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US2302520A
US2302520A US338201A US33820140A US2302520A US 2302520 A US2302520 A US 2302520A US 338201 A US338201 A US 338201A US 33820140 A US33820140 A US 33820140A US 2302520 A US2302520 A US 2302520A
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  • ⁇ lto detector systems employed in the reception of carrier frequency transmissions of sound, telegraph, facsimile, and television signals or the like. although its use is particularly advantageous in the reception of television transmissions.
  • a detector-amplifier circuit a source of modulated carrier signals, automatic gain control means for maintaining the amplitude of said signals substantially constant, a diode and load therefor for rectifying said signals, a vacuum tube ampliiier having a sharp cut-off characteristic, and galvanic coupling means for coupling said diode load to the input of said ampliiler.
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of one embodiment of the invention.
  • Figs. 2 and 3 are certain explanatory diagrams.
  • a portion of a superheterodyne television receiver which is supplied with carrier signal from a suitable antenna l.
  • the receiver may include the usual radio frequency amplifier, frequency converter, and intermediate frequency amplifier, and these units are represented collectively at 2.
  • the output of the nal intermediate frequency amplifier stage may be coupled, by way of a suitable coupling means, such as the transformer 3, to a detector which may comprise a diode V1 and a suitable load 4-5.
  • the detector output is galvanically coupled to a modulation-frequency ampliiier V2 having a relatively sharp plate-current cut-oir as opposed to the remote cut-ofi of the so-called variable mu amplifiers.
  • the signal suitable signal ultilization means such as an electronic picture reconstituting device or the like.
  • synchronizing signals may be derived from the anode of Vn, but are preferably taken from the screen circuit of Va, as illustrated.
  • the particular screen pick-of! circuit shown forms the subject of the copending application Serial No. 337,508, led May 27, 1940.
  • the cathode load additionally has the desirable property of. straightening that part of the tubes characteristic which lies above the cut-ofi point, with the further advantage of minimizing the possibility of overloading by increasing the input voltage swing winch the amplifier can handle.
  • Fig. 2 there is represented a modulated carrier wave television signal having an envelope 'l.
  • 'I'his signal is modulated in the negative sense, i. e., the blanking pulses 8 and the synchronizing pulses 9 extend in the direction of increased carrier amplitude or black, while the picture signals which lie between the blanking pulses, represent increasing light level in the direction of decreasing carrier amplitude. This is known as negative modulation.
  • the carrier signal illustrated is detected by means of a diode rectifier, an output signal is obtained as shown at l0 in Fig. 3. Since the detected signal is taken from the anode of the diode V1, the signal will correspond to the envelope of the negative half of the modulated carrier wave shown in Fig. 2.
  • the noise pulse amplitude will be limited to that of the synchronizing pulses, and due to the shorter duration of the average noise pulse its energy will be small compared to the energy in the synchronizing pulse.
  • the noise pulses extend in the black direction, it is desirable to limit their amplitude to within a reasonable limit in order to prevent transients due to shock excitation which may produce white spots on the viewing screen.
  • the A. G. C. system may be of any type which is capable of maintaining the amplitude Es of the modulated carrier signal input to V1 substantially constant in order that the detected synchronizing peaks II may coincide substantially with the cut-ofi level I2 of the amplifier V2 as hereinbefore explained.
  • the A. G. C. system should function efliciently over the usual range of signal amplitudes which may normally be encountered.
  • the A. G. C. voltage generator I4 may be coupled, by means of a small condenser I5; to a point on the transformer 3, while the A. G. C. voltage may be supplied by way of the lead I6 to the gain control electrodes of the amplifiers comprising the amplifier-converter section 2.
  • the detector circuit per se may take any of a number of different forms.
  • a small inductor I'I has been included in series with the load resistor 5 in order to improve the detector loading at the high modulation frequencies.
  • a peaking coil I8 may be employed, as shown, and designed to resonate with the input capacity I9 of the amplifier V2 at some high modulation frequency.
  • the said winding has been connected between ground and detector cathode, while the detector load 4--5-I1 is connected directly between ground (through battery I3) and the detector anode.
  • the advantage of this connection is that the distributed capacity to ground of the transformer 3 is divorced from the detector load circuit, whereas ⁇ in the more conventional connection this distributed capacity is in shunt with the detector load. Where the modulation frequencies encountered may be very high, as they are in television, it is important that all undesired shunt capacities be reduced to a minimum.
