Including Solid-state Switch Patents (Class 315/408)
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Patent number: 5287042Abstract: A selectable aspect ratio raster is generated on a CRT with a 16:9 aspect ratio screen by a deflection yoke and deflection amplifier. The deflection amplifier is coupled in a non-floating configuration to the deflection yoke. This permits a switching arrangement to control the horizontal deflection amplitude by the selectable addition of inductance in series, with the yoke. The switching arrangement also controls other deflection circuit parameters to provide optimum raster correction at the selected aspect ratio.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 1992Date of Patent: February 15, 1994Assignee: RCA Thomson Licensing CorporationInventor: Peter E. Haferl
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Patent number: 5285133Abstract: A deflection current circuit having reduced power requirements. A switch 33 is controlled by a control circuit 71 in association with the horizontal deflection period. A switch 73 is controlled by the control circuit 72 in synchronization with the horizontal deflection period modulated by the vertical deflection period. Switch 33 is turned off in the retrace interval, and during the period in which the switch 33 is in the off-state, the switch 73 is turned off for a predetermined period. The off-period of the switch 73 is modulated by the vertical deflection period to produce greater horizontal deflection in the center of the screen.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 1992Date of Patent: February 8, 1994Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Toshiyuki Ogura
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Patent number: 5260628Abstract: A vertical deflection distortion correction circuit, wherein there are provided a vertical deflection output circuit, a damping circuit, a vertical deflection yoke and a resonance circuit. A current is resonated in the resonance circuit, and on the other hand, a vertical deflection current is derived from the vertical deflection output circuit and supplied to the vertical deflection yoke. Then, the resonated current is superimposed on the vertical deflection current. The superimposed vertical deflection current is finally supplied to the vertical deflection yoke. The resonance circuit is constructed of an LC parallel circuit and a switching element circuit. The switching element circuit is compose of either FETs, or thyristors.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 1992Date of Patent: November 9, 1993Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Seiji Kawaberi, Takeshi Shoji
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Patent number: 5229692Abstract: A differential amplifier formed by a pair of transistor couples a vertical sawtooth signal to an input side of a vertical deflection amplifier. Nonlinearity of the transistor pair provides linearity or S-correction in the vertical direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1992Date of Patent: July 20, 1993Assignee: Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc.Inventor: James A. Wilber
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Patent number: 5194784Abstract: In a deflection apparatus which corrects for inside barrel distortion, a horizontal deflection winding and a retrace capacitance form a retrace resonance circuit during a retrace interval. A trace capacitance forms a trace resonant circuit with the deflection winding during the trace interval. A circuit branch, that includes a second capacitance and an inductance, is coupled to the deflection winding, during the trace interval. The circuit branch forms a second resonant circuit with the trace capacitance having a resonance frequency that is higher than a frequency of a deflection current in the deflection winding. A current in the circuit branch, that is modulated in a vertical rate, modulates the deflection current in a manner to reduce inside barrel distortion.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 1992Date of Patent: March 16, 1993Assignee: RCA Thomson Licensing CorporationInventor: Luc Tripod
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Patent number: 5182504Abstract: Organ pipes distortions, caused by parasitic ringing in a horizontal deflection current are suppressed by forming a current pulse in a current injection arrangement. The current pulse is coupled to a junction terminal between a terminal of the horizontal deflection winding where a high retrace pulse voltage is developed and a low voltage terminal of a linearity correction inductance. A high voltage terminal of the linearity correction inductance is coupled to a horizontal output transistor. The current pulse begins prior to the end of retrace and ends during the trace interval.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1992Date of Patent: January 26, 1993Assignee: RCA Thomson Licensing CorporationInventor: Peter E. Haferl
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Patent number: 5177411Abstract: A CRT correcting circuit comprises a correcting deflection coil excited by an alternating signal of a vertical period, a capacitor connected in parallel to the correcting deflection coil to form a resonance circuit, a first field effect transistor of a first conduction type, and a second field effect transistor of a second conduction type. The first and second field effect transistors are turned on and off simultaneously by a pulse signal of a horizontal period. The CRT correcting circuit is capable of operating at a low power consumption and has a simple circuit construction.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 1991Date of Patent: January 5, 1993Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Kazuo Kii
