US3205412A - Selector magnet driver - Google Patents

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US3205412A
US3205412A US121923A US12192361A US3205412A US 3205412 A US3205412 A US 3205412A US 121923 A US121923 A US 121923A US 12192361 A US12192361 A US 12192361A US 3205412 A US3205412 A US 3205412A
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01F—MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
    • H01F7/00—Magnets
    • H01F7/06—Electromagnets; Actuators including electromagnets
    • H01F7/08—Electromagnets; Actuators including electromagnets with armatures
    • H01F7/18—Circuit arrangements for obtaining desired operating characteristics, e.g. for slow operation, for sequential energisation of windings, for high-speed energisation of windings
    • H01F7/1805—Circuit arrangements for holding the operation of electromagnets or for holding the armature in attracted position with reduced energising current
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    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03K—PULSE TECHNIQUE
    • H03K17/00—Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making and –breaking
    • H03K17/04—Modifications for accelerating switching
    • H03K17/041—Modifications for accelerating switching without feedback from the output circuit to the control circuit
    • H03K17/04113—Modifications for accelerating switching without feedback from the output circuit to the control circuit in bipolar transistor switches
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03K—PULSE TECHNIQUE
    • H03K5/00—Manipulating of pulses not covered by one of the other main groups of this subclass
    • H03K5/01—Shaping pulses
    • H03K5/02—Shaping pulses by amplifying
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    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L25/00—Baseband systems
    • H04L25/02—Details ; arrangements for supplying electrical power along data transmission lines
    • H04L25/20—Repeater circuits; Relay circuits
    • H04L25/24—Relay circuits using discharge tubes or semiconductor devices

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  • This invention relates to an amplifier for energizing an inductor and more particularly to a driving circuit for a selector magnet employed in teletypewriter machines which operate in response to signals having substantially rectangular current wave form characteristics.
  • the selector magnet of teletypewriter machines consists of a coil of wire wound around an iron core, which forms an inductor, and an armature which is thereby operable upon reception of current pulses through the inductor and of sufficient magnitude to attract the armature efiecting a conversion from electrical energy, representing character intelligence, to mechanical energy which will be converted to obserable intelligence.
  • the current pulses are normally receivable in groups consisting of five or more character-determination bits and two synchronizing bits normally termed the start and stop pulses. These bits, all seven or more, occur seriatim commencing withthe start pulse and terminating with the stop pulse.
  • Each character-determination bit will assume one or the other of two current conditions, the pattern of the current conditions of the character-determination bits establishing the character to be represented upon conversion to mechanical motion, hence observable information.
  • a specific current condition is used to designate the stop pulse, which when applied to the selector magnet coil maintains that coil in the energized condition and this current condition continues until a start pulse is received by the selector magnet coil.
  • the start pulse is represented by the second current condition and causes the selector magnet to become deenergized thus initiating operation of the teletypewriter machine by releasing the armature of the selector magnet so that upon the reception of the first of the five character-determination bits the selector magnet, operable by the current pulses representing the character, will operate the selector mechanism associated with it and thereby allow the teletypewriter machine to print the character represented by the sequence of character-determination pulses.
  • This operation is more fully described in United States Patent No. 2,339,313,. granted January 18, 1944 to W. J. Zenner.
  • the character-determination pulse rate must likewise increase. As these current pulses are applied to the selector magnet it must positively attract and release its armature at a correspondingly faster pulse rate to prevent the selector magnet from failing to recognize any single character-determination bit applied thereto.
  • Another way of accomplishing a decrease in energization time of an inductor is to provide a substantially greater voltage across the inductor than would be required for quiescent operation.
  • this latter method is employed there is a large power dissipation in the current limiting resistor that must be placed in series with the inductor to be driven, as the voltage and resulting current might be of too great a magnitude if applied directly to the inductor, and could Well damage the inductor.
  • a preferred method would be to provide a voltage which would effect a rapid energization of the coil with a very low resistance in series with the coil to be energized and upon achieving a predetermined current flow through the coil, to thereupon cause a higher resistance to be placed in series with the coil to limit the current to a steady state or quiescent operating value, thus enabling energization of an inductor coil with a much lower voltage source than would normally be required to energize the inductor at the same rate of speed with but a single current path from the voltage source through the inductor to ground.
