Patents by Inventor Junzo Watanabe

Junzo Watanabe has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6326743
    Abstract: An appartus for adjusting the correction amount of a horizontal linearity and suppressing the amplitude of a horizontal deflection current in an image display device. A switching element 11 is provided between both ends of an S-curve correction capacitor 5 connected in series to a horizontal deflection coil 4, and by turning on this switching element 11 during a horizontal retrace period to discharge the S-curve correction capacitor 5, and controlling also the ON time of this switching element 11, the linearity in the horizontal period is corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Kikuchi, Junzo Watanabe, Hidetaka Honji
  • Patent number: 6222329
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a circuit for permitting stable operation of horizontal deflection output, and comprises: a first parallel circuit P1 composed of a first switching element 11, a first damper diode 12 and a first resonance capacitor 13; a second parallel circuit P2 composed of a second switching element 21, a second damper diode 22 and a second resonance capacitor 23; a horizontal deflection yoke 2 connected to the second parallel circuit P2; a flyback transformer 1; an integration circuit 16 operative to synthesize pulses from the first and second parallel circuits P1, P2 to generate deflection current and to integrate inputted horizontal deflection drive signal; first and second comparison•latch circuits 17, 27 for respectively comparing signal from the integration circuit 16 with first and second levels to latch comparison results; first and second drive circuits 19, 29 for respectively driving the first and second switching elements 11, 21; and a control element for controlling the secon
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Kikuchi, Junzo Watanabe, Hidetaka Honji, Susumu Otaki
  • Patent number: 6222328
    Abstract: A horizontal deflection circuit capable of performing various corrections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Kikuchi, Junzo Watanabe, Hidetaka Honji
  • Patent number: 6124686
    Abstract: A horizontal deflection circuit is provided in which a large retrace pulse voltage applied to a horizontal deflection yoke can be taken to reduce the deflection current and which is capable of easily performing horizontal image size adjustment and distortion adjustment. A parallel connection of a switching element, a damper diode, and a resonance capacitor is connected in series to a parallel connection of another switching element, another damper diode, and another resonance capacitor, and power is supplied from the connection point via a fly-back transformer. The comparison value of the retrace pulse voltages applied across both ends of the switching elements is fed back through a switching element control circuit to the switching element so that the deflection current of the horizontal deflection yoke is controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Kikuchi, Junzo Watanabe, Ban Kawamura, Hidetaka Honji
  • Patent number: 5428271
    Abstract: There is provided a sine wave deflecting circuit having a resonance circuit comprising a deflecting coil and a resonance capacitor and a circuit for detecting a signal waveform of the resonance circuit and for driving the resonance circuit on the basis of the detection signal, in which the deflecting coil is sine-wave driven by the self-oscillation. A rectangular wave driving circuit which is constructed by connecting first and second switching elements such as FETs through a capacitor is provided at one end of the deflecting coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1995
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junzo Watanabe, Hitoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5349274
    Abstract: In a dual direction horizontal bi-directional scan circuit, deterioration of the picture quality is prevented, while linearity is improved without supplying wasteful deflecting current, and pin distortion is corrected. The deflecting current in the going scan and in the returning scan are supplied to each deflecting coil by first and second resonance circuits, and capacitors substantially the same in capacitance are provided in the first and second resonance circuits to bias the deflecting voltage so that the terminal voltage and the power source voltage of the capacitors are synchronized to the vertical synchronizing signals to produce a parabolic modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1994
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junzo Watanabe, Akihiro Ueyama, Ban Kawamura
  • Patent number: 5341072
    Abstract: At a horizontal deflecting circuit of bi-directional deflection, timings of deflection of forward scan path and backward scan path are respectively controlled. The timing of deflection of forward path or backward path is controlled at the first timing control circuit 22 so that it is synchronized with the horizontal synchronizing signal HD and timing of deflection of backward path or forward path is controlled at the second timing control circuit 24 so that deflection cycles of forward path and backward path are equalized.Further, timings of deflection of forward scan path and backward scan path are controlled respectively at first and second phase comparison circuits 22 and 24 so that the relation in phase between the image signal and the deflection takes a constant value on the basis of the horizontal synchronizing signal, to previously prevent occurrence of steady phase error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1994
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junzo Watanabe, Akihiro Ueyama, Ban Kawamura
  • Patent number: 5331532
    Abstract: A coil (11) is connected in series to a primary winding (1a) of a flyback transformer (1). A series circuit of a capacitor (15) and a switching circuit (12) is connected in parallel to the coil (11). By turning on and off the switching circuit (12), the connection of the capacitor (15) to the coil (11) is switched, to thereby connect or disconnect the coil (11) in an AC fashion. Therefore, it is possible to realize a high voltage regulating circuit which can be made inexpensive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1994
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Iwai, Seiji Kawaberi, Akihiro Ueyama, Junzo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 5051668
    Abstract: A sine wave deflecting circuit has a simplified configuration capable of ensuring an efficient and stable operation with a function of facilitating external synchronization. The deflecting circuit comprises a resonant circuit comprising a deflecting coil and a resonant capacitor, and a circuit for detecting a signal waveform of the resonant circuit and driving the resonant circuit in accordance with the detection signal, wherein the deflecting coil is driven with sine waves generated by self-oscillation. A deflection interruption time is set during the driving action, and the sine-wave driving frequency is controlled by controlling the length of such interruption time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1991
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Kawaberi, Junzo Watanabe, Hitoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 4868464
    Abstract: In a horizontal deflection output circuit adapted for correction of horizontal linearity in a television receiver or the like, and which comprises a switching transistor, a damper diode, a horizontal deflecting coil and an S correcting capacitor connected in series to the horizontal deflecting coil; the terminal voltage of the S correcting capacitor is modulated by a sawtooth signal produced by a linear distortion correcting circuit synchronously with a horizontal periodic signal. The sawtooth signal produced by the switching transistor and fed to the horizontal deflecting coil is applied to the S correcting capacitor which feeds an S correcting current to the horizontal deflecting coil, so as to correct the image distortion caused particularly by the resistance component of the horizontal deflecting coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1989
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junzo Watanabe, Seiji Kawaberi