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US2126287A
US2126287A US49953A US4995335A US2126287A US 2126287 A US2126287 A US 2126287A US 49953 A US49953 A US 49953A US 4995335 A US4995335 A US 4995335A US 2126287 A US2126287 A US 2126287A
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    • H01J29/00—Details of cathode-ray tubes or of electron-beam tubes of the types covered by group H01J31/00
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    • 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
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  • trodes serving to generate the field are arranged within the tube, so that the'tube is immediately operable without additional externally disposed auxiliary means, such as coils and the like.
  • the subject matter or the present invention is an improvement on the-tube described in the co-pending patent application,- and relates to the illuminationof the diaphragm aperture to be reproduced with cathode rays by means oi a special condensing system located between the cathode and the diaphragm the aperture of which represents the object of electron optical reproduction.
  • the invention relates to the arrangement oi the electrodes, to the adjustment of the'concentrative effect by special auxiliary potentials, and to the mechanical production of a condensing systemoi this kind; which is of particular importance in view of the small size of the diaphragm aperture and of the intermediate electron-optical image reproduced on the diaphram by means of the said condensin system.
  • Fig. 1 is a ditic longitudinal section through the essential parts of the electrode system of a cathode ray tube according to the invention
  • Fig. 2 which is, for reasons of space, divided into two parts along the hue A/B, shows a dimensional longitudinal section through the por-' tion .of the cathode ray tube which contains the electrode system, in conjunction with a diagrammatic showing of the essential parts of the operating circuits, the second pair 01' deflecting plates being indicated'in a perspective view.
  • Figs. 3 and 4 show the structural details of two modifications oi the preliminary condensing system according to the invention.
  • ⁇ is the cathode, which is identical with the systems previously described by the applicant.
  • the same possesses a spot of oxide I oi! the approximatesize of the aperture in the intermediate diaphragm.
  • an emissive surface is sumcient of .5 mm. in diameter, which is capable otsuppiying currents or up to 6 mA. and more.
  • the control electrode 3 In the immediate vicinity of the spotof oxidejthere is provided the control electrode 3. It is only by reason oi the small t m re i a the co trol grid 3 from the oxide siniace, and wholly independently or all electrodes and potentials provided otherwise in the tube, that the sensitivity of the tube is attained.
  • the applicant makes use of spacings of such 5 a smallness as is reconcilable with the required reliability of the mechanical construction.
  • a grid aperture] of 1 mmjdiameter spaced ,6, 10 mm. from the sin'i'ace of the cathode. It is true that it is necessary for this purpose to assemble the grid and the cathode member on the same metallic base S, which ensures the centering of the grid and the cathode in relation to each 16 other.
  • the very narrow control grid aperture 4 represents an. efiective screening of the cathode against external fields even against those desirable ior freeing a sufiicient emission from the 20 cathode. It is, therefore, essential to provide behind the control cylinder 3 a suctional anode 5, to obtain an emission at all. In order not to have to apply unnecessarily high potentials to the anode, the spacing of this anode from the 25 cathode will be made as'smail as permissible. This leads to the provision oi anarrow boring anda spacing oi the order oi 1 mm. from the control grid 3.- The biases at the anode 5 are wholly without effect on the sensitivity of the 30 control.
  • the tocussing electrode or the condensing system consists oi a cylinder 6, which is maintained at a fixed bias. The diameter of this cylinder amounts to 5 mm., its length to 3 mm. This cylinder is'directly connectedwith 45 the cathode. 7
  • This anode 5, in accordance with the invention, may also be employed as a blocking 55 electrode, as in the case of certain television systems which operate with white impulse signals for synchronizing the scannings at the transmitting and receiving ends it is necessary to be able to perform a blocking of the ray even if the main control grid 3 is positive with respect to the oathode, and it is a great technical advantage if the blocking potentials act on a special grid which has no electrical connection with the picture shading control grid.
  • the object diaphragm i. e. the diaphragm having the aperture which is" to: be electron-optically reproduced om. the picture receiving screen, is a piece of sheet metal 1.
