US3444422A - Circuit arrangement for correcting the pin-cushion distortion upon deflection of an electron beam in a display tube - Google Patents

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US3444422A
US3444422A US505540A US3444422DA US3444422A US 3444422 A US3444422 A US 3444422A US 505540 A US505540 A US 505540A US 3444422D A US3444422D A US 3444422DA US 3444422 A US3444422 A US 3444422A
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  • a pincushion correction system for a television deflection system employs a transductor having first and second windings wound on a saturable core.
  • the first winding is connected in parallel with the horizontal deflection coil and the second winding is connected in series with the vertical deflection coil and the frame deflection generator.
  • the frame deflection current flowing in the second winding varies the inductance of the first winding so as to correct the side-to-side pincushion distortion.
  • a capacitor and an inductor are connected in parallel with the second winding to form an LC resonant circuit that phase shifts the induced voltage of horizontal frequency in said secnd winding approximately 180 degrees.
  • the phase shifted voltage is applied to the vertical deflection coil which has a relatively large inductance so that the applied voltage is integrated to correct the top-to-bottom pincushion distortion.
  • a deflection circuit of this type comprises a first deflection coil for deflecting the beam in a first direction at a comparatively high frequency, preferably in the horizontal direction.
  • a sawtooth current is supplied thereto from a first current source.
  • a transductor is provided having first and second windings wound on a saturable core having a non-linear magnetic inductance B/magnetic field strength H curve. The first winding is connected in parallel with the first deflection coil.
  • a second deflection coil is provided for deflecting the beam in a second direction, preferably in the vertical direction, at a frequency which is comparatively low relative to that of the first direction.
  • a sawtooth current is supplied thereto from a second current source so that said current flows, at least in part, through the second winding on the transductor core.
  • a deflection circuit of the type described above is described in US. Patent 2,906,919.
  • the so-called potentiometer principle is invariably used in this known arrangement, i.e., for correction of the pin-cushion distortion a winding wound on the transductor core is connected in parallel with the deflection coil proper.
  • the assembly is connected to a current source which provides the sawtooth current for deflecting the electron beam in one direction.
  • the inductance of the winding is varied by means of the sawtooth current which deflects the beam in the other direction.
  • the correction of the vertical deflection is effected by the horizontal deflection whereby the horizontal lines are straightened, the so-called north-south-correction.
  • the correction of the horizontal deflection is eflected by the vertical deflection whereby the length of the scan in the horizontal direction is corrected, the so-called easbwest correction.
  • An object of the invention is therefore to carry out both the northsouth correction and the east-west correction by means of a transductor.
  • the circuit arrangement according to the invention is characterized in that it includes means by which the voltage of comparatively high frequency, induced in the second winding due to the non-linearity of the core material, may be phase-shifted by approximately and applied to the second deflection coil.
  • the inductance of the second deflection coil is chosen so that said high frequency voltage is integrated.
  • the invention is based upon the following recognition.
  • a reaction which is undesirable per se occurs and this, as will be explained more fully hereinafter, results in that the existing pin-cushion distortion of the horizontal lines (i.e., the pin-cushion distortion in the north-south direction) even being emphasized.
  • this unwanted emphasis is not only avoided, but is modified in such a manner that the pin-cushion distortion in the north-south direction is corrected.
  • FIGURE 1 shows a first embodiment of a circuit arrangement according to the invention
  • FIGURE 2 shows a curve illustrating signals which occur in the arrangement of FIGURE 1;
  • FIGURE 3a shows a possible magnetic inductance B/magnetic field strength H curve of the material used for the core of the transductor
  • FIGURE 3b shows a permeability u/magnetic field strength H curve which is derived from the curve of FIGURE 3a;
  • FIGURE 4 shows a possible pin-cushion distortion which may occur on the screen of a television display tube
  • FIGURE .5 shows a transductor as already shown in FIGURE 1, but with another direction of the magnetic flux in the external limbs;
  • FIGURE 6 shows a phase characteristic of an LC circuit as used for changing the unwanted reaction to a wanted correction signal
  • FIGURE 7 shows the sawtooth current of comparatively low frequency together with the correction currents of comparatively high frequency superimposed on it for suppressing the pin-cushion distortion in the north-south direction;
  • FIGURE 8 shows a second embodiment of a circuit arrangement according to the invention.
  • FIGURE 9 shows a third
  • FIGURE 10 shows a fourth embodiment thereof.