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Patent number: 5161241Abstract: A power supply circuit for a CRT display device includes a low-voltage power supply switching circuit for supplying power to a horizontal oscillation circuit of the CRT display device, and a high-voltage power supply switching circuit for supplying power to high-voltage circuits of the CRT display device. The low-voltage power supply switching circuit includes an oscillator and a switching transistor. The oscillator is triggered by an output of the horizontal oscillation circuit, and the conductive state of the switching transistor is controlled according to an output of the oscillator. The high-voltage power supply switching circuit includes a switching transistor. The conductive state of the switching transistor of the high-voltage power supply switching circuit is controlled according to an output of the low-voltage power supply switching circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1991Date of Patent: November 3, 1992Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Toshio Kanai
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Patent number: 5157310Abstract: A changeover circuit for a retrace capacitor switches ON/OFF a retrace capacitor for generating retrace pulses. The retrace pulses are necessary for preferable horizontal or vertical scanning in a TV picture tube, a mounting display or the like. A relay for opening/closing the connection between the retrace capacitor and the ground is provided and the ON/OFF operation of the relay is controlled by a control circuit. A diode is provided in parallel to the relay so as to suppress the on-state resistance and the negative inrush current.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1991Date of Patent: October 20, 1992Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Noriaki Matsuo
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Patent number: 5155417Abstract: An S-shaped correction capacitor switching devices are applied to automatic tracking monitors. An automatic tracking monitor is a monitor display device which can cope with various horizontal frequencies to be capable of being connected to various types of personal computers. The control means judges the frequency of a horizontal synchronizing signal of a device being handled, and based on the result of the judgment it decides the combination of capacitors to be connected to a deflection coil. Furthermore, it adjusts the combination of capacitors corresponding to adjustment data, thereby the distortion on an image caused by the dispersion of capacitance values among individual capacitors can be prevented.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1991Date of Patent: October 13, 1992Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masaru Tateishi
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Patent number: 5142206Abstract: A horizontal oscillator, responsive to an on/off control signal, generates an output signal that is coupled via a driver stage to a control terminal of a horizontal deflection output transistor. During a transition interval that follows a standby mode of operation, the duty cycle of the oscillator output signal is reduced relative to when a run mode of operation occurs to provide soft-start operation.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1991Date of Patent: August 25, 1992Assignee: Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc.Inventor: Robert J. Gries
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Patent number: 5138240Abstract: In order to supply a constant base current to a horizontal-deflection output transistor for driving a horizontal-deflection circuit, a current source circuit for supplying a constant current and an impedance element circuit are both connected to the base of the transistor via a voltage source circuit. The current source circuit and the impedance element circuit are alternately switched on (or off) by receiving drive pulses.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 1991Date of Patent: August 11, 1992Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tatsuhisa Shimura
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Patent number: 5111121Abstract: A boost capacitor has a first terminal that is coupled to a retrace capacitor of a horizontal deflection circuit. A diode couples a trace voltage in an S-shaping capacitor to the boost capacitor to charge the boost capacitor during trace. A second diode rectifies a voltage that is equal to the sum of the boost capacitor voltage and a retrace voltage developed in the retrace capacitor for generating a screen grid voltage for a cathode ray tube.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 1991Date of Patent: May 5, 1992Assignee: Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Robert J. Gries, Marvin N. Norman
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Patent number: 5107190Abstract: Reduced transient power dissipation and reduced variation of the transient power dissipation are obtained in high frequency power amplifiers, e.g., CRT horizontal deflection amplifiers, by sampling the amplifier output at and/or during the turning-off interval (e.g., during the storage time when transient power dissipation is still low and optionally also during turn-off when transient dissipation is large) and then, after a suitable delay, feeding back a signal proportional to the sampled output to the amplifier input driver to control the magnitude of the input drive during a subsequent amplifier-on interval. The desired delay corresponds approximately to the intervening amplifier-off interval.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 1990Date of Patent: April 21, 1992Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventors: Warren I. Schultz, Denise M. Williams