  • a reproducing system comprising the tubular member 8 with an apertured plate 8' inserted therein and the tubular anode 9, the latter being in fixed conductive connection with the intermediate diaphragm i.
  • the bias of the tubular member 8 regulates the sharpness of the spot.
  • the high tension anode voltage supply is indicated by a battery 20, though it may of course be of any suitable kind, e. g. preferably an alternating current mains operated apparatus.
  • the anode 9 and the diaphragm I are connected to the positive end of the voltage supply, the cathode '2 to a point near the negative end. If the shading control electrode is connected to the negative end of the supply, it is thus negatively biased in relation to the cathode.
  • the shading modulations are introduced over the terminal 2'1 and produce alternating voltages across the grid leak resistance 25. Whereas now the concentrating cylinder is maintained at a constant potential,
  • the cathode potential the potential of the suctional anode 5 is according to the invention, made adjustable for the purpose of adjusting the degree of preliminary concentration.
  • the drawings show the suctional anode 5 connected to an adjustable tap 23 at a potentiometer 2!, 22.
  • a grid-leak resistance 26 and a terminal 28 may be associated with the suctional anode 5 for the purpose of applying blocking impulses to that electrode.
  • a further adjustable tap 26 is connected with the tubular member 8, by variation of the potential of which the refractive power of the main lens 8/9 may be varied. 29 is the envelope of the cathode ray tube.
  • Fig. 3 shows a form of condensing system which difiers from that shown in Fig. 1 by the fact that a first condensing cylinder 6 is directly attached to the suctional anode 5, whilst a second condensing cylinder 1 is directly attached to the perforated diaphragm l.
  • the two cylinders 5 and 7' are of very different length, the latter being approximately three times the length of the former.
  • the order of magnitude is approximately 3 mm. inner diameter and 3 and 8 mm. length respectively, with a spacing of 1 mm.
  • an unsymmetrical cylinder arrangement of this kind offers the advantage that the same represents a combined lens system, which acts first, at the edge of the cylinder 6, as a collecting lens, and thereafter in the interior of the cylinder 1' as a dispersing lens (shown in broken lines).
  • the dispersing efiect is: the greater the longer the cylinder 1' is made in relation to 6' and the narrower it is. It has already been shown in the patent applications Ser. No. 730,111, filed June 11, 1934, and Ser. No. 756,126, filed Dec.
  • a collecting system according to Fig. 3 the positioning is ensured in a very simple way by slipping over the two cylinder electrodes an insulating guide tube H), which exactly fits about them.
  • the tube I must be made of porcelain or glass and other materials which are properly heat-resisting and adapted for use in a high vacuum.
  • the entire collecting system may also be made of a single glass tube Ill. which is silvered on the inside. the silver coating being removed from a small ring shaped zone.
  • a reliable connection with the inner silver coating may be established with the aid of an outer flange II.
  • graphite In place of silver it is naturally also possible to employ graphite, because the requirements as regards the conductivity of the coatings are very'small owing to the absence of any current in these coatings.
  • Fig. 4 shows the intermediate diaphragm 5.
  • the insulating tube ill which is furnished with an inner and outer graphite coating of the desired length, these inner and outer coatings forming one combined coating.
  • a flange ii exactly fitting over the coated tube is extended to form a supporting collar l2, which with the' aid of borings is centered in relation to the anode 5 in the above explained manner usual in the applicant's tubes.
  • the diaphragm l is supplemented by a thicker plate l3 applied to the same, the aperture of which provides a cavity into which the glass tube l0 exactly fits. Centeringmay already be tested when welding the plate l3 on to the diaphragm l. The whole is then attached to common glass rods H by welding. In place of the flange I! it is also possible plished that the ray passes entirely through the diaphragm aperture I.