  • a first current source 1 provides the sawtooth current I for the horizontal deflection of the electron beam.
  • An inductor 2 is regarded as being the internal impedance of the source 1, which approximates fairly well to the actual situation.
  • the sawtooth current from the source 1 is supplied inter alia to a horizontal deflection coil 3 which may be mounted on the neck of a television display tube (not shown).
  • the repetition frequency of the current provided by the source 1 is 15,625 c./s.
  • FIGURE 1 also shows a second current source 4 which provides the sawtooth current I for the vertical deflection of the electron beam.
  • the internal resistance of the source 4 is represented by a resistor 5.
  • the internal resistance of the vertical output stage has an ohmic character. This is due to the fact that the repetition frequency for the vertical deflection is comparatively low (50 c./sec. for the European system) so that the vertical deflection coils have a substantially ohmic character at this frequency. It is therefore preferable to represent the internal resistance of the vertical output stage also as a substantially ohmic element.
  • the internal resistance 5 is imagined to be shunted by a capacitor 6.
  • This capacitor as will be explained hereinafter, must have a low impedance relative to the line frequency f since otherwise these line frequency signals can still exert an undesirable influence.
  • the vertical deflection current I is supplied to vertical deflection coils 7 and 8.
  • the deflection coils 3, 7 and 8 are usually combined in one. Said deflection coils do not cause deflection errors, which means that they are anastigmatic and free of coma. This is important, especially for colour television display tubes, since deflection errors result in colour errors.
  • pin-cushion distortion is shown, for example, in FIGURE 4. According to the invention, it may be corrected by means of a single transductor9, as shown in FIGURE 1.
  • the transductor preferably comprises a single core 10 having two external limbs on which windings 11 and 12 are wound in opposite directions. Said windings are connected in series with one another through a conductor 13 and connected in parallel with deflection coil 3 through conductors 14 and 15. Consequently, the current 1,, from the source 1 is divided into currents I and I which flow through the windings 11 and 12, which are to be regarded as one winding, and the coil 3, respectively.
  • a second winding 16 is Wound on the central limb of the transductor core 10 and connected through conductors 17 and 18 to a capacitor 20 and a coil 22.
  • the transductor 9 operates as follows.
  • the line frequency current 1;; shown in FIGURE 2a flows through the first winding 11, 12.
  • the sawtooth current I of raster frequency flows through the second winding 16.
  • the material of the core 10 has a magnetic inductance B/magnetic field strength H curve as shown in FIGURE 3a.
  • a permeability ,u/magnetic field strength H curve, as shown in FIGURE 3b, may be derived from said curve. In the two curves it has been assumed that the material of the core has substantially no hysteresis, which is a permissible approximation for the selected material of the core. If the core has a square loop B-H curve, it may be changed to the curve of FIGURE 3a by providing an air-gap or bevelling the external limbs by milling.
  • the current I which flows through the winding 16 results in a field variation H as shown in FIGURE 3b. Consequently, the greatly curved part of the -H curve is traversed, resulting in a more or less parabolic variation in the permeability [.L.
  • the current I may be regarded substantially as a direct current relative to the line frequency signals since the frequency of 50 c./s. is so much lower than the frequency of 15,625 c./ s. Therefore, a variation in the vertical deflection current I hardly occurs during a line cycle, i.e., the inductance Lnlz each time is adjusted to another value as a function of I As may appear from the foregoing, the current 1;; is then a minimum and hence I a maximum if I 0. Conversely, if the current I is a maximum, the inductance L is a minimum, and hence 1;; is amaximum and 1;; a minimum. However, the currents I and I remain substantially sawtoothshaped but of variable amplitudes.
  • I remains substantially sawtooth-shaped since the instantaneous value of I may be regarded substantially as constant during a line period T.
  • I is maximum, or has a comparatively high value, and that 1;; is a maximum at the beginning of a horizontal flyback period (the flyback period is indicated by zT in FIGURE 2).
  • the current 1; which flows through the oppositely wound windings 11 and 12 results in a flux e in the material of the core.
  • This flux disregarding for the moment the action of the current I through the winding 16, flows only through the external limbs because in the case of symmetry of the two external limbs (the term symmetry is to be understood herein to mean that the degrees of saturation of the two limbs are the same, whereas the term asymmetry is to be understood to mean that the degrees of saturation of the two limbs are different) there is no reason for the flux ca to flow through the central limb (since this would imply some leakage of the flux 1 which is negligible).
