US2760106A - Electron-optical discharge system - Google Patents

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US2760106A
US2760106A US338517A US33851753A US2760106A US 2760106 A US2760106 A US 2760106A US 338517 A US338517 A US 338517A US 33851753 A US33851753 A US 33851753A US 2760106 A US2760106 A US 2760106A
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Francken Jan Carel
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  • an electron-optical system for a discharge tube for example, the luminoscope, the image intensifier or the television camera tube, comprising an electromagnetic electron lens which consists of three magnetic coils surrounding the tube
  • an electromagnetic electron lens which consists of three magnetic coils surrounding the tube
  • the coil closest to the cathode of the tube usually varies the magnification of the device; however, the image on the screen becomes defocussed due to variation in the field strength within the tube.
  • a second phenomena occurs known as image rotation, which always occurs in the case of magnified image reproduction.
  • the energization of the two separate coils may be controlled so that the image remains sharp, if the rate of magnification is changed.
  • image rotation may be kept constant, in the case of a variable magnification, by adding a third coil, the field of which contributes to the forma tion of the lens field.
  • the three windings together produce magnetic fields which difier in shape and strength, but which combine to produce sharp reproductions of the image on the photo-electric cathode on the image screen.
  • the winding nearest the photo-electric cathode preferably has a position such that the field strength at the photo-cathode is substantially at its maximum. If only this winding is energized, a short magnetic field is produced and the maximum magnification is obtained.
  • the second winding may be arranged adjacent the first and when it is energized, the divergence of the magnetic field must decrease in order to obtain a smaller image. In order to maintain a sharp image, the current passing through the first winding must be reduced.
  • the reduction of field strength at the area of the photo-cathode and the elongation of the field both have the effect of a smaller magnification. Consequently, the magnification may be decreased by raising the current passing through the second winding and by reducing the current passing through the first winding.
  • the image rotation is found to be at its minimum, if the first winding is only energized and the magnification is at its maximum. The smaller the magnification, the greater the image rotation.
  • the variation in the image rotation may be neutralized by extending the magnetic field to a certain extent in the direction of the image screen.
  • a third winding may be provided between the two aforesaid windings and the image screen.
  • the field of this winding must primarily be operative in the area free from electric fields. It compensates for the variation in the image rotation without seriously aifecting the magnification and the sharpness of the image, since the winding, which is remote from the cathode, exerts little influence on the field in the proximity of the cathode.
  • the main object of the invention is to provide a simple 2,760,106 Patented Aug. 21, 1956 arrangement for continuously varying the magnification of the image while retaining a sharp image and minimizing any image rotation.
  • a simple arrangement for continuously varying the magnification of the image in an electron-optical image system comprising three coil windings can be provided by maintaining substantially constant the sum of the energizing currents passing through the three coil windings throughout the desired control range of the system.
  • Figs. 1 and 2 show, respectively, the variation of ampere-turns and current with magnification of a three winding electron-optical system
  • Figs. 3 and 4 are circuit diagrams of two arrangements in accordance with the invention for maintaining a substantially constant sum of all three energizing currents
  • Fig. 5 shows one form of construction in which the invention may be employed.
  • the number of required ampere-turns for each specific magnification is determined.
  • the currents required will be determined by the choice of the number of turns for each winding.
  • the required ampere-turns for the various windings may be designated by A1(V), A2(V) and Aa(V), respectively. Each of them is a function of the magnification V and may be plotted in a graph, as shown in Fig. 1.
  • the variation of the total number of ampereturns, required for continuously controllable magnification and constant image rotation and sharpness is also indicated in Fig. 1.
  • 1' will also be a function of V.
  • the values of n1, In and 113 may now be chosen such that i is constant for all values of V in the desired control range in accordance with the invention in the following manner.
  • m the value of i1 is determined at maximum magnification, and hence also 1', since in this case is and is are zero (see Fig. l).
  • the value of 213 may be determined at a magnification at which all three windings are energized.
  • Figs. 3 and 4 show circuit-arrangements which may be used in a device according to the invention and which carry out the foregoing method.
  • a direct-current source (not shown) are connected to the terminals 1 and 2 of a direct-current source (not shown) to the terminals 1 and 2 of a direct-current source (not shown) to the terminals 1 and 2 of a direct-current source (not shown) to the terminals 1 and 2 of a direct-current source (not shown) are connected two stabilizing tubes 3 and 4, e. g. glow discharge tubes, which, in cooperation with the resistor 5, maintain the voltage between two connecting terminals 6 and 7 constant. The voltage at these points is supplied to the series combination of three systems a, b and c.
  • the system a comprises a resistor 8, with which a first winding 9 connected in series with an adjusting resistor 10 is connected in parallel.
  • the winding 9 usually surrounds the photo-electric cathode of the device.
  • the system b comprises a potentiometer 11, with which a second winding 12 in series with an adjusting resistor 13 is connected in parallel; this winding 12 serves to control the magnification.
  • the system c which is constructed in a similar manner to that of b, comprises a potentiometer 14, with which a third winding 15 is connected in parallel; this winding serves mainly for correcting the image rotation. With this winding 15 is also connected in series an adjusting resistor 16.
  • the potentiometer 11 need have a special resistance variation, the value of each adjustment being found when the sum of the currents through the windings 12 and 15 have the required value, and therefore, instead of three controlresistors, only two are required, one of which may, moreover, be a linear resistor. If 'a slightly less accurate control than in the case of complete adaptation of the third potentiometer to the theoretically correct resistance distribution suffices, the third resistor may be composed of a number of linear parts, thereby yielding a material simplification.