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Patent number: 5089756Abstract: A driver stage of a horizontal deflection output transistor includes a transformer having a first winding coupled to an input signal at a horizontal deflection frequency, a second winding coupled across a base-emitter junction of the output transistor and a third winding coupled to the emitter of and in series with the output transistor. The third winding couples the emitter current to the base of the output transistor for supplying a substantial portion of the base current during the second half of trace.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 1991Date of Patent: February 18, 1992Assignee: RCA Thomson Licensing CorporationInventor: Bruno E. Hennig
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Patent number: 5087863Abstract: A driver stage of a horizontal deflection output transistor includes a transformer having a first winding coupled to a collector of a second, driver transistor responsive to an input signal at a horizontal deflection frequency. A second winding of the transformer is coupled across a base-emitter junction of the output transistor and a third winding is coupled to the emitter of and in series with the output transistor. The third winding couples the emitter current to the base of the output transistor for supplying a substantial portion of the base current during the second half of trace. A feedback network is coupled between a trace capacitor coupled to a horizontal deflection winding and the collector of the driver transistor for preventing abnormal steady state operation in the output transistor.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 1991Date of Patent: February 11, 1992Assignee: Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc.Inventor: Leroy W. Nero
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Patent number: 5068581Abstract: Horizontal deflection circuits are disclosed which permit high-frequency operation through use of conductivity modulation MOS FET devices. Distortion of the horizontal deflection coil voltage is avoided by inclusion of compensation means utilizing an inductance to produce delay in the increase in magnitude of current flow during reverse recovery current flow. Use of a compensation means including an inductor and diode in parallel combination provides additional benefits of oscillation suppression.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1990Date of Patent: November 26, 1991Assignee: Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Nishiura, Naoki Kumagai, Yasukazu Seki
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Patent number: 5059874Abstract: A horizontal deflection and high voltage regulation system for CRT displays and television receivers utilizes a single horizontal output transistor driving a conventional deflection yoke and high voltage transformer. A diode modulator and pulse width modulating system is coupled to the horizontal deflection yoke to provide control of horizontal scan size. A separate diode modulator and pulse width modulator is coupled to the horizontal transformer. A comparator is coupled to a resistive high voltage divider to produce an error voltage indicative of CRT anode voltage. The error voltage thus developed is applied to the diode modulator and pulse width modulator operative upon the high voltage transformer to control high voltage in response to changes of CRT beam current loading imposed thereon.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1990Date of Patent: October 22, 1991Assignee: Zenith Electronics CorporationInventor: Kirk D. Oliver
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Patent number: 5051668Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 1, 1990Date of Patent: September 24, 1991Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Seiji Kawaberi, Junzo Watanabe, Hitoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 5049792Abstract: There is disclosed a circuit for stablizing the high voltage of the high voltage generating circuit in a CRT according to the change of the horizontal oscillating frequency, comprising a diode, the cathode of said diode being connected to the intermediate terminal of a flyback transformer (FBT), the anode of said diode being connected to first resistor and a variable resistor, a first transistor, the base of the said first transistor being connected to the intermediate terminal of said variable resistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, the collector of said first transistor being connected through a grounded second resistor to the base of said third transistor, the collector of said third transistor being connected to the base of said second transistor, the collector of said second transistor being connected to a direct current source, and a fourth transistor, the emitter of said second transistor being connected through the primary coil of said flyback transformer to the collector of said fourth traType: GrantFiled: June 12, 1990Date of Patent: September 17, 1991Assignee: Samsung Electron Devices Co., Ltd.Inventor: Changseog Oh
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Patent number: 5032770Abstract: A voltage of a high voltage power source for accelerating an electron beam of a CRT varies responding to brightness of an image on a screen of the CRT, and a deflection angle of the electron beam is varied accordingly, the variation of the voltage is detected and is superimposed on a direct current power source voltage of a horizontal deflection circuit, hence a horizontal deflection output current of the horizontal deflection circuit is varied and the deflection angle of the electron beam is regulated to compensate the variation of the deflection angle due to the voltage variation of the high voltage power source.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 1989Date of Patent: July 16, 1991Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akihiko Hayase
