson Consumer Electronics Inc.

Rca Licensing Corporation

Thomson Licensing S.a.

Bruce G Marks

Andrew Good

Loren L Maninger

Theodore Frederick Simpson

Thomas D Welles, Jr

Istvan Gorog

Frank R Ragland, Jr

Stephen Thomas Opresko

Richard H Hughes

Charles M Wetzel

Gary Lee Diven

Myron Henry Wardell

Richard C Bauder

Craig Clay Eshleman

Robert A Barnes

Keith R Frantz

Jonathan Bradford Fowler

The present invention provides an improvement in the mounting of a cathode-ray tube within a cabinet. The cathode-ray tube includes a glass envelope having a faceplate panel, a funnel and a neck. The panel includes a faceplate that is surrounded by a peripheral sidewall. A tension band encircles the outer periphery of the sidewall. The cabinet has resilient extensions from the interior thereof, that engage a portion of the tension band and support the tube within the cabinet.

Cathode-ray tube mounting within a cabinet

In accordance with the present invention, a display apparatus 8 comprises a color CRT 10 having an evacuated envelope 11 with a faceplate panel 12 sealed to one end of a funnel 15 that is closed at the other end by a neck 14. The faceplate panel has a luminescent screen 22 on an interior surface thereof. A shadow mask 25 is located in proximity to the screen. The shadow mask comprises a metal sheet having a central portion and an exterior portion with a plurality of apertures 40, 43 therethrough. An electron gun 26 is disposed within the neck for generating and directing electron beams 28 toward the screen. A deflection yoke 30 is disposed around the envelope at the junction of the neck and the funnel. The yoke deflects the beams to scan a raster across the screen. The display apparatus is improved other prior devices in that the apertures 43 in the exterior portion of the mask, on the screen-facing side thereof, have openings 45 that are elongated in the direction of the incident electron beams and offset relative to the corresponding openings 44 on the electron gun-facing side of the mask. A method of making the present mask also is disclosed.

Display apparatus having enhanced resolution shadow mask and method of

A color picture tube has a rectangular shadow mask mounted therein in spaced relation to a viewing screen. A major axis passes through the center of the mask and parallels the long sides thereof and a minor axis passes through the center of the mask and parallels the short sides thereof. The mask has an aperture array that includes slit-shaped apertures aligned in columns that essentially parallel the minor axis and end at a border of the aperture array. Adjacent apertures in each column are separated by tie bars in the mask that are longitudinally offset from column to adjacent column. The spacing from tie bar to tie bar in a column is the tie bar pitch at a location on the mask. A first set of the aperture columns, comprising every other column, has full length ultimate apertures at least at one end thereof, and a second set of the aperture columns, comprising every other column not in the first set, has partial length ultimate apertures at least at one end thereof. The ultimate apertures of all of the aperture columns end on smooth curved border lines. The tie bar pitch of the columns decreases from the center of the mask to the short sides thereof, with the tie bar pitch in the region of the short sides of the mask being optimized to minimize moire at the sides of the screen during tube operation. The tie bar pitch along each column varies also from the center of the mask to the long sides of the mask.

Color picture tube shadow mask having improved mask aperture pattern

An improved color picture tube includes a shadow mask and a dot screen, wherein the mask is rectangular and has two horizontal long sides and two vertical short sides. The long sides parallel a central major axis of the mask and the short sides parallel a central minor axis of the mask. The mask includes an array of apertures arranged in vertical columns and horizontal rows. Apertures in one row are in different columns than are the apertures in adjacent rows. The vertical spacing between apertures in the same column is the vertical pitch of the apertures and the horizontal spacing between apertures in the same row is the horizontal pitch of the apertures. The improvement includes the horizontal pitch of the apertures increasing from the minor axis to the short sides of the mask and decreasing from the major axis to the long sides of the mask. Also, along the major axis, the vertical pitch of the mask decreases from the center to the short sides of the mask and, adjacent the long sides of the mask, it increases from the minor axis to the corners of the mask.