  • cathode ray tube comprising means for producing a bundle of cathode rays, means for focussing said bundle to produce an electron image in a receiving plane, a preliminary concentrating system comprising electrodes to be supplied with different potentials for preliminarily concentrating said bundle before it is focussed onto the receiving plane, at least one of said electrodes being electrically independent from said focussing means; means for supplying said electrodes with diiferent potentials and means for adjusting one of the potentials applied to said electrodes, one applied to an electrode which is electrically independent from said focussing means so that the degree of preliminary concentration is regulated.
  • a cathode ray tube comprising means including a cathode and a suctional anode for producing a bundle of cathode rays, means for focussing said bundle to produce an electron image in a receiving plane, said suctional anode being electrically independent from said focussing means, a preliminary concentrating system comprising electrodes including said suctional anode and to be supplied with different potentials for preliminarily concentrating said bundle before it is focussed onto the receiving plane; means for supplying said electrodes with different potentials and means for adjusting the potential applied to said suctional anode, so that the degree of preliminary con entration is reguated.
  • a cathode ray tube comprising means including a cathode and a plateshaped suctional anode for producing a bundle of .cathode rays, means for focussing said bundle to anode, so that the degree of preliminary concentration is regulated.
  • a cathode ray tube comprising means for producing a bundle of cathode rays
  • a preliminary concentrating system comprising electrodes to be supplied with different potentials for preliminarily concentrating said bundle before it is iocussed onto the receiving plane, at least one of said electrodes being electrically independent from said focussing means, means for deflecting said bundle to cause said image to sweep over said receiving plane; means for supplying said electrodes with different potentials and means for adjusting the potentials applied to said electrodes, one applied to an electrode which is electrically independent from said focussing means so that the degree of preliminary concentration is regulated.
  • a cathode ray tube comprising means including a cathode and a suctional anode for producing a bundle of cathode rays, means for focussing said bundle to produce an electron image in a receiving plane, a preliminary concentrating system comprising said suctional anode and a concentrating cylinder mounted near said suctional anode in the space more remote from said cathode than said suctional anode and axially alined with said cathode and said suctional anode, said suctional anode and said concentrating cylinder being adapted to be supplied with different potentials decreasing in the direction away from the cathode for preliminarily concentrating said bundle before it is focussed onto the receiving plane; means for supplying said suctional anode and said concentrating cylinder with difierent potentials and means for adjusting the potential applied to said suctional anode so that the degree ofpreliminary concentration is regulated.
  • a cathode ray tube comprising means including a cathode and a suctional anode for producing a bundle of cathode rays, means for focussing said bundle to produce an electron image in a receiving plane, a preliminary concentrating system comprising said suctional anode and a concentrating cylinder mounted near said suctional anode in the space more remote from said cathode than said suctional anode and axially aligned with said cathode and said suctional anode, said suctional anode and said concentrating cylinder being adapted to be supplied with different potentials decreasing in the direction away from the cathode for preliminarily concentrating said bundle before it is focussed onto the receiving plane; means for applying a fixed potential to said concentrating cylinder, means for applying to said suctional anode a potential higher than said fixed potential, and means for adjusting the potentials applied to said suctional anode so that the degree of preliminary concentration is regulated.
