Deflection unit for self-converging cathode-ray tubes which includes deflection coils in the shape of a saddle

Abstract: Electromagnetic deflection unit for colour cathode-ray tubes, comprising a pair of frame deflection coils and a pair of line deflection coils, at least one of these two pairs of coils having the shape of a saddle; each deflection coil in the shape of a saddle (3) having a rear end turn (19) lying flat on the electron-gun side and a front end turn (29) on the screen side, two side conductor harnesses connecting the front end turn to the rear end turn, each side conductor harness comprising a number of groups of conductors (120, 120') and having a first window (21'') in the central part of the intermediate region (24) lying between these said end turns, this window being arranged so as to minimize the trapezium differential error between the red and blue beams, and a second window (26) to the rear of the intermediate region, the resulting arrangement of the conductors making it possible to achieve convergence of the three in-line electron beams and to overcome the coma parabola error without using additional field shapers.

Description: The invention relates to a deflection unit for a colour cathode-ray tubes, which unit is also called a deflector and includes a pair of vertical deflection coils and a pair of horizontal deflection coils in the shape of a saddle, the particular shape of which allows simultaneous minimization of the beam convergence, geometry and coma errors. A cathode-ray tube designed to generate colour images generally comprises an electron gun emitting three coplanar electron beams, each beam being intended to excite a luminescent material of a defined primary colour (red, green and blue) on the tube's screen. The electron beams scan the tube's screen under the influence of the deflection fields created by the horizontal and vertical deflection coils of the deflector fixed to the neck of the tube. A ring of ferromagnetic material conventionally surrounds the deflection coils so as to concentrate the deflection fields in the appropriate region. The three beams generated by the electron gun must always converge on the tube's screen or else suffer the introduction of a so-called convergence error which, in particular, falsifies the rendition of the colours. In order to achieve convergence of the three coplanar beams, it is known to use so-called self-converging astigmatic deflection fields; in a self-converging deflection coil, the intensity of the field or the lines of flux generated by the horizontal deflection coil generally have the shape of a pin-cushion in a portion of the coil which is located more to the front of the latter on the screen side of the tube. This amounts to introducing, into the distribution of the turns making up the line coil, a very positive 3rd harmonic of the ampere-turns density in front of the coil. Moreover, under the action of uniform horizontal and vertical deflection fields, the volume scanned by the electron beams is a pyramid whose apex is coincident with the centre of deflection of the deflector and whose intersection with a non-spherical screen surface exhibits a geometrical distortion called a pin-cushion. This geometrical distortion of the image becomes all the more severe the greater the radius of curvature of the tube's screen. Self-converging deflectors generate astigmatic deflection fields which make it possible to modify the North/South and East/West geometry of the image and, in particular, partially compensate for the North/South pin-cushion distortion. Coma is an aberration which affects the side beams coming from an electron gun having three beams in line, independently of the astigmatism of the deflection fields and of the curvature of the screen surface of the tube; these side beams, which enter the deflection region at a small angle with respect to the axis of the tube, undergo a deflection in addition to that of the axial beam. Coma is generally corrected by modifying the distribution of the deflection fields at the point where the beam enters the deflector so that the coma generated compensates for that produced by the field distribution necessary to obtain the desired astigmatism for self-convergence. Thus, with regard to the horizontal deflection field, the field at the rear of the deflector has the shape of a barrel and in the front part has the shape of a pin-cushion. Field configurations like the one described above may cause the appearance of aberrations called coma parabolas which are manifested in a rectangular test pattern by an increasing shift of the green image with respect to the red/blue image as one approaches the corners of the test pattern. If the shift is towards the outside of the test pattern the coma error is conventionally positive, while if it is towards the inside of the said test pattern the coma error is negative. Likewise, a so-called horizontal trapezium error due to the astigmatism of the field appears, this error being manifested on the tube's screen, with respect to a rectangular test pattern, by a blue image which has pivoted with respect to the red image, as illustrated in Figure 6a. It could happen that the arrangements of the conductors making up the horizontal deflection coils, chosen to optimize other parameters (convergence, geometry, etc.), induce high-order deflection field harmonics introducing trapezium differentials resulting in a slope inversion of the blue image between the point at 1H and the point representing the corner of the image at 2H, as illustrated in