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US2539952A
US2539952A US665391A US66539146A US2539952A US 2539952 A US2539952 A US 2539952A US 665391 A US665391 A US 665391A US 66539146 A US66539146 A US 66539146A US 2539952 A US2539952 A US 2539952A
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  • a reactance tube circuit which comprises a discharge tube which is operated in such manner that its anode current is about 90 out of phase with respect to its anode voltage, so that it behaves a an apparent inductance or capacity.
  • This tube is usually connected in parallel with the tuning circuit of the oscillator and the value of the L or C thus connected in parallel with the circuit is controlled by control of the characteristic of the reactance tube, which results in corresponding variations in the frequency of the oscillations.
  • This circuit arrangement has the drawback I that the reactance tube as presently used is connected in parallel with the tuning circuit whose capacity is low especially at the high frequencies Consequently, small variations in the tube have relatively such a great influence on the frequency that the stability is seriously affected. Moreover, variations of the internal resistance of the reactance tube effect a degree of amplitude modplied to one grid, or one of these two voltages may be injected in the cathode lead of the oscillator tube.
  • the anode-cathode capacity of a reactance tube is isolated from the resonant circuit of the oscillator, which prevents said capacity from affecting the frequency of the oscillations produced by said oscillator, and in addition oifers certain other advantages which will appear as the specification progresses.
  • Fig. 1 shows a known frequency modulation circuit
  • Fig. 2 is a vector diagram explaining the operation of the circuit of Fig. 1,
  • An oscillator tube I has in its anode circuit a resonant circuit 2, which through a feedback coil 3 acts in such a phase upon the control grid 5 of the tube as to generate oscillations.
  • the anode 6 is directly connected galvanically to the anode l I and through a small condenser 1 to the control grid 8 of a reactance tube 9.
  • the grid 8 is connected to earth through a resistance [0 in series with a source l5 of modulation voltages.
  • the reactance of the condenser 1 for the operating frequency is high relatively to the re-' sistance E0, the voltage applied to the grid 8 will lead the anode voltage by about 90, so that the tube 9 substantially exhibits the property of a capacitive reactance.
  • the value of this capacity depends on the slope of the characteristic curve of tube 9, and this is affected by the modulation voltage delivered at l5. Since the anode II is connected to one terminal and the cathode of the tube 9 is connected for high-frequencies to the other terminal of the resonant circuit 2, the tube 9 lies in parallel with the circuit 2, which involves the drawbacks already referred to above.
  • the above-mentioned disadvantages are eliminated by a circuit arrangement by means of which two currents are induced simultaneously in the circuit 2, which currents will hereinafter be referred to as I1, and 12 respectively, the former of which is independent of the modulation, whereas the other current, which is displaced in phase by 90 with respect to the first currentvaries linearly with the modulation.
  • I1 is supplied by the oscillator tube 1
  • I2 displaced in phase by 90
  • I2 will depend linearly on the modulation voltage.
  • the vector 0A invariably represents the current I1
  • the vectors AB and AC respectively represent the currents I2 and I2" respec- Figs. 3, 6, 7 and 8 show frequency modulation 7 the above-mentioned well-known arrangement tively.
  • the vectorial sum of the two currents which in the first-mentioned case is represented by OB in the second case by CC flows in circuit 2.
  • This circuit arrangement is different from that shown in Fig. 1 inasmuch as the anode l I of the reactance tube is not connected to the anode 6 and to one terminal of the circuit 2, instead is connected through a blocking condenser I 2 to the control grid 5 of the tube I, which is grounded through a resistance 1 3.
  • the feed back voltage is made operative in the cathode lead of the tube 1 but may obviously also be applied in another manner between control grid and cathode.
  • the supply to the tube 9 is applied through the resistance 1.
  • a series circuit comprising an inductance 22 and a blocking condenser 23, which inductance has such a value as to compensate the undesired effect of the grid-cathode capacity.
  • an inductance I8 is connected in parallel with the anode resistance l4 and a reactance tube, which in the literal meaning of this term is no longer a reactance tube and for this reason will be called modulation tube hereinafter, the said inductance l8 neutralizing the anode capacity of this tube.
  • . which may for instance be achieved by preventing the limitation (which, of course, is necessary in each oscillator) from taking place in the current of the oscillator tube. This can be accomplished, for instance, by connecting a bounding element in parallel with the tuning circuit, or by giving the anode voltage of the tube such a small value as to limit the circuit voltage to a sufficient degree.
  • the vector sum of the tube current will be bounded, for instance, by the length 0A, resulting in the diagram shown in Fig. 4.
  • I2 corresponding to DB' AB in Fig. 2 and similarly I in Fig. 2.
  • E1 which initially had a value OA, now 1 falls, however, to 0-D and GE respectively, which means amplitude modulation is present and, of
  • Such a circuit arrangement may, for instance, be based on the principle of impressing still a third voltage on the control grid of the tube l, which by itself would produce a current Is in the tube in phase opposition relatively to I2 and whose value correspondends to the average value of I2.
