Abstract:
The invention relates to a cathode arrangement comprising: a thermionic cathode comprising an emission portion provided with an emission surface for emitting electrons, and a reservoir for holding a material, wherein the material, when heated, releases work function lowering particles that diffuse towards the emission portion and emanate at the emission surface at a first evaporation rate; a focusing electrode comprising a focusing surface for focusing the electrons emitted from the emission surface of the cathode; and an adjustable heat source configured for keeping the focusing surface at a temperature at which accumulation of work function lowering particles on the focusing surface is prevented.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a cathode arrangement comprising: a cathode body housing an emission surface for emitting electrons in a longitudinal direction, wherein the emission surface is bounded by an emission perimeter; a focusing electrode at least partially enclosing the cathode body in a transversal direction and comprising an electron transmission aperture for focusing the electrons emitted by the emission surface, wherein the aperture is bounded by an aperture perimeter, wherein the cathode body is moveably arranged within the focusing electrode over a maximum transversal distance from an aligned position, and wherein the aperture perimeter transversally extends over the emission surface and beyond the emission perimeter over an overlap distance that exceeds the maximum transversal distance.
Abstract:
A dispenser cathode which comprises an emission surface, a reservoir for material releasing, when heated, work-function-lowering particles, and at least one passage for allowing diffusion of work-function-lowering particles from said reservoir to said emission surface, said emission surface comprising at least one emission area and at least one non-emission area covered with emission-suppressing material and surrounding each emission area, said non-emission area comprising at least one passage connecting said reservoir with said non-emission area and debouching within a diffusion length distance from an emission area for allowing diffusion of work-function-lowering particles from said reservoir to said emission area.
Abstract:
A cathode system includes an impregnated pellet and a conductive cup, which has substantially cylindrical sides. The conductive cup has an open end sized to receive the impregnated pellet and a closed end. The closed end has an internal surface and an external surface. The cathode system also includes a second conductive cup. The second conductive cup also has substantially cylindrical sides, an open end and a closed end. The cathode system further includes a similar third conductive cup. The three conductive cups are electrically coupled together. For construction of the cathode, the first conductive cup receives the impregnated pellet following coupling of the three conductive cups.
Abstract:
An impregnated type cathode unit and a manufacturing method therefor wherein a porous metal base and a cup member can be firmly joined together without using any interposition and the occurrence of weld defects can be eliminated to improve the reliability and yield of welding between the porous metal base and the cup member. The impregnated type cathode unit is composed of a porous metal base (11) impregnated with an electron emissive material and a cup member (12) for holding the porous metal base (11) so as to cover the bottom surface and side surface of the porous metal base (11) and expose the front surface of the porous metal base (11). A nonporous dense portion (14) is formed on the bottom surface of the porous metal base (11). The bottom portion of the cup member (12) is pressed to be deformed so as to follow the shape of the dense portion (14), thereby forming a close contact region (16). The bottom portion of the cup member (12) and the dense portion (14) of the porous metal base (11) are welded together at the close contact region (16).
Abstract:
There is provided an impregnated-type cathode substrate comprising a large particle diameter low porosity region and a small particle diameter high porosity region which is provided in a side of an electron emission surface of the large particle diameter low porosity region and has an average particle diameter smaller than an average particle diameter of the large particle diameter low pore region and a porosity higher than a porosity of the large particle diameter low porosity region, the impregnated-type cathode being impregnated with an electron emission substance.
Abstract:
An impregnated cathode whose initial electron emitting performance, lifetime property, and insulating property for an electron gun are excellent and that is suitable for mass production, and a method for manufacturing the same. In the impregnated cathode, the porosity of the sintered body of porous metal is continuously increased as the distance in the depth direction from an electron emitting face is increased. A pellet of sintered body of metal raw material has pores in it. The pores are filled with electron emitting material. The porosity is continuously increased as the distance in the depth direction from an electron emitting face is increased. Thus, since the discontinuity inside the pellet is not formed, a reaction generating free Ba continuously and smoothly proceeds on the entire pellet. In addition, since raw material powder having more than one kind of particle size is not necessary to be used, the manufacturing process can be simplified. Moreover, various functions such as lifetime property, etc. can be improved by making the porosity and porosity distribution in a certain range.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an impregnated cathode structure for a cathode ray tube and its manufacturing method, in which electron emitting material impregnated in a pellet is free from an effect of the welding heat generated when the pellet is secured to a heater sleeve. The impregnated cathode structure has a pellet assembly including a pellet and a pellet fixing sheet. The pellet is attached to a first surface of the pellet fixing sheet, which has a plurality of protuberances. The pellet is manufactured by pressing and sintering, and impregnating electron emitting material into the porous of the pellet. The pellet sleeve is inserted in and welded to a heater sleeve. A heater sleeve is welded to a second surface of the pellet fixing sheet, which is opposite to the first surface.
Abstract:
A method is provided of preparing an impregnated cathode with enhanced thionic emission from a porous billet by impregnating the billed with a suitable impregnant in the presence of an oxygen deficient compound. Additives such as Ir, Os, and Rh react in such a way as to increase emission by reacting to generate oxygen deficient compounds such as WO.sub.2. Moreover, intermediate oxygen sufficient products formed in the chemical reactions can be used as impregnants providing they generate oxygen deficient compounds in the presence of the active emissive material.
Abstract:
An impregnated cathode including an electron emissive substance in a porous matrix of a metal having a high melting point and a heat resistive property, is manufactured by mixing (S2) powder of the metal and the electron emissive substance in a dry state into cathode forming powder, press-shaping (S3) the cathode forming powder into a shaped body, sealing (S4) the shaped body in a reaction vessel to provide a sealed vessel, and subjecting (S5) the shaped body in the sealed vessel to a hot isostatic press (HIP) to provide a sintered body of the cathode forming powder, wherein the substance comprises a barium aluminate compound represented by a chemical formula of:(pBaO.qCaO).nBaAl.sub.2 O.sub.4,where p represents an integer which is not less than one, q representing an integer which is not less than zero, n representing an integer which is not less than one. Preferably, the HIP is carried out at a temperature between 900.degree. C. and 1400.degree. C. for twenty minutes with the sealed vessel placed in an argon atmosphere of 1500 atmospheres. The cathode preferably includes the substance in a ratio which is greater than 5.7% by weight and is not greater than 13.8% by weight.