Cathode-ray tube with deflection system

Abstract: A cathode-ray tube having a deflection system, comprising two switched line deflection coils (14 and 15), a coil (16) being arranged between the deflection coils (14 and 15), and a line deflection system suitable for a cathode-ray tube. The coil reduces the occurrence of "ringing" on the picture screen without necessitating a modification in the design of the deflection system or the environment of the deflection system.

Description: The invention relates to a deflection system according to the preamble of claim 1. The invention also relates to a cathode ray tube comprising a deflection system. Cathode ray tubes of the type described can be used in black-white, colour and projection television tubes, in data reproducing equipment and in other equipment in which a cathode ray tube is used. A deflection system and a cathode ray tube as described in the first and second paragraph, respectively, are known from United States Patent 4,642,528. In said United States Patent by means of the second coupling element and the associated coil a correction of misconvergence in an in-line CRT is made without requiring complex circuit arrangements. One feature which is important for the quality of the picture display is the extent to which the what is commonly referred to as "ringing" phenomenon occurs. This phenomenon occurs immediately after the line retrace and can show as a striped pattern at that edge of the picture screen where the line scan of the picture screen starts. A possible solution of this problem can be achieved by allowing the picture screen to be overscanned. This solution does not reduce the phenomenon, but the consequences of this phenomenon are- not visible on the screen. This solution has however the disadvantage that the speed at which the information is displayed on the picture screen must be reduced, as the electron beam does not impinge on the visible portion of the picture screen during a part of the time. It is also necessary for the electron beam to be deflected through a wider angle, for which more energy must be applied to the deflection coil system. An alternative solution of this problem is to reduce capacitive couplings between the line deflection coils and the environment to the best possible extent. Ringing can also be caused by capacitive coupling between the line deflection coils of the line deflection system and the environment. The line deflection system and the environment form a LC circuit which is caused to resonate in response to potential differences which suddenly occur during the line retrace. Inherent to such a solution is however that the line deflection coils and/or the environment must be modified therefor. It is therefore an object of the invention to reduce "ringing" for a cathode-ray tube of the type defined in the opening paragraph without a modification of the design of the line deflection system and/or the environment being required. A deflection system according to the invention is characterized in accordance with the characterizing part of claim 1. Because the first and second coils are both wound on the same core the same winding, sense the inductance Lcoil of the coils combined is small and thus has little influence on the total L of the line deflection system and consequently no or only a slight influence on the deflection, and has a frequency-dependent energy loss factor. For frequencies higher than the line frequency this energy loss factor increases. As a result thereof, oscillations in the line deflection system having a frequency higher than the line frequency are damped to a greater- extent- than lower frequencies. This results in a decrease in "ringing". This is applicable to any existing cathode-ray tube without the necessity of modifying the design of the cathode-ray tube, except for the addition of the coil. An embodiment of a cathode-ray tube according to the invention for which the capacitive coupling between one of the line deflection coils and the environment is greater than between the other line deflection coil and the environment, is characterized in that the energizing terminals are coupled to the other line deflection coil and the coil. For such a cathode-ray tube in which the capacitive coupling between one of the line deflection coils and the environment is greater than between the other line deflection coil and the environment "ringing" will mainly occur in that line deflection coil which couples to the environment with the highest possible capacitive degree. By coupling the energizing terminals to the other line deflection coil and the coil, the coil is coupled strongest to that deflection coil where "ringing" occurs. The invention also relates to a deflection system for a cathode-ray tube, provided with the above-described anti-ringing means. Some embodiments of a cathode-ray tube according to the invention will now be described in greater detail by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings. Herein: Figure 1 shows a cathode-ray tube according to the invention in a partly cut-away perspective view, Figure 2 is a perspective view of a line deflection system suitable for a cathode-ray tube according to the invention, Figure 3a shows a winding diagram for the line deflection system according to the invention and Figure 3b shows the associated connection diagram, Figure 4 shows schematically the effect of "ringing" on the picture tube and the result achieved by the invention. The Figures are schematic and not drawn to scale, corresponding components in the different Figures having been given as a rule the same reference numerals. Figure 1 shows a partly cut-away perspective view of a cathode-ray tube according to the invention, in this case of a 110 º black-white monitor. The invention can also be used for colour monitor tubes, camera tubes and colour picture tubes. The tube shown comprises a glass envelope 1, formed by a face plate 2, a cone 3 and a neck 4, an electron gun 5 for generating an electron beam 6 being provided in this neck 4. This electron beam 6 is focussed onto a picture screen 7 to form a target 8. The picture screen 7 is provided on the interior side of the face plate 2. The electron beam 6 is deflected across the picture screen 7 in two mutually perpendicular directions x,y by means of a deflection coil system 9, with coil 10. The tube has a base 11 with pins 12. Figure 2 is a perspective view of a deflection system suitable for a cathode-ray tube according to the invention. In this embodiment the deflection system includes a cover 13 which is provided at its interior side with line deflection coils 14 and 15, the exterior side is provided with a ring core, not shown, of magnetizable material within or around which two picture deflection coils, also not shown, have been arranged. The line deflection coils provided at the interior side of the cover couple capacitively with the environment, particularly the capacitive coupling with the envelope of the cathode-ray tube being important. In addition, a coil 16 comprising two sub-coils 18 and 19 which are wound with the same winding sense around a core 17 and have connecting wires 20, 21 and 22,23, respectively, is provided on the exterior side of the cover. Figure 3a shows the winding scheme for the line deflection system shown. In these Figures the points e1 and b2 are at a high voltage and the points b1 and e2 are at a low voltage (for b1 ground in this case). The letters e and b indicate the beginning and the end, respectively, of the deflection coils. Consequently, of line deflection coil 14 the innermost portions of the coil and consequently the portions nearest to the envelope are generally at a lower potential than corresponding portions of line deflection coil 15. The capacitive coupling of both coils with the envelope are therefore not identical, but are greater for line deflection coil 15 than for line deflection coil 14. The energizing terminals 24 and 25 are connected, in a preferred embodiment of the invention, between the terminals 26 and 27 of line deflection coil 14 and terminals 20 and 22 of coil 16. Figure 3b shows the connection diagram of the line deflection system. Line deflection 15 is coupled more capacitively to the envelope 1 than line deflection coil 14. The coil is arranged between this line deflection coil 15 and energizing terminals 24 and 25. In this embodiment the coil comprises two sub-coils which are wound with the same winding sense and consist of a small number of turns of twisted wire, and are wound on a ferrite core having a high magnetic permeability coefficient µ and considerable energy losses at frequencies higher than the line frequencies. In this example the coil 17 has a torroidal ring core made of the 3Hz ferrite type with an outside diameter of 23 mm, an inside diameter of 13 mm and a height of 7 mm and a magnetic permeability coefficient between approximately 2300 and 3100. The deflection system is in this example an AT1039-deflection system. The inductance L of line deflection coil 15 and the parasitic capacitance C between this deflection coil and the environment, the largest contribution coming from the envelope, form an LC circuit. Resonances having frequencies higher than then the line frequency are introduced in this circuit by the suddenly occurring changes in potential on this LC circuit during line retrace. At these high frequencies the resistance of the coil is considerable, so that these resonances are damped. At lower frequencies the influence of the coil can however be disregarded, the resistance is small with respect to the resistance of the line deflection coil 15 and the total inductance of coil 16 L′ is also small with respect to the inductance L of line deflection coil 15, so that for frequencies less than or approximately equal to the line frequency the coil has no or only a negligible influence on the operation of the deflection system. The invention is not limited to the form shown here for the coil core, the core shown, the type of ferrite of the deflection system type. The core of the coil may, for example, alternatively be in the shape of a rod or a pot, many different shapes for a magnetic core are known. The energy loss factor of magnetic cores increases versus increasing frequencies. The line frequency for a cathode-ray tube depends to some small degree on the type of cathode-ray tube, and is of the order of magnitude from 10 to 100 kHz. "Ringing" phenomena have typical frequencies of the order of 1 to 10 MHz, it generally being such that the higher the line frequencies also the typical "ringing" frequencies will be higher, namely one to two orders higher. The coil is preferably designed such that a large difference in energy loss factor between the line frequency and the typical "ringing" frequencies occurs. The core may, for example, be of a material which evidences a large difference in energy loss due to eddy currents and/or due to hysteresis losses for these two frequencies. Energy loss factor must here be understood to mean the fractional energy loss per cycle. Figure 4 shows a picture screen 2 on which the effect of "ringing" is shown schematically by stripes 28. These stripes are produced at that side of the picture screen where the line scan of the picture screen starts. This annoying effect can be rendered invisible by displaying only the portion 2a of the picture screen located within the broken lines, i.e. by applying "overscan". This has however the drawback that the speed at which the information is displayed on the picture screen is to be reduced, since the electron beam impinges during part of the time on the invisible part of the picture screen. In addition, the electron beam must be deflected through a wider angle and consequently more energy must be supplied to the deflection coil system. Figure 4b shows a picture screen of a cathode-ray tube according to the invention. Only one stripe is now however visible. This renders it possible to use a larger portion of the picture screen for useful information. It will be obvious that many variations are possible for a person skilled in the art, within the scope of the claims.