  • the current I which flows through the winding 16 results in a flux of 2 as shown in broken lines in FIGURE 1. This flux is divided into two halves, each having an intensity of Q02 which flows through the right-hand and left-hand limbs, respectively.
  • the fluxes (p and (p support each other in the right-hand external limb and counteract each other in the left-hand external limb. Consequently, the right-hand external limb becomes more saturated and the left-hand external limb becomes less saturated, that is to say the magnetic reluctance of the right-hand limb increases (a smaller) and that of the lefthand limb decreases (pt higher).
  • the flux produced by the current I thus has greater difliculty in flowing through the right-hand limb and tends to flow in part through the central limb (see the dot-and-dash curve indicated by 0 in FIGURE 1).
  • the flux 7 thus tends to avoid the left-hand limb and flows in part through the central limb (see the flux 0 shown by the dot-and-dash curve in FIGURE 5).
  • FIGURES 1 and 5 shows that the flux 0 which flows through the central limb due to the asymmetry in the saturation of the right-hand and left-hand limbs, has the same direction both at the beginning and at the end of the flyback period zT.
  • the flux p through the central limb has its minimum value at both the beginning and the end of the fiyback period since the flux (p has its maximum value at these instants.
  • FIGURES 1 and 5 it also appears that, irrespective of the direction of the current I the flux (p is invariably directed opposite to the flux (p Consequently, if the direction of I reverses, the flux o produced by it, and hence the flux e also reverses.
  • FIGURE 2b refers, for example, to a scan line above line 23 in FIGURE 4, the flux Q03 is shifted in phase by 180 for a scan below line 23. This is fundamentally necessary, however, as will be explained hereinafter, since the correction current required must be shifted in phase "by 180 above line 23 relative to that below line 23.
  • a signal modulated in amplitude and phase is thus obtained by means of the transductor 9.
  • the windings 11 and 12 must preferably be connected in series.
  • the flux 2tp p flows through the central limb.
  • a flux p g0 /2 p flows through the left-hand external limb and a flux /2 flows through the right-hand external limb.
  • the flux linking the winding 11 produces in it a counter EMF.
  • the current I and the voltage U must be regarded as undesirable indeed.
  • the horizontal lines on the upper and lower sides of the screen must be straightened. This may be achieved in that the vertical current I remains unchanged at the centre of the screen (dashed line 24 in FIGURE 4) but is decreased during a line period during the scan to the left and to the right of line 24. If one considers the current I shown in FIGURE 2b, it appears that this current, although having approximately the correct form, has a phase which is exactly opposite to the phase required for the correction of the pin-cushion distortion since I is a maximum at the beginning and the end of the flyback period. If the line frequency current I is added to the raster frequency current I the current I increases instead of decreases to the right and to the left of line 24, that is to say the pin-cushion distortion is emphasized instead of corrected.
  • this undesirable effect may be counteracted by preventing the current I or the voltage U from reaching the vertical deflection coils 7 and 8 directly.
  • means may be provided by which the available current I or the voltage U is shifted in phase by and then the phase-shifted signal is applied to the vertical deflection coils 7 and 8. Since the signal I shown in FIGURE 2b emphasizes the pin-cushion distortion, a 180 phase-shifted signal of the correct amplitude can eliminate said pin-cushion distortion.
  • FIGURE 8 One embodiment of a circuit arrangement thus designed is shown in FIGURE 8.
  • the current source 4 having the internal resistance 5 has the form of a pentode tube.
  • a control signal 25 is applied to the control grid of tube 4.
  • the anode circuit of tube 4 includes a transformer 26.
  • the vertical deflection coils 7 and 8 are connected to the secondary of transformer 26 by means of a blocking circuit 27 tuned to the repetition frequency of the current source 1.
  • the capacitor 20 has a very low impedance for line frequency signals and a very high impedance for raster frequency signals.
  • the current I provided by the source 4 thus flows through the inductive part of the circuit 27, the deflection coils 7 and 8 and the coil 22 and winding 16 connected in series therewith.
  • the current I caused by the flux (p however, flows through the winding 16, the coil 22 and the capacitor 20 since the very low impedance of capacitor 20 relative to this line frequency current constitutes a short circuit.
  • the coil 22 is magnetically coupled to a secondary winding 28 which is connected in series with a capacitor 29. This series combination is connected between the ends of the coils 7 and 8 which are remote from capacitor 20.
