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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7385341 | Cathode-ray tube apparatus with magnetic spacers between magnetic rings A plurality of magnet rings for correcting a convergence are arranged in a tube axis direction with spacers interposed therebetween, on an outer circumferential surface of a neck. A velocity modulation coil for modulating a scanning velocity in a horizontal directio... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7372195 | Electron beam source having an extraction electrode provided with a magnetic disk element An electron beam source for use in an electron gun. The electron beam source includes an emitter terminating in a tip. The emitter is configured to generate an electron beam. The electron beam source further includes a suppressor electrode laterally surrounding the ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7354970 | Polyvinyl chloride copolymer paste resin, composition thereof, and method for making the resin A novel polyvinyl chloride copolymer paste resin comprising a copolymer of a vinyl chloride monomer and a macromonomer of the present invention can be synthesized with high productivity, and can provides a plastisol having high gelation properties, storage stability... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7315113 | Color cathode-ray tube and method for producing the same A conductive film isolated from an inner conductive film is formed on an inner wall of a neck. Assuming that, among a plurality of focusing electrodes constituting an electron gun, a position in a tube axis direction of an end on an anode side of an anode-side focus... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315112 | Color cathode-ray tube apparatus An insulating frame of a deflection yoke is fixed to a funnel with a metal band and a metal screw. A partition formed so as to be integrated with a holder holding a magnet ring of a CPU includes a first partition provided on a first axis so as to hide the metal scre... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7309953 | Electron beam pumped laser light source for projection television An electron beam pumped laser including a surface-emitting laser faceplate oriented at a non-perpendicular angle. Embodiments are described in which a bending coil bends the electron beam, or in which the faceplate is situated in the direct path of the e-beam emissi... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7286764 | Reconfigurable modulator-based optical add-and-drop multiplexer An optical add and drop multiplexer system comprising a first module for providing a first signal; a second module for providing a second signal; and a modulator for receiving a channel of the first signal at a first location, the first location configured to actuat... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7274135 | Color picture tube apparatus with particular deflection yoke structure A deflection yoke includes ferrite core, horizontal deflection coil, vertical deflection coil, and insulating frame for insulating the horizontal and vertical deflection coils. The deflection yoke has a cross section that satisfies the following A to C. A: A plurali... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7262563 | Method and apparatus for providing a dynamic rotational alignment of a cathode ray tube raster A method and apparatus used to step and correct the position of raster lines in a sinusoidal or zig-zag deflection system. By combining the magnetic flux generated with a rotation “twister” coil and a vertical deflection coil, scan lines can be uniformly spaced ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7227301 | Cathode-ray tube device capable of reducing misconvergence A cathode-ray tube device including a deflection yoke for deflecting an electron beam emitted from an electron gun in horizontal and vertical directions. The deflection yoke has a vertical deflection coil that deflects the electron beam vertically. The vertical defl... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7205559 | Electron beam apparatus and device manufacturing method using same An electron beam apparatus including an electron gun for directing a plurality of primary electron beams onto a sample, an objective lens for forming an electric field to accelerate a plurality of secondary electron beams emitted from the sample, and a separator for... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7177081 | High contrast grating light valve type device A grating light valve has with a plurality of spaced reflective ribbons are spatially arranged over a substrate with reflective surfaces. The grating light valve is configured to optimized the conditions for constructive and destructive interference with an incident... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7126292 | Cathode-ray tube apparatus A deflection coil for deflecting an electron beam emitted from an electron gun is provided outside a cathode-ray tube in which the electron gun is housed, and a phosphor screen is formed. The cathode-ray tube further includes a velocity modulation coil for modulatin... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7122950 | Cathode ray tube having magnetic pieces at predetermined locations within the electron gun components The present invention relates to a color cathode ray tube and electron gun, and more particularly, to a color cathode ray tube and electron gun to improve deflection aberration efficiently using magnetic material formed at the electron gun and to improve a resolutio... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7105996 | Electron gun for color CRT An electron gun for a color CRT includes a main focusing lens unit that focuses the electron beams generated by a triode unit. The main focusing lens unit includes a first and a second electrostatic screen grid having three electron beam through holes linearly-arran... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7078853 | Deflection apparatus for cathode ray tube A deflection apparatus for a cathode ray tube includes a horizontal deflection coil, a vertical deflection coil positioned external to the horizontal deflection coil, an insulating member interposed between the horizontal and the vertical deflection coils, and a cor... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7075075 | Charged particle deflecting system The invention provides a deflecting system for deflecting a charged particle beam from a first direction to a second direction, the deflecting system comprising a first deflector for deflecting said charged particle beam off the first direction within a first deflec... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7071606 | Color picture tube A color picture tube in which an electron gun emits three electron beams arranged in line, in which the diameter of the spot (26) at the center of the screen in the in-line direction is smaller than that in the direction perpendicular to the in-line direction... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068372 | MEMS interferometer-based reconfigurable optical add-and-drop multiplexor The interferometer comprises a beam splitter, a mirror and a phase modulator. The beam splitter splits a signal into a first portion and a second portion. The mirror reflects the first portion. The first portion includes an optical path length, which is fixed. The p... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7057819 | High contrast tilting ribbon blazed grating The light modulator includes elongated elements and a support structure coupled to the elongated elements. Each element includes one or more lengthwise slits within an active optical area, and a light reflective planar surface with the light reflective planar surfac... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054515 | Diffractive light modulator-based dynamic equalizer with integrated spectral monitor An integrated device of the present invention comprises free-space optics, a bi-directional multiplexor/de-multiplexor, a diffractive light modulator, a beam splitter, an optical performance monitor, and a controller. The free-space optics collimate, transform and i... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7049164 | Microelectronic mechanical system and methods The current invention provides for encapsulated release structures, intermediates thereof and methods for their fabrication. The multi-layer structure has a capping layer, that preferably comprises silicon oxide and/or silicon nitride, and which is formed over an et... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7042611 | Pre-deflected bias ribbons A modulator for and a method of modulating an incident beam of light including means for supporting a plurality of active elements and a plurality of bias elements, each active and bias element including a light reflective planar surface with the light reflective pl... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7027202 | Silicon substrate as a light modulator sacrificial layer An optical MEM device is fabricated with a patterned device layer formed on a silicon wafer. Preferably, the patterned device layer is patterned with plurality of ribbons and/or access trenches. The central portion of the ribbon is released from the silicon wafer us... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6956995 | Optical communication arrangement An arrangement for optical communication comprises an optical coupler, an opto-electronic board, and an optical fiber. The optical fiber comprises a first refraction surface, a second refraction surface, and an internal reflector. The first refraction surface has a ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6954027 | Flat panel display having a horizontal deflection electrode with horizontally oriented electron beam deflection areas The present invention relates to a flat panel display, and more particularly, to a flat panel display in which the main skeletal structure of a horizontal deflecting electrode is arranged in a horizontal direction to enhance structural strength and the structure of ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6952077 | Electron gun for cathode ray tube An electron gun for a cathode ray tube includes a cathode for radiating electron beams, a scanning velocity modulation coil for synchronizing the electron beams with an image signal, a focus electrode having first and second sub-electrodes disposed with a gap throug... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6947613 | Wavelength selective switch and equalizer A device comprising a light modulator including a plurality of elements wherein each element is selectively operable such that the plurality of elements are dynamically configurable to combine selected ones of a plurality of grating periods such that selected portio... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6933667 | Deflection yoke having short-circuited coil in convergence yoke portion The invention provides a deflection yoke device comprising a main yoke portion 4 for deflecting an electron beam emitted by an electron gun, and a convergence yoke portion 5 for adjusting the convergence of the electron beam. The convergence yoke porti... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6934070 | Chirped optical MEM device A light modulator comprises a series of ribbons divided by a series of gaps. Sequences of consecutive ribbons and gaps are grouped together to form a plurality of pixels that are configured to process a respective plurality of wavelengths. The spacing from center-li... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6928207 | Apparatus for selectively blocking WDM channels An apparatus for selective blocking WDM channels comprises a light modulator, a diffraction grating, and a transform lens. The light modulator comprises an array of pixels. Each pixel of the light modulator is selectively operable to direct light into a first mode a... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6927891 | Tilt-able grating plane for improved crosstalk in 1×N blaze switches A light modulator includes elongated elements arranged parallel to each other. Each elongated element includes a light reflective planar surface with the light reflective planar surfaces configured in a first grating plane. A support structure is coupled to the elon... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6922011 | Deflection system for cathode ray tubes The present invention relates to a display device comprising a cathode ray index tube (1) having a neck portion (1″) and a screen portion (1). The display device comprises an electron gun assembly (3) for generating a plurality of elect... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6922272 | Method and apparatus for leveling thermal stress variations in multi-layer MEMS devices A MEMS device such as a grating light valve™ light modulator is athermalized such that the force required to deflect the movable portion of the MEMS device remains constant over a range of temperatures. In MEMS embodiments directed to a grating light valve™ ligh... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6908201 | Micro-support structures A MEM device in accordance with the invention comprises one or more movable micro-structures which are preferably ribbon structures or cantilever structures. The ribbon structures or cantilever structures are preferably coupled to a substrate structure through one o... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6891340 | Tracking picture tube The present invention relates to a tracking picture tube of the type in which comb-shaped electrodes or optical detecting means (12, 13) are used for generating a signal related to the position of an electron beam with respect to the strips (5). The tu... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6882096 | Active landing control system for raster based devices Correction of electron beam landing misalignment in a raster-type display is undertaken without using the usual set of coils, but rather by superimposing a landing misalignment correction signal on the already-existing velocity modulation (VM) coil or on another coi... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6833679 | Method for forming an image on a screen of a cathode ray tube Apparatus and method are provided for using a multi-element field emission cathode in a color cathode ray tube. The field emission cathode may have from four to ten field emission arrays linearly arranged. The arrays are preferably formed from carbon-based material.... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6831400 | Color cathode ray tube apparatus having auxiliary magnetic field generator An electron gun assembly of a color cathode ray tube emits at least one electron beam having an oblong cross-sectional shape extending substantially in the horizontal direction, and emits three electron beams in a substantially non-convergent state toward the centra... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6825603 | Deflection yoke structure for cathode ray tube The present invention relates to a cathode ray tube having a deflection yoke including a circular ferrite core and a deflection coil whose cross-section is in a rectangular shape for improving a deflection sensitivity of the cathode-ray tube, and more particularly t... | 11/30/2004 |