Color picture tube having shadow mask with improved aperture spacing

The present invention is an improvement in a method of screening a line screen slit mask color picture tube that includes coating a faceplate panel of the tube with a photosensitive material, inserting a slit shadow mask into the panel and exposing the photosensitive material by passing light from a line light source through a misregister correction lens and through the slits of the mask. The improvement comprises positioning a skew correction lens between the line light source and the misregister correction lens during exposure of the photosensitive material. The skew correction lens has a surface with a general overall cylindrical shape with deviations from the cylindrical shape being in the four corners of the skew correction lens.

Method for screening line screen slit mask color picture tubes

An improved color picture tube includes a shadow mask which has a rectangular periphery with two long sides and two short sides. The mask has a major axis, which passes through the center of the mask and parallels the long sides, and a minor axis, which passes through the center of the mask and parallels the short sides. The mask includes slit-shaped apertures aligned in columns that essentially parallel the minor axis. Adjacent apertures in each column are separated by tie bars in the mask. The widths of the tie bars are graded in dimension. The grading is at least partially related to the amount of tie bar stretch occurring in a similar size mask having different tie bar widths.

Color picture tube having shadow mask with improved tie bar grading

An improved color picture tube includes a mask that has an aperture array including slit-shaped apertures aligned in columns that essentially parallel the minor axis and end at a border of the aperture array. Adjacent apertures in each column are separated by tie bars in the mask. The tie bars in one column are offset in the longitudinal direction, paralleling the minor axis, from the tie bars in each adjacent column. The spacing between tie bars in a column is the tie bar pitch at a location on the mask. A first set of columns, that includes every other column, has increased tie bar pitch at the ultimate end apertures, as compared to the tie bar pitch at the penultimate apertures in each of the columns. In a second set of columns, every other column not in the first set, has decreased tie bar pitch at the ultimate end apertures, as compared to the tie bar pitch at the penultimate apertures in each of the columns. The last tie bars before the ends of the aperture columns in the second set are shorter than the next to the last tie bars, measured in the longitudinal direction of the columns, and the ultimate apertures at the ends of all of the aperture columns end on a smooth border line.

Color picture tube with shadow mask having improved aperture border

A color picture tube includes a screen and an improved inline gun for generating and directing three inline electron beams along separate paths toward the screen. The gun includes a plurality of cathodes and at least six electrodes longitudinally spaced from the cathodes. The improvement comprises the first, second and fourth electrodes from the cathodes being of materials having lower coefficients of thermal expansion than the coefficients of thermal expansion of the materials of the other electrodes.

Color picture tube having an electron gun with reduced convergence drift

An improved method of making a color picture tube shadow mask includes first constructing an apertured flat mask which is formed into a domed contoured mask. The mask has a rectangular periphery with two long sides and two short sides. The mask has a major axis, which passes through the center of the mask and parallels the long sides, and a minor axis, which passes through the center of the mask and parallels said short sides. The mask includes slit-shaped apertures aligned in columns that essentially parallel the minor axis. Adjacent apertures in each column are separated by tie bars in the mask, with the spacing between tie bars in a column being the tie bar pitch at a particular location on the mask. The improvement comprises a first step of calculating the desired tie bar shadow locations at several discrete areas, for a given scan line pitch, as viewed from a distance in front of a viewing screen of a tube. The desired tie bar shadow locations are those locations that will give an optimized compromise for moire at each of the discrete areas. Next, the corresponding tie bar shadow locations on the screen are determined, taking into account the angles of the screen slope at the discrete areas. The corresponding tie bar pitches are then determined on a formed contoured shadow mask, taking into account the mask to screen spacing at each of the discrete areas. Then, the tie bar pitches on the unformed flat mask are calculated, by subtracting the stretch caused by the mask formign step. The stretch is determined by actual measurements of vertical pitch at the discrete areas on the apertured formed mask and by comparing these measurements with measurements made on the flat mask prior to forming. Finally, a least squares fitting is performed on the calculated flat mask tie bar pitches, to obtain the locations of tie bars at all areas on the flat mask.