Figure 6b. Simultaneous control, by means of a particular configuration of the conductors making up the deflection coils, of coma, of coma parabola, of geometrical convergence and of trapezium differential has not hitherto been possible without adding additional components, such as metal pieces, or permanent magnets arranged so as to cause local modification of the deflection fields. These additional components are expensive and may lead either to heating problems associated with the frequency of use, particularly when it is a question of modifying the horizontal deflection field, since the current tendency dictates increasing the said frequency to 32 kHz or even 64 kHz and higher, or to dispersion in the performance of the deflectors. Moreover, these problems of image geometry, coma, coma parabola, convergence and trapezium differential are associated with the planarity of the screen and increase with the radius of curvature of the said screen. Conventional cathode-ray tubes manufactured a few years ago and using a screen of spherical shape generally have a radius of curvature called 1R. When the screen has a relatively high radius of curvature, greater than 1R, such as for example 1.5 R or higher, it becomes increasingly difficult to control the abovementioned problems solely by means of appropriate fields generated by the deflection coils. It is common practice to divide the deflection system into three successive action regions along the main axis of the tube: the rear region closest to the electron gun influences more particularly the coma, the intermediate region acts more particularly on the astigmatism of the deflection field and therefore on the convergence of the red and blue electron beams and, finally, the front region, lying closest to the tube's screen, acts on the geometry of the image which will be formed on the tube's screen. Patent US 5,077,533 discloses a horizontal deflection coil structure which includes, in its screen-side part, a correction coil which generates a deflection field opposite to the main deflection field. This coil structure only provides correction of the North/South geometry of the image. In Patent US 5,418,422, the special shape, in the form of a wedge, of part of the rear windings of the line coil is particularly adapted to minimizing the coma and geometry errors in the case in which these coils are designed for tubes in which the width/height ratio of the screen is greater than 4/3. Not disclosed is a structure which is also adapted to the 4/3 standard format and which also enables the coma parabola errors to be minimized. Patent US 5,121,028 describes a line coil with a conductor-free window made in the medium of the intermediate region of the coil, this window, by locally modifying the fifth harmonic of the series decomposition of the horizontal field, makes it possible to minimize the convergence faults which may occur along the vertical lines at points lying between the horizontal edges of the image and the horizontal axis X of the screen. That document does not describe a specific position of the said window particularly adapted to allowing corrective action at the same time on coma, coma parabola, N/S geometry and convergence errors. US 4,464,643 describes a frame deflection coil generating a deflection field having the field shape which is desired with respect to self-convergence and East-West geometry distorsion. EP0425 747 describes deflection coils comprising windows in the side conductor harnesses to reduce misconvergence errors at specific points of the tube screen. The object of the present invention is to make it possible, by means of a special arrangement of the winding wires of the horizontal deflection coils, to generate deflection fields which no longer require the use of additional correctors to minimize, to an acceptable level, the coma, coma parabola, N/S geometry and convergence errors. To do this, the electromagnetic deflection unit for colour cathode-ray tubes according to the invention comprises a pair of frame deflection coils and a pair of line deflection coils in the shape of a saddle; each deflection coil in the shape of a saddle having a rear end turn lying flat on the electron-gun side and a front end turn on the screen side, having a window in the intermediate region lying between these said end turns, two side conductor harnesses connecting the front end turn to the rear end turn, each side conductor harness comprising a number of groups of conductors, characterized in that it includes at least two groups of conductors arranged so as to form a first window in each side conductor harness, the said window extending over the greater part of the length of the side conductor harness so as to leave, free of conductor, an aperture lying in radial directions between 30° and 45°. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, each side conductor harness furthermore comprises a second conductor-free window arranged in the rear part of the intermediate region so as to modify locally the harmonic composition of the horizontal deflection field in such a way as to increase positively the second-order and fourth-order harmonics of the series decomposition of the horizontal deflection field so as to compensate, at least partially, for the coma parabola error introduced by the first window. Other characteristics and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the description below and from the drawings, in which: Figure 1 represents a cathode-ray tube equipped with a deflector according to the invention; Figure 2 represents, seen from the front and in exploded view, a deflector according to the prior art; Figure 3 shows a half-cross-section of a coil according to the invention, made in the intermediate part of the said coil; Figures 4a and 4b represent, seen from the side and from the top, a coil according to the invention; Figures 5a, 5b show the variation along the main axis Z of the tube of the coefficients of the distribution function for the horizontal deflection field generated by a coil according to the invention and the influence of the windows made in the intermediate part of the said coil; and Figures 6a and 6b represent two types of trapezium errors between the red and blue images, due to the astigmatism of the deflection field. As illustrated in Figure 1, a self-converging colour display device comprises a cathode-ray tube fitted with an evacuated glass envelope 6 and an array of luminescent elements representing various colours, these elements being arranged at one of the ends of the envelope, forming a display screen 9, and a set of electron guns 7 arranged at a second end of the envelope. The set of electron guns is arranged so as to produce three electron beams 12 aligned horizontally so as to excite, respectively, one of the various coloured luminescent elements. The electron beams scan the entire surface of the screen by means of a deflection system 1, or deflector, which is placed on the neck 8 of the tube and comprises a pair of horizontal deflection coils 3, a pair of vertical deflection coils 4, these being isolated from each other by a separator 2, and a core 5 made of ferromagnetic material intended to concentrate the field at the point where it is designed to act. Within the scope of the invention, the pair of horizontal deflection coils of the deflector 1 has a portion 19 called a rear end turn, close to the electron gun 7 and extending preferentially in a direction perpendicular to the Z axis. A second portion 29, called the front end turn, of the saddle-shaped coil 3 is close to the display screen 9 and is incurvate, on moving away from the Z axis, in a direction generally transverse to the latter. With such a type of saddle-shaped coil, the core 5 and the separator 2 may advantageously be made in the form of a single piece rather than be assembled from two components which are clamped or bonded together. Figures 4a, 4b illustrate, respectively, side and top views of one of the horizontal deflection coils in the shape of a saddle 3 implementing one aspect of the invention. Each winding turn is formed by a loop of conductor wire generally having the shape of a saddle. The front end turn 29 of the saddle-shaped coil 3 in Figures 4a-4b is connected to the rear end turn 19 by groups of side conductors 120, 120'. Those sections of the side elements 120, 120' lying in the exit region of the magnetic deflection field of the deflection coil 3 are wound in a well-known manner so as to produce front spaces (21, 21', 21", etc.) in the coil. The front spaces affect or modify the harmonics of the current distribution so as to correct, for example, the geometrical distortions of the image formed on the screen, such as the North/South distortion. Likewise, those sections of the side elements 120, 120' which lie in the entry region of the deflection coil 3 are wound in a well-known manner so as to produce rear spaces 22 and 22' in the coil. The spaces 22 and 22' modify the harmonics of the current distribution so as to correct the horizontal coma errors. The end turns 19 and 29 together with the side groups of conductors 120' define a main window 18. Taking as reference the direction of flow of the electrons making up the three beams coming from the gun 7, the region over which the window 18 extends is called the intermediate region 24, the region over which the conductors making up the front end turn fan out is called the exit region 23 and that region of the coil which lies to the rear of the window 18, making up the rear end turn, is called the entry region 25. The coma errors are normally corrected in the entry region 25 of the coil 3. The convergence errors are corrected in the intermediate region 24, between the exit and entry regions. The geometrical errors at the extreme edges of the display screen are corrected in the exit region 23. Figure 3 is a cross-sectional view in a plane parallel to XY of a line coil in the form of a saddle, the cross-section being made in the intermediate region 24. Given the symmetries, only the cross-section of a half-coil is shown. This half-coil comprises several groups 120, 120' of conductors 50, the position of each conductor being identified by its radial angular position ; the conductors of the group 120 are arranged between 0° and  1 while those of the group 120' are arranged between  1 and  2 . Because of the symmetries of the windings, the Fourier series decomposition of the ampere-turns density N() of a coil may be written: N() = A 1 cos() + A 3 cos(3) + A 5 cos (5) + .... + A k cos (k) + ... where The magnetic field is expressed by: H = A 1 /R = (A 3 /R 3 )(x 2 -y 2 ) + (A 5 /R 5 )(x 4 -6x 2 y 2 +y 4 ) + ... where R is the radius of the ferrite magnetic circuit which covers the deflection coils so as to concentrate the fields in order to improve the energy efficiency of the deflection device and A 1 /R represents the amplitude of the fundamental field, (A 3 /R 3 )(x 2 -y 2 ) the 2nd harmonic of the field at a point having the coordinates x and y, (A 5 /R 5 )(x 4 -6x 2 y 2 +y 4 ) the 4th-order harmonic of this field, etc. Thus, a positive term A 3 