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Patent number: 5023525Abstract: A deflection circuit for providing magnetic deflection of a cathode ray tube including resonant retrace, including circuitry to minimize the variations in intensity of the image at the beginning of the deflection period after the end of the retrace period, which variation may be caused by parasitic resonances excited by slow turn on of the flyback deflection clamping diode. The circuit enables the flyback clamping diode to begin conduction prior to the end of the retrace period so that the deflection clamping diode is substantially fully conducting and the voltage across the magnetic deflection coil is substantially constant at the end of the retrace period. Thus, a uniform transition is made from retrace to linear deflection and screen intensity variations are avoided.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 1990Date of Patent: June 11, 1991Assignee: MegaScan Technology, Inc.Inventor: J. Stanley Kriz
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Patent number: 5019754Abstract: A horizontal deflection circuit comprising a horizontal output transistor, and a drive circuit is connected between the base and the emitter of the horizontal output transistor to supply a base drive voltage to the horizontal output transistor in order to control the conduction between the collector and the emitter of the horizonal output transistor, wherein first and second switching means are provided in parallel between the base of the horizontal output transistor and the drive circuit (or between the emitter of the horizontal output transistor and the drive circuit), the first switching means permitting only the current to flow from the base of the horizontal output transistor to the drive circuit (or from the drive circuit to the emitter of the horizontal outut transistor) and the second switching means being conductive only during the conductive period of the horizontal output transistor.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 1989Date of Patent: May 28, 1991Assignees: Hitachi Video Engineering, Inc., Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Onozawa, Michitaka Ohsawa, Katsuhiko Tonami
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Patent number: 5017844Abstract: Active turn-off or disabling circuits respond to control signals from a control unit which defines the mode of operation of a receiver. In response to a designation of a standby mode of operation the active disabling unit actively disables a pulse width modulator to prevent pulses from being produced based upon an input of ringing signal. In addition, the active disabling circuits prevent such ringing signal from negatively effecting pincusion protection circuits. The ringing signal is produced in a horizontal flyback transformer during a transition interval that follows a transition to standby mode of operation.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1990Date of Patent: May 21, 1991Assignee: RCA Licensing CorporationInventor: Jeffery B. Lendaro
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Patent number: 5016156Abstract: A high voltage stabilizing circuit comprises a high voltage generating circuit (FBT, D1) for boosting a pulse voltage (Vcp) generated from a horizontal deflection circuit (Q1, D2, Ct", Ly, Cs) during a flyback period of a horizontal deflection pulse, a flyback period control circuit (Q2, C.sub.B, Rv, Ct') for performing switching operation only during the flyback period to control the flyback period, so that the high voltage (HV) is controlled, and a switching control resistor (Rv) for controlling the period of its switching operation.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 1984Date of Patent: May 14, 1991Inventor: Atsuhisa Ogawa
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Patent number: 5012164Abstract: In a horizontal deflection and EHT generator circuit, the supply line is connected directly to one end of the primary winding of the EHT transformer through a series switching element, and a unidirectional element connects that end of the primary winding to the supply line to enable energy recovery to the supply line through the unidirectional element during and following retrace.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 1990Date of Patent: April 30, 1991Assignee: Microvitec plcInventors: John Butterfield, Stephen Moorhouse, Stewart Marlow
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Patent number: 4990834Abstract: A circuit arrangement for a picture display device for generating an essentially sawtooth-shaped line deflection current with a trace and a retrace through a deflection coil, which circuit arrangement comprises a series circuit of a trace capacitor, the line deflection coil and a bidirectionally conducting, line frequency-controlled switch which is conducting during the trace time and is not conducting during the retrace time, in which retrace time the deflection coil and a retrace capacitor are part of a resonant network. The series circuit also comprises a voltage source, while the losses in the series circuit are so low that the sum of the DC components of the voltage of the source and of the voltage across the trace capacitor is many times higher, at least 5 times, than the amplitude of the AC component of the source. The deflection current is given a desired variation by means of three controls.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 1989Date of Patent: February 5, 1991Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventor: Age J. Van Dalfsen