  • a cathode ray tube comprising electrodes at least partly belonging to the means hereinafter recited which are incorporated in said cathode ray tube; said cathode ray tube comprising means including a cathode and a suctional anode for producing a bundle of cathode rays, means for focussing said bundle to produce an electron image in a receiving plane, a preliminary concentrating system comprising said suctional anode and a concentrating cylinder mounted near said suctional anode in the space more remote from said cathode than said suctional anode and axially aligned with said cathode and said suctional anode, said suctional anode and said concentrating cylinder being adapted to be supplied with difierent potentials decreasing in the direction away from the cathode for preliminarily concentrating said bundle before it is focussed on the receiving plane; means for supplying said electrodes with their operating potentials, said last mentioned means comprising a direct conductive
  • a cathode ray tube comprising means including a cathode and a suctional anode for producing a bundle of cathode rays, means for focussing said bundle to produce an electron image in a receiving plane, a preliminary concentrating system comprising said suctional anode and a concentrating cylinder mounted near said suctional anode in the space more remote from said cathode than said suctional anode and axially aligned with said cathode and said suctional anode, said suctional anode and said concentrating cylinder being adapted to be supplied with different potentials decreasing in the direction away from the cathode for preliminarily concentrating said bundle before it is focussed on the receiving plane, a direct'conductive connection disposed inside said cathode ray tube from said concentrating cylinder to said cathode; means for supplying said suctional anode with a positive potential relatively to said cathode, and means for adjusting the potential applied to said suct
  • a cathode ray tube comprising means including a cathode and a suctional anode for producing a bundle of cathode rays, means for focussing said bundle to produce an electron image in a receiving plane, a preliminary concentrating system comprising said suctional anode, a plate shaped electrode mounted between said cathode and said suctional anode, and a concentrating cylinder mounted near said suctional anode in the space more remote from said cathode than said suctional anode and axially aligned with said cathode and said suctional anode, said suctional anode, said plate-shaped electrode and said concentrating cylinder being adapted to be supplied with different potentials whereof that applied to said suctional anode is the highest, said suctional anode and said concentrating cylinder being adapted to be supplied with different potentials decreasing in the direction away from-the cathode for preliminarily concentrating said bundle before it is focussed on the
  • a cathode ray tube comprising means for producing a bundle of cathode rays, means for focussing said bundle to produce an electron image in a receiving plane, a preliminary concentrating system comprising two cylindrical electrodes adapted to be supplied with different potentials and mounted in axial consecution to be axially traversed by said bundle, the second one of said cylindrical electrodes taken in the direction away from the cathode being several times longer than the first one of said cylindrical electrodes and adapted to be supplied with a higher potential than said first one of said cylindrical electrodes so that said bundle is subjected to a concentration and subsequent dispersion in the space included by said two cylindrical electrodes and before it is focussed onto the receiving plane; means for supplying said two cylindrical electrodes with difierent potentials increasing in the direction away from said cathode and means for adjusting the potential applied to that one of said cylindrical electrodes disposed nearer the cathode.
  • a cathode ray tube comprising means for producing a bundle of cathode rays, means for iocussing said bundle to produce an electron image in a receiving plane, a preliminary concentrating system comprising a supporting cylinder of an insulating material engaging in corresponding guiding structures and furnished with conductive coatings separated from each other by at least one separating zone and vthus being adapted to be supplied with different potentials for preliminarilyconcentrating said bundle before it is focussed onto the receiving plane; means for supplying said electrodes with different potentials and means for adjusting one -of the potentials applied to said electrodes so that the degree of preliminary concentration is regulated.
  • a cathode ray tube comprising means including a cathode and a suctional anode for producing a bundle of cathode rays, means for focussing said bundle to produce an electron image in a receiving plane, a preliminary concentrating system comprising electrodes including said suctional anode and to be supplied with different potentials for preliminarily concentrating said bundle before it is focussed onto the receiving plane; means for supplying said electrodes with diflerent potentials, means for adjusting the potential applied to said suctional anode so that the degree of preliminary concentration is regulated and means for applying to said suctional anode potential impulses for controlling, more particularly blocking, said bundle.
  • a cathode ray tube comprising means including a cathode and a suctional anode for producing a bundle of cathode rays, means for focussing said bundle to produce an electron image in a receiving plane, said suctional "anode being electrically independent from said focussing means, a preliminary concentrating system comprising electrodes including said suctional anode and to be supplied with difierent potentials for preliminarily concentrating said bundle before it is focussed onto the receiving plane; means for supplying said electrodes with-different potentials, means for adjusting the potential applied to said suctional anode so that the degree of preliminary concentration is regulated and means for applying to said suctional anode potential impulses for controlling, more particularly, blocking, said bundle.
