Patent ID: 6222309
Filing Date: 2001-04-24
Classification: H01J

Abstract:
A color cathode ray tube including a panel portion, a neck portion, a funnel portion connecting said panel portion and said neck portion, a shadow mask structure having a skirt portion of the shadow mask welded to a frame, said shadow mask having at least one of a longer side skirt portion and a shorter side skirt portion, and an electron gun housed in the neck portion which emits a plurality of electron beams,wherein said shadow mask includes a projecting skirt portion of the skirt portion having a welding portion which welds the shadow mask to the frame, the welding portion being located at a lower part of the projecting skirt portion, the projecting skirt portion having a largest skirt length, and an inclined skirt portion of the skirt portion, the inclined skirt portion adjoining the projecting skirt portion at one end thereof, and having a skirt length which decreases in a direction away from the largest skirt length of the projecting skirt portion and a short skirt portion which is adjacent to the other end of the inclined skirt portion and having skirt length which is shorter than the skirt length of the projecting skirt portion.