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US3529194A
US3529194A US745580A US3529194DA US3529194A US 3529194 A US3529194 A US 3529194A US 745580 A US745580 A US 745580A US 3529194D A US3529194D A US 3529194DA US 3529194 A US3529194 A US 3529194A
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Klaus Schaffernicht
Gottfried Schadlich
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J31/00—Cathode ray tubes; Electron beam tubes
    • H01J31/08—Cathode ray tubes; Electron beam tubes having a screen on or from which an image or pattern is formed, picked up, converted, or stored
    • H01J31/10—Image or pattern display tubes, i.e. having electrical input and optical output; Flying-spot tubes for scanning purposes
    • H01J31/12—Image or pattern display tubes, i.e. having electrical input and optical output; Flying-spot tubes for scanning purposes with luminescent screen
    • H01J31/121—Image or pattern display tubes, i.e. having electrical input and optical output; Flying-spot tubes for scanning purposes with luminescent screen tubes for oscillography
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • 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
    • H01J29/46—Arrangements of electrodes and associated parts for generating or controlling the ray or beam, e.g. electron-optical arrangement
    • H01J29/70—Arrangements for deflecting ray or beam
    • H01J29/72—Arrangements for deflecting ray or beam along one straight line or along two perpendicular straight lines
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • 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
    • H01J29/46—Arrangements of electrodes and associated parts for generating or controlling the ray or beam, e.g. electron-optical arrangement
    • H01J29/80—Arrangements for controlling the ray or beam after passing the main deflection system, e.g. for post-acceleration or post-concentration, for colour switching

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  • An electron-permeable, planar after-acceleration electrode is disposed transverse to the tu-be axis and behind the deflecting means in the direction of the electron beam for producing an after-acceleration fie1d between the after-acceleration electrode and the screen.
  • An ehectrode means is disposed at the periphery of the after-acceleration electrode for more strongly converging the after-acceleration field with increasing distance from the tube axis in the diagonal deflection directions than in the two mutually perpendicular directions while leaving unafiected the rotational symmetry of the afteracceler'ation field in the vicinity of the after-acceleration electrode, in consequence of which pincushion distortion is reduced or eliminated.
  • the present invention relates to a cathode ray tube having two deflecting means disposed at a distance from each other in the direction of the electron beam for deflecting the electron beam in two mutually perpendicular diflection directions.
  • An after-acceleration electrode is disposed behind the deflecting means in the direction of the electron beam.
  • the after-acceleration electrode is permeable to electrons and is provided for the creation of an afteracceleration field between itself and a luminescent screen.
  • the after-acceleration electrode is of a planar construction and disposed transverse to the tube axis, hence, the direction of the electron beam.
  • an after-acceleration electrode in the form of a net or grid, is positioned between the deflecting means and the target electrode, the latter, preferably, being a luminescent screen.
  • This after-acceleration is planar in construction and permeable to as many electrons as possible.
  • a suitable after-acceleration electrode would be a grid 0r net electrode which is as transparent as possible.
  • the present invention is proposed to disp0se electrodes o1 electrode components at the periphery of the after-acceleration electrode cf a cathode ray tube, as discused above, in such a manner that such electrodes will not affect the 1rotational symmetry of the after-acceleration field in the vicinity of the after-acceleration electrode, while such electrodes will cause the after-acceleration field to become more strongly convergent With increasing distance from the tube axis With respect to the diagonal deflection directions than in the two mutually perpendicular deflection directions of the field.
  • pincushion distortion errors are reduced or eliminated.
  • an electrically conductive rim be provided at the periphery cf the after-acceleration electrode.
  • This rim is constructed to extend toward the luminescent screen and have a height which varies above the periphery 0f the after-acceleration electrode, in such a manner, and/01' the circumference of the rirn is constructed to deviate from a circular form, in such a manner, that pincushion distortion errors are reduced o1 eliminated.
  • T he annular electrode or rim provided at the periphery 0f the electron-permeable electrode provides a relatively simple way to substantially reduce or eliminate the pincushion distortion errors which occur as a result of the two deflecting means for the two deflection directions being arranged in Offset relationship with respect to each other in the direction of the tube axis.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a prior art cathode ray tube.
  • FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of a portion of the cathode ray tube of FIG. 1 showing a plurality of equipotential lines of the after-acceleration field.
  • FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of the same portion of the cathode ray tube as in FIG. 1 and including the feature according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 4 is a schematically illustrated planar view of the deflection configuration assumed by an electron bearn in the plane of an electron-permeable after-acceleration electrode of a cathocle ray tube.
  • FIGS. 5a and 5b are two views of one embodirnent of the electrode to be positioned at the periphery of the after-acceleration electrode, according to the invention FIG. 5b being a top view of FIG. 5a.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates another embodirnent of an electrode according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 7 illustrates a still further embodiment of an electrode according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic view of a known cathode ray tube arrangernent.
  • An electron beam 3 is deflected With the aid of a pair of electrostatic deflection plates 4 and 5 to a luminescent screen 2.
  • a net electrode 1 which serves to create an after-acceleration field f01' generating an electron beam of increased impact energy against the luminescent screen 2, is disposed between the deflecting means 4 and 5 and the lurninescent screen 2.
  • an enlarged sectidn of the cathode ray tube of FIG. 1 is shown together with a plurality of equipotential lines 21 as they form in the vicinity of the after-acceleration electrode, net 1. It can here be seen that the equipotential lines 21 of the after-acceleration field assume a convex configuration in the beam direction when, as shown, the electron beam tube is constructed, as is usually the case, as a rotationally symmetrical component having a longitudinal axis 22.
  • FIG. 3 shows an enlarged cross section of a cathode ray tube, as illustrated in FIG. 2.
  • FIG. 3 shows an electrode 35, according to the invention, in the form of a rim.
  • the rim 35 is provided at the periphery of the electron-permeable, planar electrode 31.
  • rim 35 is constructed to serve as an annular electrode.
  • the resulting after-acceleration field, as is shown in FIG. 3, is modified, when compared to the afteracceleration field of FIG. 2. It is evident from the configuration of the after-acceleration field in FIG. 3 that a converging factor results in the vicinity of the electronperrneable electrode 31, i.e.
  • the afteracceleration field will assurne a conventional form, in accordance with the configuration of equipotential lines 32 and similar to the form of the after-acceleration field shown in FIG. 2.
  • the distant equipotential lines 32 produce a diverging electrostatic field.
  • the electron beam 33 is substantially subject to the converging portion 34 of the after-acceleration field only in its deflected state and is shown in such a deflected state in FIG. 3.
  • the net electrode 1 is situated near the deflecting means 4 and 5 and remote from the screen 2. Thus, as shown in FIG. l, the net electrode 1 is separated from the plates 5 by only of the deflecting rneans to screen distance d.
  • This placement of the net electrode when cornbined with the electrode 35 as in FIG. 3, leaves room for the physical dimensions of the electrode 35, lowers the voltage gradient between the net electrode 1 and the screen 2, and allows the corrective influence of the electrode 35 to act on the electron beam before the velocity of the electrons toward the screen has significantly risen.
  • FIGS. 5a and 5b show a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • the rim 35 has an axial dimension or height which varies along its circumference.
  • the greatest height c f annular electrode 35 is provided in the diagonal deflection direction D, as shown in FIG. b.
  • the same dimension of the annular electrode 35 in the deflection directions of the two deflecting means, respectively, is much less.
  • FIG. 5m shows a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 5a shows the height a of the rim 35 in the deflection direction S of the deflection means near the screen to be less than the height b of the deflection direction of the deflection means near the cathode.
  • the heights a, b, and c are represented in FIG. 5b by contour lines 51, 52 and 53 respectively. It will be understoodd that the screen-side deflection rneans are near the screen 5 in FIG. 1) and the cathode-side deflection means are near the cathode (4 in FIG. l).
  • the concept of the present invention when structurally embodied in a cathode ray tube as described in the introductory paragraph, provides that the electron beam reaches, in the diagonal deflection direction With increasing deflection, an increasingly strenger, converging after-acceleration field, particularly in the vicinity of the after-acceleration net. Conversely, the electron beam reaches, upon deflection in the basic deflection directions of the two deflecting means at increasing deflection, an after-acceleration field which converges less than that in the diagonal deflection direction.
