GB1194023A - Cathode Ray Tube and Method of Manufacture - Google Patents

Abstract

1,194,023. Cathode-ray tubes. R.C.A. CORPORATION. 6 June, 1967 [15 June, 1966], No. 26138/67. Heading H1D. In the direct photographic process for fabricating the mosaic phosphor screen of a shadow mask cathode-ray tube, wherein light is projected from a point source through the apertures of the shadow mask to expose discrete areas of a photosensitive layer applied to the screen support, misregister of the discrete areas with the impingement spots on the screen of the electron beam is reduced below a chosen value by measuring the three-dimensional misregister at each of a plurality of points distributed over the surface of the screen of an operating tube, and employing these measurements to determine, for the surface of an optically refracting member introduced between the point source and the layer, the slopes, at each point corresponding to the said plurality of points, which are required to ensure the desired degree of correction of the misregister. The surface of the refracting member is determined by a least squares fitting of a bivariant polynomial to the calculated slopes; details of the calculation are given. The computed surface is machined in stainless steel by a numerical control milling machine, whereafter a flat glass plate may be placed on the mould and heated to cause it to sag into the mould, whereby the upper surface of the glass acquires the contour of the mould surface, and the lower surface may be ground off flat. The refractory member, of which a separate one is produced for each phosphor dot colour, may alternatively be of a plastics material. The measurements of misregister may be made in a tube already partially corrected by prior art methods.