corresponds to a positive 2nd harmonic of the field on the axis and induces lines of force in the form of a pin-cushion. If the current flows in the same direction in all the conductors, N() is conventionally positive and the term A 3 is positive if the conductors are arranged between  = 0° and  = 30°, for which values cos(3) is positive. By arranging the conductors in the interval defined above, it is possible to introduce locally a high degree of positive 2nd harmonic of the field as well as a quantity of 4th harmonic which is everywhere positive. In order to maintain the convergence of the electron beams coming from an in-line gun, it is known to make sure that the 2nd-order harmonic of the line deflection field is positive in the intermediate region 24. To do this, most of the. conductors of the side conductor harnesses are, in at least one part of the intermediate region 24, maintained in a radial angular position lying between 0° and 30°. It appeared that this method of controlling the convergence of the beams introduced a large coma parabola error. The values of the convergence and coma errors of a conventional line deflection coil in the shape of a saddle for cathode-ray tubes of the A68SF type, in which the side conductors are arranged with a substantially constant radial density between 0° and 50°, were compared with those of the same coil in which were concentrated, locally, approximately in the middle of the intermediate region 24, 94% of the side conductors in a radial aperture lying between 0° and 31°, thus creating a side window 21" in the windings. Moreover, the values of the convergence and coma errors of a conventional structure in which the side conductors are arranged with a substantially constant radial density between 0° and 50° were compared with those of the same coil in which were concentrated, locally, at the rear of the intermediate region 24, close to the entry region 25, 49% of the side conductors in a radial aperture lying between 0° and 33°, thus creating a side window 26 in the windings. The following table shows an improvement in both cases compared to the conventional structure with regard to the convergence and coma errors but a worsening of the error due to coma parabola, which goes from 0.44 mm to -0.83 mm in the first case and to 0.53 mm in the second case. This table shows the horizontal coma and convergence errors measured at nine points conventionally representing one quarter of the screen of a cathode-ray tube. TABLE OF VALUES BLUE/RED CONVERGENCE GREEN HORIZONTAL COMA WITH RESPECT TO THE RED/BLUE AVERAGE COMA PARABOLA ERROR no window 21'' and 26 0.40 0.54 3.18 - 1.07 3.44 0.20 1.76 9.21 - 1.13 3.42 0.44 - 1.89 9.80 - 1.10 3.00 with window 21'' 0.42 0.41 1.22 - 0.71 1.89 0.19 0.89 4.24 - 0.77 2.45 -0.83 - 0.97 5.74 - 0.80 2.72 with window 26 0.35 0.35 1.30 - 0.28 0.96 0.15 0.87 4.97 - 0.18 0.62 0.53 - 0.74 4.22 - 0.11 0.43 It should also be pointed out that, compared to a conventional coil structure, the two modified structures introduce modifications to the coma parabola which are in opposite directions to each other. This characteristic is used by the invention to bring the value of the coma parabola error to an acceptable value close to zero. It should also be noted that the conventional structure caused a trapezium differential problem, as indicated in the following table in which the trapezium values between the red image and the blue image at nine conventional points on the tubes screen are shown. The trapezium differential error is illustrated in Figure 6b, in which 70 represents the red image, 71 the blue image, 60 the trapezium error at 1H and 61 the trapezium error in the corner at the point 2H. Using the above results, the idea of the invention is to design a horizontal deflection coil structure which makes it possible to correct: most of the geometrical errors using a known arrangement of the conductors in the exit region 23; some of the coma errors using a known arrangement of the conductors in the rear end turn 19 contained in the entry region 25; the trapezium differential errors by means of an arrangement of the conductors opening, in the side conductor harness, over the greater part of the length of this side conductor harness contained in the intermediate region 24, a conductor-free window 21"; and the residual coma and convergence errors, at least at two points in the intermediate region; each of the corrections partially contributes to reducing the said errors, at least one of the points lying substantially in the middle of the intermediate region 24 and at least one of the points lying to the rear of the intermediate region close to the rear end turn of the entry region. The above corrections will, moreover, bring about modifications in the coma parabola error, modifications which are in opposite directions with respect to each other so that the final result is a minimized and acceptable coma parabola error value. A saddle-shaped coil as described above may be wound using a copper wire of small size, the wire being covered with an electrical insulator and with a thermosetting adhesive. The winding is performed in a winder which winds the saddle-shaped coil essentially into its final shape and which introduces the spaces 21, 21', 21", 22, 22' in Figures 4a-4b during the winding process. The shapes and positions of these spaces are defined by retractable pins in the winding head which limit the shapes that these spaces can assume. After winding, each saddle-shaped coil is held in a jig and pressure is applied to it so as to obtain the