  • Another object of the invention is to generate current wave forms having rapid rise characteristics in an inductor in such a way as to avoid the provision of an excessively high voltage source to produce the rapid rise and a correspondingly high energy dissipation facility to be effective during the steady state condition.
  • Still another object of the invention is to provide an auxiliary path for current to flow through during the initial energization of an amplifier employed to energize an inductor.
  • Yet another object of the invention is to make available to an inductor an energizing current substantially exceeding the desired steady state current; and upon occurrence of a current equaling or exceeding the desired steady state current, to limit the current to the desired steady state level.
  • Yet another object of the invention is to minimize the radio frequency noise radiated from a teletypewriter employing a selector magnet.
  • Another feature of the invention is the ability of the circuit to provide a normal or steady state current path for an inductor and at the moment of initial energization of the inductor to provide a second current path capable of furnishing current in excess of the steady state requirement until the current in that path at least equals the steady state current, whereupon said second path be 4- comes disabled and said steady state path becomes enabled.
  • Another feature of the invention is the employment of a bi-stable type input circuit operable to respond positively to one or the other of two signal line conditions and when the condition is that which is to render a teletypewriter selector magnet operable, to simultaneously enable the second or auxiliary current path and disable the steady state or normal current path.
  • an output generated by the device is directed to a selector magnet or inductor coil to be energized.
  • a selector magnet or inductor coil to be energized.
  • This initial surge of current is furnished by a collector-emitter current flowing in a transistor connected in a common collector configuration and is controlled by a change in circuit parameters observable when the input signal to the device changes from a spacing (no current) to a marking (current) condition.
  • the current flow during the initial turn-on period is increased until the quiescent operating current value or a value slightly above that, is reached, at which time other associated circuitry disables the transistor furnishing the surge of current.
  • a bi-stable input circuit is connected to a signal line and is operable to rapidly change states upon the input signal line reaching either of two predetermined current values.
  • This on-otf type input circuit contains a first and third transistor which are normally held conductive when the signal is in the marking condition, and a second transistor normally held nonconductive when the signal line is in the marking condition.
  • a predetermined value of voltage (spacing condition) is applied to the first transistor, the second transistor becomes conductive rendering the third transistor nonconductive which in turn opens,
  • a fourth transistor is employed to maintain operating stability of the aforementioned circuitry.
  • a positive feed-back loop is employed which prevents any unstable oscillation which may otherwise occur.
  • an inductor driving circuit which includes a first transistor 11 having base 12, emitter 13 and collector 14 electrodes; a second transistor 15 having base 16, emitter 17 and collector 18 electrodes; and a third transistor 19 having base 20, emitter 21 and collector 22 electrodes.
  • transistors 11, 15' and 19 are shown as PNP junction type transistors. However, it may be expressly understood that this type of transistor is shown for illustrative purposes only and that these transistors could be replaced by junction transistors of the opposite conductive type, NPN, if the proper voltage and diode polarity changes were made. Coupled to the base 12 and emitter 13 electrodes of transistor 11 is an input circuit which includes signal line terminals 23 and 24, having connected across them resistors 25 and 26 Whose function it is to set the predetermined current level above which transistor 11 will become energized. Also connected across the signal line terminals 23 and 24 are click suppressors 27, which establish the voltage switching level necessary to render transistor 11 condlqctiye, A
  • click suppressor 27 or 28 consists of a PN semiconductor junction and NP semiconductor junction connected in parallel. These varistors or click suppressors act as current limiting devices for surges of current which might be applied to the signal line and in addition provide a fixed voltage drop'for the circuit in which they are placed. Placed in parallel with the base 12, emitter 13 circuit of the first transistor 11 are additional click suppressors 28 which act to shunt excessive currents that might be applied to signal line terminal 23 around transistor 11 to the other side of the signal line, thus preventing the possibility of permanent damage to transistor 11 in case of polarity reversal or excessive currents being applied thereto. These click suppressors 28 begin to conduct and continue to pass an increased amount of current as the voltage increases in direct proportion to the increase of the voltage applied across them.
  • the first transistor 11 will be normally conductive when a marking current flows through resistors 25 or 26.
