PICTURE DISPLAY DEVICE

Abstract: Picture display device with a monochrome (projection) display tube (2) provided with a deflection unit (9) in which the line deflection coil (10) and the field deflection coil (11) are arranged contiguously in the direction of the tube axis, with the line deflection coil facing the screen side of the picture tube. Furthermore a convergence correction coil system is provided with a first coil (13) which is arranged coaxially with respect to the line deflection coil and generates a magnetic field at right angles to the horizontal deflection field, and a second coil (14) which is arranged coaxially with respect to the field deflection coil and generates a magnetic field at right angles to the vertical deflection field.

Description: The invention relates to a picture display device having a monochrome picture display tube which is provided at one end with an electron gun and a display screen at the other end, and in which the following systems are provided around the envelope of the picture display tube : a system of deflection coils for deflecting an electron beam in two orthogonal directions, which system comprises a line deflection coil for deflection in the line deflection direction and a field deflection coil for deflection in the field deflection direction; and a system of coaxially arranged convergence correction coils. Large-screen T.V. sets having screen diagonals of 40 inches or more are commercially available. These sets generally comprise three separate cathode ray tubes ( red, green and blue, respectively) each with their own system of lenses and whose pictures are projected from the rear onto a viewing screen in such an arrangement that they form a complete colour picture, with the pictures in the three colours being correctly in register. Each of the cathode ray tubes used is provided with a system of deflection coils comprising coaxially arranged line and field deflection coils for scanning the raster in two orthogonal directions and generally also a system of convergence correction coils to enable the three rasters on the viewing screen to register. As described in US- Patent 4,227,122 with reference to Fig. 3 the system of convergence correction coils conventionally is provided between the deflection coil system and the electron gun around the neck of the cathode ray tube. In practice the conventional device is found to give the following problems : the raster geometry is satisfactory but the spot quality is poor. An improved spot quality is at the expense of the raster geometry. If in the latter case the raster geometry is to be corrected with the aid of the convergence correction coil system, the power to be applied to this coil system is (prohibitively) large. These problems are even greater if the cathode ray tube has a flat display screen or, which makes the problem even worse, if it has a display screen which is curved towards the vacuum side. It is an object of the invention to solve the above mentioned problems. The solution according to the invention is characterized in that the line deflection coil and the field deflection coil are arranged contiguously in the direction of the tube axis, the line deflection coil being closer to the display screen, and in that the convergence correction coil system comprises a first coil which is arranged substantially coextensive with the line deflection coil in the axial direction and generates a magnetic field in the field deflection direction, and a second coil which is arranged substantially coextensive with the field deflection coil in the axial direction and generates a magnetic field in the line deflection direction. The following is achieved with the above described coil arrangement in which with respect to the known arrangement the field deflection coil and the field correction coil have been changed in position. The vertical deflection field extends further to the rear than the horizontal deflection field so that a satisfactory raster geometry (particularly a straight N - S raster) can be realised while maintaining a satisfactory spot quality without having to apply extra correction currents to the (convergence) correction coils. Crosstalk between the coil systems is then avoided because the line correction coil is arranged coaxially with respect to the field deflection coil and the field correction coil is arranged coaxially with respect to the line deflection coil (the mutual inductance is small in the case of mutually perpendicular orientations of coils arranged coaxially with respect to each other). In order to realise the above configuration in a simple manner, the coils used are preferably of the saddle type and particularly of the saddle type having at least one flatly positioned transversal connection part. A preferred embodiment of the invention will now be described in greater detail with reference to the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 shows a typical lay-out of a projection television device; Figure 2 is a diagrammatic longitudinal section through a part of a cathode ray tube used in the device of Figure 1; Figure 3 is an elevational view of a cross-section taken on the line III-III through the cathode ray tube of Figure 2; Figure 4 is an elevational view of a cross-section taken on the line IV-IV through the cathode ray tube of Figure 2; Figure 5 is a perspective elevational view of the correction coil 13 of the cathode ray tube of Figure 2 and Figure 6 is a perspective elevational view of the correction coil 14 of the cathode ray tube of Figure 2. Figure 1 shows a free-standing cabinet 1 comprising a television display system provided with a cathode ray tube 2 having a display screen 3 which is curved towards the vacuum side of the tube 2, a projection lenssystem 4, mirrors 5 and 6 and a translucent projection screen 7. In colour television three cathode ray tubes and three lenssystems are used which are aligned in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the drawing. The mirrors 5 and 6 then extend so far in the direction perpendicular to the drawing that they can receive light from all three cathode ray tubes. The outer cathode ray tubes are directed inwards so that the projected red, blue and green rasters coincide on the screen 7. The cathode ray tube 2 is provided with an electron gun 8 on its side facing the display screen 3. On its path to the screen 3 an electron being produced by the gun 8 is deflected in two orthogonal directions : the line deflection direction and the field deflection direction with the aid of a deflection coil system 9. As is shown in detail in Figure 2, this deflection coil system 9 comprises a line deflection coil 10 and a field deflection coil 11 which are arranged axially with respect to each other on the display tube 2. An annular core 12 of a magnetisable material is provided coaxially around the line deflection coil 10 and the field deflection coil 11 which are both of the saddle type with flatly positioned front and rear end connection parts and they have a relatively high inductance. This annular core 12 may consist of one part, as is shown in the Figure, or it may consist of two parts, a first part surrounding the line deflection coil 10 and a second part surrounding the field deflection coil 11. A (convergence) correction coil system is provided coaxially with the line and field deflection coils 10, 11 and the annular core 12, which system comprises a first correction coil 13 generating a dipole magnetic field in the field deflection direction and a second correction coil 14 generating a dipole magnetic field in the line deflection direction. In the Figure the correction coils 13, 14 are shown outside the deflection coils 10, 11. Alternatively they may be positioned inside these coils for example directly around the wall of the display tube 2. In the latter case the correction coil may be of the so-called foil type. It can be ensured with the two dipole magnetic fields generated by the correction coil system that the geometry of the raster on the display screen is corrected and that the red, green and blue pictures accurately coincide on the projection screen in the case of projection television. The convergence correction coils 13, 14 are both, for example, of the saddle type with flatly positioned front (15, 15′ and 16, 16′) and rear (17, 17′ and 18, 18′) transversal end connection parts (Figures 5, 6) and they have a relatively high inductance. They are operated at voltages having a higher frequency than the deflection coils which are operated at line and field frequency voltages.

