U.S. patent number 3,784,282 [Application Number 05/228,639] was granted by the patent office on 1974-01-08 for correcting lens used to form fluorescent screens of colour television receiving tubes.
This patent grant is currently assigned to Hitachi, Ltd.. Invention is credited to Koichi Maruyama, Toshio Ueda, Eiichi Yamazaki.
United States Patent |
3,784,282 |
Yamazaki , et al. |
January 8, 1974 |
CORRECTING LENS USED TO FORM FLUORESCENT SCREENS OF COLOUR
TELEVISION RECEIVING TUBES
Abstract
In a correcting lens utilized to form the fluorescent screen of
a colour television receiving tube, the lens being of the type
wherein the effective surface of the lens through which the
effective light beams pass is divided into a plurality of
discontinuous effective regions of relatively small inclination
angles with respect to the bottom surface of the lens and the
adjacent effective regions are interconnected by connecting regions
of larger inclination angles with respect to the bottom surface,
opaque or translucent films are applied to the connecting
regions.
Inventors: |
Yamazaki; Eiichi (Ichihara,
JA), Maruyama; Koichi (Mobara, JA), Ueda;
Toshio (Mobara, JA) |
Assignee: |
Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo,
JA)
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Family
ID: |
11839482 |
Appl.
No.: |
05/228,639 |
Filed: |
February 23, 1972 |
Foreign Application Priority Data
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Mar 5, 1971 [JA] |
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46/13665 |
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Current U.S.
Class: |
359/738; 396/546;
359/742 |
Current CPC
Class: |
G02B
3/08 (20130101); H01J 9/2273 (20130101) |
Current International
Class: |
G02B
3/08 (20060101); H01J 9/227 (20060101); G02b
003/00 () |
Field of
Search: |
;350/205,189,193,194,211,213,175R |
References Cited
[Referenced By]
U.S. Patent Documents
Primary Examiner: Corbin; John K.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Pfund; Charles E. Chittick,
Thompson & Pfund
Claims
What is claimed is:
1. In a single correcting lens adapted to be used for refracting
light for forming the entire area of a fluorescent screen of a
colour television receiving tube, said lens being of the type
wherein the effective refracting surface of the lens through which
the useful exposure light beams pass is divided into a plurality of
discontinuous effective elemental regions with two dimensional
boundaries, said elemental regions having surfaces of relatively
small inclination angles with respect to the bottom surface of the
lens and the adjacent effective elemental regions interconnected at
said boundaries by contiguous connecting ineffective refracting
regions of larger surface inclination angles with respect to the
bottom surface, the improvement which comprises light intercepting
films applied only to said connecting ineffective regions of larger
surface inclination for substantially reducing the intensity of
erroneously refracted beams.
2. The correcting lens as claimed in claim 1 wherein said
discontinuous effective regions are in the form of flat surfaces of
different inclination angles.
3. The correcting lens as claimed in claim 1 wherein said
discontinuous effective regions are in the form of curved surfaces
of different radii of curvature.
4. The correcting lens as claimed in claim 1 wherein said light
intercepting films are made of opaque substance.
5. The correcting lens as claimed in claim 1 wherein said light
intercepting films are made of translucent substance.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a correcting lens utilized to correct the
locus of a light beam adapted to form phosphor dots of colour
television receiving tubes.
It is usual to form the fluorescent screen of a shadow mask type
colour television receiving tube by photographic technique wherein
a plurality of trios of phosphor dots of red, blue and green are
applied in a regular pattern on the inner surface of the panel of
the tube. Phosphor dots are generally formed by exposing to light
the fluorescent screen by utilizing an exposure device
schematically illustrated in FIG. 1 of the accompanying drawing.
The exposure device shown in FIG. 1 comprises a source of light 2
and a correcting lens 3 which is used for the purpose of causing
the locus of the light beam emanated from the source of light 2 to
approximate to that of the scanning electron beam. Above the
correcting lens 3 is mounted a panel 5 including a shadow mask 4 of
a colour cathode ray tube. Thus, the panel 5 is exposed to the
light beam from the source of light 2 through the correcting lens 3
and through the perforations of the shadow mask 4.
As above described, since the purpose of the correcting lens 3 is
to cause the locus of the light beam to approximate to that of the
electron beam the surface of the lens is formed as a curved surface
of an extremely complicated construction having a number of regions
of different curvatures.