  • the marking current required to render transistor 11 conductive may be predetermined by varying the ohmic values of resistors 25 or 26.
  • Base resistor 29 acts to establish a reference voltage which is directly proportional to the base-emitter current of transistor 11. When a predetermined amount of current flows through resistor 29 a voltage is developed across it which serves to render click-suppressor 28 conductive, thus shunting the excess current. To effect this end, the base 12 of transistor 11 is coupled to the voltage reference resistor 29.
  • the emitter 13 is placed in parallel with the voltage reference resistor 29 and click suppressor 28.
  • Resistors 25 and 26 serve to control the amount of current which will be allowed to flow in the base 12, emitter 13 circuit and aid in establishing the voltage switching level necessary to render transistor 11 conductive. When an absence of current or a spacing condition is present upon the signal line terminals 23 and 24, transistor 11 is held nonconductive, as emitter 13 assumes a slightly more negative potential than the base 12.
  • the base 16 of the second transistor 15 is connected to the collector 14 of the first transistor 11 and is therefore directly controlled by the condition of said first transistor. Obviously, when the first transistor 11 is conductive, .a potential approaching the potential of positive battery which may be grounded, will be placed upon the base 16 of the second transistor 15. Due to click suppressor 30 a drop in potential is ellected across the baseemitter junction of transistor 15 which effectively renders the second transistor 15 nonconductive when said first transistor '11 is conductive.
  • a third transistor 19 is conductive when there is a mark condition appearing across the signal line input 23 and 24.
  • This third transistor 19 is held conductive by a potential of more positive magnitude being placed upon the emitter 21 than is placed upon the base 20.
  • the potential placed upon the emitter 21 is furnished from the emitter 13 of the first transistor 11 through click suppressors 30 and 31, while the more negative potential present on the base 20 is drawn from battery 47 through resistor 32.
  • transistor 19 With transistor 19 conductive, a small negative potential is placed upon one terminal 46 of the inductor 45 and corresponds to emitter 21 potential of transistor 19. Since a marking condition is present on the signal line at this time, the inductor 45 should 'be energized. In order to accomplish this, a path must be furnished to battery from one terminal 46 of the selector magnet. This path is furnished through the winding of magnet 45, the fourth transistor 48 which has a base 49, emitter 50 and collector 51 electrodes;
  • Transistor 48 is normally conductive during both the spacing cycle and marking cycle but is momentarily rendered nonconductive upon the initial change of conditions at the input 23 and 24 from spacing condition to a marking condition and will be hereinafter described.
  • a path from battery 47 is provided through base bias resistor 52, through the base 49, emitter 50 junction to the other side 46 of the inductor 45. Since the emitter 50 is at a more positive potential than the base 49, transistor 48 becomes conductive thus placing the emitter 50 voltage of transistor 48 upon the collector 51.
  • Resistor 54 a current limiting resistor, provides a current limiting means for the selector magnet 45.
  • a fifth transistor 60 has base 61, emitter 62 and collector 63 electrodes and is normally held in a nonconductive condition during a marking or spacing condition on the signal input 23 and 24.
  • the collector 51 of transistor 48 is held at a sligthly more negative potential than the emitter 50 of that transistor due to the drop across the emitter-collector junction of that transistor 48, and since the base 61 of the fifth transistor 60 is con nected to the collector 51 of transistor 48 and the emitter 62 of the fifth transistor 60 is connected through a click suppressor 64 to the emitter 50 of transistor 48, a more positive potential will exist on the base 61 due to the drop across click suppressor 64 causing a greater drop in potential than emitter-collector junction of transistor 48 so that the fifth transistor 60 will be held in a nonconductive state.
  • the first transistor 11 becomes nonconductive as the base 12 is held near positive battery potential through resistor 25 and/ or 26 while the emitter 13 is held more negative due to the voltage drop across click suppressors 27.
  • transistor 11 becomes nonconductive the potential on the collector 14 of that transistor rises sharply toward battery 47 potential which renders the second transistor 15 conductive, as a more negative potential exists on the base 16 than the emitter 17 of that transistor.
  • Transistor 15, rendered conductive places the nearly positive battery potential of the emitter 17 on the collector 18 of that transistor.
