Abstract:
A color television picture tube of the single electron gun type includes an electron gun composed of a cathode for emitting electrons, control grids disposed in the neighborhood of said cathode, a first anode, and a set of electrodes constituting an electron lens for converging the electron beams emitted from said cathode. A plurality of phosphor dots of different colors are formed on the face of the tube. A shadow mask is disposed between said phosphor dots and said electron gun. An electron beam image is formed in the interior of said electron lens. Voltages on each electrode focuses the crossover point of the electron beams on the surface of said shadow-mask. By postdeflection focusing the beam at the shadow-mask is focused on said phosphor dots in positions corresponding to a plurality of portions of said electron beam.
Abstract:
Color CRTs, used in large display screens, have a plurality of three color electron beams that are strongly focused so that they crossover and become divergent in both the X and Y axes of the CRT's face. The strength of the focusing determines the size of the illuminated area on the face of the CRT. A shadow mask, aperture grill, or slotted mask and the red, green and blue phosphor dots or stripes are located at predetermined positions such that the red electron beams only hit the red phosphors, the green electron beams only hit the green phosphors, and the blue electron beams only hit the blue phosphors. No raster scanning with the electron beams are required.
Abstract:
A cathode ray tube device has multiple elements for generating a display. Each of the relatively large number of elements has its own electron gun and deflection assembly and a shadow mask. A large number of these subunits are connected into a regular array in which each unit generates a portion of the overall display. The individual elements are preferably formed in a framework which serves to both align and position the individual assemblies, and further to provide structural support for the evacuated tube.
Abstract:
An evacuated envelope has a rectangular display section and a gun section at one edge of the display section. The display section includes front and back walls which are generally rectangular, in closely spaced, parallel relation, and a plurality of spaced, parallel support walls between the front and back walls forming a plurality of parallel channels. The gun section extends across one end of the channels and includes therein gun structure which will direct electrons into the channels. In each of the channels is a beam guide which confines the electrons in a beam and guides the beam along the length of the channel. The beam guide also includes means for selectively deflecting the electron beam out of the guide at selective points along the guide so that beam will impinge upon a phosphor screen along the inner surface of the front wall. In each of the channels is a scanning deflector which deflects the path of the beam as it passes from the guide to the phosphor screen so that each of the beams will scan a portion of the phosphor screen.
Abstract:
A single cathode ray tube envelope having a plurality of phosphor screen areas thereon providing a plurality of individual screens contained in a single glass envelope. Multiple beams are provided from a single electron gun construction having a single cathode, a single control grid panel, a first anode panel, and either a deflection yoke or a deflector plate assembly. A number of electron beams are thereby produced corresponding to the number of individual phosphor screens, and the screens may have phosphors of different colors for producing distinctive color images at the different screens, or regular color t.v. images on one or more of the individual screens, without the use of a shadow-mask.
Abstract:
In a post acceleration type cathode ray tube of the class comprising a panel, a fluorescent screen coated on the inner surface of the panel, a funnel, an auxiliary electrode formed on the inner surface of the funnel, an electrode maintained at an intermediate potential and positioned to face the fluorescent screen for transmitting an electron beam, and a secondary electron collector electrode disposed close to the auxiliary electrode, the secondary electron collector electrode is constructed to transmit the secondary electrons generated by the other electrodes of the tube.
Abstract:
The beam index concept for color television display tubes has been known for some time, and although this color display approach is fundamentally more attractive than the commercially favored three-gun shadow mask tube, techniques for producing the indexing signal have been inadequate. According to the invention, index signals in a single-gun tube with horizontal phosphor stripes, operating in a line (color)-sequential mode, are generated by UV phosphor bars spaced uniformly along each color stripe but with different spacings for each color. As the beam scans a stripe, an optical signal is generated with a frequency corresponding to the periodicity of the phosphor index bars. The optical signal is detected with a UV detector. The amplitude of each frequency will indicate the beam size and vertical position. The index signals are fed to a signal processor which, by simple filtering, will generate error correction signals which are in turn fed to the deflection circuit to correct the beam position. The use of the optical index signal ensures isolation of the beam index signal from the video.