  • the windings 9, 12 and 15 are connected in parallel and in series with a current controlswitch 20 to the terminals 1 and 2 of a current source.
  • the current control-switch 20 is such that it keeps the current at a constant value; for this purpose use may be made, for example, of an iron wire resistor in a gaseous atmosphere.
  • the current i is determined as explained beforehand.
  • the resistor 21 may be connected in series with the winding 9.
  • a discharge tube 22 comprising a control-grid serves to control the current strength through the winding 12, since it is not quite possible to cause the current to increase regularly from zero with the aid of a series resistor.
  • a discharge tube is very suitable and if, moreover, use is made of a pentode tube, the control of the current is substantially independent of the voltage, if the latter does not drop below a minimum value of, for example, 100 v.
  • the current across the winding 15 must be controllable from zero; for this purpose use is also made of a discharge tube 23 comprising a control-grid.
  • the control-voltages for the tubes 22, 23 are derived from a pair of potentiometers 24 and 25, which are included in series with the wind- 4 ings in the current supply leads on the cathode side of the discharge tubes 22, 23.
  • one of the otentiometers may be a linear resistor and the other may be of particular construction such that each adjustment is associated with a resistance value which controls the current through the associated winding to the difference between the total current and the sum of the currents through the two other windings, in accordance with the prescribed value and the invention.
  • the broken connecting line 26 in Figs. 3 and 4 indicates that the sliding contacts of the resistors 11 and 14 and 24 and 25, respectively, are displaced simultaneously with the aid of 'a common control-knob 2'7.
  • Fig. 5 shows a cross-sectional view of an image iconoscope type of television camera tube to illustrate the general combination of the invention.
  • the camera tube comprises an envelope 32 containing a photocathode 33 at one end and a target electrode 34 at the other end.
  • Electron beam producing means 35 are located in a side branch of the envelope 32 for scanning the target electrode 34.
  • the image to be televised is optically projected onto the photcathode 33 producing a corresponding electron image, which is then electron-optically projected onto the target 34.
  • the latter is accomplished by a three winding system employing a first winding 9 surrounding the photocathode and a second winding 12, which latter windings serve to control the magnification.
  • a third winding 15 serves mainly to control the image rotation.
  • a conductive layer 36 is also present in the tube to establish an electric field at the photocathode 33.
  • a discharge device an electronoptical system associated with said discharge device including three coil windings, and means for energizing said windings; said energizing means comprising a source of current, and means to vary the current passing through at least one of said windings and to simultaneously maintain substantially constant the sum of the currents passing through said three windings throughout a given range of adjustment.
  • a discharge device including a photo-cathode, an electron-optical system associated with said discharge device and comprising three successivelyarranged coil windings surrounding said device, and means for energizing said windings; said energizing means comprising a source of current, means for concurrently varying the current passing through at least two of said windings to change the magnification of the electron-optical system over a predetermined range, and means for maintaining substantially constant the total current passing through all three windings throughout said predetermined range to maintain a focussed image and minimize any image rotation.
  • a circuit-arrangement for energizing an electromagnetic-lens system comprising three coil windings for an electron-optical discharge system, comprising a source of current having a substantially constant voltage, said three windings being connected in series with said source, a resistor connected in parallel with one of said windings, a pair of potentiometers each connected in parallel with one of the other two windings, and means to concurrently vary the resistance of said otentiometers and to simultaneously maintain the sum of the currents passing through said three windings substantially constant throughout a given range of adjustment.
  • a circuit-arrangement for energizing an electromagnetic-lens system comprising three coil windings for an electron-optical discharge system, comprising a source of substantially constant current, said three windings being connected in parallel with said source, a pair of vari able resistive elements each connected in series with one of said windings, and means to concurrently vary the resistance of said variable resistive elements and to simultaneously maintain the sum of the currents passing 6 through said three windings substantially constant throughout a given range of adjustment.
  • variable resistive elements are constituted by electric discharge tubes comprising a control grid, and a pair of potentiometers are provided in series with the parallel-interconnected windings, the control voltages for said control grids of said electric discharge tubes being derived from said otentiometers.

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US2228821A (en) * 1938-10-01 1941-01-14 Gen Electric Magnetic sweep coil circuit
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US2447804A (en) * 1947-08-14 1948-08-24 Paul F G Holst Electron beam focusing circuit
US2454378A (en) * 1945-05-28 1948-11-23 Rca Corp Cathode-ray tube apparatus
US2552357A (en) * 1948-08-31 1951-05-08 Rca Corp Registration of scanning patterns of cathode-ray tubes
US2587420A (en) * 1948-08-31 1952-02-26 Rca Corp Linearity control for cathode-ray tubes
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US2240700A (en) * 1938-01-11 1941-05-06 Haseltine Corp Magnetic lens system
US2228821A (en) * 1938-10-01 1941-01-14 Gen Electric Magnetic sweep coil circuit
US2454378A (en) * 1945-05-28 1948-11-23 Rca Corp Cathode-ray tube apparatus
US2447804A (en) * 1947-08-14 1948-08-24 Paul F G Holst Electron beam focusing circuit
US2552357A (en) * 1948-08-31 1951-05-08 Rca Corp Registration of scanning patterns of cathode-ray tubes
US2587420A (en) * 1948-08-31 1952-02-26 Rca Corp Linearity control for cathode-ray tubes
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