  • transistor 48 remains conductive as a current path is retained through resistor 52, base 49, emitter 50 of transistor 48, through transistor 15, click suppressors 30 and 27 to positive battery. It therefore follows that with transistor 48 in the conductive state, transistor 60 must be nonconductive.
  • transistors 60 and 19 As current begins to flow through selector magnet 45 the emitter 62 of transistor 60 correspondingly begins to go positive with respect to the base 61 of transistor 60, rendering that transistor conductive. Simultaneously capacitor 73 begins to discharge towards battery 47 through resistor 52. Upon reaching the potential created by voltage divider resistors 71 and 72, the base 49 of transistor 48 is clamped thereto through diode 74 which is normally back biased during all quiescent operation. If the current building up through selector magnet 45 were allowed to continue to build up to excessively high value, transistors 60 and 19 would be severely damaged.
  • transistor 48 again becomes conductive due to a correspondingly more negative potential appearing on the base 49 due to the clamping voltage provided. Therefore, when this predetermined current is reached, transistor 60 becomes nonconductive as transistor 48 has become conductive. With transistor 60 nonconductive, full battery potential is no longer available for the selector magnet 45. There is, however, a holding path for the magnet 45, furnished through current limiting resistor 54 and transistor 48, which is now conductive.
  • a positive feed-back loop is employed, hereinbefore described.
  • This positive feed back when the input signal changes from a spacing to a marking condition, effectively holds transistor 15 in a nonconduct-ive condition as the potential difference between the collector 14 and the cathode of diode 57 approaches zero, thereby efiectively holding the base of transistor 15 sufliciently positive to assure stable operation, once transistor 11 becomes conductive.
  • Switch 75 is provided to render the circuit sensitive to polar input signals, where the marking andspacing pulse both assume a positive and negative voltage condition, respectively, rather than only the mark condition assuming a positive'voltage.
  • the input circuit including transistor 11, sensing the change in current is rendered conductive by a predetermined amount of current flowing through the input circuit.
  • Transistor 11, being conductive renders transistor 15 nonconductive which momentarily renders transistor 48 noncorrductive, thereby allowing transistor 60 to become conductive during the period transistor 48 remains nonconductive.
  • transistor 19 becomes conductive, placing nearly positive battery potential on one side, 46, of the selector magnet 45.
  • Transistor 60 now fully conductive, allows virtually full battery potential to be impressed on the other side 53 of the selector magnet 45. This high potential appearing across the coil 45 permits a fast build up of current through the coil which causes a fast energization of the coil.
  • transistor 48 becomes conductive, rendering transistor 60 nonconductive and thus limiting the flow of current, by virtue of a current limiting resistor 54 associated with transistor 48, through the selector coil.
  • the amount of current which is permitted to flow through the circuit now energizing the coil is of sufiicient magnitude to assure complete energization thereof for the duration of the marking condition appearing at the input circuit.
  • the radio-frequency radiation remains non-objectionable as the total power switched at any given instant of time is insufiicient to effectively initiate radiation for more than a nominal distance.
  • the fifth transistor 60 is the only element that controls power of suflicient magnitude to become objectionable if radiated as R-F noise; however, since the rise time of the current through this transistor is restricted to a frequency characteristic below the minimum radio frequency, the entire circuit, for all practical purposes, is devoid of radio frequency radiation.
  • an electronic voltage responsive input means having two stable states and driven to one of its stable states by an input signal of one magnitude and to the other of its stable states by an input of a different magnitude inductor energizing switching means controlled by said input means for furnishing a substantially steady energizing potential to said inductor when the input means assumes one of its two stable states; and means controlled by a current at a first predetermined magnitude flowing through said inductor for establishing a current flow through said inductor at a second predetermined magnitude.
