CRT electron gun assembly

Claim 1

An improvement in a plural beam bi-potential in-line electron gun assembly embodying a center and two-side-related guns, said assembly including electron generating means formed to emit a plurality of separately controlled electron beams of substantially differing current levels when used in a color cathode ray tube having a forwardly oriented electron-responsive screen, each of said guns being formed of an arrangement of a plurality of related electrode members positioned in a spaced sequential manner forward of a rear-oriented cathode member to conjunctively effect control, initial acceleration, focusing and final acceleration of each beam, said improvement being structural dimensional differentiations in said gun assembly comprising: constructional differentiation of at least the center gun structure of said assembly wherein the beam current level associated therewith is greater than that of said side-related guns, the focusing electrode member of said center gun having a greater length and an output portion of a larger diameter than the comparable dimensions of said side-related guns in conjunction with a sequentially adjacent acceleration electrode having a substantially like aperture diameter to provide for the formation of a final focusing lens of increased diameter and reduced spherical aberration oriented interspatially between the respective focusing and final acceleration electrode members of said center gun, said structural differentiation providing operational improvement in the focusing of the high current center beam to a spot size at the screen substantially equalling the spot sizes of the associated beams emanating from the side-related guns of said assembly.