Claims: A deflection system (9) for a cathode ray tube comprising a field deflection system and a line deflection system, the line deflection system having a first line deflection coil (14) and a second line deflection coil (15) arranged in parallel between a first energizing terminal (24) and a second energizing terminal (25) for the supply of a line deflection voltage, a first terminal (e₁) of the first line deflection coil (14) being coupled to the first energizing terminal (24), a second terminal (b₁) of the first line deflection coil (14) being coupled to the second energizing terminal (25), a first terminal (b₂) of the second line deflection coil (15) being coupled to the first energizing terminal (24), a second terminal (e₂) of the second line deflection coil (15) being coupled to the second energizing terminal (25), a first coupling element being disposed between the first terminal (e₁, b₂) of the first and second line deflection coils (14, 15), said first coupling element being coupled to the first energizing terminal (24), the first coupling element comprising a first coil (18), characterized in that a second coupling element is disposed between the second terminals (b₁, e₂) of the first and second line deflection coils (14,15), said second coupling element being coupled to the second energizing terminal (25), wherein the second coupling element comprises a second coil (19), and the first and second coils (18, 19) are both wound around a same core (17) with the same winding sense. A cathode ray tube comprising a deflection system according to Claim 1. A cathode ray tube as claimed in Claim 2, characterized in that the first coil (18) is arranged between the first energizing terminal (24) and the first terminal (b₂) of the line deflection coil (15) for which the capacitive coupling with its environment is the higher of the two line deflection coils (14, 15) and in that the second coil (19) is arranged between the second energizing terminal (25) and the second terminal (e₂) of the line deflection coil (15) for which the capacitive coupling with its environment is the higher of the two line deflection coils (14, 15).

Inventors: VAN TIEL ANTONIUS HENRICUS, VAN TIEL, ANTONIUS HENRICUS
Applicants: PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NV, PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
Application year: 1988
Main classification: H01J29
IPC codes: H01J29