Electron beam generation and control for dynamic color separation
OwnerClayton A. Washburninventor
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Abstract
A dynamic color separation display CRT having an electron beam forming structure for beam generation and electrostatic impingement control. The electron gun forms a group of electron beams and includes a multi-aperture G1 grid for receiving the electron beam group. The group of electron beams overlap and combine to provide an impingement pattern that matches a primary color stripe without use of a shadow mask when focused on the output screen surface. An alternate preferred embodiment includes a grooved cathode to control the size, shape, and profile of the emitted beam.
Claims9
A CRT having a phosphor screen, said phosphor screen having a pattern of triads of primary color stripes and an electron beam forming structure for generating an electron beam and impingement control of said;
- in relation to the color stripes of a said triad at each pixel of said screen for at least one electron beam group comprising:
- an electron emissive cathode,
- a multi-aperture G1 grid structure wherein the G1 grid for each said beam group has a plurality of apertures for generating a plurality of electron beams for forming an electron beam group, in which grid structure said apertures are sized and spaced such that a plurality of energy distributions of said electron beams overlap and combine to provide a shape and size, of an impingement pattern of the beam group, said impingement pattern shape and size being means for precisely matching a shape and size of a primary color stripe at said pixel, when the beam group is focused on said output screen surface,
- a G2 electrode structure having an aperture pattern corresponding to said multi-aperture G1 grid structure and arranged to provide an electric field to provide a beam accelerating voltage to said electron beam group,
- means for focusing the electron beam group, and
- an output anode electrode of an electron gun portion of said beam forming structure for accelerating said electron beam.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.