  • This is vectorially represented in the diagram shown in Fig. 5.
  • the value EC corresponds to the maximum value of I2.
  • Fig. 3 A simple method of realizing this principle is shown in Fig. 3.
  • the circuit of the reaction coil 3 comprises a phase-shifting element l6, H, and the value of the feed back voltage is slightly increased in such manner that the resulting feed back voltage produces a current in the tube, which is the vectorial sum of the currents In and I3.
  • FIG. 6 represents an executional example thereof.
  • the anode 6 of the oscillator tube is connected through two condensers 1 and 1' respectively to the grids 8 and 8' respectively of two pushpull connected modulation tubes 9 and 9' respectively.
  • the modulation voltage originating from the supply I5 is impressed in pushpull on the two grids 8 and 8' through the intermediary of a transformer 29 and the two resistances I 9 and I0 yieldingly, in combination with the condensers 1 and l, the phase-displacement desired for the oscillator voltage.
  • Two tubes 9, 9 are coupled to series connected coils 28 and 28' respectively which are located between the grid 5 and the cathode of the oscillator tube and are coupled to coils l8, IS in the anode circuits of tubes 9, 9.
  • the operation of the circuit arrangement will be readily understood by those skilled in the art.
  • the inductance iii in the anode circuits of the modulation tube 9 is inductively coupled to a coil 24.
  • the currents induced therein pass through a low-pass filter 25 and are rectified by a diode 26.
  • a diode 26 With across the output resistance 21 of this diode oscillations corresponding to the low-frequency modulation voltages impressed at l5 occur and are rendered in phase-opposition by correctly poling the diode 26.
  • the resistance 21 now lies in series with the modulation supply I5 between cathode and grid of the tube 9.
  • the invention is particularly suit able for use jointly with that disclosed in copending application No. 667,446 previously mentioned according to which the modulation voltage is not applied as a variable grid voltage to the modulation tube, and thus has a controlling eifect on the slope of the tube as has been customarily heretofore, but instead is injected in the anode circuit of the modulation tube.
  • Fig. 8 represents an executional example thereof, which substantially corresponds to the circuit arrangement shown in Fig. 3, but the modulation voltages are applied by means of a transformer 28 to the anode circuit of tube '9, instead of being applied to the grid thereof.
  • a circuit arrangement for frequency modulating a carrier wave comprising an electron discharge tube having an anode, a control grid and a cathode, a resonant circuit interposed between the anode and the cathode of said tube, means interposed between the grid and the cathode of said tube to couple said grid in feed-- back relationship to said anode, means to derive a voltage of said carrier frequency in phase quadrature with the voltage generated in said resonant circuit, means to amplitude-modulate said quadrature voltage.
  • a circuit arrangement for frequency modulating a carrier wave comprising an electron discharge oscillator tube having an anode, a control grid and a cathode, a resonant circuit interposed between the anode and cathode of said oscillator tube, means interposed between the grid and the cathode of said oscillator tube to couple said grid in feedback relationship to said anode, means to derive a voltage of carrier frequency in phase quadrature with the voltage generated in said resonant circuit, means comprising a modulator tube having an anode, a control grid and a cathode to amplitude-modulate said quadrature voltage, means to couple the anode of said modulator tube to the control grid ofv said oscillator tube to inject said modulated quadrature voltage in the grid-cathode path of said oscillator tube to produce a frequency-modulated wave in said resonant circuit, and means coupled to said resonant circuit to derive a potential in phase quadrature with the resultant voltage in said re
  • a circuit arrangementfor frequency modulating a carrier wave comprising an electron discharge oscillator tube having an anode, a control grid and a cathode, a resonant circuit interposed between the anode and cathode of said oscillator tube, means interposed between the grid and the cathode of said oscillator tube to couple said .grid in feedback relationship to said anode, means to derive a voltage of carrier frequency in phase quadrature with the voltage generated in said resonant circuit, a modulator tube having an anode, a control grid and a cathode, means to apply operating potentials to said tubes, means to modulate the anode potential of said modulator tube to amplitude-modulate said quadrature voltage, means to couple the anode of said modulator tube to the control grid of said oscillator tube to inject said modulated quadrature voltage in the grid-cathode path of said oscillator tube, and means interposed between the grid and cathode of said oscillator tube and coupled to
  • a circuit arrangement for frequency modulating a carrier wave comprising an electron discharge oscillator tube having an anode, a control grid and a cathode, a resonant circuit interposed between the anode and cathode of said oscillator tube, means interposed between the grid and the cathode of said oscillator tube to couple said grid in feedback relationship to said anode, means to derive a voltage of carrier frequency in phase quadrature with the voltage generated in said resonant circuit, a modulator tube having an anode, a control grid and a cathode, means to apply operating potentials to said tubes, means to modulate the anode potential of said modulator tube to amplitude-modulate said quadrature voltage, means to derive a direct potential proportional to the amplitude of said modulated quadrature voltage, means to apply said direct potential to said modulator tube in phase opposition to said modulating means, means to couple the anode of said modulator tube to the control grid of said oscillator tube to inject said modulated
  • a circuit arrangement for frequency modulating a carrier wave comprising an electron dis"- charge oscillator tube having an anode, a control grid and a cathode, a resonant circuit interposed between the anode and cathode of said oscillator tube, means to' derive a voltage of carrier frequency in phase quadrature with the voltage generated in said resonant circuit, means com prising a modulator tube having an anode, a control grid and a cathode to amplitude-modulate said quadrature voltage, means to couple 'the anode of said modulator tube to the controlgrid of said oscillator tube to inject said modulated quadrature voltage in the grid-cathode path of said oscillator tube, and means interposed between the grid and the cathode of said oscillator tube and coupled to said resonant circuit to inject a potential in phase quadrature with the resultant voltage in said resonant circuit into the grid-cathode path of said oscillator tube.
