US2458315A

US2458315A - Method and apparatus for reproduction of angular magnetic recording

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Publication number: US2458315A
Application number: US591675A
Authority: US
Inventors: David E Sunstein
Original assignee: Philco Ford Corp
Current assignee: Space Systems Loral LLC
Priority date: 1945-05-03
Filing date: 1945-05-03
Publication date: 1949-01-04
Anticipated expiration: 1966-01-04

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DAVID E. SUNSTEIN mwzi ATTORNEYS Patented Jan. '4, 1949 OFFICEV METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRODUC- TION OF ANG'ULAR MAGNETIC RECORD- ING David E. Sunstein, Elkins Park, Psi, assignor to Philco Corporation, a c

vania orporation of Pennsyl- Application May 3, 1945, Serial No. 591,675

18 Claims. (01.179-1002) My invention relates to systems for recording More the magnetic flux at right angles to the axis of the wire is caused to vary along the wire in accordance with the tones of the sound being recorded. In this transverse method of recording the magnetic flux goes from one side of the wire through the wire to the other side, and thus on one side of the wire there will be a north pole 2 in it, and the one which previously had zero flux through it would have maximum flux through it, and consequently, maximum induced voltage. At first thought, it might appear that a simple addition of the voltages from these two coils would provide a solution to the problem. This, however, is not so, since there is a special position of the wire in which the voltages in the two coils oppose each other, and, thus, it they were added together, the result would be zero. Consequently, using a pair of pick-up coils, the system for combining the voltages induced into two pick-up coils must be more complicated than the simple addition process. 7

Furthermore, it must have the characteristics that as the two are added together, the relative at one particular spot and on the opposite side of the wire there will be a south pole. Halfway around the wire there will be neither a north pole nor a south pole, so no magnetic flux will emanate from the wire at thispoint.

If now, as the wire runs through the repro ducing mechanism, the wire should twist on its axis, so that the reproducing pick-up coil should be pointed at the spot-on the wire, half way between the north and the south .pole, there wouldbe no magnetic .fiux entering'the pick-up coil, even though magnetic flux were present in the wire. This magnetic flux would then be at right angles to the pick-up coil, but no signal would be received. This is one of the major difilculties with the system of recording sound on round wire by the transverse method.

It is the purpose of my invention to provide a means for picking up the sound recorded on the wire independently of the twisting of the wire. In doing this I use two pick-up coils oriented at right angles to one another. In general, under these circumstances, each of the coils will pick up a signal from the wire, since the wire would be oriented with the maximum magnetic flux part way in between the two pick-up coils. Under two special circumstances, however, one of the coils would not have any voltage induced in it, that is, one coil would have maximum voltage induced in it and the other coil would have zero voltage induced in it, since this second coil would be opposite the point on the wire where there was no magnetic flux and from which there was no magnetic flux emanating. If the wire were twisted from this position by 90 degrees the roles of the two coils would be interchanged, that is the one which previously had maximum flux in it would now have zero flux up coils are displaced with respect to one anmagnitude of the voltages into two coils is un-. important. Anotherwayfof saying thisis that as the two-arejaddedtogether the angle at which 1 themagnetic'; axis'pf the wire irests with respect H to theaxis-of either oneiof the coils must beanimportant, as fares the; output of the final sys-.

tem is concerned.-

It is this type, of ,asystemgwhich is the subject of the present application" and generally set forth as follows: In' order to accomplish this purpose, I transmit the signals from the two coils into two modulators, thus, superimposing" other by mechanical degrees). By dephasing the carriers I can add the output signals on the two modulators in a voltage adder, and I find that the output of this votlage adder has the essential characteristics which I am looking for, namely, the angular position of the wire on which the recording is made does not enter into the amplitude of the output of the voltage adder.

This output signal from the voltage adder is, nevertheless, still a signal which has been superimposed on a carrier. The problem, then, is to demodulate this'signal so that only the audio frequency will be present.

One of the several methods of doing this is to pass the output of the voltage adder through a band .pass filter which removes one of the side band signals present in the output of the voltage adder, and then to pass this output through a detector which may also be supplied with the same carrier signal as was supplied to the modulators associated with the pick-up coils.

The output of this detector, then, will contain a series of frequencies. One band ofthese frequencies will be the audio band which is desired, and this audio band can be separated by means of a low pass filter on the output of the detector.

