Electron gun,cathode ray tube using the same, and method of manufacturing electron gun

• US 20030006689A1
• Filed: 07/02/2002
• Published: 01/09/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ohta, Kazunori, Yamauchi, Masahide
• Application Number:
  US10/188,589
• Publication Number:
  US 20030006689A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 313/446
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 3/027 Construction of the gun or parts thereof H01J3/021 - H01J3/025, H01J3/026 and H01J3/028 take precedence

Abstract

A cathode, a control electrode, and an accelerating electrode are formed in this order, and electron beam passing holes for passing an electron beam emitted from the cathode are provided in the control electrode and the accelerating electrode, respectively. A concave portion is formed on a surface of the control electrode on a side of the accelerating electrode, and a convex portion is formed on a surface of the accelerating electrode on a side of the control electrode. This allows an actual gap between the control electrode and the accelerating electrode on a periphery of the electron beam passing holes to be reduced, and thus a voltage to be applied to the accelerating electrode can be reduced. Further, while the voltage of the accelerating electrode is suppressed, the electron beam passing hole of the control electrode can be reduced in diameter, and thus a beam spot formed on a phosphor screen can be reduced in diameter.

Claims

1. An electron gun comprising a cathode, an accelerating electrode, and a control electrode disposed between the cathode and the accelerating electrode, in which a first electron beam passing hole is provided in the control electrode, and a second electron beam passing hole is provided in the accelerating electrode,

wherein a concave portion is formed in the control electrode on a side of the accelerating electrode, and a convex portion is formed in the accelerating electrode so as to be opposed to the concave portion;

and

the first electron beam passing hole is provided in the concave portion, and the second electron beam passing hole is provided in the convex portion.

2. The electron gun according to claim 1, wherein the convex portion is positioned so as to project into the concave portion.

3. The electron gun according to claim 1, wherein a gap g2 (mm) between the control electrode and the accelerating electrode satisfies the relationship 0.09≦

g2≦

0.23.

4. A cathode ray tube comprising the electron gun according to claim 1.

5. A method of manufacturing an electron gun, the electron gun being the electron gun according to claim 1, which comprises:

laminating the accelerating electrode, a jig having a slot portion formed into a stripe, and the control electrode in this order so that the convex portion of the accelerating electrode is positioned in the slot portion;

fixing the control electrode and the accelerating electrode that have been laminated; and

removing the jig after the control electrode and the accelerating electrode are fixed.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the jig is in the form of a horseshoe.