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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 01, 1996
Theodore Frederick Simpson, Lancaster, PA (US);
Istvan Gorog, Lancaster, PA (US);
Bruce George Marks, Lancaster, PA (US);
Charles Michael Wetzel, Lititz, PA (US);
Craig Clay Eshleman, Pequea, PA (US);
Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc., Indianapolis, IN (US);
Abstract
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.