Abstract:
A colour CRT has stripes (10) of different colour light emission phosphors (r, g and b) deposited on a face plate (8) of the tube with the relative widths of the stripes being inversely proportional to the light emission efficiency of the phosphors. By this means the integrated brigthness of the emitted light from the different phosphor stripes is the same for the same value beam current. By using a novel double shadow mask arrangement, the widths of the beams from the three guns can be made to match, or substantially to match, the widths of the phosphor elements on which they land. Specifically the beam from one gun (not shown) is aligned with apertures through both masks in order to transmit a relatively wide portion of the beam onto the least efficient, in this case the red (r), phosphor. The portion of the beams transmitted by the first mask 7.1 for the other two guns (not shown) are further clipped by the relatively off-set apertures in the second mask 7.2. This arrangement enables the advantage of the balanced colour output from the screen to be enjoyed without loss of purity margin and provides a significant increase in brightness for a given beam current and/or resolution of the screen. The invention is applicable to CRTs employing shadow masks with slots and phosphor stripes, or holes and phosphor dots and also for CRTs driven in raster scan or vector mode.
Abstract:
A convergence unit for an in-line color cathode ray tube consists of four E-cores located around the neck of the CRT. Each E-core, preferably consisting of strip-shaped soft-magnetic material such as mumetal or permalloy, carries two coils connected so that the net magnetic field at the central beam is zero. The E-cores are arranged in paris with the resultant fields at the nearer electron beam due to each individual E-core being substantially orthogonal to one another.
Abstract:
A colour CRT has stripes (10) of different colour light emission phosphors (r, g and b) deposited on a face plate (8) of the tube with the relative widths of the stripes being inversely proportional to the light emission efficiency of the phosphors. By this means the integrated brigthness of the emitted light from the different phosphor stripes is the same for the same value beam current. By using a novel double shadow mask arrangement, the widths of the beams from the three guns can be made to match, or substantially to match, the widths of the phosphor elements on which they land. Specifically the beam from one gun (not shown) is aligned with apertures through both masks in order to transmit a relatively wide portion of the beam onto the least efficient, in this case the red (r), phosphor. The portion of the beams transmitted by the first mask 7.1 for the other two guns (not shown) are further clipped by the relatively off-set apertures in the second mask 7.2. This arrangement enables the advantage of the balanced colour output from the screen to be enjoyed without loss of purity margin and provides a significant increase in brightness for a given beam current and/or resolution of the screen. The invention is applicable to CRTs employing shadow masks with slots and phosphor stripes, or holes and phosphor dots and also for CRTs driven in raster scan or vector mode.
Abstract:
Convergence of the beams of an in-line gun shadow mask cathode-ray tube is provided by windings on a common core and generating pairs of quadruple and six-pole magnetic fields, respectively. The core is provided with non-magnetic ribs each having a projection for the purpose of locating the windings.