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Patent number: 4988927Abstract: A deflection circuit for a television picture tube comprises a horizontal generator producing a first, symmetrical output current. A corrective current is generated from the first output current. The corrective current and the first output current change in value oppositely to one another at times. A vertical generator produces a second output current. The second output current and the corrective current are summed to form a composite current having a stairstep configuration. An amplitude control circuit for the composite current adjusts horizontal segments of the stairstep. A composite control signal for the amplitude control circuit is developed from the horizontal and vertical generators. A vertical sweeping coil is coupled to the amplitude control circuit and controlled by the composite current.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 1989Date of Patent: January 29, 1991Assignee: Deutsche Thomson-Brandt GmbHInventor: Manfred Spruck
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Patent number: 4980616Abstract: A method and apparatus for driving inductive elements, such as deflection coils for a CRT, including a resonant bus, a bus capacitor, and at least two inductive branches grouped in a pair and connected to the bus, each inductive pair including serially-connected one of the inductive elements and a diode means, the diode means in one branch being connected in reverse direction relative to the other diode in the other branch to allow current flow in the one branch to flow from the resonant bus and to allow current flow in the other branch to flow to the resonant bus to produce a sine-squared current in each of the branches inverted with respect to the other and to produce a sinusoidal current in the bus capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1990Date of Patent: December 25, 1990Assignee: Laboratory For Imaging Sciences, Inc.Inventor: Thomas D. Kegelman
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Patent number: 4965496Abstract: A deflection switch of a horizontal deflection circuit is coupled to a retrace resonant circuit that includes a horizontal deflection winding and a first retrace capacitance. A flyback transformer primary winding is coupled to a junction terminal of the deflection switch and the resonance circuit. An East-West modulation current is generated by a bidirectional second switch having a conduction time that is phase modulated during horizontal retrace at a vertical rate in a parabolic manner. The second switch is coupled in series with the first switch during the entire trace interval. To prevent an over-current condition when the current in the second switch exceeds a predetermined first level, the second switch is turned off and interrupts the flow of current through the deflection switch.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 1989Date of Patent: October 23, 1990Assignee: RCA Licensing CorporationInventor: Peter E. Haferl
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Patent number: 4958110Abstract: A television receiver in which a high voltage detection circuit detects the FBT output voltage which is supplied to the cathode ray tube, a comparison circuit compares the detected voltage with a reference voltage, and the supply voltage to the FBT is controlled by a control signal which represents the result of comparison. The control signal provided by the comparison circuit is also used to control the supply voltage to a drive circuit which injects base carriers to a high voltage generating transistor, so that a proper drive control takes place automatically depending on the load condition of the high voltage.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1990Date of Patent: September 18, 1990Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akihiko Hayase
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Patent number: 4956587Abstract: A source-voltage controlling high voltage stabilizer for detecting the high voltage and controlling the source voltage, while providing a detector detecting the envelope of a horizontal deflection current, wherein the deflection current is stabilized as the voltage distribution of two scanning capacitors in a diode modulation type output stage and is so controlled that a coincidence is attained between the wave form of the output signal and that of the horizontal deflection current modulation signal. The source voltage supplied to the input side of the flyback transformer is controlled in such a manner that the high voltage obtained from the output side of the flyback transformer is maintained constant, and the circuit further has a variation detector for detecting the variation in the source voltage, wherein the detected variation component is applied to one of the junctions of the modulation coil.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1989Date of Patent: September 11, 1990Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kouji Kitou, Makoto Onozawa
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Patent number: 4954757Abstract: Disclosed herein is a linear deflection amplifier which is suitable for processing horizontal sweep signals for driving a magnetic deflection yoke of a radar CRT PPI (Plan Position Indicator) display. The amplifier features a transadmittance feedback where output current follows input voltage. Flyback resonance is derived by a shunt capacitor coupled to an FET switch. Low cross-over distortion and temperature compensation of components within the system is achieved by use of a modified class B power MOSFET push-pull configuration.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 1988Date of Patent: September 4, 1990Assignee: Hughes Aircraft CompanyInventor: Ted W. Berwin