Method of making color picture tube shadow mask having improved tie bar

An improved method of making a color picture tube electron gun includes the selection and assembly of a plurality of cathodes and a plurality of electrodes longitudinally spaced from the cathodes. The improvement comprises at least three additional steps. First, the amount and direction of electron beam misconvergence at the tube screen, as caused by the thermal expansion of each individual electrode during electron gun warmup, is determined. A first group of electrodes will cause misconvergence in a first direction, and a second group of electrodes will cause misconvergence in a second direction. Second, the individual contributions of the electrodes to misconvergence during tube warmup are summed. The net effect of thermal expansion of the entire electron gun is a misconvergence in the first direction. Third, at least one of the electrodes in the first group of electrodes is formed from a material having a lower coefficient of thermal expansion than the coefficient of thermal expansion used in the first step of determining misconvergence caused by the thermal expansion of each individual electrode.

Method of making a color picture tube electron gun with reduced

The present invention provides an improved electron gun in a color picture tube. Such electron gun includes a beam-forming region comprising cathodes and at least two electrodes and a main focus lens formed by two electrodes. The cathodes and all of the electrodes are interconnected to a plurality of insulative support rods. The improvement comprises forming a first focus lens electrode, nearest the beam-forming region, of two separated portions that are electrically connected. The portion of the first focus lens electrode that is nearest the other focus lens electrode only is interconnected to the support rods near the main focus lens. The portion of the first focus lens electrode that is nearest the beam-forming region is connected to the support rods immediately adjacent to a beam-forming electrode.

A resonant degaussing circuit provides rapid recovery for use with computer monitors or video display apparatus where frequent movement of the display apparatus occurs. The degaussing circuit comprises a capacitor in parallel with a degaussing coil. Triggering of an SCR causes the capacitor to discharge, so that it resonates with the degaussing coil to produce the desired AC degaussing current. The SCR is triggered only when the vertical deflection current is substantially zero, in order to eliminate interference of the vertical flux with the degaussing current.

Resonant degaussing without residual magnetism

The present invention relates to an improvement in a color picture tube having an inline electron gun, for generating and directing a plurality of electron beams along coplanar paths toward a screen of the tube. The gun includes a main focus lens for focusing the electron beams. The improvement comprises a change in the two spaced gun electrodes that form the main focus lens. Each electrode includes a plurality of apertures therein equal to the number of electron beams. Each electrode also includes a peripheral rim with the peripheral rims of the two electrodes facing each other. The apertured portion of each electrode is located within a recess set back from the rim. The recess has substantially straight wall sections parallel to the paths of the electron beams.

Color picture tube having an improved inline electron gun with an

A wafer type tube base is secured to a stem structure of an electron tube. The base includes a cup which fits over an exhaust tubulation of the stem and a wafer flange which extends radially outward from the open end of the cup and abuts the stem wall. The flange has an array of apertures for receiving an array of stem conductors therethrough. An adapter is provided for converting the wafer-type base to a pin-protector type base. The adapter comprises a hollow cylindrical member having a plurality of longitudinally extending ribs on its outer surface. The adapter telescopes over the exhaust tubulation cup and receives the stem conductors in the grooves between the ribs. Means for interlocking the adapter to the wafer base comprises a pair of openings in the cylindrical wall of the cup and a pair of inwardly projecting fingers at an end of the adapter which are adapted to be received in the openings and are sized to engage the cup wall in a frictional snap fit.

Interlocking electron tube base and adapter

The base comprises a tubular housing adapted to fit over the exhaust tubulation of an electron tube stem, and a wafer flange extending outwardly from the open end thereof. The flange is apertured to receive an array of conductors of the stem. A recess is provided in the wafer flange facing the stem and a passageway communicating therewith is provided through the base separate from the housing cavity for the purpose of injecting a dielectric material into the recess around some of the stem conductors. The passageway may, e.g., be through the flange or in the housing wall. A shoulder is provided on the recessed face of the wafer flange to provide relief for random protuberances on the periphery of the stem to permit non-tilted mounting of the base on the stem.

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Lancaster, PA, United States of America

Bruce G Marks