  • the capacitor 29, too, has a low impedance for the line frequencies f;, and a high impedance for the raster frequency current I Since we invariably have the voltage induced in the secondary winding 28 is the derivative of the current I which flows through winding 22.
  • the winding sense of winding 28 and its connection through capacitor 29 to the coils 7 and 8 is chosen so that the voltage across each of the deflection coils has exactly the correct phase.
  • the current I has substantially the correct form but the wrong phase.
  • the voltage across winding 28 has the correct phase but is the derivative of the current I and must therefore be integrated again. This reintegration takes place in the deflection coils 7 and 8, which for this purpose require relatively large inductance values.
  • the blocking circuit 27 ensure that the line frequency signals do not flow through the secondary winding of transformer 26. This is desirable primarily because the secondary winding of transformer 26 otherwise extracts an unnecessary load current from winding 28, which is to be regarded as a source. Secondly, this could imply unwanted action upon the source 4 by line frequency signals.
  • FIGURE 9 An arrangement which is somewhat simplified relative to FIGURE 8 is shown in FIGURE 9.
  • the circuit for the current I which is closed in itself, is formed similarly as in FIGURE 8 by means of the elements 16, 20 and 22 which have the same values in both arrangements.
  • the winding 28 which is magnetically coupled to the winding 22 is now connected in series with the vertical deflection coils 7 and 8.
  • the capacitor 6 has a low impedance relative to the line frequencies f and a high impedance relative to the raster frequency current I
  • the voltage of line frequency f induced in the winding 28 by the winding 22 appears across the coils 7 and 8. After integration thereof in said coils, the desired correction current for the north-south correction now also results.
  • phase displacement is effected by means of an LC-circuit in the example of FIG- URE I.
  • Said circuit comprises capacitor 20, coil 22 and the inductance of transductor 9 as viewed in the direc tion from the conductors 17 and 18 to the winding 16.
  • Said inductance which is indicated by L for the sake of simplicity, comprises the inductance of the winding 16 and the stray inductance between the winding 16, on the one hand, and the windings 11 and 12 on the other.
  • the resulting LC circuit is tuned to a resonant frequency f which is so much lower than the repetition frequency 1 of the sawtooth current from the source 1 that a voltage of the desired phase and amplitude appears across capacitor 20.
  • the voltage has the waveform shown in FIGURE 20. Since the current I has the wrong phase this is also true for the voltage U Since the voltage U is a voltage which is induced in the winding 16, a source providing the voltage U may be imagined to be in series with the inductor L and the capacitor C of the above mentioned LC circuit. Since the L in the circuit invariably has a certain resistance R, the current i in the circuit comprising the elements 16, 22 and 20 may be written as:
  • C is the capacitance of capacitor 20.
  • the wave form of the voltage U across capacitor 20 is shown in FIGURE 2d.
  • the voltage U must also be integrated by the vertical deflection coils 7 and 8 before the desired correction current is obtained.
  • capacitor -6 constitutes a short-circuit relative to the line frequencies. Consequently, the ends of the coils 7 and 8 which are connected to the resistor 5 and the source 4, respectively, may be regarded as connected together relative to the line frequencies.
  • the capacitor voltage U is regarded as a source, it causes a voltage across the coils 7 and 8 so that the current I which flows through these coils is the integral of said voltage.
  • the current I and the current obtained by integration of the voltage U are then automatically added together in the coils 7 and 8 so that the resulting current I' has the desired wave form shown in FIGURE 7.
  • the ideal voltage form for U is that shown by the dot-and-dash line in FIGURE 2d. As may be seen the actual voltage hardly differs from the ideal wave form during the forward stroke period T(l-z) as is shown by the curve in full line in FIG- URE 2d.
  • the inductance L is variable due to the variable permeaability of the core 10.
  • the inductance of the coil 22 is given a high value relative to L the tuning of the circuit is hardly influenced by variation of L
  • capacitor 20 may become smaller by raising the total inductance in the circuit so that the voltage U set up across capacitor 20 increases with the quality of the circuit unchanged.
  • the winding 16 apart from the coil 22 is connected in series with the deflection coils 7 and 8.
  • the capacitor 6 must provide for short-circuiting the line frequency currents so that the voltage U becomes directly available to the deflection coils 7 and 8.
  • FIGURE 10 shows that it is possible for the winding 16, if desired in series with the coil 22, to be connected in parallel with the deflection coils 7 and 8.
