US2510002A - Superheterodyne radio receiver with image-frequency suppression - Google Patents

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US2510002A
US2510002A US684074A US68407446A US2510002A US 2510002 A US2510002 A US 2510002A US 684074 A US684074 A US 684074A US 68407446 A US68407446 A US 68407446A US 2510002 A US2510002 A US 2510002A
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  • J. VAN LOON SUPERHETERODY NE RADIO ET AL RECEIVER WITH IMAGE-FREQUENCY SUPPRESSION Filed July 16, 1946 may; JAN mwzoozv ($460517; c/UJMNWES SCJIUJZDVK INVENTURS AGENT Patented May 30, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SUPERHETERODYNE RADIO RECEIVER WITH IMAGE-FREQUENCY SUPPRES- SION Application July 16, 1946, Serial No. 684,074 In the Netherlands March 3, 1943 Section 1, Public Law 690, August 8, 1946 Patent expires March 3, 1963 6 Claims.
  • the invention relates to a superheterodyne radio-receiver with at least one long waveand one medium wave-range, wherein use is made of image-frequency suppression, particularly when the receiver is tuned-in in the long wave range.
  • the receiver comprises an input oscillatory circuit which is inductively coupled to the aerial circuit. In the case of medium wave reception, the coupling is accomplished through the intermediary of a medium wave aerial coupling coil and in the case of long wave reception through the intermediary of a long wave aerial coupling coil.
  • receivers were generally adjusted with the use of a standard aerial with a capacity of 209 [Llbf- With such an adjustment the abovementioned receivers, when connected to aerials with a capacity of from approximately 150 to 10,000 t, afforded an excellent reception.
  • aerials of smaller dimensions have, on the one hand, a lower capacity and, on the other hand, a smaller efiective height so that by reducing the dimensions the voltage transmitted to the receiver rapidly decreases. For this reason they proceeded to a better adaptation of the receivers to such small aerials; thenceforword the adjustment was effected with the aid of a standard aerial with a capacity of 80 not, owing to which it is possible to utilize in practice aerials with a capacity of from approximately 50 to 500 t.
  • the adaptation was obtained by dimensioning the aerial circuit of the receivers otherwise: the ballast condenser was suppressed, the medium wave aerial coupling coil was replaced by another coil of larger selfinductance (for it is desirable that the resonant frequency of the aerial circuit should be lower than the lowest frequency which one must be able to receive in the tuning range concerned so that when the aerial capacity is decreased the selfinductance of the medium wave aerial coupling coil must be increased) and the coupling between the medium wave aerial coupling coil and the medium wave tuning coil was modified accordingly. After these changes had been made the reception was found to be greatly disturbed in the long wave range.
  • the present invention is based upon the recognition that these disturbances are due to the production of oscillations of the image frequency in the input oscillatory circuit and it provides means for the suppression of these disturbances.
  • a parallel-connection of a condenser which may be adjustable
  • the long wave aerial coupling coil which parallel connection has connected in series with it a coil which is capacitatively coupled to the input oscillatory circuit.
  • the latter coil is capacitatively coupled to the input oscillatory circuit.
  • This latter coil has a natural frequency which exceeds the image frequency to be suppressed, and a selfinductance which is smaller than that of the medium wave aerial coupling coil.
  • This coil may be separate from the medium wave aerial coupling coil or it may comprise a part of this aerial coupling coil.
  • the said parallel-connection is preferably disconnected or short-circuited.
  • variable condenser may be adjusted in such manner that when the receiver is tuned-in in the long-wave range, oscillations of the image frequency are suppressed in the input oscillatory circuit over a wide tunin range.
  • the coil which is not inductively coupled to the input oscillatory circuit has a selfinductance of 1 mh. and the capacity of the variable condenser is adjustable between approximately 5 and 50 t.
  • the intermediate frequency utilized in the 3 receiver amounted in this case to approximately 470 kc./sec.
  • this coupling condenser may be adjustable in such manner that, when the receiver is tuned-in in the long-wave range, oscillations of the image frequency are suppressed in the input oscillatory circuit over a wide tuning range.
