US3831057A - Circuit arrangement for generating a beam current in a cathode-ray tube - Google Patents

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US3831057A
US3831057A US00336218A US33621873A US3831057A US 3831057 A US3831057 A US 3831057A US 00336218 A US00336218 A US 00336218A US 33621873 A US33621873 A US 33621873A US 3831057 A US3831057 A US 3831057A
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  • the present invention relates to a circuit arrangement for a character writing cathode-ray picture tube for generating a beam current which is proportional to the deflection speed.
  • An intensity control voltage which is approximately proportional to the vector lengths, however, cannot be directly utilized. Since the input characteristic of the picture tube follows approximately the V law, the intensity control voltage, therefore, would not vary linearly with the beam current.
  • the input characteristic means the relation between the intensity control voltage and the beam current.
  • the intensity control voltage can be so predistorted that the relationship between the beam current and the intensity control signal will be as linear as possible in connection with the nonlinear characteristic of the picture tube.
  • the brightness therefore, will largely depend on the voltage at the preacceleration grid.
  • the wide spread between the units of the picture tube system requires that the predistortion characteristic be individually set, which is associated with much matching work.
  • This predistortion characteristic of the picture tube can be only approximately obtained if expenditures are to be maintained within a reasonable range.
  • This intensity control voltage shifts with variations in the preacceleration voltage and also changes its curvature in response to such variations.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a circuit arrangement for regulating the beam current of a cathode-ray tube so as to avoid the above-mentioned drawbacks.
  • a circuit arrangement of the above-mentioned type is provided with a regulating circuit which regulates the beam current such that the difference between a voltage obtained from a beam current measuring resistor and an intensity control voltage, which is proportional to the deflection speed, is kept at zero.
  • the circuit arrangement of the present invention includes a differential amplifier which provides an output connected to the intensity control grid of the picture tube for varying the voltage on the control grid so as to regulate the beam current.
  • This differential amplifier has two inputs, the first of which receives the voltage obtained from the measuring resistor through which the cathode current of the tube flows and the second of which receives the intensity control voltage.
  • the intensity control voltage is applied to the associated input of the differential amplifier via a resistor whose resistance is equal to that of the beam current measuring resistor. Both of these resistors have a voltage across them with respect to the same reference potential which preferably is ground. Furthermore, it is also advantageous to utilize variable capacitances which are connected to the second input of the differential amplifier, which is controlled by the intensity control voltage, so that the stray capacitances formed by components of the cathode-ray tube which become effective at the first input of the differential amplifier can be effectively matched.
  • the stray capacitances as well as the measuring resistor on the one hand and the variable capacitances as well as the resistor reproducing the measuring resistor on the other hand are respectively disposed in parallel branches of a bridge circuit in whose bridge lie the inputs of the differential amplifier.
  • the intensity control grid is connected in a direct current connection with the output of the differential amplifier.
  • This output of the differential amplifier is connected with a negative operating voltage.
  • a first differential amplification stage of the differential amplifier as well as an end stage which is connected to the output are connected both to the negative operating voltage source and also to a positive operating voltage source.
  • a protective switch is also desirable for a protective switch to be connected in the end stage of the differential amplifier, which switch interrupts the current flowing towards the output when either one or both of the operating voltages are reduced.
  • a capacitor can be connected with the intensity control grid and charged to the potential of the negative operating voltage source by such source so that it at least initially maintains the potential in the circuit if the voltage of the operating voltage source is reduced.
  • an additional substitute circuit can be provided for applying a blocking voltage to the intensity control grid for effecting the dark control, i.e. blocking out, of the electron beam.
  • the intensity control voltage is preferably generated by the above-mentioned known technique according to which the intensity control voltage is derived from the current fluctuations in the deflector coils.
  • FIG. I is a block circuit diagram of a basic embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a circuit diagram of the circuit of FIG. 1 with the inclusion of a bridge circuit and a blocking circuit.
  • FIG. 3 is a circuit diagram similar to that of FIG. 2 showing the details of the differential amplifier and the inclusion of a protective switching circuit.