  • a circuit arrangement for frequency modulating a carrier wave comprising an electron discharge oscillator tube having an anode, a control grid and a cathode, a resonant circuit interposed between the anode and cathode of said oscillator tube, means interposed between the grid and the cathode of said oscillator tubeto couple said grid in feedback relationship tosai'd anode, means to derive a voltage of carrier frequency in phase quadrature with the voltage generated in said resonant circuit, means comprising a pair of push-pull modulator tubes to amplitude-modulate said quadrature voltage, each of said modulator tubes having an anode, a control grid and a cathode, and means to couple the anodes of said modulator tubes in opposition to the control grid of said oscillator tube to inject said modulated quadrature voltage in the gridcathode path of said oscillator tube.
  • a circuit arrangement for frequency modulating a carrier wave comprising an electron discharge oscillator tube having an anode, a control grid and a cathode, a resonant circuit interposed between the anode and cathode of said oscillator tube, means to derive a voltage of carrier frequency in phase quadrature with the voltage generated in said resonant circuit, a modulator tube having an anode, a control grid and a cathode, means to apply said quadrature voltage to the control grid of said modulator tube, means to apply modulating potentials to the control grid of said modulator tube to amplitude-modulate said quadrature voltage, means to couple the anode of said modulator tube to the control grid of said oscillator tube to inject said modulated quadrature voltage in the grid-cathode path of said oscillator tube, and phase shifting means interposed between the grid and the cathode of said oscillator tube and coupled to said resonant circuit to inject a potential in phase quadrature with the
  • a circuit arrangement for frequency modulating a carrier wave comprising an electron discharge oscillator tube having an anode, a control grid and a cathode, a resonant circuit interposed between the anode and cathode of said oscillator tube, a capacitor and an inductor connected in series and coupling the cathode to the control grid of said oscillator tube, means comprising a modulator tube to amplitude-modulate said quadrature voltage, a third capacitor coupling the anode of said modulator tube to the control grid of said oscillator tube to inject said modulated quadrature voltage in the grid-cathode path of said oscillator tube, and phase shifting means comprising a fourth capacitor and a resistor interposed between the grid and the cathode of said oscillator tube and inductively coupled to said resonant circuit to inject a potential in phase quadrature with the resultant voltage in said resonant circuit in the grid-cathode path of said oscillator tube.
  • a circuit arrangement for frequency modulating a carrier wave comprising an electron discharge oscillator tube having-an anode, a control grid and a cathode, a resonant circuit interposed between the anode and cathode of said trol grid of said modulator tube to amplitude:
  • modulate said quadrature voltage means coupled to the anode of said modulator tube to produce a voltage proportional to the amplitude of said modulated quadrature voltage, rectifying means to produce a direct potential proportional to said voltage, means to apply said direct potential in phase opposition to said modulating potentials to provide negative feedback control of said modulator tube, means to couple the anode of said modulator tube to the control grid of said oscillator tube to inject said modulated quadrature voltage in the grid-cathode path of said oscillator tube, and phase shifting means interposed between the grid and the cathode of said oscillator tube and coupled to said resonant circuit to inject a potential in phase quadrature with the resultant voltage in said resonant circuit in the grid-cathode path of said oscillator tube.
  • a circuit arrangement for frequency modulating a carrier wave comprising an electron discharge oscillator tube having an anode, a control grid and a cathode, a resonant circuit interposed between the anode and cathode of said oscillator tube, a capacitor and an inductor connected in series and coupling the cathode to the control grid of said oscillator tube, means comprising a second capacitor to derive a voltage of carrier frequency in phase quadrature with the voltage generated in said resonant circuit, a modulator tube having an anode, a control grid and a cathode, means to apply said quadrature voltage to the control grid of said modulator tube, means to apply modulating potentials to the control grid of said modulator tube to amplitudemodulate said quadrature voltage, a transformer having the primary winding thereof interposed in between the anode and cathode of said modulator tube and a secondary winding, a low pass filter coupled to said secondary winding, a rectifier connected to said low pass filter,

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