  • the capacitative coupling of the coil, which is not inductively coupled to the input oscillatory circuit, and the input oscillatory circuit is brought about, as a rule, through the intermediary of the parasitic capacity which is present between the coil and the circuit.
  • the value of the parasitic capacity is felicitously adjusted between .approximately 0.1 and 1 ,Ltlbf.
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram showingsone circuit arrangement according to the invention
  • Fig. 2. is a, schematic diagram showing a .second circuit arrangement according to the invention.
  • Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram showing a third circuit arrangement according to the invention.
  • Fig. l of this drawing represents a circuitarrangement of the aerial circuit and the input oscillatory circuit of a superheterodyne radio receiver according to the invention.
  • the receiver In the shown position of the switches the receiver is tuned in'the long wave range. cluded in the aerial circuit.
  • switch I connects the aerial to the one side of a series-connection consisting of a coil 2, which i not inductively coupled to the input oscillatory circuit, and a parallel-connection of a long-wave aerial coupling coil 3 and an adjustable condenser i.
  • the other side of the series-connection is connected to ground.
  • the input oscillatory circuit is constituted by a variable condenser iii.
  • the input oscillatory circuit is capacitively connected, through the intermediary of a condenser 22, to the control grid of a discharge tube M, which may be, for example, a high-frequency amplifying tube or a frequency changer.
  • a condenser i3 is indicated in dotted lines; this condenser represents the parasiticcapacity present between the coil 2 and the input oscillatory circuit.
  • oscillations of the imagefrequency are supplied tothe input oscillatory circuit. in two difierent Ways, viz., on the one hand, through A switch I is inthe parasitic capacity 13 and, on the other hand, through the coil 2 and the inductively coupled coils S and E.
  • the oscillations supplied to the input oscillatory circuit along these two paths are, however, out of phase by 180 so that in the caseoi" exact adjustment the image frequency oscillations in the input oscillatory circuit are completely or substantially suppressed.
  • the coil 2 must have a selfinductance which is smaller than that of the medium wave aerial coupling coil. Satisfactory results were obtained, for example. with. a selfinductance of 1 mh. at an intermediate frequency .of approximately 470 kc./sec. The value of the selfinductanceof the medium wave aerial coupling coil amounted in this. case to approximately 4 mh.
  • variable condenser 4 is adjusted in such manner that the image frequency, suppression takes place more or less uniformly over the whole of the long-wave tuning range. 7
  • the paralleL-connection oi the coil 3. and the condenser 1 (and in the present instance also the coil 2) is disconnected.
  • This disconnection during medium-wave reception is not absolutely necessary, but by doing so we obtain a more satisfactory reception than if the said parallelconnections.
  • the condenser [2 and the discharge tube It are omitted.
  • the coil which is not inductively coupled to the input oscillatory. circuit is constituted by part of the medium wave aerial. coupling c0115. For this-purpose that portion of.
  • the coil '5 which is comprised between the aerial connection and a tap 2' is short-circuited by means of the switch i.
  • the switch i When changing-over from long-wave reception to medium-wave reception, the. parallelconnection of the coil 3 and the condenser 4 is short-circuited by means of a switch 15.
  • Fig. 3 represents a circuit-arrangement wherein, in caseof. long-wave reception.
  • the aerial circuit is coupled not only inductively but. also capacitively, with the aidof a variable coupling condenser iii, to the input oscillatory circuit.
  • the condenser 4 may now be constructed as a fixed condenser.
  • the coil 5 is, located in parallel with the coil 2; this fact must, of course, be taken into account in 75 dimensioning this coil.
  • the coil 2 is disconnected by shifting the switch I.
  • the parallel-connection of the coil 3 and the condenser 4 may, if desired, be short-circuited with the aid of a switch which is not shown.
  • An image suppression network comprising a first inductance element having a given self-inductance and a natural frequency of oscillation higher than the frequency of the image to be suppressed, a first capacitance element connected in series with said first inductance element, a second inductance element connected in parallel with said first capacitance element, a first tuned oscillatory circuit inductively coupled to said second inductance element, a third inductance ele ment having a greater self-inductance than the first inductance element, a second tuned oscillatory circuit inductively coupled to said third inductance element, a source of desired signals, an output circuit, a second capacitance element between said first inductance element and said output circuit, and switching means to selectively apply said source of desired signals to said first inductance element and to couple said output circuit to said first tuned oscillatory circuit and to apply said source of desired signals to said third inductance element and to couple said output circuit to said second tuned oscillatory circuit.
