Abstract:
CRT mounts for color television are effectively high voltage conditioned by impressing a high voltage DC potential on the mount anode (26), while at the same time impressing a high frequency pulsed AC potential on the final grid electrode (66), and allowing the focusing electrode (65) to float electrically, thereby inducing arcing in the upper and lower gaps adjacent the focusing electrode (68). Preferably, this general conditioning is followed by a second conditioning step in which the focusing electrode (68) is connected to the AC potential, to concentrate the arcing in the upper gap.
Abstract:
An internal electrostatic field-generating, beam-controlling element (20) in a cathode ray tube is formed by depositing an initially continuous layer of resistive material (30) on a substrate and applying a voltage differential across the coating to generate a field-generating current therethrough during operation of the tube. After completion of tube assembly and sealing of the tube envelope, the element (2) is custom fine-tuned by projecting an externally-originating laser beam through the envelope wall to selectively remove portions or areas (36, 37) of the resistive material, thereby predeterminately distorting the electrostatic field and selectively changing the effect of the field on the imaging electron beam. This procedure readily enables both correction of perceived deficiencies in and intentional modifications to one or more characteristics of the electron beam.
Abstract:
A method of making a display panel (10) comprising the steps of providing a glass base plate (20) with an array of slots (40) and securing an anode electrode (50) in each slot; forming parallel depressions (158) in one surface of a thin sheet of metal (150), and then securing it to the top surface of the base plate, with the unetched surface up and the depressions down, and then removing the material of the unetched surface of the metal sheet down to the depressions to form separate strips of the metal (60) as cathodes, on the top surface of the base plate; and finally assembling the other electrodes and parts of the panel with the base plate carrying the anode and cathode electrodes.
Abstract:
For the correction of the geometry and the distortions of the image obtained by a deflection yoke when associated with a kinescope to be steadily assembled to a yoke or to a reference kinescope, the following steps are provided: (1) generating a signal for the reference image, by a programmable signal generator; (2) displaying a distorted image on the kinescope/yoke under test; (3) reading the image through a solid-state television camera; (4) converting the analogic signal of the telecamera into a digital signal to make it utilizable by the processor; (5) storing the signal in a RAM type memory to keep it available during the processing; (6) processing and comparison in real time of the data relative to the distorted image with a reference or sample image on the basis of comparison-algorithms specifically studied for the various parameters coming from (12); (7) comparing the data with the tolerances; going on with the correction if necessary, otherwise performing the next step to begin the correction of another type of distortion; (8) calculating the correction necessary for that parameter through the proper correcting algorithm supplied by 8A; (9) performing the correction which must reduce the distortion of the displayed image, automatically obtained at(9A)(through the path 10) on (2), or by a guidance for the operator obtained at (9B) for a manual introduction according to (11).
Abstract:
A deflection yoke for TV monitors and the like, with ferromagnetic supports intended to correct distortions in the images obtained from the kinescope (C) to be coupled or being coupled with the yoke, comprising a magnetizable support (18) disposed around the yoke past the deflection zone, in the broader part of the yoke, whose local magnetizations are provided for correcting the distortions, in particular for the geometry correction.