Abstract:
A tungsten wire containing 1 to 10% by mass of rhenium has a point which indicates a 2% elongation within a quadrangle formed by joining points with straight lines, where the values of x and y are point (20, 75), point (20, 87), point (90, 75), and point (90, 58), in this order, wherein the wire diameter of the aforementioned tungsten wire is represented by x μm, and the elongation of the tungsten wire is 2% after electrically heating with an electrical current which is a ratio of y % to the fusion current (FC) at the wire diameter x μm, and wherein a semi-logarithmic system of coordinates is expressed by a horizontal axis using a logarithmic scale of the aforementioned wire diameter x and a vertical axis using a normal scale of ratio y to the fusion current. According to the above-described configuration, a tungsten wire having a great elongation even under conditions of high temperature can be provided, and the tungsten wire can exhibit an excellent durability when used as component material for constituting cathode heaters and so forth, and the tungsten wire can be manufactured efficiently.
Abstract:
A method for fabricating an indirectly-heated cathode structure including inserting a heater into a mold, injecting a thermoplastic resin into the space of the mold to embed the heater in the thermoplastic resin, inserting the heater embedded in the thermoplastic resin into a sleeve having a cap on an end, connecting the sleeve and the heater using a support body to assemble a cathode structure, and heating the cathode structure to remove the thermoplastic resin from the cathode structure. Therefore, in an indirectly-heated cathode structure, deviation of a heater from a center position in a sleeve can be prevented, and it is easy to adjust the gap between a heater, a sleeve, and a cap. Thus, the heater can be positioned at a desired position inside the sleeve, preventing current leakage due to a breakdown in the heater. In particular, the sleeve and the cap can be uniformly heated, reducing a local difference in thermion emitting density.
Abstract:
A thin high temperature heater includes an adhesive layer of Ti disposed an insulating substrate and a resistor layer of a Ti compound disposed the adhesive layer.
Abstract:
An electron gun heater supporting structure includes a pair of supporting pieces respectively mounted on separate opposed glass beads of an electron gun and U-shaped connecting pieces disposed between the pair of supporting pieces for welding terminals of a heater thereto, the connecting pieces including position determining elements for determining the positions of the connecting pieces relative to the supporting pieces for welding them together. According to the present invention, the welding positions can be exactly determined and the uniformity of heater positions can be realized.
Abstract:
A low consumption electron gun is provided for cathode ray tubes. The heating filament of the cathode includes a resistant wire and lugs for connection to an electric energy supply. The resistant wire is wound spirally. The active part of the heating filament is formed of at most two turns, each of which is formed by a multiplicity of elementary turns; the connecting lugs have a core made from a low electric resistance metal which short circuits the elementary turns of the resistant wire.
Abstract:
A coil heater of a heater-type tube comprises a main portion for generating heat and a pair of leg portions supporting the main portion. Lead wires are connected to the ends of the legs. At least a part of the leg portion, including its terminal part, comprises a triple-layer coil. The main portion comprising a single-layer coil and the leg portion except its terminal part covered with an insulating coating. The main portion and leg portions are formed by continuously winding a heater wire about a core alternately in opposite directions.
Abstract:
A method of improving the thermal emmissivity of a cathode heater wire to allow lower temperature operation of the heater without an attendant lowering in the cathode operating temperature, in which method the surface of a tungsten or molybdenum wire is oxidized, then coated with a salt of a refractory metal, and finally heated to reduce the salt and oxide to their metallic forms thereby causing the heater wire to be roughened and darkened.
Abstract:
A heater for use in an indirectly heated cathode of a vacuum tube is first coated with an insulating layer of alumina. Metallic tungsten is then vacuum deposited on the alumina in order to darken the color of the coating, thereby increasing its thermal emissivity.
Abstract:
A tungsten heater has a first coating of an insulating oxide covering its entire body and extending onto its legs and a second coating of elemental tungsten, reduced in situ, covering substantially all the first coating except for a short span on the legs.