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Patent number: 4926098Abstract: A bi-directional scanning system for a CRT is disclosed comprising: a vertical CRT deflection coil, a horizontal CRT deflection coil; two class-E switchmode amplifiers which are connected in a push-pull arrangement to convert a positive DC voltage and a negative DC voltage to a generally sinusoidal current for operating the horizontal CRT deflection coil; and a staircase voltage generator for operating the vertical CRT deflection coil.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 1989Date of Patent: May 15, 1990Assignee: Zenith Electronics CorporationInventor: Albert G. Tarrillo
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Patent number: 4906903Abstract: In the horizontal output circuit, a horizontal output transistor is coupled at the base with a drive pulse signal having negative peaks recurring at the horizontal periods of a television signal from a horizontal drive circuit. The emitter-collector path of the transistor is connected in parallel with a series circuit, a damper diode, and a resonant capacitor. The series circuit includes a horizontal deflecting coil and an S-distortion correcting capacitor. The collector of the transistor is connected through a flyback transformer to a DC power source. A parallel circuit is connected between the emitter of the transistor and a reference potential point. The parallel circuit is made up of a capacitor and a diode. The diodes are connected in a back-to-back manner. A series circuit including a choke coil and a capacitor is connected across the capacitor. A modulating source is connected across the capacitor of the smoothing circuit.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 1988Date of Patent: March 6, 1990Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Masashi Ochiai
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Patent number: 4906904Abstract: A solid-state switch in a deflection circuit includes a plurality of field-effect transistors (Q7, Q8, and Q9) connected in series. Each of the transistors (Q7, Q8, and Q9) is part of a switching module (20, 22, and 24) in the form of a three-terminal transistor circuit. Two of the modules (20 and 22) are connected to a common gating terminal (12) solely by diodes (D6 and D7) oriented so as (a) to conduct current in the direction required to provide a turn-on signal for the transistors (Q7 and Q8) but (b) to isolate the common gating terminal (12) from the high voltages experienced by the transistors (Q7 and Q8) when they are in their non-conducting states.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 1989Date of Patent: March 6, 1990Assignee: Digital Equipment CorporationInventor: Keith I. Tognoni
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Patent number: 4897581Abstract: A horizontal deflection circuit which including a horizontal output transistor; a damper diode connected in parallel with the horizontal output transistor; a resonant capacitor connected in parallel with the damper diode; a horizontal deflection coil connected in parallel with the horizontal output transistor; and a series resonant circuit connected in parallel with the resonant capacitor. The series resonant circuit is constituted by a series connection of a capacitor and an inductor to perform composite resonance in cooperation with the resonant capacitor. The capacitor and the inductor of the series resonant circuit are designed to have a tertiary resonant frequency. The composite resonance by means of the series resonant circuit and the resonant capacitor enables the top of the flyback pulse to be flattened, so that the waveform of the flyback pulse becomes near the form of rectangular wave.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 1989Date of Patent: January 30, 1990Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masanori Oguino, Takeo Yamada, Miyuki Ikeda
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Patent number: 4897580Abstract: A transformer coupled amplifier drive circuit (60) and method especially suited for providing a saw-tooth current waveform to an inductive load (32) for horizontal deflection applications in CRT monitors and the like are described. The transformer primary (48) is coupled between the power source connection (11) and the input of the amplifier (26) while the transformer secondary (50) has an opposite polarity terminal coupled to the input of the amplifier (26) through an inductor (52) and the other terminal of the secondary (50) coupled to the common terminal (15) of the amplifier (26) through a diode (56).When the input switch (44) is closed, the input of the amplifier (26) is energized by a current (65) through the series connected primary (48) and energy is stored in the transformer magnetizing field and in the amplifier (26). Conduction in the transformer secondary (50) is blocked by the diode (56).Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 1989Date of Patent: January 30, 1990Assignee: Motorola Inc.Inventor: Warren J. Schultz
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Patent number: 4891565Abstract: A field deflection circuit in a picture display device including a sawtooth generator for generating an essentially sawtooth-shaped voltage. The circuit is provided with a storage element in which information is stored under the influence of applied clock pulses. Per field period the number of times when the content of the storage element is changed is reduced to a predetermined number, e.g. because a number of clock pulses is omitted. The clock pulses applied to the sawtooth generator are then distributed as regularly as possible.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1988Date of Patent: January 2, 1990Assignee: U. S. Philips CorporationInventors: Hendrik Ten Pierick, Edward M. Ponte, Alko F. E. De Vries