The surface of a prior art correcting lens has generally been in
the form of a continuously curved surface. With a lens of such a
continuously curved surface the purpose of causing the locus of the
light beam to approximate to that of the scanning electron beam can
not be fully attained so that it is impossible to perfectly match
the phosphor dots and the scanning electron beam spots over the
entire inner surface of the panel. For this reason, in a colour
television receiving tube with a fluorescent screen formed by using
a prior art correcting lens having a continuously curved surface
has a drawback of accompanying a colour shading, thus impairing the
quality of the reproduced image.
To solve this problem it has been proposed a correcting lens having
a discontinuously curved surface wherein the surface of the lens if
divided into a plurality of regions and the respective regions are
finished to provide predetermined flat surfaces or curved surfaces,
as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3.
Although such a correcting lens having a discontinuously curved
surface can cause the locus of the exposure light beam to
substantially match with that of the scanning electron beam, it has
created the following problems.
More particularly, as shown in FIG. 4 the cross-sectional
configuration of the prior art correcting lens resembles saw teeth
having effective regions A.sub.1, A.sub.2 -- of relatively small
inclination angles with respect to the horizontal or the bottom
surface of the lens and regions D.sub.1, D.sub.2 -- of large
inclination angles with respect to the horizontal and
interconnecting adjacent regions A.sub.1, A.sub.2 --. Although
light beams B.sub.1 and B.sub.2 passing through the effective
regions A.sub.1, A.sub.2 -- travel straightforwardly in the
prescribed direction C.sub.1, C.sub.2 --, the beam passing through
the connecting regions D.sub.1, D.sub.2 -- travels in the direction
F which is quite different from the prescribed direction.
Accordingly, the beam E directed to the unwanted direction F will
pass through a perforation of the shadow mask and impinge upon an
unwanted portion of the inner surface of the panel thus forming a
phosphor dot thereat. In this manner, the colour television
receiving tube having a fluorescent screen with phosphor dots
formed by using the correcting lens described above is also formed
with phosphor dots at unwanted portions so that colour mixing of
the picture is unavoidable.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, it is the object of this invention is to provide an
improved correcting lens which can form phosphor dots in a regular
pattern on the inner surface of the panel of a colour television
receiving tube and can prevent phosphor dots from being formed at
the unwanted portions thus eliminating colour mixing of the
reproduced image.
According to this invention, there is provided a correcting lens
adapted to be used for forming a fluorescent screen of a colour
television receiving tube, the lens being of the type wherein the
effective area of the lens through which the exposure light beams
pass is divided into a plurality of discontinuous effective regions
of relatively small inclination angles with respect to the bottom
surface of the lens and the adjacent effective regions are
interconnected by connecting regions of larger inclination angles
with respect to the bottom surface, characterized in that light
intercepting films are applied to the connecting regions.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
In the accompanying drawing:
FIG. 1 shows a longitudinal sectional view of a typical apparatus
for exposing the panel of a colour television receiving tube;
FIG. 2 is a plane view of a prior art correcting lens utilized in
the exposure apparatus shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 shows a cross-section of the lens shown in FIG. 2 taken
along a line III--III;
FIG. 4 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of a portion of the lens
shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 explaining the travel of exposure light
beams and
FIG. 5 shows an enlarged cross-section of a portion of the lens
embodying the invention.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
A preperred embodiment of the invention will now be described with
reference to FIG. 5 in which portions corresponding to those shown
in FIG. 4 are designated by the same reference characters.
According to this invention, the regions D.sub.1, D.sub.2 --
interconnecting adjacent effective regions A.sub.1, A.sub.2 -- of
relatively small inclination angles with respect to the horizontal
or the bottom surface of the correcting lens 6 are coated with
films 7 of opaque material. Effective regions A.sub.1, A.sub.2 --
may be flat surfaces of different inclination angles or curved
surfaces of different radii of curvature.
With this construction, exposure light beams impinging upon the
connecting regions which otherwise would be directed to unwanted
portions of the face plate as above described are intercepted by
the films 7 of opaque substance with the result that only the beams
passed through the effective regions A.sub.1, A.sub.2 -- are
transmitted in the prescribed directions to form phosphor dots on
the inner surface of the face plate at the desired portions
thereof. In other words, it is possible to prevent phosphor dots
from being formed at unwanted portions. Thus, the tube having a
fluorescent screen fabricated by using the correcting lens
embodying the invention is completely free from colour mixing.
Substantially the same object can also be attained by applying
films of translucent substance on the connecting regions D in which
case the light beams transmitting through such translucent films
are greatly weakened.
It is to be understood that the novel correcting lens can also be
used to form phosphors in the form of stripes.
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