  • a circuit comprising a modulated carrier signal source, automatic gain control means for maintaining the maximum signal amplitude substantially constant at said level, a diode and a load circuit therefor for rectifying the signal, a vacuum tube amplifier having a relatively sharp cut-off characteristic, galvanic coupling means for coupling said diode load to the input of said amplifier, and means for biasing said amplifier so as to establish plate current cut-off thereof substantially at the level established by said automatic gain control means, whereby noise signals are limited in amplitude to the said level.
  • a system as claimed in claim l characterized in that said vacuum tube amplifier is provided With an unbypassed cathode load resistor, thereby sharpening the cut-off characteristic of said amplifier.
  • a system as claimed in claim l characterized in that said galvanic coupling means includes a peaking coil.
  • a system as claimed in claim l characterized in that the automatic gain control means comprises a voltage generator whose input is coupled to the high potential side of said modulated carrier signal source, and whose output is connected to gain control elements of a carrier signal amplifier.
  • a circuit comprising a modulated carrier signal source having low and high potential terminals, automatic gain control means for maintaining the maximum signal amplitude substantially constant at said level, a diode and a load circuit therefor for rectifying the signal, said diode load circuit being connected between the low potential terminal of said signal source and the diode anode,l the high potential terminal of said source being connected to the diode cathode, a vacuum tube amplier having a relatively sharp cut-off characteristic, galvanic coupling means for coupling said diode load to the input of said amplifier, and means for biasing said amplifier so as to establish plate current cut-off thereof substantially at the level established by said automatic gain control means, whereby noise signals are limited in amplitude to the said level.
  • a circuit for maintaining the synchronizing peaks of the signal at a certain level and for preventing noise signals from exceeding said level comprising automatic gain control means for maintaining the synchronizing peaks substantially at said' level, a diode and a load circuit therefor for rectifying the signal, a vacuum tube amplifier having a relatively sharp cut-off characteristic,
  • galvanic coupling means for coupling said diode load to the input of said amplier, and means for biasing said amplifier so as to establish plate current cut-off thereof substantially at the level established by said automatic gain control means, whereby noise signals are limited in amplitudeI to the said level.

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Nov. 17, 1942.
F. J. BINGLEY 2,302,520
DETECTOR COUPLING CIRCUIT Filed May 5l, 1940 :lill f,
Patented Nav. 11, i942 UNITED STATES, PATENT OFFICE 2.302.520" nE'rEcron comme. cmcmr Frank James Bingley, Philadelphia, Pa., assigner to Philco Radio and Telcvisi on Corporation.
Philadelphia, Pa., a corporation of Delaware Application May 31, 1940, Serial No. 338,201 In Great Britain June 8, 1939 (Cl. P18-7.3)
9Claims.
` lto detector systems employed in the reception of carrier frequency transmissions of sound, telegraph, facsimile, and television signals or the like. although its use is particularly advantageous in the reception of television transmissions.
In television systems wherein very low frequencies, aswell as the so-called direct current components are transmitted. it is desirable to employ direct or galvanic coupling between the output circuit of the detector and the input circuit of the following ampliiier. 'Ihe present invention provides means for efficiently limiting the amplitude of the detected signals while simultaneously providing such a direct coupled system.
According to this invention there is provided in a detector-amplifier circuit, a source of modulated carrier signals, automatic gain control means for maintaining the amplitude of said signals substantially constant, a diode and load therefor for rectifying said signals, a vacuum tube ampliiier having a sharp cut-off characteristic, and galvanic coupling means for coupling said diode load to the input of said ampliiler.
The invention may best be understood by reference to the yaccompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of one embodiment of the invention; and
Figs. 2 and 3 are certain explanatory diagrams.
Referring to Fig. l, there is represented a portion of a superheterodyne television receiver which is supplied with carrier signal from a suitable antenna l. The receiver may include the usual radio frequency amplifier, frequency converter, and intermediate frequency amplifier, and these units are represented collectively at 2. The output of the nal intermediate frequency amplifier stage may be coupled, by way of a suitable coupling means, such as the transformer 3, to a detector which may comprise a diode V1 and a suitable load 4-5. In the preferred embodiment, the detector output is galvanically coupled to a modulation-frequency ampliiier V2 having a relatively sharp plate-current cut-oir as opposed to the remote cut-ofi of the so-called variable mu amplifiers.
The signal suitable signal ultilization means, such as an electronic picture reconstituting device or the like. synchronizing signals may be derived from the anode of Vn, but are preferably taken from the screen circuit of Va, as illustrated. The particular screen pick-of! circuit shown forms the subject of the copending application Serial No. 337,508, led May 27, 1940.