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Patent number: 4890043Abstract: A line deflection stage includes a line oscillator (LO), a driver (DR) and a line output transistor (TR1) the collector of which is connected through the parallel arrangement of a switching transistor (TR2) and a diode (D3) to a line deflection coil (Ly) and a scan capacitor (C.sub.s). The deflection coil (Ly) and scan capacitor (C.sub.s) are shunted by a diode (D2) while a flyback capacitor (C.sub.f) is connected across the emitter-collector path of transistor (TR1). The line oscillator (LO) output is also applied to an input of a flyback time controller (TC) which produces a pulse output under the control of a control input (C). This pulse output is amplified by a further transistor (TR3) and an associated transformer (T) and applied to the base of transistor (TR2) to cut this transistor off for a controlled part of the flyback period to prevent the flyback capacitor from immediately discharging and hence extend the flyback period.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 1988Date of Patent: December 26, 1989Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventor: Alan J. Davie
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Patent number: 4884012Abstract: A vertical deflection current generator includes an operational amplifier responsive to an input sawtooth signal at a vertical rate. A first end terminal of a deflection winding is coupled to an output terminal of the amplifier. A second end terminal of the deflection winding is coupled in series with a parallel arrangement of a switch and a capacitor. The switch is conductive during vertical trace. During vertical retrace, the switch is nonconductive that causes a vertical retrace voltage to develop in a flyback manner in the retrace capacitor. The retrace voltage in the retrace capacitor and a retrace voltage at the output terminal of the amplifier that are opposite in phase speed up the reversal of a deflection current in the deflection winding.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 1988Date of Patent: November 28, 1989Assignee: RCA Licensing CorporationInventor: Giovanni M. Leonardi
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Patent number: 4871951Abstract: A picture display device, having a line synchronizing circuit and a line deflection circuit, suitable for several line frequencies. Use is made of a modulator for modulating the line deflection current, a control stage being coupled to this modulator for applying a correction signal for correcting, in dependence on the frequency of a line oscillator in the line synchronizing circuit, the S-distortion or the linearity error, respectively, or to keep the amplitude of the line deflection current constant upon a change in the line frequency.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 1988Date of Patent: October 3, 1989Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventor: Dirk J. A. Teuling
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Patent number: 4868466Abstract: During a power-up mode of a television receiver power supply, a first run supply voltage is generated by rectifying a retrace voltage in a flyback transformer of a horizontal output stage of the television receiver. The rectified voltage is coupled through a resistor and a diode to a power supply voltage receiving terminal of a load circuit. A voltage regulator that includes a pass transistor regulates the voltage at the terminal during both the power-up and standby modes. During the power-up mode, when the ambient temperature is higher than during the standby mode, the current in the transistor is lowered, as a result of a current that is coupled to the terminal via the diode. This reduces the power dissipation in the transistor during the power-up mode. A second transistor, having a base electrode that is coupled to the anode of the diode, generates a second run supply voltage that is temperature compensated at an emitter electrode of the transistor.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 1988Date of Patent: September 19, 1989Assignee: RCA Licensing CorporationInventor: Jeffery B. Lendaro
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Patent number: 4864197Abstract: A horizontal deflection circuit for controlling the horizontal deflection of an electron beam in a cathode ray tube used, for example, in a video display. The circuit uses a plurality of MOSFET transistors, which are switched on and off in unison for switching between a scan mode and a retrace mode, the MOSFET transistors being cascaded to accommodate the high voltage levels which are developed during retrace. A retrace capacitor and retrace diode are connected between the source and drain terminals of each MOSFET transistor to ensure that the voltages are divided among the transistors so that the entire voltage does not appear across any single one if they do not all switch at precisely the same time.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1987Date of Patent: September 5, 1989Assignee: Digital Equipment Corp.Inventor: John J. Fitzgerald
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Patent number: 4864196Abstract: A line scanning circuit supplying a sawtooth current to a deflection coil and producing auxiliary voltages by way of a transformer. The currents through the coil and the windings of the transformer are both switched simultaneously by the same interrupter, but these inductances are separated by diodes and are each associated with an arrangement formed by a diode and a retrace capacitor to supply the current during the line retrace and the beginning of the trace of the scan. The transformer and the coil are fed independently of each other to allow a variation of the scanning amplitude without a change of the E.H.T.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 1988Date of Patent: September 5, 1989Inventors: Richard Dauvillier, Henri Giordano