Claims: A picture display device having a monochrome picture display tube 2 which is provided at one end with an electron gun 8 and a display screen 3 at the other end, and in which the following systems are provided around the envelope of the picture display tube : a system of deflection coils 9 for deflecting an electron beam in two orthogonal directions, which system comprises a line deflection coil 10 for deflection in the line deflection direction and a field deflection coil 11 for deflection in the field deflection direction; and a system of coaxially arranged convergence correction coils, characterized in that the line deflection coil 10 and the field deflection coil 11 are arranged contiguously in the direction of the tube axis, the line deflection coil being closer to the display screen 3, and in that the convergence correction coil system comprises a first coil 13 which is arranged substantially coextensive with the line deflection coil 10 in the axial direction and generates a magnetic field in the field deflection direction, and a second coil 14 which is arranged substantially coextensive with the field deflection coil 11 in the axial direction and generates a magnetic field in the line deflection direction. A picture display device as claimed in Claim 1, characterized in that the picture display screen 3 of the picture display tube 2 is curved towards the vacuum side of the tube 2.

Inventors: SLUYTERMAN, ALBERTUS AEMILIUS, VINK, NICOLAAS GERRIT
Applicants: N.V. PHILIPS' GLOEILAMPENFABRIEKEN
Application year: 1987
Main classification: H01J29
IPC codes: H04N9, H01J29