InN order to sharpen the'cut-off characteristic,
of the amplifier V2 it is preferably provided with an uli-bypassed cathode load resistor 6. The cathode load additionally has the desirable property of. straightening that part of the tubes characteristic which lies above the cut-ofi point, with the further advantage of minimizing the possibility of overloading by increasing the input voltage swing winch the amplifier can handle.
'I'he invention may be clearly understood by referring to Figs. 2 and 3. In Fig. 2 there is represented a modulated carrier wave television signal having an envelope 'l. 'I'his signal is modulated in the negative sense, i. e., the blanking pulses 8 and the synchronizing pulses 9 extend in the direction of increased carrier amplitude or black, while the picture signals which lie between the blanking pulses, represent increasing light level in the direction of decreasing carrier amplitude. This is known as negative modulation. When the carrier signal illustrated is detected by means of a diode rectifier, an output signal is obtained as shown at l0 in Fig. 3. Since the detected signal is taken from the anode of the diode V1, the signal will correspond to the envelope of the negative half of the modulated carrier wave shown in Fig. 2.
Il' the maximum amplitude E of the modulated carrier wave can be maintained substantially constant it will follow that the maximiun amplitude Ep of the detector output will likewise remain substantially constant. It is therefore an important feature of this invention to provide an automatic gain control system (hereinafter A. G. C.) of such eiiiciency that the synchronizing peaks Il of the detector output shall occur at a constant level l2 which may be adjusted to coincide approximately with the plate current cut-oil level of the amplier V2 by means of a suitable biasing means I3. The result of this arrangement is that noise pulses which accompany themodulated carrier signal, and which have an amplitude greater than that of the carrier signal, will be limited by the sharp cut-oil action of l V2 to an amplitude no greater than that of the synchronizing peaks Il, which level output of the ampliiier V2 may be applied to a 55 is that indicated at l2. The polarity or phase of the detected signal I will, of course, be reversed in the amplifier V2, but the relative voltage levels will not change.
The use of a galvanic connection between' the detector load and amplifier input, in conjunction with a television system in which the socalled direct current component is transmitted, insures that the setting of the bias voltage source I3, once made, need not thereafter be readjusted.
The amplitude limiting action of this system will obviously prove advantageous to both the synchronizing and video frequency channels. In the synchronizing channel, the noise pulse amplitude will be limited to that of the synchronizing pulses, and due to the shorter duration of the average noise pulse its energy will be small compared to the energy in the synchronizing pulse. In the video channel, although the noise pulses extend in the black direction, it is desirable to limit their amplitude to within a reasonable limit in order to prevent transients due to shock excitation which may produce white spots on the viewing screen.
The A. G. C. system may be of any type which is capable of maintaining the amplitude Es of the modulated carrier signal input to V1 substantially constant in order that the detected synchronizing peaks II may coincide substantially with the cut-ofi level I2 of the amplifier V2 as hereinbefore explained. The A. G. C. system should function efliciently over the usual range of signal amplitudes which may normally be encountered. If desired the A. G. C. voltage generator I4 may be coupled, by means of a small condenser I5; to a point on the transformer 3, while the A. G. C. voltage may be supplied by way of the lead I6 to the gain control electrodes of the amplifiers comprising the amplifier-converter section 2.
The detector circuit per se may take any of a number of different forms. In the particular embodiment illustrated, a small inductor I'I has been included in series with the load resistor 5 in order to improve the detector loading at the high modulation frequencies. To improve the coupling at these higher frequencies, a peaking coil I8 may be employed, as shown, and designed to resonate with the input capacity I9 of the amplifier V2 at some high modulation frequency.
Instead of grounding the detector cathode, and connecting the secondary winding of transformer 3 between the high potential end of the detector load and detector anode as is customary, the said winding has been connected between ground and detector cathode, while the detector load 4--5-I1 is connected directly between ground (through battery I3) and the detector anode. The advantage of this connection is that the distributed capacity to ground of the transformer 3 is divorced from the detector load circuit, whereas `in the more conventional connection this distributed capacity is in shunt with the detector load. Where the modulation frequencies encountered may be very high, as they are in television, it is important that all undesired shunt capacities be reduced to a minimum.
Although the invention has been described with particular reference to signals employing negative modulation, it will be obvious that the same principles are applicable to transmissions employing positive modulation, or to ordinary sound broadcasts. Moreover, while the invention has been described with particular reference to the accompanying drawings, it will be understood that the invention is capable of various forms of physical expression and is therefore not to be limited to the specific disclosure.
