Patent ID: 6924591

Claim:
An implosion preventing band for a cathode ray tube, comprising: a main band formed around an outer surface of a skirt of a face panel, and including a pair of long sides provided on opposite sides of said skirt in a direction corresponding to long sides of a screen, a pair of short sides provided on opposite sides of said skirt in a direction corresponding to short sides of a screen, and corners formed between said long sides and said short sides to interconnect said long and short sides; and degaussing coil supports formed raised from said main band on long and short sides of said main band, and each of said degaussing coil supports including a plurality of openings allowing passage in a direction of a width of said main band, at least one degaussing coil being supported using the openings, with the plurality of the openings being formed continuously in said degaussing coil supports in a circumferential direction of said main band.