  • a current I flows through the coils 7 and 8 and a current 1 flows through the winding 16 and the coil 22.
  • I I +I
  • I the current of raster frequency su plied by the source 4.
  • the ohmic resistance in the circuit including the coils 7 and 8 and that in the circuit including the coil 22 and the winding 16 determine the magnitudes of the currents I and 1 respectively.
  • the source 4 must now actually provide a current I which is twice that in the circuit arrangement of FIG- URE 1.
  • a voltage U is induced in the winding 16 in a manner similar to FIGURE 1.
  • the voltage U is phase shifted by 180 by the LC circuit comprising the elements L L and C so that a voltage U of the wave form shown in FIG- URE 2d appears across capacitor 20. Since capacitor 20 is connected in parallel with the deflection coils 7 and 8, the voltage U is directly available to said deflection coils. After integration thereof in said coils the desired parabolic current for correction in the north-south direction again results.
  • the winding 16 must be divided into two equal halves. One half is wound on the limb of one pair and the other half is wound in the same sense on the limb of the other pair.
  • the current I acquires a pulsatory character.
  • the width of the pulses and their amplitudes then increase with increasing value of the vertical deflection current I (that is to say an absolute increase and hence from zero in the positive direction as well as from zero in the negative direction).
  • the current 1 cannot therefore be said to have approximately the desired wave form for the north-south correction.
  • the tuned circuit constituted by the winding 16, the coil 22 which is connected in series with it, and the capacitor 20 must therefore ensure, in addition to inverting the phase, that the voltage U across capacitor 20 acquires the desired form.
  • the currents I and I (I in FIGURES 1, and 8 and 1 in FIG- URE 10) have the same values.
  • the peak-to-peak value of the current 1; is approximately 250 ma., that is to say the current I varies in this case between --l25 ma. and +125 ma.
  • the core 10 is an El. core from Messrs. Valvo of type VK 25,202 which is made of feroxcube 306.
  • the external limbs of this core have been bevelled by milling in a ratio 2:1 in order to obtain the desired BH curve.
  • the windings 11 and 12 each comprise 600 turns of lacquered copper wire of 0.15 mm. in diameter.
  • the number of turns of the Winding 16 is 100 and the wire used has a thickness of 0.25 mm.
  • the ohmic resistance of the winding 16 is 1 ohm.
  • the inductance of each of the vertical deflection coils 7 and 8 is 17 mh. and their ohmic resistance is 15 ohms. In fact, a compromise must be made between the requirement that the coils 7 and 8 can integrate the line frequency voltage U and the requirement that the load for the source 4 is substantially ohmic. These requirements imply respectively a high inductance and a high resistivity.
  • the resonance frequency f to which the LC circuit is tuned is 10 kc./ s.
  • the inductance of the deflection coil 3 is 2.9 mh. and its resistance is 2.5 ohms.
  • the internal impedance 2 of the source 1 is 1.7 mh.
  • a cathode ray tube deflection circuit for correcting pin-cushion distortion of an electron beam deflected in two relatively perpendicular directions, comprising a first deflection coil for deflecting said beam in a first direction at a comparatively high frequency, a first sawtooth current source coupled to said first coil, a transductor having a core that exhibits a non-linear magnetic B-H curve and first and second windings on said core, means connecting said first winding in parallel with said first deflection coil, a second deflection coil for deflecting the beam in a second direction at a frequency which is comparatively low relative to said high frequency, a second sawtooth current source coupled to said second deflection coil and to said second transductor winding so that at least a part of the sawtooth current flows through said second transductor winding, said second transductor winding having a voltage of said high frequency induced therein due to the nonlinearity of said core material, phase shift means coupled to the second winding for shifting in
  • phase shift means comprises a capacitor connected in parallel with the transductor second winding so as to form, together with the active inductance of the transductor, an LC circuit having a resonant frequency that is lower than the repetition frequency of the first sawtooth current source whereby the voltage developed across the capacitor is phase-shifted by approximately 180 relative to the induced voltage in said second winding.
  • said LC circuit further includes a coil having a constant inductance which is high relative to the inductance of the transductor.
  • a circuit as claimed in claim 1 further comprising, means connecting the transductor second winding in parallel circuit with the second deflection coil, a blocking circuit tuned to the repetition frequency of the first current source connected in series with said parallel circuit, and means connecting the series-combination of the parallel circuit and the blocking circuit to the second current source.
