Color picture tube shadow mask having improved mask aperture pattern
CA 2189814 C · Owner: Good, Andrew · Inventors: Good, Andrew; Marks, Bruce George
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A color picture tube has a rectangular shadow mask mounted therein in spaced relation to a viewing screen. A major axis passes through the center of the mask and parallels the long sides thereof, and a minor axis passes through the center of the mask and parallels the short sides thereof. The mask has an aperture array that includes slit-shaped apertures aligned in columns that essentially parallel the minor axis and end at a border of the aperture array. Adjacent apertures in each column are separated by tie bars in the mask that are longitudinally offset from column to adjacent column. The spacing from tie bar to tie bar in a column is the tie bar pitch at a location on the mask. A first …
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- Filed November 7, 1996 and granted June 20, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 7, 2016.
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