required mechanical dimensions. A current passes through the wire so as to soften the thermosetting adhesive, which is then cooled so as to bond the wires together and form a self-supporting saddle-shaped coil. Hitherto, these apertures did not enable the parameters relating to coma, coma parabola, convergence, geometry and trapezium differential errors to be controlled in order to bring them to values low enough to be acceptable. As illustrated in Figure 2, permanent magnets 240, 241, 242 had to be positioned in front of the deflector in order to improve the geometry of the image, and other magnets 142 and field shapers 243 had to be inserted between the horizontal and vertical deflection coils in order to modify the field locally so as to control better the residual coma parabola, coma and convergence errors. By virtue of the spaces 21" and 26 made in the group of conductors 120, in the middle of the intermediate region 24 and to the rear of the said intermediate region, the invention introduces a control parameter which acts both on the residual convergence error and on the residual coma error while at the same time making it possible to minimize, to an acceptable value, the coma parabola error. Moreover, the window 21" must extend into the intermediate region 24 over a length, in the direction of the Z axis, at least equal to half of the length along Z of the said region 24 and over a radial angular aperture lying between 30° and 45° in order to minimize the influence of the high-order harmonics responsible for the trapezium differential problems. Thus, in conjunction with at least one space created further forward in the groups 120, in the front part of the intermediate region 24, and at least one space created in the region 25, it is possible to control the modulation of the intensity of the deflection field along the main axis Z sufficiently accurately to avoid the use of additional local field shapers. In one preferred embodiment of a deflector according to the invention, designed to equip a tube of the A68SF type having a screen of the aspherical type, the horizontal edges of which have a radius of curvature of about 3.5 R, the coil with a total length along Z equal to 81 mm has a front region 23 consisting of the front end turn 29 with a length of 7 mm along the Z axis, an intermediate region 24 with a length of 52 mm into which the main window 18 extends, and the rear end turn 19 which extends over a length of 22 mm along Z; the conductors to the rear of the coils are wound in such a way that they form several conductor harnesses or groups locally separated from each other, thereby opening several windows free of conductors in the coil. Looking at a coil in its plane of symmetry YZ, two windows 21" and 26 are created in the intermediate region 24 by inserting pins at 60 and 42 during winding. The pin 60 holds the group of conductors 120 in place, this group representing approximately 94% of the number of conductors making up the coil, and is placed 27 mm in front of the coil substantially in the middle part of the intermediate region 24, in an angular position in the XY plane corresponding to 31.5°. In this case, experiments have shown that a radial direction of 40° was the preferred direction for this type of tube in order to minimize the trapezium dif-ferential problems, so that the window 21" is free of conductors in this direction over the greater part of its length along the Z axis; in order to take into account the winding constraints of the line coil within a coil mould, the window 21" extends along Z so as to leave free of conductor the 40° radial direction over a length 124, as illustrated in Figure 4a, equal to approximately 75% of the length along Z of the intermediate part 24. The measurements of the red/blue trapezium errors show a marked improvement in this case, which brings the trapezium differential to acceptable values. These values are given in the table below: - 0.13 - 0.18 - 0.25 0.21 - - - The pin 42 holds the conductor harness 45 in place, this end turn representing 49% of the number of conductors in the coil, and is placed 56 mm from the front of the coil in an angular position in the XY plane equal to 55°. Figures 5a and 5b illustrate the influence of the windows 21" and 26 on the fundamental and on the harmonics of the horizontal deflection field. In both these figures, the variation along the Z axis of the fundamental of the field and of the 2nd and 4th harmonics of the coil according to the invention has been compared with the same variation either in the absence of the window 21" or in the absence of the window 26. Without influencing the fundamental of the deflection field, each of the two windows 21" and 26 increases positively the 2nd and 4th harmonic of the field in its region of action. Depending on the size of the tube and the planarity of the screen, it may be necessary to create more than one window in the middle part of the region 24 in order to achieve the desired corrections. The amounts of wire held in place in the 0° - 30° radial aperture by the pins 60 and 42, as well as the position of the pins along Z, depend on the shape of the field created by the chosen arrangements of the conductors in the regions 23 and 25; thus, for example, it may be useful for a given action on the convergence of the beams to modulate the 4th harmonic of the field by seeing to it that the window 26 extends somewhat into the rear region 25 so as to modulate the action on the coma and the coma parabola. According to one characteristic of the invention, the window 