The output of this low pass filter, then, is the standard audio output which is desired.

When this system is described as I have done above, it seems that there are a considerable number of components to it. However, it is perfectly possible in designing such a system to incorporate in one unit several of the functions which I have described above.

Thus, for example, the low pass filter which separates the audio signal from-the rest oi the signals afterthe last detection or modulation can very readily be built in to the detector, or, if it is desired to amplify the output, it can readily be built into the characteristics of this amplifier, so that the amplifier itself would be an amplifier which will-pass only audio frequencies and will not pass the supersonic frequencies. such as those which might be used for thecarrier in this system.

Likewise, thevoltage adder which has been mentioned above may very conveniently be merely a center ta ped resistor. or may merely require the parallel or series connection of two signals, so that when the system is laid out in terms of individual components. that is tubes, resistors, capacitors, coils, etc.. it is not unduly complicated. However. when the system is subjected to analysis, it will be found that in one way or another each one of the processes mentioned above has been carried out therein.

The fundamental purpose of my invention 4 applicable to a recording of a plurality of frequencies. This single frequency wave I shall represent as A cos MT.

i i Thus the signals induced in these two coils are given by the following two Equations 1 and 2:

(1) eii=A sin 0 cos Mt (2) e a==A cos 0 cos Mt .twist of the wire. This isbrought into the then is to provide a means for picking up the signals from a wire carrying transverse sound recording and to pick this signal up in such a way that it can be reproduced electronically independently of the twisting of the wire in the original recording.

Still another purpose of my invention is to provide a method for reproducing the signal transversely recorded on magnetic round wire in such a way that twistin of the wire does not introduce a difficulty. These urposes and other pur-' poses of mv invent on will become more apparent after a-studv of t e details of the invention. This is best carried out by reference to the figures in wh ch:

Figure 1 shows a block diagram of one method 4 of accom lishing my invention.

method of accomplishing my invention, and

Figure 3-shows a detailed schematic diagram of one met od of accom l shing m invention.

I now will make reference to Fi ure 1. and shall give an analysis of the performance of this system.- The wire 1 u on which the sound is recorded is shown in cross section. An arrow 33 is drawn through this wire to show the direction in which the magnetic flux is existing at this particular instant. The angle 0 is observed to be the angle between this flux 33 and the axis of one 01' the pickup coils 3. The other pick-up coil 2 is oriented at right angles to pick-up coil 3.

As the wire is fed through this pick-up system, it travels perpendicularly to the plane of the paper in this drawing. As it moves, variations in voltage are induced in coils 2 and 3 in accordance with the signal recorded on the wire. For the purposes of the analysis of this systemI shall consider that the recording consists of a single frequency within the audio range but it is equation by the factor sin 0.

Likewise, the voltage on line I! is given by Equation 2, and here again the angle 0 enters in. but this time it comes in as the cosine function, i. e., cos 0. I

The two signals .are fed into the two balanced modulators and 5. These balanced modulators are also fed with carrier signals from carrier oscillator 6. These two signals of carrier freon line H: r (3) cia=B sin ct k (4) ei4=B cos ct The theory of the balanced modulator indicates that the output voltage 'ofthe modulator will be substantially the product of the two input voltages except for frequency components which areentirely outside the range here considered.

Thus, the output of balanced modulator l is given on line l5, and this votlage is as given in Equation 5:

(5) el5==AB sin 0 cosMt sin ct Likewise, the output on line It is given by Equation 6 as the product of Equation 2 and Equation 4:

(6) eie=AB cos 0 cos Mt cos ct It will be noted that each of these contains the product of: the amplitudes of the carrier and the pick-up signals, a function of the angle of the wire, the audio frequency being picked up and the carrier frequency.

When Equations 5 and 6 are added together there is obtained the output of the voltage adder I:

(7) (em=AB cos Mt (sin 6 sin ct+cos 9 cos ct) in which the term AB cos Mt has been factored out from the sum. By means of the well known trigonometric equivalents this equation can be rewritten in the form of Equation 8:

(8) (eia=AB cos Mt cos'(ct-9 means for reducing this signal to an audio tone.

'In order to analayze the operation of the reof Equation 9:

in which the standard trigonometric formula for the product of the cosines has been used. This splitting up of the Equation 8 shows that the signal on the output of the voltage adder can also be considered to be the sum of signals of two different frequencies, one of which is the carrier minus the audio frequency and the other of which is the carrier plus the audio frequency.

