Electric lamp and discharge devices – Cathode ray tube – Ray generating or control
Reexamination Certificate
2000-02-29
2002-12-17
O'Shea, Sandra (Department: 2875)
Electric lamp and discharge devices
Cathode ray tube
Ray generating or control
C313S417000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06495952
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a cathode ray tube, and in particular to a cathode ray tube having an electron gun employing an internal voltage-dividing resistor.
Color cathode ray tubes used in TV receivers or information terminals, house an electron gun for emitting a plurality (usually three) of electron beams at one end of an evacuated envelope, a phosphor screen formed of phosphors coated on an inner surface of the evacuated envelope at the other end thereof for emitting light of a plurality (usually three) of colors, and a shadow mask which is closely spaced from the phosphor screen and serves as a color selection electrode. The electron beams emitted from the electron gun are deflected to scan the phosphor screen horizontally and vertically to form a rectangular raster by magnetic fields generated by a deflection yoke mounted externally of the evacuated envelope and display a desired image on the phosphor screen.
FIG. 8
is a cross-sectional view for explaining an exemplary configuration of a color cathode ray tube, and in
FIG. 8
, reference numeral
1
denotes a panel portion,
2
is a neck portion for housing an in-line type electron gun
9
,
3
is a funnel portion for connecting the panel portion
1
and the neck portion
2
,
4
is a phosphor screen,
5
is a shadow mask,
6
is a mask frame,
7
is a magnetic shield,
8
is a mask suspension mechanism,
10
is a deflection yoke,
11
is an internal conductive coating,
12
is a shield cup,
13
is a contact spring,
14
is a getter and
15
are stem pins.
In this color cathode ray tube, an evacuated envelope is formed by the panel portion
1
, the neck portion
2
and the funnel portion
3
, and electron beams
16
emitted from the electron gun
9
housed in the neck portion
2
scan the phosphor screen
4
two-dimensionally by being subjected to the horizontal and vertical deflection magnetic fields produced by the deflection yoke
10
.
The electron beams
16
are modulated in amount by video signals supplied via the stem pins
15
, are color-selected by the shadow mask
5
disposed immediately in front of the phosphor screen
4
, and impinge upon the phosphors of the corresponding primary colors to reproduce a desired color image.
Such cathode ray tubes employ a multistage focus lens system to obtain sufficiently small electron beam spots over the entire phosphor screen.
Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. Hei 10-255682 (laid-open on Sep. 25, 1998), for example, discloses an “extended field lens” serving as a main lens formed by disposing an intermediate electrode between an anode and a focus electrode.
FIG. 9
is a schematic longitudinal cross-sectional view of an electron gun of a cathode ray tube disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. Hei 10-255682 and
FIG. 10
is a cross-sectional view taken along line X—X of the electron gun shown in FIG.
9
. The electron gun is of the extended field lens type comprising three equally spaced coplanar cathodes
309
(one for each electron beam), a first electrode
301
, a second electrode
302
, a third electrode
303
, a fourth electrode
304
, a 5-1st electrode (a focus electrode)
305
, a 5-2nd electrode (a focus electrode)
306
, an intermediate electrode
310
, a sixth electrode (an anode electrode)
307
and a shield cup
308
arranged coaxially in the order named from the cathodes
309
, and the cathodes and the electrodes are fixed in predetermined spaced relationship on a pair of glass beads
311
.
A voltage-dividing resistor
312
fabricated on a ceramic substrate is housed within the cathode ray tube to obtain a voltage to be supplied to the intermediate electrode
310
via a holder pin
313
within the cathode ray tube, and the voltage-dividing resistor
312
is fixed to one of the glass beads
311
. A metal wire
314
a
surrounds the glass beads
311
and the voltage-dividing resistor
312
and is welded to the intermediate electrode
310
as shown in FIG.
10
.
The electrons emitted from the cathodes
309
are focused by a prefocus lens formed by the cathodes
309
, the first electrode
301
, the second electrode
302
and the third electrode
303
, next by a pre-main lens formed by the third electrode
303
, the fourth electrode
304
and the 5-1st electrode
305
, and then by a main lens formed by the 5-2nd electrode
306
, the intermediate electrode
310
and the sixth electrode
307
, onto a phosphor screen, and form an image on the viewing screen of the cathode ray tube.
The voltage applied to the intermediate electrode
310
is selected lower than anode voltage, but higher than voltages applied to the focus electrodes by dividing the anode voltage using the voltage-dividing resistor
312
. Provision of the intermediate electrode
310
forms a lens of the extended field type in which the potential distribution along the tube axis is made gentle from the anode electrode to the focus electrodes, reduces spherical aberration and consequently the diameter of the electron beam spots is reduced.
As shown in
FIG. 10
, the amount of electrical charges accumulated on the inner wall of a neck glass
317
is stabilized by attaching the metal wire
314
a
to the intermediate electrode
310
such that the metal wire
314
a
surrounds the glass bead
311
and the voltage-dividing resistor
312
.
After the completed electron gun is inserted into the neck glass
317
, a portion of metal contained in the metal wire
314
a
is evaporated to form metal films (not shown) on the inner wall of the neck glass
317
and the surface of the voltage-dividing resistor
312
and the glass bead
311
by heating the metal wire
314
a
using an external high-frequency induction heater such that more stable potential is established on the inner wall of the neck glass
317
.
In the manufacture of a cathode ray tube, after the cathode ray tube has been exhausted of gases and sealed, so-called spot-knocking (high-voltage stabilization) of applying a high voltage of about twice the normal operating voltage for the cathode ray tube to its anode is carried out to remove projections in electrodes of the electron gun or foreign particles within the cathode ray tube by forcing arcing between the electrodes and between the electrodes and the inner wall of the neck portion and to thereby prevent occurrence of arcing within the cathode ray tube during the normal operation of the completed cathode ray tube.
But, when high voltages for spot-knocking are applied to electrodes of a cathode ray tube employing the extended field lens formed by applying a voltage divided from the anode voltage using an internal voltage-dividing resistor to the intermediate electrode, arcing occurs between the anode electrode and the above-mentioned metal wire for suppression of discharge, and consequently, voltages sufficiently high for spot-knocking are not generated between the anode electrode and the intermediate electrode adjacent thereto, and between the intermediate electrode and another electrode facing the cathode side of the intermediate electrode, and consequently, there has been a problem in that sufficient effects of spot-knocking are not obtained, and as a result, satisfactory withstand voltage characteristics are not secured within the cathode ray tube.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to provide a cathode ray tube incorporating an internal voltage-dividing resistor and having withstand voltage characteristics improved by heightening effects of spot-knocking preventing arcing between the electrodes supplied with high voltages and the metal wire for suppression of discharge, during the spot-knocking procedure and thereby solving the above problem.
To accomplish the above object, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a cathode ray tube comprising: an evacuated envelope comprising a panel portion having a phosphor screen formed on an inner surface thereof, a neck portion and a funnel portion connecting said panel portion and said neck portion; an electron gun housed in said neck portio
Miyamoto Satoru
Nakamura Hisao
Tsuruoka Atsushi
Antonelli Terry Stout & Kraus LLP
Hitachi , Ltd.
O'Shea Sandra
Truong Bao
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