  • the after-acceleration field of the deflected electron beam will be more strongly convergent in the direction of the deflecting means nearest the cathode than in the deflection direction of the deflecting means nearest the screen.
  • FIG. 4 is a schematic planar view of the prevailing conditions during deflection of an electron beam in a tube of the type described in the introductory aragraph.
  • the defleeting means plates 011 the cathode side of the tube are marked 42 and the deflecting means plates on the screen side of the tube are marked 41.
  • the screen area 46, as well as the two planes of the deflecting plates are transposed onto the plane of the electronpermeable electrode.
  • the so-called enetration line i.e. the line in which the electron beam penetrates the electron-permeable electrode
  • the elliptical forrn of the enetration line results from the axially displaced position of the deflection crossover points of the two deflecting means.
  • the electron-permaable after-acceleration electrode can be provided a planar configuration or it can be curved and can consist of a thin foil, a grid, e.g. a frarne grid, or a net.
  • the rim rnay have any suitable configuration to produce the above-described after-acceleration field which converges more strongly in the diagonal defleetion directions than in the two basic, mutually perpendicular directions.
  • the electrode which produces the described after-acceleration field may have a constant axial dimension and be noncircular, such as rectangular.
  • FIG. 6 depicts the rectangular electrode 35a.
  • the electrode may be configured to incorporate both of the above features, i.e., the electrode may, as shown in FIG. 7 at 35b, be non-circular and have different axial dimensions in the diagonal and basic directions.
  • a cathode ray tube having a screen, two deflecting means spaced from each other in the direction of the electron beam for deflecting the electron beam in two mutually perpendicular deflection directions, an electronpermeable, planar after-acceleration electrode disposed transverse to the tube axis and located between the deflecting means and said screen in the direction of the electron beam for producing an after-acceleration field between the after-acceleiation electrode and the screen, the improvement comprising electrode means disposed at the periphery of the after-acceleration electrode for more strongly converging the after-acceleration field, with increasing distance from the tube axis, in the diagonal deflection directions than in said two mutually perpen dicular deflection directions while leaving unaifected the rotational symmetry of the after-acceleration field in the vicinity of the after-aceeleration electrode, in consequence of which pin cushion distortion is reduced or eliminated, said electrode rneans being an electrically conductive rim provided at the periphery of said after-accele
  • a cathode ray tube having a screen, two deflecting means spaced from each other in the direction of the electron beam for deflecting the electron beam in two mutually perpendicular deflectiou directions, an electronpermeable, planar after-acceleration electrode disposed transverse to the tube axis and located between the deflecting means and said screen in the direction of the electron beam for producing an after-acceleration field between the after-acceleration electrode and the screen, the improvement comprising electrode means disposed at the periphery of the after-acceleration electrode for more stronglyxonverging the after-acceleration field, with increasingdistance from the tube axis, in the diagonal deflection direction than in said two mutually perpendicular deflection directions while leaving unalfected the rotational symmetry of the after-acceleration field in the vicinityof the after-acceleration electrode, in consequence of which pin cushion distortion is reduced x eliminated, said el6ctrode means being an electrically conductive rim provided at the peripher
  • each of said deflecting means includes a pair of electrostatic deflection plates.
  • a cathode ray tube having a screen, two deflecting means spaced from each other in the direction of the electron beam for deflecting the electron beam in two mutually perpendicular deflectiou directions, an electronpermeable, planar after-acceleration electrode disposed transverse to the tube axis and located between the de flecting means and said screen in the direction of the electron beam, near the deflecting means and remote from saidscreen, for producing an after-acceleration field between the after-acceleration electrode and the screen, the improement comprising electrode means disposed at the periphry of the after-acceleration electrode for more strongly Converging the after-acceleration field, with increasingly dista11ce from the tube axis, in the diagonal deflection.directions than in said two mutually perpendicular deflec'tion directions while leaVing unafl'ected the rotationafiymmetry of the after-acceleration field in the vicinity ofgthe after acceleration electrode, in consequence of which pincushion distortion

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