A filter 8 is used to eliminate one of these side band frequencies. This filter may pass either the lower or upper sideband, but in the following analysis, the filter is chosenv as a low pass filter which eliminates the band above the carrier frequency. Thus, the'output On line ft is merely the first term in Equation 9 which is given in Equation 10:

(10) cos [(c-M)t] this balanced bodulator 9 will be satisfactory.

Thus, the output of balanced modulator 9 is substantially the product of the signal on line I 9 and a signal on line 20 (which is the same as the signal on line l4). The output of balanced modulator 9 is given by Equation 11, the product of Equations 4 and 10:

(11) e =g cos ct cos [(c-M)t--0] Again employing the formula for the product of two cosines, this Equation 11 can be changed to Equation 12: 12 (22;? cos Mwm g cos [(2c M)t0] Inspection of this equation shows that there is one term which contains the audio frequency only, and another term which contains a frequency of twice the carrier frequency minus the audio frequency. If the carrier frequency is sufficiently high, this second term can be removed by low pass filter I0, so that the output on line 22 is only the first term of Equation 12, as given in Equation 13:

It is to be observed that this equation contains the angle of the orientation of the wire as a phase angle in the audio frequency. Reasonable amounts of distortion in the angle of the wire will be of no importance in disturbing the output signal.

Another method for carrying out a similar procedure is shown in Figure 2. Here the modulators are not balanced, so the outputs of these

modulators

23 and 24 contain in addition to sde hand signals, the carrier wave. This permits line 20 of Figure 1 to be omitted in Figure 2. The outputs of the modulators are fed through

lines

23 and 29 into a voltage adder 23. This is fed over line 30 into a filter 40, which removes one side band. The output of this filter is fed, over line CI to detector 23 which may be a square law detector. The operation of this system gives asthe output of the detector the audio frequency component similar to that shown in Equation 13, along with carrierfrequency components and frequencies in that vicinity. These high frequencies are filtered out by low pass filter 21 and the audio output appears on line 32.

Still another arrangement and combination of this system is shown in Figure- 3. Here the blocks are broken down to show possible configurations of the components within the blocks. This diagram is patterned after the block diagram of Figure l with modifications. The pickup coils 2 and 3 are shown in Figure 1. Each of the balanced modulators 4 and 5 contain a pair of diodes and load resistors and condensers. The

balance modulators shown in Figure 3 are balanced for the modulating signal, whereas the ones described in connection with Figure 1 are balanced for carrier signals. The voltage adder 1 consists of a pair of resistors. The filter 8 is a standard low pass filter and. the oscillator 5 is a standard tickler coil feed back oscillator.

In place of balanced modulator 9, however, I have inserted into this diagram a plate detection device 33. In this device the carrier signal is fed over line 20 to the cathode of the tube and the combined signal defined in Equation 10 is fed over line i9. This is equivalent to supplying the grid circuit of the tube with a signal such as Equation 10, plus Equation 4 which is the carrier signal by itself. Since this detector works on a square law, it becomes necessary to determine the square of the input to this detector. This input is given by Equation 14:

' AB (14) e cos [(cM)t-0]+D cos ct where D cos ct is the effective carrier signal supplied to the detector 33; that is, the vectorial difference in carrier level on

lines

19 and 20.

It is seen that when this is squared, the squares of the individual terms will yield frequencies which are all above the carrier frequency range,

that is the frequencies which will be provided by these squared terms will be twice the frequencies of the terms themselves, and in addition there will be a steady D, C. component which will be unimportant.

However, the cross product of the two terms which is given by the square law detector also shown in Equation 13 which is the desired signal and is the same signal that came out of the circult of Figure 1.

In this particular schematic diagram of Figure 3, a simple capacitor 43 is shown as an audio low pass filter after the detector, in addition to the coupling circuit indicated. This simple low pass circuit is adequate since the audio amplifier and sound reproducing systems will not respond to frequencies above the audio range anyway.

The above analysis was carried out considering only a single wave for the audio frequency. If, however, in Equations 1 and 2 we introduce cos Mit plus cos Mat, we find that in the output of the balanced modulators 5 and 6 there is ob- I auas s -termwithMreplacedbyM:. Suchapairoi terms would follow on through the analysis until Equation 13 Breached, though'there would-be no cross modulation between various audio-irequencies.