I claim:
1. In a modulated carrier signal system in which it is desired to maintain the maximum output signal amplitude at a certain level and to prevent noise signals from exceeding said level, a circuit comprising a modulated carrier signal source, automatic gain control means for maintaining the maximum signal amplitude substantially constant at said level, a diode and a load circuit therefor for rectifying the signal, a vacuum tube amplifier having a relatively sharp cut-off characteristic, galvanic coupling means for coupling said diode load to the input of said amplifier, and means for biasing said amplifier so as to establish plate current cut-off thereof substantially at the level established by said automatic gain control means, whereby noise signals are limited in amplitude to the said level.
2. A system as claimed in claim l, characterized in that said vacuum tube amplifier is provided With an unbypassed cathode load resistor, thereby sharpening the cut-off characteristic of said amplifier.
3. A system as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that said detector load circuit comprises a capacitor, a resistor, and a small inductor.
4. A system as claimed in claim l, characterized in that said galvanic coupling means includes a peaking coil.
5. A system as claimed in claim l, characterized in that the automatic gain control means comprises a voltage generator whose input is coupled to the high potential side of said modulated carrier signal source, and whose output is connected to gain control elements of a carrier signal amplifier.
6. In a modulated carrier signal system in which it is desired to maintain the maximum output signal amplitude at a certain level and to prevent noise signals from exceeding said level, a circuit comprising a modulated carrier signal source having low and high potential terminals, automatic gain control means for maintaining the maximum signal amplitude substantially constant at said level, a diode and a load circuit therefor for rectifying the signal, said diode load circuit being connected between the low potential terminal of said signal source and the diode anode,l the high potential terminal of said source being connected to the diode cathode, a vacuum tube amplier having a relatively sharp cut-off characteristic, galvanic coupling means for coupling said diode load to the input of said amplifier, and means for biasing said amplifier so as to establish plate current cut-off thereof substantially at the level established by said automatic gain control means, whereby noise signals are limited in amplitude to the said level.
7. A system as claimed in claim 6, characterized in that the junction between said source and said load circuit is connected to a point having substantially no radio frequency voltage to ground.
8. In a television-receiver adapted to receive a negatively modulated carrier signal, a circuit for maintaining the synchronizing peaks of the signal at a certain level and for preventing noise signals from exceeding said level, comprising automatic gain control means for maintaining the synchronizing peaks substantially at said' level, a diode and a load circuit therefor for rectifying the signal, a vacuum tube amplifier having a relatively sharp cut-off characteristic,
galvanic coupling means for coupling said diode load to the input of said amplier, and means for biasing said amplifier so as to establish plate current cut-off thereof substantially at the level established by said automatic gain control means, whereby noise signals are limited in amplitudeI to the said level.
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FRANK JAMES BINGLEY.
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US2829197A (en) * 1951-02-16 1958-04-01 Avco Mfg Corp Noise limiter for television receiver
US2907822A (en) * 1952-04-17 1959-10-06 Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co Interference reduction in television and other communication systems
US2978539A (en) * 1954-12-16 1961-04-04 Pye Ltd Interference limiters
US3003027A (en) * 1956-08-24 1961-10-03 Philips Corp Circuit arrangement for demodulating and subsequently amplifying television signals modulated onto a carrier
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US3340357A (en) * 1961-05-17 1967-09-05 Motorola Inc Television video detector circuit comprising variable load means for controlling frequency response
US3535444A (en) * 1968-05-13 1970-10-20 Rca Corp Noise immune video circuits
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US2480511A (en) * 1944-09-29 1949-08-30 Rca Corp Scanning circuit
US2829197A (en) * 1951-02-16 1958-04-01 Avco Mfg Corp Noise limiter for television receiver
US2907822A (en) * 1952-04-17 1959-10-06 Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co Interference reduction in television and other communication systems
DE1161948B (en) * 1952-12-22 1964-01-30 Loewe Opta Ag Amplifier circuit for picture voltages
US2978539A (en) * 1954-12-16 1961-04-04 Pye Ltd Interference limiters
US3003027A (en) * 1956-08-24 1961-10-03 Philips Corp Circuit arrangement for demodulating and subsequently amplifying television signals modulated onto a carrier
US3340357A (en) * 1961-05-17 1967-09-05 Motorola Inc Television video detector circuit comprising variable load means for controlling frequency response
US3535444A (en) * 1968-05-13 1970-10-20 Rca Corp Noise immune video circuits
US3781698A (en) * 1972-05-30 1973-12-25 Gen Electric Voltage ratio discriminator
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