  • FIG. 1 there is illustrated a character writing cathode-ray picture tube 1 in which only the cathode K, the intensity control grid G1 and the preacceleration grid G2 following thereafter are shown.
  • the cathode K is connected to ground via a resistor R.
  • a differential amplifier, or operational amplifier, 2 is provided whose output 3 is connected with the intensity control grid G1.
  • the negative input 4 of the differential amplifier 2 is connected to the cathode end of resistor R at the junction point 6.
  • the other input 5 of the differential amplifier is provided with the intensity control voltage v, with reference to ground, by an intensity control circuit 41.
  • the intensity control circuit 41 is shown as being coupled to the deflection coil, which coils are illustrated by a general representation.
  • This intensity control voltage is proportional to the respective writing, or beam deflection, speed.
  • the picture tube has been connected as a cathode follower and the beam current is regulated such that the voltage drop produced by the beam current at the resistor R serving as the measuring resistor is made equal to the intensity control voltage.
  • This equalization of the voltages is accomplished in that the amplified difference voltages produced at the output 3 of the differential amplifier act on the intensity control grid G1 so as to maintain the equality of the two input voltages of the differential amplifier.
  • the accuracy of this control depends only on the ring amplification of the control circuit. Consequently, the desired accurate linearity between the intensity control voltage and the beam luminance is provided and the shape of the tube characteristic no longer has any influence on the brightness.
  • the intensity control grid G1 has a capacitance Cgk with respect to the cathode K, and the cathode K has a capacitance Ckf with respect to the heating filament (not shown) which is connected to ground.
  • a change in voltage at the intensity control grid G1 produces, via these stray capacitances, in the measuring resistor R, a dynamic voltage component which is determined by changes in the charge of the capacitances Cgk and Ckf and the measuring resistor R.
  • the differential amplifier 2 cannot distinguish this component of the total current through measuring resistor R from the pure beam current.
  • a suppression of the above-mentioned dynamic voltage components is accomplished by connecting the input 5 of the differential amplifier 2 with the same RC combination as input 4, Le. the matchable capacitances as shown in FIG. 2.
  • the following circuit elements are connected to the input 5 of the differential amplifier 2 via junction point 7: a resistor R to whose other end the intensity control voltage v, is fed with respect to ground and which has the same dimensions as resistor R, a variable capacitance Cgk whose other end is connected with the intensity control grid G1 and finally a variable capacitance Ckf whose other end is connected to ground.
  • the capacitance Cgk of the tube lies between the cathode K and the intensity control grid G1 and the capacitance Ckf lies between cathode K and ground.
  • bridge circuit is thereby constructed which has two parallel branches connected between the intensity control grid G1 and ground; the first branch contains, between junction point 6 and G1, the capacitance Cgk and between junction point 6 and ground the capacitance Ckf in parallel with the resistor R and the second branch contains, between junction point 7 and G1, the variable capacitance Cgk and between junction point 7 and ground the variable capacitance C'kf in parallel with the resistor R.
  • the inputs 4, 5 of the differential amplifier 2 are connected in the bridge between the junction points 6 and 7. With sufficient common mode rejection and a sufficiently large common mode range of the differential amplifier 2, the beam current alone can now produce a signal at the output 3 of the amplifier with the dynamic noise signal being highly suppressed as an common mode signal.
  • FIG. 3 show details of the differential amplifier of FIG. 2 and a switching circuit connected to the differential amplifier for protecting the screen of the picture tube 1.
  • the differential amplifier includes a first differential amplifier stage formed by two npn transistors 8 and 9 whose collector is connected to a positive operating voltage +V of, for example, 12 V via a resistor 10 or 11, respectively.
  • the connected emitters of these two transistors are connected to a negative operating voltage source V of, for example, V via the collector-emitter path of an npn transistor 12 and a resistor 13 as well as a bias resistor 14.
  • the base of the transistor 8 is connected to the measuring resistor R at the junction point 6 and the base of the transistor 9 to the resistor R at the junction 7.
