EP1536451A1 - Kathodenstrahlröhre mit Inline-Elektronenkanone - Google Patents

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EP1536451A1
EP1536451A1 EP03078698A EP03078698A EP1536451A1 EP 1536451 A1 EP1536451 A1 EP 1536451A1 EP 03078698 A EP03078698 A EP 03078698A EP 03078698 A EP03078698 A EP 03078698A EP 1536451 A1 EP1536451 A1 EP 1536451A1
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Sebastien Dorel
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J29/00—Details of cathode-ray tubes or of electron-beam tubes of the types covered by group H01J31/00
    • H01J29/92—Means forming part of the tube for the purpose of providing electrical connection to it
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    • H01J29/00—Details of cathode-ray tubes or of electron-beam tubes of the types covered by group H01J31/00
    • H01J29/46—Arrangements of electrodes and associated parts for generating or controlling the ray or beam, e.g. electron-optical arrangement
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  • the present invention relates to a colour cathode ray tube having an envelope comprising a neck, and a triple beam in-line electron gun in the neck and means for reducing convergence drift.
  • an in-line electron gun particularly a gun in which corresponding electrodes are implemented as unitary electrodes
  • the various juxtaposed electrodes are held together by glass beads disposed on opposite sides of a plane, the so-called in-line plane, containing the beam paths of the three electron beams.
  • the glass beads can be regarded as being arranged north and south and the plane may be regarded as extending east-west.
  • this lens is constituted by two back-to-back arranged cup-like electrodes.
  • the first, lower voltage electrode, generally called g3; may be at 8 kV and the second, higher voltage electrode, generally called g4, may be at 25 kV.
  • the facing surfaces of the first and second electrodes are separated by a gap of the order of 1 mm.
  • United States Patent US 4,868,454 proposes eliminating convergence drift by providing metallic conductive coatings on the internal wall of the neck. While such conductive coatings reduce convergence drift, they will not eliminate this problem. Additionally the production of these conductive coatings, usually as metallic mirrors, generally takes place naturally during spot-knocking when very high voltages, up to 80 kV, are applied to electrodes of the electron gun. However the extent and quality of these metallic mirrors are dependent on the activity which takes place during spot-knocking. As the level of this activity varies from tube to tube it is unpredictable and in consequence the quality and repeatability of these metallic mirrors is variable and unacceptable for volume production. Providing metallic coatings before the spot-knocking operating stage is not a solution because during spot knocking the metallic coatings can be damaged.
  • An object of the present invention is to reduce significantly the convergence drift in in-line electron gun colour cathode ray tubes without having to resort to the use of metallic mirrors.
  • a colour cathode ray tube having an envelope comprising a neck, and an in-line electron gun for generating three electron beams extending in an in-line plane, said electron gun being positioned in the neck and comprising a main lens part comprising a low voltage focusing electrode and a high voltage focusing electrode, the facing surfaces of the low and high voltage electrode being separated from each other by a main lens gap, and means for reducing convergence drift, characterized in that the electron gun is at an end facing away from the neck provided with a sets of springs, comprising
  • the second set of springs can be very effective in correcting potential variations causing convergence drift.
  • the springs should not extend beyond the gap, i.e. to or beyond the low voltage electrode.
  • the second subset of springs is in operation at the voltage of the high voltage electrode. Should the springs extend to or beyond the low voltage electrode, a potential difference between the springs and the low voltage electrode could cause a flash-over between these elements and/or influence the lens field negatively.
  • the springs touch the inside of the neck substantially in the in-line plane. Touching the glass in a plane perpendicular to this plane has little or no effect.
  • the springs extend in the in-line plane, i.e. at East-West positions. It is probably the slow built-up of charges at these areas of the neck that is a major cause of the convergence drift. By having the springs touch the inside of the neck at these positions (as compared to placing the North-South) a efficient reduction in convergence drift is achieved.
  • springs that extend backwards i.e. from the end of the gun towards the cathode (back into the neck) are also called “retrograde springs", to distinguish them from the often used forward (towards the screen) pointing springs.
  • the springs of the second subset do not extend beyond a centre plane of the main lens gap, i.e. they stay at the "high voltage electrode-side" of the main lens.
  • springs extending in two opposite directions are known from US 4,665,340. However the retrograde springs do not extend to the gap. Also the gun is not an in-line gun JP 57163945 also shows springs that extend in two direction. However, in this document the retrograde springs touch the inside of the neck at positions opposite a glass bead, which does not correspond to the positions in accordance with the invention. Furthermore the retrograde springs extend past the gap.
  • the colour cathode ray tube shown in FIG. 1 comprises a glass envelope 10 which is composed of a display window 12, a cone 13 and a neck 14.
  • An electron gun system 15 is provided in the neck 14, which system comprises three in-line arranged electron guns formed by separate cathodes and four unitary grid electrodes g1, g2, g3 and g4 juxtapositioned by glass beads 16, 17 (FIGS. 3 to 5).
  • the electron gun system 15 generates three electron beams 19, 20 and 21, respectively, with their axes situated in one plane (the plane of the drawing) which plane for convenience of description may be termed the east-west plane.
  • the axis of the central electron beam 20 coincides with the tube axis 22.
  • the display window 12 comprises on its inside a plurality of triplets of phosphor lines.
  • Each triplet comprises a line consisting of a blue-luminescing phosphor, a line consisting of a green-luminescing phosphor, and a line consisting of a red-luminescing phosphor. All the triplets together constitute the display screen 23.
