US2770746A - Cathode ray tube and target - Google Patents

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US2770746A
US2770746A US344616A US34461653A US2770746A US 2770746 A US2770746 A US 2770746A US 344616 A US344616 A US 344616A US 34461653 A US34461653 A US 34461653A US 2770746 A US2770746 A US 2770746A
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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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    • H01J29/00—Details of cathode-ray tubes or of electron-beam tubes of the types covered by group H01J31/00
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    • H01J29/36—Photoelectric screens; Charge-storage screens
    • H01J29/39—Charge-storage screens
    • H01J29/45—Charge-storage screens exhibiting internal electric effects caused by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. photoconductive screen, photodielectric screen, photovoltaic screen
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    • H04N23/00—Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
    • H04N23/10—Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof for generating image signals from different wavelengths
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  • My present invention relates to cathode ray electron tubes and targets therefor. More particularly my invention relates to tubes in which a varying electron charge image is formed in a single plane and which are suitable for use as color television pickup tubes.
  • Such tubes have been made in which an electron beam scans a target with all of the scanning occurring in a single plane.
  • the scanned surface of ray sensitive material in the form of spaced elements or strips or in the form of a continuous coating, is usually capacitively coupled to a signal plate.
  • the signal plate is segmented as for example in the form of strips which are of conductive material and extremely thin. Often the signal plate strips are so thin as to be transparent. Furthermore, the strips are very narrow and arranged in close spaced relation.
  • the transparent conductive strips are formed on color filters which extend across the target while the ray sensitive material, which may be photo-conductive, is laid down on the transparent conductive strips.
  • the color filters are interference filters such as may be formed from successive layers of suitable material; one having a high and the other a low index of refraction.
  • the color filters and transparent conductive strips forming the segmented signal plate are formed by evaporating the materials through a wire masking grill as described in the U. S. Patent 2,745,773 of P. K. Weimer, Serial No. 344,498, filed simultaneously herewith and assigned to the assignee of this application.
  • the color filters are of insulating material and arranged in a repetitive pattern of groups of colors.
  • the transparent conductive strips on the filters of the same color are connected to bus bars, usually at both ends thereof, so as to form interlaced sets with a set for each color.
  • the light passes through the filters and transparent conductive strips into the photo-conductive material.
  • the scanned surface of the ray sensitive material assumes a charge pattern in the absence of the electron beam in accordance with the color components and intensity of the object light. Areas receiving light through the red filters respond only when the object light includes red and is substantially insensitive to green or blue.
  • the electron beam acts to return the elemental area it impinges upon to what may be termed its discharged condition and simultaneously a voltage pulse appears on the transparent conductive strip. Ideally, the voltage pulse sees an infinite impedance except along the conductive strip to the bus bars connecting that strip to the output circuit.
  • the transparent conductive strips are closely spaced and in view of the interlaced arrangement described a conductive strip for one color has closely adjacent thereto a strip of each of the other colors. Because of this close spacing, as well as for other reasons including the scattering of some conductive material into the spaces, the impedance between adjacent transparent conductive strips is objectionably low. In fact, the re- States Patent active impedance between the sets of transparent conductive strips is fairly low.
  • Another object of my invention is to provide an improved color television pickup tube having sets of interlaced transparent conductive strips having uniformly low impedance connections to their respective leads or bus bars.
  • a more specific object is the provision of a target for cathode ray tubes particulary suitable for a color television pickup tube in which the conductive signal strips are connected to their respective bus bars by uniformly low impedance connections.
  • each transparent conductive signal strip in a set of signal strips is connected to its respective bus bar by means of a conductive material which reduces the impedance between the strip and its bus: bar.
  • a conductive material which reduces the impedance between the strip and its bus: bar.
  • I utilize a material which not only reduces the reactive impedance but which renders intervening nonconductive films conductive.
  • Figure 1 is a sectional view of a pickup tube, being illustrative of one particular type of cathode ray tube, suitable for color television;
  • Figure 2 is a plan view of the target of the tube shown in Figure I, greatly enlarged and not drawn to scale for convenience;
  • Figure 3 is a fragmentary sectional view of the target shown in Figure 2.