Thus, it becomes evident that a p p s or my invention is to provide means for obtaining the output from a magnetized wire without amplitude variations being caused by the angle of twist oi the wire. This I have accomplished in the systems which I have disclosed here by the process of taking output from two coils placed at right angles and by properly combining these with a carrier, adding them, and then by properly reditiveterms similarto ducing these modulated carrier signals to audio signals again. Since there are several combinations of circuits which will accomplish this basic idea, I prefer not to have my invention described and limited by the above description, but to have it described by the following claims. 3

I claim: a

1. In a magnetic wire reproducing which transverse'recordings are u magnetic wire, a plurality of pick-up coils angularly disposed about said wire, output circuits for each of said coils and meansfor producing signals modulated in accordance with the signal output oi. said pick-up coils and means for adding said modulated signals. a

2-. In a magnetic wire reproducing system in which transverse recordings are utilized on the magnetic wire, a plurality of pick-up coils angularly disposed about. said wire, output circuits for each of said coils, a first and second carrier frequency means for modulating each-carrier individually by one of said signal output circuits from said pick-up coils and means for adding said modulated signals.

3. In a magnetic wire reproducing system in which'transverse recordings are utilized on the magnetic wire, a plurality. of pick-up coils angularly disposed about said wire, output circuits for each of said coils, a first and second carrier wave of the same frequency, means .formodulating eachcarrier individually by an associated one or system said signal output circuits from said pick-up coils,

and means for adding said modulated signals.

4. In a magnetic wire recording. system in which transverse, recordings are utilized on the magnetic wire, a pair of pick-up coils displaced from each other about said wire by 90 mechanical degrees; output circuits for each of said coils, a first and second carrier wave of the same frequency but displaced one from the other by 90 electrical degrees, means for modulating each carrier individually by an associated one of said signal output circuits from said pick-up coils and means for adding said modulated signals.

5. In a magnetic wire recording system in which transverse recordings are utilized on the magnetic wire, a pair of pick-up coils displaced from each other about said wire by 90 mechanical onthe 8 which transverse recordings are utilized onthe magnetic wire, a pair 0! pick-up coils displaced from each other about said wire by 90 mechanical degrees; output eircuits for 'each of said coils, a

first andsecond carrier wave of the same frequency but displaced one from the other by 90 electrical degrees, means for modulating each carrier individually by the output of an associated one oi said pick-up coils, means (or adding said modulated signals, and means for demodulating the resultant, so that only the audio frequency recorded on the wire remains, comprising-a band pass filter and a detector connected in the output of said adder means. 1

7. Ina magnetic wire reproducing system in which transverse recordings are utilized on the magnetic wire, a plurality of pick-up coils angularly disposed about said wire, output circuits for each of said coils, a balanced modulator con nected in each of said output circuits and an oscillator for feeding said modulators.

8. In a magnetic wire recording system in which transverse recordings are utilized on the magnetic wire, a pair or pick-up coils displaced from each other about said wire by 90 mechanical degrees: output circuits for each of said coils, a balanced modulator connected in each or said output circuits and an oscillator for feeding said modulators, the signal currents to said modudegrees; output circuits for each of said coils, a I

first and second carrier wave of the same frequency but displaced one from the other by 90 electrical degrees, means for modulating each carrier individually by an associated one of said outputs from said pick-up coils, means for adding said modulated signals, and means for demodulating the resultant, so that only the audio frequency recorded on the wire remains.

lators irom said oscillator being displaced 90 electrical degrees from each other.,-

9. In a magnetic wire recordingsystem' which transverse recordings:- are made; onthe magnetic wire, a pair of pick-upcoils displaced from each other about said-iwire by-90'mechanical degrees; output cir "for each o 1' said coils, a balancedmodula nneoted-in eaoh'oiisaidi cll ot 'f usf i modulators, the-signal; to said ,modula tors from said-oscillator beingdisplaced QOf'eleQ? trical degrees from each other and a voltage adder connected infthe 'out-pu circuits;v of; saidbalanced modulators? 1 10. In a magnetic wire} recording system inwhich transverse recordings are made on the magnetic wire, a pair or pick-up coils displaced: from each other about saidwire by 90 mechani cal degrees; output-circuits for each 01 said coils; a balanced modulator connected in each olsaidf output circuits and an oscillator for feeding saidmodulators, the signal currents to said modulators from said oscillator beingdisplaced 90 elecj trical degrees from each other, and ,a'voltage adder connected in the output circuits 'oisaid balanced modulators, and a demodulator connected in the output of said voltage adder.