  • the phosphor lines are substantially perpendicular to the plane of the drawing.
  • a shadow mask 24 Positioned in front of the display screen 23 is a shadow mask 24 in which a plurality of elongate apertures are provided through which the electron beams 19,20 and 21 pass and impinge only upon phosphor lines of one colour.
  • the three electron beams situated in one plane are deflected by a system of deflection coils 26.
  • a conductive film 28 is provided on the external surface of the cone 13.
  • a conductive layer 42 is provided on the internal surface of the cone and extends into the neck to the vicinity of a centring cup 30, to which the layer is electrically connected by forward extending springs 40 (FIGS. 3 and 4) attached to the cup 30.
  • These forward extending springs form the first subset of springs. It is remarked that in some publication this conductive layer is called a resistive layer, the use of the word "conductive” or “resistive” layer does not denote a fundamental difference.
  • the inner layer's function is to provide electrode(s) of the electron gun, via the springs 40, a high voltage potential (typically 25-30 kVolt).
  • the drawing shows a part of an in-line electron gun system, more particularly the bi-potential lens formed by the electrodes g3, g4 and the centring cup 30 connected by spring contacts 40 to the conductive layer 42 on the inside of the cone 13 and extending part way into the neck 14.
  • the grid g3 is typically at 8 kV and the grid g4 is typically at 25 kV.
  • a potential builds-up rapidly on the internal surface of the neck 14 due to a capacitive coupling between the electrode g3,g4 and the internal surface.
  • the glass of the envelope is a dielectric and the external surface of the neck is capacitively coupled to ground or to another convenient voltage reference point, then a potential builds-up very rapidly on the external surface of the neck 14 at switch-on.
  • FIG. 3 to 5 illustrate the invention.
  • the electron gun is provided with two subsets of springs, forward extending springs 40 touching the conductive layer are provided.
  • forward extending springs 40 touching the conductive layer are provided.
  • backward extending springs 41 are provided touching the internal surface of the neck 14 near the gap between the grid g3 and the grid g4 on and about the east-west plane containing the electron beams 19,20,21.
  • Investigative tests on colour cathode ray tubes having bipotential focusing lenses with a gap 38 between the facing surfaces of the lens electrodes g3, g4 have shown that the second set of springs 41 can be very effective in correcting potential variations causing convergence drift.
  • the springs 41 should not extend beyond the gap 38, i.e. to or beyond the low voltage electrode g3.
  • the second subset of springs 41 is in operation at the voltage of the high voltage electrode. Should the springs 41 extend to or beyond the low voltage electrode g3, a potential difference between the springs and the low voltage electrode could cause a flash-over between these elements 41 and g3 and/or influence the lens field in the main lens formed between g3 and g4 negatively.
  • the springs 31 touch the inside of the neck substantially in the in-line plane (i.e. East-West). Touching the glass in a plane perpendicular to this plane has little or no effect.
  • the springs extend in the in-line plane, i.e. at East-West positions. It is probably the slow built-up of charges at these areas of the neck that is a major cause of the convergence drift. By having the springs touch the inside of the neck at these positions (as compared to placing the North-South) a efficient reduction in convergence drift is achieved.
  • Fig. 6 shows an arrangement of an g3 and g4 electrode.
  • both of the g3 and g4 electrode comprise a base plate g3base, g4 base inside the electrode and a rim part g3rim, g4rim.
  • the centre plane 38a i.e. the plane at equal distance of the electrodes g3, g4 is shown.
  • Fig. 7 shows a detail of an electron gun.
  • the position of the second sub-set of springs 14 vis-a-vis the rest of the gun is clearly shown.
  • the springs 40 and 41 are separate elements, in embodiments the springs 40 and 41 which in this figure touch each other may form one element. This would reduce the number of elements.
  • Fig. 8 shows an electron gun inserted in a neck 14.
  • Fig. 9 shows the positive effect of the invention.
  • Electron guns have been fitted with springs 41 and sealed in 32WSRF tubes.
  • Figure 9 shows the 4px convergence drift of two guns with springs 41 (line 92) compared to two guns with no such springs 41, all the other parameters having been kept the same. It is evident that the pair of springs 41 allows a very large drift reduction (nearly 4 times less). Moreover the roughly identical drift curves of the 2 guns with springs indicate 41 that the spread is low.
  • Fig. 10 illustrates various springs. These springs differ in the position where they touch the neck internally.
  • the gap in these examples is 1.4 mm wide.
  • position A the springs touches the neck at a distance of 1.4 mm measured from a centre plane in the gap.
  • position B the spring touches the neck internally at a distance of 0.7 mm form the centre plane, i.e. just at the edge of the gap.
  • position C the spring touches the neck right at the position of the centre plane.
  • Fig. 11 illustrates the drift for the springs shown in fig. 10.
  • the drift without springs is approximately 0.6 mm. This differs from the drift in fig. 9, since each model has its' own drift behavior.
  • the spring of example B extending to the edge of the gap, give a substantially larger positive effect, and fall within the scope of the invention.
  • the springs as in example C give an even greater effect, reducing the drift by some 70%, a very substantial positive effect.
  • the springs therefore touch the neck at a position at a distance less than 1 ⁇ 4 of the gap form a centre plane in the gap, where the centre plane is a plane at equal distance from the electrodes at either side of the gap.
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