Internal magnetic shield for cathode ray tube

Claim 1

A color cathode ray tube for use in a color television receiver and comprising: a. an enclosed envelope including a face plate, a funnel portion and a neck portion, said face plate being of a substantially rectangular shape including four sides and four corners; b. a phosphor screen disposed on the internal surface of said plate and including blue, green and red phosphors; c. electron gun means disposed within said neck portion of said envelope to generate a beam of electrons toward said screen; d. shadow mask means, disposed in said envelope opposite to said phosphor screen, for determining the landing positions of said beam of electrons on said phosphor screen; e. magnetic shield means, positioned within the funnel portion of said envelope, for reducing the effects of terrestrial magnetism and undesirable magnetic fields on said beam of electrons, said magnetic shield means comprising a magnetic shield body formed of sheet magnetic metal material, said magnetic shield body including four non-apertured, laterally spaced corner walls corresponding to said four corners of said faceplate. Each of said corner walls being secured at a first end thereof to said shadow mask means, said magnetic shield body further comprising non-apertured bridge sections located within said funnel portion and integrally joined with and connecting second ends of at least a portion of adjacent of said corner walls; f. said magnetic shield means being positioned within a funnel region within said envelope surrounding a path along which said beam of electrons from said electron gun means travels to said phosphor screen, said funnel region including four side portions corresponding to said four sides of said face plate and four corner portions corresponding to said four corners of said face plate, said funnel region extending from a first end thereof adjacent said shadow mask means to a second end thereof spaced from said shadow mask means, said four corner walls of said magnetic shield body being positioned within said four side portions of said funnel region, said bridge sections of said magnetic shield body being positioned within said side portions of said funnel region; g. the peripheral area of said funnel region between said corner walls and not occupied by said magnetic shield body comprising apertures extending through said funnel region, the total area of said apertures being equal to from 20 to 70% of the total area of the peripheral surface of said funnel region.