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Patent number: 4843285Abstract: A regulator coupled to the main supply voltage generates a B+ scan voltage for a horizontal flyback transformer of a horizontal deflection circuit. A supply voltage is developed from a trace voltage in a flyback transformer secondary winding. The supply voltage is indicatiave of the horizontal deflection current amplitude. A decrease in mains supply voltage that cannot be compensated by the regulator, causes a corresponding decrease in the B+ scan and supply voltage and in a horizontal deflection current amplitude. The supply voltage is applied to the series arrangement of first and second resistors and a zener diode. A control voltage developed from the supply voltage, at a junction of the first and second resistors, is applied to a control terminal of a vertical deflection circuit for controlling the amplitude of the vertical deflection current. A decrease in the control voltage produces a greater proportional decrease in the vertical deflection current.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 1988Date of Patent: June 27, 1989Assignee: Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Lin T. Chin, James A. Wilber
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Patent number: 4841201Abstract: A stacked or laminated-layer type of flyback transformer includes a plurality of high voltage windings wound in regular order in a direction of the winding axis and arranged on the same core cylinder. The high voltage windings in the respective layers are connected in series with each other by diodes and so that a voltage is generated with a direction of stacking of these windings. A winding start position of the first layer high voltage winding nearest a primary winding is lagged with respect to the winding start positions of the second layer winding and subsequent layer winding. The winding start position of the first layer winding is selected to be the position of, for example, 0 to 25% when the winding width on the core cylinder is 100%.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 1987Date of Patent: June 20, 1989Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuyoshi Takizawa, Kiyoshi Watanuki
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Patent number: 4831311Abstract: A high voltage stabilization curcuit for a multi-frequency horizontal deflection circuit in a video monitor or receiver and having a plurality of supply voltages applied to the flyback transformer of the deflection circuit through the operation of a pair of series connected switching circuits whereby different amplitude power supply voltages are coupled to the primary winding of the flyback transformer depending upon the horizontal drive frequency being utilized. The high voltage output across the secondary winding of the flyback transformer is stabilized through a feedback circuit which senses the output across the secondary winding of the flyback transformer to increase the amplitude of the horizontal drive applied to the primary winding when the high voltage output across the secondary winding decreases by means of a boost circuit coupled to the horizontal output circuit coupled to the primary winding.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 1987Date of Patent: May 16, 1989Assignee: Goldstar Co., Ltd.Inventor: Geun J. Yug
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Patent number: 4829414Abstract: A circuit for generating a constant DC high voltage responsive to an input signal having various frequencies, having a frequency-voltage converter responsive to the input signal to generate a voltage signal corresponding to the frequency of the input signal. The voltage signal is applied to an oscillation circuit and a voltage control circuit, respectively, as a control signal. The output from the oscillation circuit is coupled to one terminal of a primary coil of a flyback transformer (FBT), and the output from the voltage control circuit is coupled to the other terminal of the primary coil of the flyback transformer (FBT).Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 1987Date of Patent: May 9, 1989Assignee: Goldstar Co., Ltd.Inventor: Keun J. Yook
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Patent number: 4827194Abstract: A high voltage generator of a television receiver includes a high voltage transformer having primary and high voltage windings. The high voltage winding is coupled to an ultor terminal of a picture tube via a high voltage rectifier. Retrace pulses applied to the primary winding are stepped up by the high voltage winding for generating an ultor voltage. A source of supply voltage is coupled to a current resupply terminal of the high voltage winding and produces voltage pulses at the resupply terminal having amplitudes which vary in accordance with ultor voltage loading. An envelope detector is coupled to the resupply terminal for envelope detecting amplitude variations of the voltage pulses to develop a size control signal which follows loading induced variations in ultor voltage. The size control signal is coupled to a scanning current modulator, such as a diode modulator, for modulating the scanning current in a manner that regulates the raster size.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1988Date of Patent: May 2, 1989Assignee: Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc.Inventor: Ronald E. Fernsler