Patent · US Expired

Display tube having improved brightness distribution

US4804884A · kind A · utility

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42Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateMay 1, 1987
Grant dateFeb 14, 1989
Priority date
Expiry dateMay 1, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01J29/28
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A projection television system comprising an array of three projection television display tubes (14) luminescing in red, green and blue, a focusing lens (16) associated with each tube and a display screen (12) on which the respective optical images are merged to form a single multicolored image. At least one of the display tubes (14) has a multilayer interference filter (46) between the phosphor (30) and the faceplate (20). In order to imprve the light output at the corners of the display screen (12), the cut-off angle of the first filter layers is varied between the center and the corners thereof, for example by increasing the optical thickness of the filter layers relative to the center.

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