Color cathode ray tube having an improved electron gun

• US 6,111,350 A
• Filed: 09/02/1998
• Issued: 08/29/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Uchida, Go, Shirai, Shoji
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Vip
• Assistant Examiner(s): Smith, Michael J.
• Application Number:
  US09/145,884
• Time in Patent Office: 727 Days
• Field of Search: 313/412, 313/414, 313/415, 313/441, 313/442, 313/446, 313/447, 313/448, 313/449, 313/452
• US Class Current: 313/414
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 2229/4841 Dynamic potentials
• 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 a three-beam in-line type electron gun. The main lens section includes a focus electrode and an anode facing the focus electrode, each of the focus electrode and the anode has an electrode having a single opening common for three electron beams in an end thereof facing each other and a plate electrode disposed therein and having beam apertures. The focus electrode and the anode satisfy a following inequality:

(A+566)/106>H-2×S

where A is V1×V2×T, V1 is a vertical diameter of the single opening, V2 is a vertical diameter of a center one of the beam apertures and T is an axial distance between the single opening and the plate electrode, H is a horizontal diameter of the single opening, S is P×L/Q, P is a horizontal center-to-center spacing between adjacent phosphor elements at a center of the three-color phosphor screen, Q is an axial spacing between the three-color phosphor screen and the shadow mask at the center of the three-color phosphor screen, and L is an axial distance between the shadow mask and the single opening in the focus electrode.

Claims

1. A color cathode ray tube comprising

an evacuated envelope comprising a panel portion, a neck portion and a funnel portion for connecting said panel portion and said neck portion,

a three-color phosphor screen formed on an inner surface of said panel portion,

a shadow mask having a multiplicity of apertures therein and spaced from said phosphor screen,

a three-beam in-line type electron gun housed in said neck portion,

said three-beam in-line type electron gun including an electron beam generating section for generating three controlled electron beams and a main lens section for focusing said three electron beams on said three-color phosphor screen and

a deflecting device mounted in a vicinity of a transition region between said funnel portion and said neck portion for scanning said three electron beams on said three-color phosphor screen,

wherein said main lens section comprises a focus electrode and an anode facing said focus electrode,

each of said focus electrode and said anode comprises an electrode having a single opening common for said three electron beams in an end thereof facing each other and a plate electrode disposed therein and for forming three beam apertures for passing said three electron beams respectively, and satisfies a following inequality:

space="preserve" listing-type="equation">(A+566)/106>

H-2×

S

where A is V1×

V2×

T,

V1 is a vertical diameter of said single opening,

V2 is a vertical diameter of a center one of said three beam apertures and

T is an axial distance between said single opening and said plate electrode,

H is a horizontal diameter of said single opening,

S is P×

L/Q,

P is a horizontal center-to-center spacing between adjacent phosphor elements at a center of said three-color phosphor screen,

Q is an axial spacing between said three-color phosphor screen and said shadow mask at the center of said three-color phosphor screen, and

L is an axial distance between said shadow mask and said single opening in said focus electrode.

2. A color cathode ray tube according to claim 1, wherein said focus electrode comprises a first group of focus sub-electrodes adapted to be supplied with a first focus voltage and a second group of focus sub-electrodes adapted to be supplied with a second focus voltage,

one of said second group of focus sub-electrodes faces said anode,

said second focus voltage is a fixed voltage superposed with a dynamic voltage varying with deflection of said three electron beams and

at least one electrostatic quadrupole lens is formed between facing ends of one of said first group of focus sub-electrodes and one of said second group of focus sub-electrodes facing said one of said first group of focus sub-electrodes.

3. A color cathode ray tube according to claim 2, wherein at least one electrostatic lens is formed between facing ends of one of said first group of focus sub-electrodes and one of said second group of focus sub-electrodes facing said one of said first group of focus sub-electrodes,

a focusing strength of said at least one electrostatic lens increasing in horizontal and vertical directions with an increasing difference between said first focus voltage and said second focus voltage for correcting a curvature of an image field.