Sony Corporation

Makoto Baba

Yuuichi Suzuki

Hirotsugu Ishihara

Hidehisa Sugita

A battery pack is provided. In the battery pack, batteries and a circuit are completely separated. A battery block includes a battery package that can house one or more of the batteries. The circuit block includes a measurement/protection circuit that has a measurement function about use conditions or performance of the batteries or a function to protect the batteries that is housed in a circuit package wherein the battery block and the circuit block are fit in and housed inside of an outer case. The battery block and the circuit block can be independently removed and replaced from the outer case. In this regard, where a defect of the battery block or the circuit block occurs in a manufacturing process, the block with the defect can be replaced on its own. When the batteries in the battery block are deteriorated or consumed, the battery block can be replaced on its own. An electrolytic solution leaked from the batteries remains in the battery package.

Battery pack

A cathode-ray tube according to the present invention is able to automatically correct a color shading caused due to a repulsion effect and the like, which occurs between electron beams. An electron gun for use with the cathode-ray tube according to the present invention includes beam apertures bored through a first electrode opposing a cathode disposed in an inline fashion. Further, beam apertures through which so-called side beams pass are bored with a predetermined inclination relative to the opposing cathodes. Consequently, an electron lens formed between the cathode and the first electrode becomes an axial-asymmetric electron lens. The curvature of this electron lens is changed in response to a drive voltage of the cathode. When this curvature is changed, the trajectories of electron beams are changed to cancel an influence caused by a repulsion effect. Thus, a color shading can be corrected automatically.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Makoto Baba