CA2034920A1 - Cathode/heater assembly for electron-beam devices - Google Patents

Cathode/heater assembly for electron-beam devices

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CA2034920A1
CA2034920A1 CA002034920A CA2034920A CA2034920A1 CA 2034920 A1 CA2034920 A1 CA 2034920A1 CA 002034920 A CA002034920 A CA 002034920A CA 2034920 A CA2034920 A CA 2034920A CA 2034920 A1 CA2034920 A1 CA 2034920A1
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emitter
repeller
cathode
heater
electron
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Nikolai F. Osaulenko
Olgerd I. Babich
Nikolai N. Demchenko
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Priority to PCT/SU1989/000224 priority Critical patent/WO1991003065A1/en
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Priority to CA002034920A priority patent/CA2034920A1/en
Priority to FR9100986A priority patent/FR2674987A1/en
Publication of CA2034920A1 publication Critical patent/CA2034920A1/en
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01JELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J1/00Details of electrodes, of magnetic control means, of screens, or of the mounting or spacing thereof, common to two or more basic types of discharge tubes or lamps
    • H01J1/02Main electrodes
    • H01J1/13Solid thermionic cathodes
    • H01J1/20Cathodes heated indirectly by an electric current; Cathodes heated by electron or ion bombardment
    • H01J1/22Heaters

Abstract

CATHODE/HEATER ASSEMBLY FOR ELECTRON-BEAM
DEVICES
ABSTRACT

A cathode/heater assembly comprises an emitter mounted on at least one heater element fitted to current-conducting leads rigidly fixed to a base of electrically insulating material, mounting a repeller with a concave surface fac-ing the emitter's nonoperating surface and having a focal length of at least one and a half times greater than the emitter's transverse dimension. The spacing L from the re-peller to the emitter is within the limits from 0.15R to 0.75R, where R is the radius of curvature of the repel-ler's concave surface in the axial direction.

Description

2~34920 CA~HODE/XEATER ASSEMBLY ~OR E~EC~RO~-BEAM
DEVICES

The invention relates to electronics, and more speci-fically to cathode/heater assemblies of electron-beam de-vices tCRTs).
This invention can be advantageously u3ed by the ele-ctronics industry in ~V camera and picture tubes, oscillo-scope CRTs, display tube3 and other electron-beam devices, wheroin high beam current den~ity, high resolution, and long service life have to be provided simultaneously with short warm-up time and low power consumption.
The cathode/l~eater assembly is the mo~t important component of a modern electron-beam devices and determines its major performance parameters, ~uch as luminance (bright-ne~), re~olution, service }ife, reliability, power require-mont~, warm-up time, etc.
Modern electron-besm devices achieve high performance characteristics by using directly heated cathode assembli-es with high efficiency emitters based on rare-earth me-tals or their borides (e.g., LQB6), Known in the art is a directly heated cathode a~sembly, used as the source of electrons (US, A, 4193013), compri~-ing a thermionic emmiter in the form of a bar of lanthanum h~xaboride fitted to a graphite heater. ~he heater ends are connected to current-conducting leads mounted in a base of . . . . .
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This design arrangeme~t ~eatures a high (about 8W) power required to he~t the thermionic emmiter due to Q
high dissip~tion of thermal energy by the surface o~ the heater and the thermionic emitter. Thi~ loss o~ heat has to be compen~ated by applying additional power, this re-ducing the efficiency of this known in the art cathode and heater as~embly.
Widely known in the art is the cathode/heater assemb-ly for electron-beam devices (GB, ~, 1084035), compri~ing a thermionic emitter mounted onto at least one heater ele-ment fitted to current-conducting lead~ rigidly ~itted to an in~ulating ba~e, and a repsller having a concave sur-face facing the thermionic emitter at the side opposite to the emitter's working ~-~r~ace and mounted coa~ially with thi~ emitter.
The repeller facilitates returning part of the heat dis~ipated by the suriaces o~ the emitter and heater ele-ment. However, due to this knoNn in the art cathodeJheater assembly using a repeller whose geometry is selected with-out taking the dimensions of the thermionic emitter into account, it is impossible to provide ma~imum di~sipated he~t being returned back to the emitter.
In this known in the art design con~iguration the repeller is not electrically insulated ~rom the thermionic emitter-, thi~ res~}ting in unlimited electron emlssion ~rom .