  • inductor energizing means comprising a first switching means controlled by the input means and connected between the potential source and one terminal of said inductor for providing substantially the potential of the potential source to the one terminal of said inductor upon reception by the input means of a control pulse of one magnitude, a second switching means controlled by the first switching means for providing a low impedance re turn path from the other terminal of said inductor to the potential source, a third switching means for disabling said second switching means and for maintaining an optimum energizing current flow from said other terminal of said induct
  • a signal-responsive input means capable of assuming one or the other of two stable states in accordance with the magnitude of an input signal
  • inductor energizing means controlled by the signal-responsive input means comprising a first transistor connected between one terminal of the voltage source and one terminal of the inductor and operable for a predetermined time interval to furnish a low impedance current flow path between one terminal of said voltage source and one terminal of said inductor upon assumption by said signal-responsive input means of one of its two stable states, a second transistor connected between the other terminal of said voltage source and the other terminal of said inductor to operate concurrently with said transistor to fur nish a low-impedance return path between the other terminal of said inductor and the other terminal of said voltage source, a third transistor connected in parallel with said first transistor to operate upon sensing a predetermined level of current flow through said inductor to disable said first transistor but not said second transistor simultaneously
  • a driving circuit for an inductor having two terminals comprising a source of energizing current and potential, a oltage sensitive input circuit, a first switching means responsive to reception of a predetermined voltage by the voltage sensitive input circuit to connect one of said inductor terminals to said source, a second switching means responsive to operation of said first switching means to connect the other terminal of said inductor to said source to furnish a low impedance path to said inductor which is capable of furnishing a current significantly exceeding an optimum steady state current, a third switching means connected to the same terminal of the inductor as said second switching means responsive to occurrence of a predetermined level of current flow through said second switching means to disable said second switching means and to furnish an optimum impedance path between said inductor and said source for delivering a steady state current to said inductor, and
  • a fourth switching means connected to the same terminal of said inductor as said second and third switching means and operable in conjunction with said first switching means upon reception of a different predetermined voltage by said voltage sensitive input circuit to eifectively reverse the energizing path of said inductor to cause said inductor to deenergize against said source of energizing current and potential.
  • the voltage responsive input means is comprised of a transistor having a base, collect-or and emitter, a resistor having two sides with one side connected to the base of said transistor, a signal line having an input terminal and a return terminal, said input terminal being connected to the other side of said resistor, at least one varistor connected between said input terminal :and said emitter of the transistor to maintain bias for the transistor and to afiord current overload protection, at least one varistor connected from the emitter of the transistor to the return terminal of said signal line to maintain bias, variable resistive means connected from the input of said signal line to the return terminal of said signal line to present varying input impedances to said signal line and to enable signal line currents of different magnitudes to develop the same voltage drop across the signal line terminals to cause said voltage sensitive input circuit to be similarly responsive to a plurality of different current levels.
  • inductor-energizing means activated by the voltage-responsive input means in assuming one of its two stable states for providing to the inductor a current higher than a predetermined steady-state current, means responsive to the occurrence of a first predetermined magnitude of current flowing through said inductor to establish a current flow through said inductor at a sec-0nd predetermined magnitude, and means responsive to the other of the two stable states of the input means to reverse the energizing potential across said inductor to effectively deenergize said inductor.
  • a driving circuit for an inductor comprising:
  • a voltage responsive input means driven to one or the other of two states in accordance with the magnitude of an input signal
  • a driving circuit for an inductor according to claim 9, wherein said other energizing circuit path supplies energizing current for said inductor following disablement of said low impedance path.
  • a driving circuit for an inductor comprising: a voltage-responsive input means capable of assuming one or the other of two states in accordance with the magnitude of an input signal; a source of current and voltage; means for providing a low impedance path between the source and the inductor temporarily during the 1 1 build up of current in the inductor when the voltageresponsive input means assumes one of its states;
  • a driving circuit for selectively energizing an inductor comprising:
  • a voltage-responsive input means capable of assuming one or the other of two states in accordance with the magnitude of an input signal
  • a first switch connected between the inductor and the source which operates temporarily during the build up of current in the inductor to furnish a low impedance current path between the source and the inductor upon assumption by the voltage-responsive input means of one of its two states;
  • a second switch connected in parallel with the first and means for disabling the maintaining means upon cessa-.

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FR901272A FR1330973A (fr) 1961-07-05 1962-06-19 Circuits d'excitation pour dispositifs inducteurs
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CH798762A CH420253A (fr) 1961-07-05 1962-07-03 Circuit d'alimentation d'une bobine de self
BE619782A BE619782A (fr) 1961-07-05 1962-07-04 Circuits d'alimentation pour dispositifs inductifs
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