  • a cathode ray tube comprising means for producing a bundle of cathode rays, means for focussing said bundle to produce an electron image in a receiving plane, a preliminary concentrating system comprising two cylindrical electrodes adapted to be supplied with difierent potentials and mounted in axial consecution to be axially traversed by said bundle, each of said cylindrical electrodes being completely open at its side racing the other one, the second one of said cylindrical electrodes taken in the direction away from the cathode being several times longer than the first one of said cylindrical electrodes and adapted to be supplied with a higher potential than said first one of said cylindrical electrodes so that said bundle is subjected to a concentration and subsequent dispersion in the space included by said two cylindrical electrodes and before it is focussed onto the receiving plane; means for supplying said two cylindrical electrodes with difierent potentials increasing in the direction away from said cathode and means for adjusting the potential applied to one of said cylindrical electrodes.
  • a cathode ray tube comprising means for producing a bundle of cathode rays, means for focussing said bundle to produce an electron image in a receiving plane
  • a preliminary concentrating system comprising two cylindrical electrodes adapted to be supplied with diflerent potentials and mounted in axial consecution to be axially traversed by said bundle, the second one of said cylindrical electrodes taken in the direction away from the cathode being several times longer than the firstone of said cylindrical electrodes and adapted to be supplied with a higher potential than said first one of said cylindrical electrodes so that said bundle is subjected to a concentration and subsequent dispersion in the space included by said two cylindrical electrodes and before it is focussed onto the receiving plane
  • an insulating tube having an outside diameter considerably larger than that of said cylindrical electrodes and being tightly fitted about said two cylindrical electrodes for centering them in relation to each other; means for supplying said two cylindrical electrodes with difierent potentials increasing in the direction away from said cathode and means for adjusting the potential applied
  • a preliminary concentrating system structure comprising a tube of insulating material, two cylindrical electrodes tightly fitting within said insulating tube, plateshaped members provided with guiding holes and having said tube of insulating material secured thereto with its axis disposed at right angles relatively to the planes of said plate-shaped members,
  • rod-shaped members mounted in the cathode ray tube parallel to the axis thereof and having said plate-shaped members slipped thereover by their guiding holes to support said electrodes.
  • a preliminary concentrating system structure comprising a tube of insulating material, two electrodes formed by coatings to said tube, plate-shaped members provided with guiding holes and having said tube of insulating material secured thereto with its axis disposed at right angles relatively to the planes of said plate-shaped members, rod-shaped members mounted in the cathode ray tube parallel to the axis thereof and having said plate-shaped members slipped thereover by their guiding holes to support said electrodes.
  • a cathode ray tube comprising means including a cathode and a suctional anode for producing a bundle of cathode rays, said suctional anode consisting of an apertured plate and a short tubular abutment mounted on said plate at its side facing away from said cathode, means for focussing said bundle to produce an electron image in a receiving plane, said suctional anode being electrically independent from said focussing means, a preliminary concentrating system comprising electrodes including said suctional anode and to be supplied with dit- Ierent potentials for preliminarily concentrating said bundle before it is focussed onto the receiving plane; means for supplying said electrodes with difierent potentials and means for adjusting the potential applied to said suctional anode, so that the degree of preliminary concentration is regulated.

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US2591689A (en) * 1945-06-23 1952-04-08 Int Standard Electric Corp High-density beam control
US2632130A (en) * 1947-11-28 1953-03-17 Joseph F Hull High current density beam tube
US2714176A (en) * 1952-06-28 1955-07-26 Rca Corp Beam-controlling systems for multibeam cathode ray tubes
US3792303A (en) * 1970-10-30 1974-02-12 A Albertin Cathode-ray tube with deflection amplification and post-deflection acceleration

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US2591689A (en) * 1945-06-23 1952-04-08 Int Standard Electric Corp High-density beam control
US2632130A (en) * 1947-11-28 1953-03-17 Joseph F Hull High current density beam tube
US2714176A (en) * 1952-06-28 1955-07-26 Rca Corp Beam-controlling systems for multibeam cathode ray tubes
US3792303A (en) * 1970-10-30 1974-02-12 A Albertin Cathode-ray tube with deflection amplification and post-deflection acceleration

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