Abstract:
A cathode structure includes a thermal conductive member, a heater for heating a thermal conductive member, a metal substrate having a first surface facing a thermal conductive member and a second surface and attached to the thermal conductive member to form a space between a central portion of a second surface and the thermal conductive member, and an electron emitting member provided on a second surface of a metal substrate.
Abstract:
A simplified lamp mount structure is disclosed in which one end of the filament is attached to the apex of a loop with the free ends of the loop embedded in glass. The other end of the filament is attached to a conventional inner lead wire.
Abstract:
1. An electron-discharge device comprising: an evacuated envelope; a cold electrode supported within said envelope; a thermionic filamentary cathode; and means including at least one spring member affixed to said cathode and supported from said envelope for normally supporting said cathode in tension in a position within said envelope spaced from said cold electrode and adapted to relax said tension in response to rapid acceleration of said envelope in a predetermined direction perpendicular to said filamentary cathode, the space between said normal position of said cathode and the inner wall of said envelope being substantially unobstructed in a direction opposite to said predetermined direction whereby said cathode is supported by said wall throughout substantially its entire length when subjected to said acceleration.
Abstract:
An adapter for wire electrode assemblies of electrostatic precipitators so that wire electrodes of the type comprising an elongated electrode wire having its opposite ends terminating axially within two identical shrouds, each of the shrouds shaped as an elongated rod terminating in a combined frusto-cone and enlarged button head may be used with all types of support structures. The adapter comprises a curved or hook shaped piece of metal or other suitable material having in one end thereof a vertically aligned hole or slot adapted to cooperate with a bolt or pin, and in the other end thereof a horizontally aligned keyhole or slot adapted to receive the frusto-conical shroud of a wire electrode, the centers of the vertically aligned hole and horizontally aligned hole being in the same vertical plane.
Abstract:
An evacuated envelope includes front and back walls and a plurality of spaced, parallel support walls between and perpendicular thereto. The support walls form therebetween a plurality of channels. In each of the channels is at least one beam guide which confines electrons injected into the guide in a beam which travels along the beam guide but permits selective deflection of the beam out of the guide toward a phosphor screen on the inner surface of the front wall. A gun structure extends across one end of the channels for generating electrons and directing the electrons into the beam guides. The gun structure includes a thermionic emissive cathode extending across the ends of the channels and support members at spaced points along the cathode which support the cathode within the envelope but allow movement of the cathode with respect to the support members as a result of expansion or contraction of the cathode.
Abstract:
A grid electrode for an electron tube with planar electrodes consists of a planar array of fine wires mounted on a support frame. The support frame has a circular outside rim and interconnected interior elements dividing the area inside the rim into three or more separated apertures. The interior elements include radial elements connected to non-radial elements, forming a mechanically rigid structure with good heat conduction to the outside rim which resists buckling out of its plane when differentially heated.