Amplifier Patents (Class 381/28)
  • Patent number: 4503554
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an audio signal reproduction system having one or more of the following features: (1) a loudspeaker having (a) a flat frequency response and (b) a predetermined power response; (2) two loudspeakers adapted to be positioned relative to one another so that they reproduce a stereophonic image substantially independent of the listener's position along a listening line spaced from the loudspeakers and nonintersecting a line extending between the two speakers; (3) an improved cross-over network having a substantially constant input impedance as a function of frequency; (4) a power sensor for sensing the power applied to a transducer so that audio signals are transmitted over a first signal path through the system when the sensed power is above a predetermined minimum level, and over a second path when the sensed power falls below the minimum level; (5) a power monitoring circuit to prevent a loudspeaker driver from being overdriven; and (6) a circuit for substantially balancing the signal
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1985
    Assignee: dbx, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark F. Davis
  • Patent number: 4466116
    Abstract: A circuit for processing an angle modulated signal having amplitude modulation signal components in stereophonic broadcasting systems. An inverse modulation of a signal to be detected is provided over a first signal amplitude range, and a constant signal level is provided over a remaining range for signals having a marginal amplitude level. The discontinuity in the control range avoids noise expansion for high negative amplitude modulator levels for the signal to be angle modulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1984
    Assignee: Magnavox Consumer Electronics Company
    Inventor: Robert D. Streeter
  • Patent number: 4409436
    Abstract: An AM stereophonic receiver including a stereophonic pilot signal eliminating circuit which substantially completely eliminates a pilot signal in an input stage of a matrix detector. A received AM stereophonic signal, of the type in which the carrier signal is phase-modulated with a sub-signal and amplitude modulated by a main signal, is coupled to a main signal detector and a sub-signal detector. The output of the sub-signal detector is coupled through a band amplifier which produces as an output a signal corresponding to the pilot signal contained in the stereophonic signal. The outputs of the sub-signal detector and main signal detector are coupled to inputs of adder/subtractor circuit in a matrix detector while the output of the band amplifier is also coupled thereto in a phase so as to cancel the pilot signal contained in the output of the sub-signal detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1983
    Assignee: Pioneer Electronic Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuo Numata, Akira Nishioka, Hitoshi Hirata