  • Pickup tube 10 comprises an envelope 11 having the usual electron gun 12 mounted therein.
  • the electron gun 12 contains a cathode and various accelerating and focusing electrodes.
  • a final accelerating and focusing anode 13 is usually in the form of a coating as shown; electrical connection thereto being made by means of spring fingers mounted on electron gun 12 and insulated therefrom.
  • a target 14 which is scanned by an electron beam generated by the electron gun 12, is
  • the target 14 may also be formed as part of the envelope itself but in any case is mounted so that object light passing through a camera lens system (not shown) may be readily directed thereupon.
  • Means are provided for scanning the electron beam over the surface of target 14 and may include focus coil 16, deflection yoke 17, and alignment coil 18. To insure that the electron beam at its final approach to the surface of target is normal thereto a fine mesh screen electrode 19 is mounted adjacent to target 14.
  • One of the terminal pins is provided for making electrical connection with electrode 19.
  • target 14 includes means for supporting various films or coatings and may be a transparent supporting sheet 20, such as glass, having a plurality of spaced conductors or bus bars 21 formed thereon.
  • a bus bar 21 is provided for each of the video signals.
  • Preferably two sets of bus bars are formed one adjacent opposite ends of sheet 20.
  • Color filter strips 22 extend across transparent insulating sheet and are color filters that pass the desired colors such as red, green and blue. As described in detail in the above referred to patent of P. K. Weimer, the color filter strips 22 are formed by evaporating successive layers of high and low index of refraction material.
  • the materials utilized namely zinc selcnide and cryolite or zinc sulphide and cryolite form insulating films when laid down.
  • Transparent conductive strips 23 am formed one on each of the filter strips 22.
  • Transparent conductive strips 23 are each somewhat longer than filter strips 22 and extend over and make electrical contact with respective bus bars 21.
  • red filter strips 22 extend over the blue and green bus bars and serve to insulate the red signal strips therefrom.
  • green filter strips 22 extend over the blue bus bar 21 and afford similar insulation between each green signal strip and the blue bus bar.
  • the order of the bus bars 21 from the inside out is seen to be reversed.
  • a short strip or finger 25 formed by evaporating conductive material through a suitably formed and registered mask.
  • the reactive impedance between each strip and its bus bar is substantially reduced when such materials as aluminium or gold are used to form the fingers.
  • I utilize silver or material having similar properties in forming fingers 25. I have found that because of properties characteristic of silver, fingers '25 not only reduce the reactive impedance of the connections between signal strips 23 and bus bars 21 but also make them substantially uniform and highly conductive. As shown, fingers 25 are longer than bus bars 21 are wide.
  • Ray sensitive material 24 in the form of a coating is applied to transparent conductive strips 23.
  • Coating 24- is substantially thicker than any of the other strips or coatings formed on transparent sheet 20 and is so indicated in the drawing.
  • I11 a photo-conductive pickup tube such as tube 10, photo-conductive porous antimony sulphide may be utilized; such material being described in the U. S. Patent 2,744,837 of S. V. Forgue, filed June 1, 1951, and assigned to the assignee of this application.
  • the various coatings and strips may be formed by evaporating suitable materials onto transparent sheet 20.
  • bus bars 21 are formed preferably by evaporating such material as gold through a suitable mask to form relatively thick conductive lines which are spaced apart as shown. While bus bars 21 are described as being relatively thick they are nevertheless non-self-supporting coatings and generally of such a thickness as not to be transparent.
  • Fingers 25 are then laid down located so as to extend intermediate each signal strip and its bus bar. Silver fingers 25 are formed by evaporating silver through a mask about 500 angstrom units thick.
  • the various color filter strips are formed by evaporating successive layers through a wire masking grill. Color filters having the desired pass band may thus be formed.