  • An image suppression network comprising a first inductance element having given a self-inductance and a natural frequency of oscillation higher than the frequency of the image to be suppressed, a first variable capacitance element connected in series with said first inductance element, a second inductance element connected in parallel with said first variable capacitance element, a first tuned oscillatory circuit inductively coupled to said second inductance element, a third inductance element having a greater self-inductance than the first inductance element, a second tuned oscillatory circuit inductively coupled to said third inductance element, a source of desired signals, an output circuit, a second capacitance element between said first inductance element and said output circuit, and switching means to selectively apply said source of desired signals to said first inductance element and to couple said output circuit to said first tuned oscillatory circuit and to apply said source of desired signals to said third inductance element and to couple said output circuit to said second tuned oscillatory circuit.
  • An image suppression network comprising a tapped first inductance element one of the tapped portions having a given-self-inductance and a natural frequency of oscillation higher than the frequency of the image to be suppressed, a first capacitance element connected in series with said first inductance element, a second inductance element connected in parallel with said first capacitance element, a first tuned oscillatory circuit inductively coupled to said second inductance element, a second tuned oscillatory circuit inductively coupled to said first inductance element, a source of desired signals, an output circuit, a second capacitance element between said first inductance element and said output circuit, and switching means to selectively apply said source of desired signals to said tap on first inductance element and to couple said output circuit to said first tuned oscillatory circuit and to couple said output circuit to said second tuned oscillatory circuit and to short-circuit said first capacitance element and to apply said source of desired signals to the free end of said tapped first inductance element.
  • An image suppression network comprising a first inductance element having a self-inductance of 1 millihenry and a natural frequency of oscillation higher than the frequency of the image to be suppressed, a first capacitance element variable between 5 and 50 micro-microfarads connected in series with said first inductance element, a second inductance element connected in parallel with said first capacitance element, a first tuned oscillatory circuit inductively coupled to said second inductance element, a third inductance element having a greater self-inductance than the first inductance element, a second tuned oscillatory circuit inductively coupled to said third inductance element, a source of desired signals, an output circuit, a second capacitance element between said first inductance element and said output circuit, and switching means to selectively apply said source of desired signals to said first inductance element and to couple said output circuit to said first tuned oscillatory circuit and to apply said source of desired signals to said third inductance element and to couple said output circuit to said second tuned oscillatory circuit.
  • An image suppression network comprising a first inductance element having a given sellinductance and a natural frequency of oscillation higher than the frequency of the image to be suppressed, a first capacitance element connected in series with said first inductance element, a second inductance element connected in parallel with said first capacitance element, a first tuned oscillatory circuit inductively coupled to said second inductance element, a third inductance element having a greater self-inductance than the first inductance element, a second tuned oscillatory circuit inductively coupled to said third inductance element, a source of desired signals, an output circuit, a second capacitance variable between 0.1 and 1 micro-microfarads between said first inductance element and said output circuit, switching means to selectively apply said source of desired signals to said first inductance element and to couple said output circuit to said first tuned oscillatory circuit and to apply said source of desired signals to said third inductance element and to couple said output circuit to said second tuned oscillatory circuit.
  • An image suppression network comprising a first inductance element having a given selfinductance, a first capacitance element connected in series with said first inductance element, a second inductance element connected in parallel with said first capacitance element, a first tuned oscillatory circuit inductively coupled to said second inductance element, a third inductance element having a greater self-inductance than the first inductance element, first switch means to selectively couple said first and third inductance elements in parallel, the parallel combination of said first and third inductance elements having a natural frequency of oscillation higher than the frequency of the image to be suppressed, a second tuned oscillatory circuit inductively coupled to said third inductance element, a source of desired signals, an output circuit, a second capacitance element between said first inductive element and said output circuit, a third capacitance element between said second inductance element and said first tuned oscillatory circuit,- means to couple said source of desired signals to said third inductance element, and second switch means to selectively couple said output circuit to

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