Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a hot cathode fluorescent lamp can ensure or facilitate stable initial luminous intensity and provide improved product life characteristics even when the hot cathode fluorescent lamp employs a glass tube with an outer diameter of less than 7 mmφ. One end of a glass tube can be sealed with a glass bead of a mount structure. The other opening end of the glass tube can be welded with an opening end of an exhaust pipe with bent portions of lead wires being sandwiched between the opening ends of the glass tube and the exhaust pipe. After evacuating a vacuum system that is constituted by the inner spaces of the glass tube and the exhausted pipe communicating with each other, the bent portions of the lead wires which extrude outside the vacuum system can be clamp-connected to power source lines extending from an external power source. The emitter of the filaments can be activated by the generated heat of the filament. After supplying mercury and a rare gas into the glass tube, the glass bead can be sealed, and unnecessary portions of the glass tube, the exhaust pipe, and the lead wires can be removed to complete the hot cathode fluorescent lamp, in accordance with one aspect of the disclosed subject matter.
Abstract:
A thin high temperature heater includes an adhesive layer of Ti disposed an insulating substrate and a resistor layer of a Ti compound disposed the adhesive layer.
Abstract:
An electron gun heater supporting structure includes a pair of supporting pieces respectively mounted on separate opposed glass beads of an electron gun and U-shaped connecting pieces disposed between the pair of supporting pieces for welding terminals of a heater thereto, the connecting pieces including position determining elements for determining the positions of the connecting pieces relative to the supporting pieces for welding them together. According to the present invention, the welding positions can be exactly determined and the uniformity of heater positions can be realized.
Abstract:
A low consumption electron gun is provided for cathode ray tubes. The heating filament of the cathode includes a resistant wire and lugs for connection to an electric energy supply. The resistant wire is wound spirally. The active part of the heating filament is formed of at most two turns, each of which is formed by a multiplicity of elementary turns; the connecting lugs have a core made from a low electric resistance metal which short circuits the elementary turns of the resistant wire.
Abstract:
A coil heater of a heater-type tube comprises a main portion for generating heat and a pair of leg portions supporting the main portion. Lead wires are connected to the ends of the legs. At least a part of the leg portion, including its terminal part, comprises a triple-layer coil. The main portion comprising a single-layer coil and the leg portion except its terminal part covered with an insulating coating. The main portion and leg portions are formed by continuously winding a heater wire about a core alternately in opposite directions.
Abstract:
A method of improving the thermal emmissivity of a cathode heater wire to allow lower temperature operation of the heater without an attendant lowering in the cathode operating temperature, in which method the surface of a tungsten or molybdenum wire is oxidized, then coated with a salt of a refractory metal, and finally heated to reduce the salt and oxide to their metallic forms thereby causing the heater wire to be roughened and darkened.
Abstract:
Heater for indirectly heated cathodes with a homogeneous dark colored insulating layer which is formed by introducing aluminum oxide, tungsten oxide and chromium oxide, all in powder form, into a coating bath and coating the heaters in a combined electrophoretic-electrolytic process by dipping them into the bath only once.Advantages: simplified production (only one coating process); improved heat radiation; short heating time; longer service life.
Abstract:
A helically wound V-shaped bent reciting wire or bifiller wound heating wire for an indirectly heated cathode is previously dipped in a liquid or connected anaphoretically and then covered in an electrophoresis bath with an insulating layer.
Abstract:
A heater for use in an indirectly heated cathode of a vacuum tube is first coated with an insulating layer of alumina. Metallic tungsten is then vacuum deposited on the alumina in order to darken the color of the coating, thereby increasing its thermal emissivity.
Abstract:
A tungsten heater has a first coating of an insulating oxide covering its entire body and extending onto its legs and a second coating of elemental tungsten, reduced in situ, covering substantially all the first coating except for a short span on the legs.