  • each of the layers has a thickness corresponding to an optical thickness of a quarter wave length of light of approximately 4300 angstrom units in wave length.
  • the blue filters are formed with the same materials with layers of and optical. thickness of a quarter wave length of light of about 5730 angstrom units in wave length. Sulficient layers are formed so as to obtain a filter of the desired efficiency. For example, eleven layers have proved satisfactory in practice.
  • the green color filters are formed by evaporating successively a three quarter wave englh optical thickness of zinc selenide and a quarter wave length thickness of cryolite of light of approximately 6500 angstrom units in Wave length. Again sufficient layers are formed, such as nine, so as to establish an efficient green filter.
  • Transparent conductive strips 23 are preferably formed from gold as described in my application Serial No. 344,615, filed simultaneously herewith and assigned to the assignee of this application.
  • the gold signal strips are extremely thin and are estimated to range in thickness from approximately 50 to angstrom units.
  • color filter strips 22 are also extremely thin though relatively thicker than signal strips 23.
  • material is scattered by the wires of the mask grill into the spaces on transparent sheet 20 lying behind the wires of the grill. This scattering of the filter material does not interfere with the formation of good filters.
  • a film of filter materials of approximately a half wave length in thickness is formed over at least some of the bus bars where it is necessary for signal strips 23 to make contact.
  • at least some of the signal strips are separated from bus bars 21 by a thin film of insulating material of a thickness of about /2 wave length.
  • Targets 14 have uniform low impedance connections between signal strips 23 and bus bars 21. Substantially uniform resistances as low as approximately 100 ohms, the resistance of the strips themselves, have been obtained measuring from bus bar to bus bar along the signal strips as compared to 10,000 to 1,000,000 ohms or more in the past.
  • the low unit impedance along the signal strips to their bus bars and the output circuit substantially eliminates cross talk between adjacent signal strips and the resulting mixing of colors.
  • signal strips having a break along their length may yet produce a uniform color signal in view of the uniform connection at opposite ends thereof to the bus bars 21.
  • a cathode ray tube comprising a ray sensitive target, means for projecting toward said target an electron beam which may be scanned over the target, a plurality of spaced conductive signal strips extending across said target, a plurality of bus bars extending across said target, sets of said signal strips each being connected to one of said bus bars and insulated from the other sets and from the bus bars connected to the other sets, each of said signal strips having a portion extending over the bus bar connected thereto, and a plurality of finger strips of conductive material each extending intermediate at least one of said portions and the bus bar connected thereto.
  • a cathode ray tube comprising a ray sensitive target, means for projecting toward said target an electron beam which may be scanned over the target, a plurality of spaced conductive signal strips extending across said target, a plurality of bus bars extending across said target, sets of said signal strips each being connected to one of said bus bars and insulated from the other sets and from the bus bars connected to the other sets, each of said signal strips having a portion extending over the bus bar connected thereto, and a plurality of finger strips of conductive material each extending intermediate at least one of said portions and the bus bar connected thereto, said finger strips being substantially longer than the width of said bus bars.
  • a cathode ray tube comprising a ray sensitive target, means for projecting toward said target an electron beam which may be scanned over the target, a plurality of spaced conductive gold signal strips extending across said target, a plurality of gold bus bars extending across said target, sets of said signal strips each being connected to one of said bus bars and insulated from the other sets and from the bus bars connected to the other sets, each of said signal strips having a portion extending over the bus bar connected thereto, and a plurality of silver finger strips each extending intermediate at least one of said portions and the bus bar connected thereto.
  • a pickup tube comprising a ray sensitive target
  • a pickup tube comprising a ray sensitive target, means for projecting toward said target an electron beam for scanning the target, a plurality of parallel color filter strips extending across said target, a plurality of spaced parallel conductive signal strips extending across said target one in registration with each of said color filter strips, a plurality of bus bars extending across said target in a direction transversely of said strips, sets of said signal strips associated with filters of the same color each being connected to one of said bus bars and insulated from the other sets and from. the bus bars connected to the other sets, and a plurality of conductive finger strips each extending intermediate at least one of said signal strips and the bus bar connected thereto.
