Color cathode ray tube having improved focus

• US 5,621,286 A
• Filed: 05/19/1995
• Issued: 04/15/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Kato, Shinichi, Toujou, Tsutomu, Shirai, Shouji
• Primary Examiner(s): Blum, Theodore M.
• Application Number:
  US08/444,744
• Time in Patent Office: 697 Days
• Field of Search: 315/14, 315/15, 315/382, 315/382.1, 313/414, 313/449
• US Class Current: 315/382.1
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 2229/4841 Dynamic potentials
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 2229/4865 rectangle
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 2229/4872 circular
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 2229/4875 oval
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 29/503 Three or more guns, the axes of which lay in a common plane

Abstract

A color cathode ray tube includes an electron beam generating source, a first accelerating electrode, a focus electrode, and a second accelerating electrode, for focusing an electron beam onto the phosphor screen. The length of the focus electrode is equal to or larger than two times the diameter of the main lens, and the highest voltage is applied on the first accelerating electrode and the second accelerating electrode, and a voltage lower than the highest voltage is applied on the focus electrode, and the length of the first accelerating electrode is within the range from about 0.4 to 2 times the diameter of the electron beam passage aperture formed in the surface of the first accelerating electrode on the side of the electron beam generating source.

Claims

1. A color cathode ray tube having an electron gun comprising first electrode means for generating an electron beam and directing said electron beam arranged toward a phosphor screen and second electrode means for constituting a main lens for focusing said electron beam onto said phosphor screen, wherein said second electrode means comprises a first accelerating electrode, a focus electrode, and a second accelerating electrode toward said phosphor screen, and a length of said focus electrode is equal to or longer than two times a diameter of said main lens, and a highest voltage is applied on said first accelerating electrode and said second accelerating electrode, and a voltage lower than said highest voltage is applied on said focus electrode, and a length of said first accelerating electrode is within a range from about 0.4 to 2 times a diameter of an electron beam passage aperture formed in a surface of said first accelerating electrode which is opposite to said first electrode means.

2. A color cathode ray tube according to claim 1, wherein said voltage applied on said focus electrode is equal to or higher than 24% of said highest voltage, but not higher than 10 kV.

3. A color cathode ray tube according to claim 1, wherein said diameter of said electron beam passage aperture of said first accelerating electrode is equal to or smaller than a diameter of an electron beam passage aperture formed in a surface of said first accelerating electrode which is opposite to said focus electrode and is equal to or larger than a diameter of an electron beam passage aperture formed in a surface of said first electrode means which is opposite to said first accelerating electrode.

4. A color cathode ray tube having an electron gun comprising a first electrode means for generating a plurality of electron beams and directing said plurality of electron beams toward a phosphor screen along initial paths parallel with each other in a plans and a second electrode means constituting a main lens for focusing said plurality of electron beams onto said phosphor screen, wherein said second electrode means comprises a first accelerating electrode, a focus electrode, and a second accelerating electrode arranged toward said phosphor screen from said first electrode means, and a length of said focus electrode is equal to or longer than two times a lens diameter of said main lens, and a highest voltage is applied on said first accelerating electrode and said second accelerating electrode, and a voltage lower than said highest voltage is applied on said focus electrode, and a length of said first accelerating electrode is within a range from about 0.4 to 2 times a diameter of an electron beam passage aperture formed in a surface of said first accelerating electrode which is opposite to said first electrode means.

5. A color cathode ray tube according to claim 4, wherein said voltage applied on said focus electrode is equal to or higher than 24% of said highest voltage, but not higher than 10 kV.

6. A color cathode ray tube according to claim 4, wherein said diameter of said electron beam passage aperture of said first accelerating electrode is equal to or smaller than a diameter of an electron beam passage aperture formed in a surface of said first accelerating electrode which is opposite to said focus electrode, and is equal to or larger than a diameter of an electron beam passage aperture formed in a surface of said first electrode means which is opposite to said first accelerating electrode, and is smaller than a shortest distance between center axes of said initial paths.

7. A color cathode ray tube according to claim 4, wherein said focus electrode comprises a first member and a second member arranged opposite to each other in this order toward said phosphor screen with a spacing therebetween, and forms a non-axially-symmetric electron lens between said first member and said second member, and a voltage which changes in synchronization with deflection of an electron beam is superposed on a voltage applied on said second member.

8. A color cathode ray tube according to claim 7, wherein a vertically elongated electron beam passage aperture is formed in a surface of said first member which is opposite to said second member and a horizontally elongated electron beam passage aperture is formed in a surface of said second member which is opposite to said first member.

9. A color cathode ray tube according to claim 7, wherein a single opening is formed in a surface of said first member which is opposite to said second member and electrode plates which are in parallel with each other are placed above and under an electron beam passage aperture formed in a surface of said second member which is opposite to said first member.