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the inoperatiYe part of the emitter facing the repeller.
This, in turn, lead~ to certain degree of cooling oY the thermionic emitter, thu~ requiring application o~ addi-tional heat.
It is an obJective o~ thi~ invention to provide a cathode/heater assembly for electron-beam devices, featur-ing a high per~ormance e~ficiency.
This is achieved by that i~ the cathode/heater as-sembly for electron-beam devices, comprising a thermionic emitter, mounted onto at least one heater element ~itted to current-conducting leads rigidly fitted to a base of insulating material, and a repeller positioned coa2ially relative to the thermionic emitter and haring a concave surface facing the inoperative side of the thermionic emitter, according to the invention the focal length o~
the repeller's concave surface i9 at least one and a half time~ greater than the ma~imal dimension of the thermionic emitter in the tran~verse direction, with the repeller ri-~idly fixed to the base so that the distance L between its concave ~urface and the thermionic emitter is within the limits 0.15R C L < 0.75R, where R i~ the radius of curvature of repeller's concave surface in the axial direction.
The cathode/heater assembly for electron-beam devices of the invention features a high performance efficiency due to the coniiguration of the repeller and its po~ition-ing relative to the thermionic emitter and base. Electric - . .
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4 20~20 insulation of the repeller Yrom the base facilitates gene-rat$on of a ~pace electr~c charge at the emitter' 9 inopera-tive ~ide and thu~ impede~ electron emission from this side of the emitter, therefore further improvin~ the perfor-mance efficiency of the cathode/heater a~embly of the invention.
Other objectives and advantages of thi3 invention wîll become apparsnt from the detailed description of a preferred embodiment thereof and the accompanying drawi~g, wherein the cathode/heater as~embly for electDon-beam devices according to the invention is chown (in a longitu-dinal sectional vien).
The cathode/heater a~sembly of the invention comprise~
thermionic emitter 1 mounted onto at lea3t one heater ele-ment 2 (in the preferred embodiment being described - one heater element 2), fitted by holders 3 to current-conduct-ing lead~ 4 rigidly fitted to base 5 of an electrically insulatine material, and repeller 6 mounted coa~ially res-pective to thermionic emitter 1 and having a concave sur-face facing the inoperative side of the thermionic emitter.
The concave ~urface of repeller 6 may, for e~ample, be spherical or shaped as paraboloid of rotation, with a focal length of at least one and a half time~ greater than the tr~nsverse size of thermionic emitter 1. Repeller 6 is rigid~y fitted to ba~e 5 by bar 7 and positioned re-lative to thermionic emitter 1 90, that the spacing ~ from its concave surface and~thermionic emitter 1 is within 0.15R< L ~ 0.75R, wherc R is the radius of curvature of -~ ' repeller's 6 concave ~urface in the axial direction.
The focal length of repeller~ 8 6 concave ~urface is determined e~perimentally. At the selected relations bet-ween repeller 6 focal length and the maximal dimen~ion3 r of the thermionic emitte in the tran~ver~e direction,the di~ipated heat arriving at repeller 6 i~ reflected by it back to emitter 1 within the ~Glid angle contained between emitter 1 and repeller 6, thu~ improving the a~sembly performance e~ficiency.
The di~tance L from the concave ~urface of repeller 6 and emitter 1 i~ al~o determined experimentally, the above-cited relation proving to en~ure maximal heat being return-ed to emitter 1. Di~tance~ above the upper limit result in high heat di~ipation, distances beneath the lower li-mit prevent heat focu~ing on the inoperative ~urface of emitter 1.
~ he cathode/heater as~embly for olectron-beam devices of the invention function~ as follows.
A heater voltage i~ applied to current-conducting leads 4, this cau~ing a heater current to flow through heat-er element 2 and heating thermionic emitter 1 to its oporat-ing temperature, at which electrons are emitted from tho working and the inaperative surfaces thereof. ~he major part of these eloctrons i~ focu~ed into an electron beam in the electron-beam device utilizing this cathode/heater a~embly. Electron~ emitted from the inoperative ~ide of emitter 1 arrive at repeller 6 and charge it.

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203~920 A~ a re~ult, an electric ~ield i~ generated in the space bctween emitter 1 and repeller 6 and ~ets up a ~pace charge Qt the former, ~ith the space chargc den~ity in-crea3ing till the virtual cathode thus produced does not confine the major part of electrons emitt~d from the in-operative ~ide of omitter 1 to the vicinity of emitter 1 ~ur~ace, at the ~sme tim~ preventing it from emitting e?e-ctrons with low initial velocities. Concequently heat 10~9-e~ are reduced, due to restricted electron emi~ion from inoperative ~urface~ of emitter 1. Experiment~ provsd t~e temperature of emitter 1 to fall by about 50C when the negative potential of repeller 6 i3 removed, ~uch a reduction in temperature being of critical importance to the performance of ~uch cathode/heater a~semblie~. There-fore, electrically insulating repeller 6 from emittor 1 al~o improve~ the latter' 3 performance efficiency.
At the ~ame time, at optimal condition~, repeller 6 reflects heat back to emitter 1, thi~ allowing the heater power to be reduced.
Thu~, ~electing optimal relations between the repeller and emitter goometries, and al~o electrically in~ulating one ~rom the other allow~ the proper operating temperature of the emitter to be provided at lower heater power, thus improving the performance efficiency o~ the cathode/heat-er assemb~y of the invontion.

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Claims

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:-A cathode/heater assembly for electron-beam devices, comprising:
- a thermionic emitter having a working surface posi-tioned on its axis and featuring a maximal size in the di-rection normal to said axis, - at least one heater element connected to said thermi-onic emitter, - a first and second current-conducting leads con-nected to said heater element, - a base of electrically insulating material with ri-gidly fitted said first and second current-conducting leads, - a repeller rigidly fitted to said base coaxially with said thermionic emitter and having a concave surface facing said thermionic emitter from the side opposite its said working surface, wherein the focal length of said concave surface is at least one and a half times greater than said maximal size of said thermionic emitter and wherein the spacing L between said repeller and said ther-mionic emitter is within the limits from 0.15R to 0.75R, where R is the radius of curvature of said concave sur-face of said repeller in the axial direction.
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PCT/SU1989/000224 WO1991003065A1 (en) 1989-08-18 1989-08-18 Cathode heating unit for electron-ray devices
CA002034920A CA2034920A1 (en) 1989-08-18 1991-01-25 Cathode/heater assembly for electron-beam devices
FR9100986A FR2674987A1 (en) 1989-08-18 1991-01-29 Assembly for heating a thermoelectronic (thermionic) cathode for electron beam devices

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