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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2003

Filed:

Jun. 11, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:

Erich Hell, Erlangen, DE;

Detlef Mattern, Erlangen, DE;

Markus Schild, Herzogenaurach, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 3/506 ; H01J 1/908 ; H01J 1/906 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 3/506 ; H01J 1/908 ; H01J 1/906 ;
Abstract

A directly thermionic flat emitter is presented whose emitting surface contains meandering conductor tracks. The conductor tracks are formed by slots in the emitting surface. The slots are arranged as claimed in a pattern of cuts which comprises a multiplicity of straight slots ( ) which run at least transverse to the course of the main current direction and are arranged in a plurality of rows offset from one another. Meandering current paths ( ) are thereby produced.


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