  • a pickup tube for color television comprising a photosensitive target, means for projecting toward said target an electron beam for scanning the photosensitive surface of the target, a plurality of insulating color filter strips extending across said target, a plurality of spaced conductive signal strips one on each of said filter strips, a plurality of bus bars extending across said target in a direction transversely of said strips, signal strips on filter strips of a given color extending across and connected in parallel by one of said bus bars and insulated from the remaining signal strips and the bus bars connected thereto, and a plurality of silver finger strips each extending intermediate at least one of said signal strips and the bus bar connected thereto.
  • a pickup tube for color television comprising a photosensitive target, means for projecting toward said target an electron beam for scanning a surface of said target, a plurality of insulating color filter strips extending across said surface of the target, a plurality of spaced conductive signal strips one on each of said filter strips, a plurality of bus bars extending across said target in a direction transversely of said strips, signal strips on filter strips of a given color extending across and connected in parallel by one of said bus bars and insulated from the remaining signal strips and the bus bars connected thereto, a plurality of silver finger strips each extending intermediate at least one of said signal strips and the bus bar connected thereto, and a coating of photoconductive material on said signal strips.
  • a ray sensitive target for a cathode ray tube comprising an insulating supporting member, a plurality of spaced conductive signal strips extending across said member, a plurality of bus bars on said member, sets of said signal strips each being connected to one of said bus bars and insulated from the other sets and from the bus bars connected to the other sets, and a plurality of conductive finger strips each extending intermediate at least one of said signal strips and the bus bar connected thereto.
  • a ray sensitive target for a cathode ray tube comprising an insulating support member, a plurality of spaced conductive signal strips extending across said member, a plurality of bus bars on said member, sets of said signal strips each being connected to one of said bus bars and insulated from the other sets and from the bus bars connected to the other sets, and a plurality of silver finger strips each extending intermediate one of said signal strips and the bus bar connected thereto.
  • a photosensitive target for a color television pic'kup tube comprising an insulating supporting sheet, a plurality of color filter strips extending across said sheet in parallel relation, a plurality of substantially transparent conductive spaced signal strips one on each of said color filter strips, a plurality of bus bars extending across said sheet in a direction transversely of said strips, the signal strips on color filter strips of the same color extending across one of said bus bars and electrically connected in parallel by said bus bar and being insulated from the remaining signal strips and the bus bars connected thereto, and a plurality of conductive finger strips each extending intermediate at least one of said signal strips and the bus bar connected thereto.
  • a photosensitive target for a color television pickup tube comprising an insulating support sheet, a plurality of color filter strips extending across said sheet in parallel relation, a plurality of substantially transparent conductive spaced signal strips one on each of said color filter strips, a plurality of bus bars extending across said sheet in a direction transversely to said strips, the signal strips on color filter strips of the same color extending across one of said'bus bars and electrically connected in parallel by said bus bar and being insulated from the remaining signal strips and the bus bars connected thereto, and a plurality of silver conductive finger strips each extending intermediate one of said signal strips and the bus bar connected thereto.
  • a photosensitive target as described in claim 15 comprising photoconductive material on said signal strips.
  • a ray sensitive target for a cathode ray tube comprising an insulating support member, a plurality of spaced conductive signal strips extending across said member, a plurality of bus bars on said member, sets of said signal strips each being connected to one of said bus bars, each of said sets of signal strips being insulated from the other sets and the bus bars connected to said other sets, and a plurality of conductive finger strips each extending intermediate one of said signal strips and the bus bar connected thereto.

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FR1097340D FR1097340A (fr) 1953-03-25 1954-03-09 Cible pour tubes à rayon cathodique, et son procédé de fabrication
CH329225D CH329225A (de) 1953-03-25 1954-03-12 Antikathode für eine Farbfernseh-Kathodenstrahlröhre
GB7628/54A GB753155A (en) 1953-03-25 1954-03-16 A television pick-up tube
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