Electric lamp and discharge devices – Photosensitive – Plural secondary emissive electrodes
Patent
1997-07-24
1999-11-30
Patel, Nimeshkumar D.
Electric lamp and discharge devices
Photosensitive
Plural secondary emissive electrodes
313103CM, 313544, H01J 4300
Patent
active
059948248
ABSTRACT:
An improved image intensifier tube having electrically operative components that include a photocathode having a photoemissive layer, a microchannel plate having a conductive input surface and a conductive output surface, and a vacuum housing for retaining the photocathode, the microchannel plate and a fiber optic inverter in a predetermined arrangement within an evacuated environment, the fiber optic inverter having a phosphor screen for receiving the electrons emitted by the cathode and converting the electrons into a visual image, the improvement therewith comprising a ring assembly disposed in the housing comprising first and second rings, the first ring being a metallized snap ring conductively contacting the input surface of the microchannel plate for providing electrical contact to and retaining the plate within the housing, the second ring being a metallized ceramic ring having a first chamfered metallized surface in electrical contact with the metallized snap ring and a second metallized surface operable to provide an electrical contact external to the housing; and the fiber optic inverter having a unitarily formed and circumferentially extending flange portion extending toward the housing, wherein a sealing material sealingly engages an inner surface of an output flange with the inverter flange portion to form an air impervious vacuum seal, the output flange supported by the inverter flange portion.
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Blouch Walter E.
Clower Stanley J.
Devoe Nelson C.
Gallagher Robert A.
Hambro George A.
ITT Manufacturing Enterprises
Patel Nimeshkumar D.
Plevy Arthur L.
Smith Michael J.
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