26 is opened in the rear of the intermediate region by inserting, during winding, the pin 42, lying along Z at 56 mm from the front of the coil, in a position close to the rear boundary 17 of the main window 18 (lying along Z at a distance of 59 mm from the front of the coil) and in an angular position in the XY plane equal to 33°. The window created extends along the Z axis between 47 mm and 62 mm from the front of the deflection coil. The following table shows how the values of the convergence, coma and coma parabola errors have changed in the case of a coil structure according to the invention. The values obtained in terms of convergence, coma and coma parabola have thus moved towards acceptable values compared to a conventional structure (without the windows 21" and 26, or with one of the windows, 21" or 26). TABLE OF VALUES (in mm) BLUE/RED CONVERGENCE GREEN/RED HORIZONTAL COMA COMA PARABOLA ERROR 0.40 0.19 0.49 - 0.03 0.11 0.17 0.28 0.65 - -0.02 0.01 -0.01 - 0.14 0.93 - 0.04 0.12 Depending on the absolute and relative amplitude of the errors to be minimized, it is possible to vary the relative amount of conductors which the pin 42 holds in place below a certain angular position in the XY plane or to vary the position of the said pin along Z or to vary the angular position of the same pin. This will mean that the window 26 may have a greater or lesser surface area and, optionally, may extend, as is the case in the example of an embodiment relating to the coil of the A68SF tube, into the rear part 25 of the said coil. In an alternative embodiment, not shown, two windows are produced in the side conductors, these two windows lying along the Z axis in the region close to the end 17 of the main window 18 and extending partially both into the region 24 and into the region 25. By positioning the pins producing these windows during the winding in different angular positions, it is possible to create groups of conductors in which the number of conductors can vary in terms of relative value, which enables the effect created on the field to be modulated and enables the fundamental and the harmonics of the deflection field to be more finely adjusted so as to minimize the coma, coma parabola and convergence errors. The illustrative embodiments described above are not limiting, it being possible for the same principle of constructing a vertical deflection coil in the shape of a saddle to be applied in order to modify the vertical deflection field so as to minimize residual errors in the vertical coma parabola, coma and convergence.

Claims: Electromagnetic deflection unit for colour cathode-ray tubes, comprising a pair of frame deflection coils and a pair of line deflection coils, at least one of the two pairs having the shape of a saddle; the deflection coil of at least one pair in the shape of a saddle (3) having a rear end turn (19) lying flat on the electron-gun side and a front end turn (29) on the screen side, having a window (18) in the intermediate region (24) lying between these said end turns, two side conductor harnesses connecting the front end turn to the rear end turn, each side conductor harness comprising a number of groups of conductors, characterized in that the said conductor harness includes at least two groups of conductors (120, 120') arranged so as to form in the intermediate region a first window (21") in each side conductor harness, the said window extending so as to leave, free of conductor, an aperture lying in radial directions between 30° and 45° over the greater part of the length (24) of the side conductor harness taken from front end turn. Electromagnetic deflection unit for colour cathode-ray tubes according to claim 1, characterized in that the said conductor harness includes a second window (26) arranged in the rear part of the intermediate region (24), close to the entry region (25) of the deflection unit, so as to modify locally the harmonic composition of the horizontal deflection field in such a way as to increase positively the second-order and fourth-order harmonics of the series decomposition of the horizontal deflection field. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a first group (120) of conductors is held in place in the central part of the intermediate region in an angular position in radial planes lying between 0° and 30°. Device according to the preceding claim, characterized in that the first group of conductors represents most of the conductors of which each side conductor harness is composed. Device according to Claim 3 or 4, characterized in that the first group of conductors is subdivided into two subgroups so as to hold in place, in the rear part of the intermediate region, most of the conductors of which one of the subgroups (45) is composed in an angular position lying between 0° and 30°. Device according to the preceding claim, characterized in that the two subgroups make a conductor-free window (26) in the rear part of the intermediate region of each side conductor harness. Device according to the preceding claim, characterized in that the said window extends partially into the region (25) of the rear end turn. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the coils in the shape of a saddle are horizontal deflection coils. Cathode-ray tube equipped with a deflection device according to any one of the preceding claims.

Inventors: AZZI NACERDINE, MASSON OLIVIER, AZZI,NACERDINE, MASSON, OLIVIER
Applicants: THOMSON TUBES & DISPLAYS, THOMSON TUBES & DISPLAYS S.A.
Application year: 1997
Main classification: H01J29
IPC codes: H01J29