1 1. In a magnetic wire recording system in which transverse recordings are utilized on the magnetic wire, a pair of pick-up coils displaced from ach other about said wire by 90 mechanical degrees; output circuits for each of said coils, a balanced modulator connected in each of said output circuits and an oscillator for feeding said modulators,- the signal currents to said modulators from said oscillator being displaced 90 electrical degrees from each other, a voltage adder connected in the output circuits of said'balanced 6. In a ma netic wire recording system in cordance with the recording and as a function of the angle of transverse recording axis and thereafter electrically eliminating from the reproduced signal those signals which are a function of the transverse angle of recording.

13. In a magnetic wire reproducing system in which transverse recordings are utilized on a magnetic wire, magnetic reproducing means for picking up signals varying in accordance with the recording and varying in accordance with the angle of the transverse recording with respect to the reproducing means and electronic means for producing from said picked up signals, signals varying only in accordance with the recording.

14. In a magnetic wire reproducing system in which transverse recordings are made on magnetic wire, a plurality of pick-up coils angularly disposed about said wire, each of said coils having an output circuit and each of said coils being energized by the component of the signal recording on the wire determined by the angular position of the axis of the coil with respect to the direction of the flux of the recording, a source of oscillations for each of said coils, the oscillations for one of said coils being phase displaced with respect to the oscillations for the other of said coils in amounts depending on the physical angular displacement of said coils with respect to each other, and means including the output circuits of each of said coils for modulating said oscillations in accordance with the signals flowing in the output circuits of said coils.

15. In a magnetic wire reproducingv system in which transverse recordings are made on magnetic wire, a plurality of pick-up coils angularly disposed about said wire, each of said coils having an output circuit and each of said coils being energized by the component of the signal recording on the wire determined by the angular position of the axis of the coil with respect to the direction of the flux oi the recording, a source of oscillations for each of said coils, the oscillations for one of said coils being phase displaced with respect to the oscillations for the other of said coils in amounts depending on the physical angular displacement of said coils with respect to each other and being 90 displaced from each other when the axes of said coils are 90 physically displaced, and means including the output circuits of each of said coils for modulating said oscillations in accordance with the signals flowing in the output circuits of said coils.

16. In a magnetic wire reproducing system in which transverse recordings are made on magnetic wire, a plurality of pick-up coils angularly disposed about said wire, each of said coils having an output circuit and each of said coils being energized by the component of the signal recording on the wire determined by the angular position of the axis of the coil with respect to the direction of the flux of the recording, a source of oscillations for each of said coils, the oscillations for one of said coils being phase displaced with respect to the oscillations for the other of said coils in amounts depending on the physical angular displacement of said coils with respect to each other, means including the output circuits of each of said coils for modulating said oscillations in accordance with the signals flowing in the output circuits of said coils, and means for combining said modulated signals and producing a resultant audio signal in accordance with the recordings and independent of the flux angle of said recordings with respect to the axis of any reproducing coil.

17. In a magnetic wire reproducing system in which transverse recordings are made on magnetic wire, a plurality of pick-up coils angularly disposed apart about said wire, each of said coils being energized by the component of the signal recording on the wire determined by the angular position of the axis of the coil with respect to the direction of the flux of the recording, a source of oscillations, and means including said output signals of said coils for modulating said oscillations, the oscillations for the output of one of said coils being'90 phase displaced from the oscillations for the other of said coil outputs in amounts depending on the physical angular displacement of said coils with respect to each other. 18. In a magnetic wire reproducing system in which transverse recordings are made on magnetic wire, a plurality of pick-up coils angularly disposed about said wire, each of said coils having an output circuit and each of said coils being energized by the component of the signal re cording on the wire determined by the angular position of the axis of the coil withrespect to the direction of the fiux of the recording, a source of oscillations for each of said coils, the oscillations for one of said coils being phase displaced with respect to the oscillations for the other of said coils in amounts depending on the physical angular displacement of said coils with respect to each other, means including the output circuits of each of said coils for modulating said oscillations in accordance with the signals flowing in the output circuits of said coils, a voltage adder, and means for applying the modulated signals produced by the output of each of said coils, and means for demodulating the resultant signal in the output of said voltage adder. @31 DAVID E. SUNSTEIN.

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