Locking device for microchannel plate in image amplifier tube
AssigneeITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
InventorThomas Theodore Mabry
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Abstract
An image intensifier tube comprising a housing which holds a photocathode and a screen, wherein a microchannel plate is supported in a recess in an interior surface of an annular collar which is also held in the housing.
Claims11
An image intensifier tube comprising a housing which holds a photocathode, a screen, and a microchannel plate, wherein a support for the microchannel plate comprises a one-piece longitudinally extending cylindrical collar in the housing having longitudinally extending interior and exterior cylindrical surfaces which are parallel to each other along the entire length of the exterior cylindrical surface, the interior cylindrical surface but not the exterior cylindrical surface having a cylindrical recess indented therein such that there are interior cylindrical portions on both sides of the recess and the microchannel plate is held in the recess, the cylindrical collar further having an annularly shaped base which extends radially from the external cylindrical surface for mounting the collar in the housing.
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