  • a circuit as claimed in claim 1 wherein the core of the transductor is made of a material that exhibits a square loop hysteresis curve, said material being controlled into a substantially unsaturated condition or a substantially saturated condition by the coaction of the currents in the first and second windings.
  • the second deflection coil is divided into two parts, a first capacitor interconnected between said two parts and having a low impedance for signals of the repetition frequency of the first source and a high impedance for signals of the repetition frequency of the second source
  • the means for phase shifting comprises a transformer having a primary winding connected in series with the transductor second winding, means connecting said series combination in parallel with said capacitor, means connecting the secondary winding of said transformer in series with a second capacitor across the two parts of the second deflection coil, said capacitor having a low impedance for signals of the repetition frequency of the first source and a high impedance for signals of the repetition frequency of the second source, a blocking circuit tuned to the frequency of the first current source, and means for coupling said blocking circuit between the second current source and the assembly comprising said second deflection coil, said transformer, said second transductor Winding, and said first and second capacitors.
  • transductor core is a single core comprising a central limb and two external limbs with upper and lower yokes arranged to form two closed interconnected magnetic circuits, said first transductor winding being divided into two parts connected in series and oppositely wound on the two external limbs, whereas the second winding is wound on the central limb, wherein the external limbs of the core are bevelled in a ratio of 2: 1.
  • a television deflection system comprising horizontal and vertical deflection coils, a first source of current of line deflection frequency coupled to said horizontal deflection coil, a second source of current of frame deflection frequency coupled to said vertical deflection coil, and raster distortion correction means comprising, a transductor having first and second windings wound on a saturable core, said first winding comprising a pair of oppositely wound winding segments connected in series, means connecting said first Winding in parallel with said horizontal deflection coil, means connecting said second transductor winding to said second current source so .that a current of the frame deflection frequency flows therein thereby to vary the inductance of said first transductor winding at the frame deflection frequency, phase shifting means coupled to said second transductor winding and arranged to produce a phase shift of approximately 180 in a voltage of said line deflection frequency induced in said second winding, and means for coupling the phase shifted voltage of line frequency to said vertical deflection coil, the resistance and inductance of said
  • a system as claimed in claim wherein said second transductor winding is connected in series with said vertical deflection coil across said second current source, and wherein said phase shifting means comprises a capacitor connected in parallel with said second transductor winding so as to form therewith a resonant circuit tuned to a frequency below the line deflection frequency.
  • phase shifting means comprises a transformer having a primary and a secondary winding, a capacitor having a low impedance to line frequency signals and a high impedance for frame frequency signals, means connecting said transformer primary winding and said capacitor in series across said second transductor winding, and means connecting said transformer secondary winding in series with the vertical deflection coil across said second current source.
  • a system as claimed in claim 12 further comprising a second capacitor connected in shunt with said second current source and having a low impedance to line frequency signals and a high impedance to frame frequency signals.
  • said vertical deflection coil comprises first and second equal coil segments, a first capacitor having a low impedance to line frequency signals and a high impedance to frame frequency signals, means connecting said first coil segment, said first capacitor, and said second coil segment in series across said second current source, and wherein said phase shifting means comprises a tarnsformer having a primary and a secondary winding, a second capacitor having a low impedance to line frequency signals and a high impedance to frame frequency signals, means connecting said transformer primary winding in series with the second transductor winding across said first capacitor, and means serially connecting said second capacitor and said transformer secondary winding across the series combination of said first and second coil segments and said first capacitor.
  • a system as claimed in claim 14 further comprising an LC parallel resonant circuit connected in series between said second current source and the parallel circuit including said first and second capacitors, said first and second coil segments, and said transformer secondary winding.
  • a television deflection system comprising horizontal and vertical deflection coils, means for applying a periodic signal of line deflection frequency to said horizontal deflection coil, means for applying a periodic signal of frame deflection frequency to said vertical deflection coil, and raster distortion correction means comprising, a transductor having first and second windings Wound on a saturable core, said first winding comprising a pair of oppositely wound winding segments connected in series, means connecting said first winding in parallel with said horizontal deflection coil, means connecting said second transductor winding in series with said vertical deflection coil, a capacitor, an inductor, and means connecting said capacitor and inductor in series across said second transductor winding, said inductor, capacitor and second transductor winding forming a resonant circuit tuned to a frequency substantially below the line deflection frequency, and said vertical deflection coil has an inductance value to produce integration of line frequency signals.

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