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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2003
Filed:
May. 20, 2002
Joseph Arthur Reed, York, PA (US);
Gary Lee Diven, Lancaster, PA (US);
Louis Emmanuel Matalon, Lancaster, PA (US);
Kelly Eugene Hamm, Holtwood, PA (US);
Steven William Haun, Landisville, PA (US);
Thomson Licensing S.A., Boulogne Cedex, FR;
Abstract
The invention provides a CRT having a funnel sealed at one end to a faceplate panel with a luminescent screen on an interior surface thereof, a mask assembly supported within the CRT and in proximity to the screen, the faceplate panel having a plurality of peripheral sidewalls each having an inside surface. The CRT also includes a plurality of studs, with at least one stud affixed in each of the corners of inside surface of the sidewalls. A plurality of springs engage the corner studs, to support the mask assembly within the CRT; at least one additional stud is affixed along the inside surface of one sidewall and a shim is attached around the additional stud. On the mask assembly at least one bracket is positioned to have a slot into which the shim is loosely engaged, thereby mitigating motion in a plane parallel to the interior sidewall.