  • the base of the transistor 12, which forms a current stage for the current through the transistors 8, 9, is connected between resistors 40 and 15 of a voltage divider which is disposed between the negative operating voltage V,, and ground. With a large voltage drop at the emitter resistor 13 of the current stage transistor 12, the first differential amplifier stage obtains a very good stability for the operating point.
  • the collector of the transistor 8 is connected with the base of an npn transistor 16 which operates as an emitter follower and constitutes a separating stage, the collector of the transistor 9 is correspondingly connected with an npn transistor 17.
  • the emitter of transistor 16 and the emitter of transistor 17 are connected to ground, each via a resistor 18 or 19, respectively; the positive operating voltage +V is applied to the collectors of the transistors 16 and 17.
  • the emitter of the transistor 16 is connected with the base of a pnp transistor 20 and the emitter of transistor 17 with the base of a pnp transistor 21.
  • the emitters of the transistors 20 and 21 are connected, each via a resistor 22 or 23, respectively, as well as a common resistor 24 and a pnp transistor 25 operating as a switch, with the operating voltage +V.
  • the collector of the transistor 20 is connected to ground, the collector of the transistor 21,
  • the intensity control grid G1 receives a sufficiently negative voltage to control it in the desired permissible range with respect to the beam current intensity.
  • a diode 28 whose cathode is connected with -V, is connected between the resistor 26 and the bias resistor 14.
  • a capacitor 29 has one end connected to ground and its other end to a junction point 30 between the resistor 26 and the anode of the diode 28.
  • the diode 28 operates in the forward direction when an operating voltage V,, is present, the capacitor 29 is then charged to this operating voltage. If, however, the operating voltage V,, drops because it is switched off or because there is a malfunction, diode 28 becomes blocking and the negative operating voltage at the collector resistor 26 is maintained for some time by the charged capacitor 29 at least until the cathode K of the picture tube 1 has sufficiently cooled. In this way it is prevented that a reduction in the negative voltage at the intensity control grid G1 temporarily produces too strong a beam current.
  • the transistor 25 When the operating voltage -V or the operating voltage +V or both of them drop due to a malfunction or because they are switched off, the transistor 25 and, consequently, the current through the end stage of the differential amplifier are blocked.
  • the base of the transistor 25 is connected, via a resistor 31 at point 32, with a shunt path lying between the operating voltages +V and --V,,.
  • This shunt path includes in a series connection a resistor 33, a first Zener diode 34, a second Zener diode 35 and a resistor 36. Between the Zener diodes 34 and 35 the cathode of a diode 37 is connected whose anode is connected to ground.
  • the connection point 32 lies between the resistor 33 and the first Zener diode 34.
  • the Zener voltage of the Zener diode 34 is approximately l l V
  • the Zener voltage of the Zener diode 35 is approximately 90 V. If the voltage +V is reduced by a certain amount, for example approximately percent, the current supply from Zener diode 34 is blocked because its Zener voltage has dropped below its threshold, so that the base of the transistor no longer receives current and the transistor opens.
  • the diode 37 becomes conductive from the current from the diode 35. If the amount of the voltage V, is reduced, for example also by about 10 percent, no current will any longer flow through both of the Zener diodes 34 and 35 because the total voltage of both Zener voltages from 34 and 35 is less than the sum of the voltages V and V,,. In this case, the transistor 25 also opens due to a lack of a current. The same occurs if the amounts of each of the voltages +V and V,, become too low.
  • the cathode-ray beam of the picture tube 1 must sometimes be dark-keyed, for example when changing from one written character to another separate new character which is to be written.
  • a voltage of at least 70 V must be applied to the intensity control grid G1.
  • the differential amplifier would reach a saturation state with respect to its operating point if the beam current were completely switched off as a result of a severing of the control circuit, from which saturation state it could be returned into the active range only with a considerable delay.
  • a substituted circuit is thus provided for this blocking purpose which circuit is shown in FIG. 2.
  • the blocking circuit includes a controllable resistor Rll connected between the operating voltage +V and the amplifier input 4 and a resistor R2 connected between the amplifier input l and the amplifier output 3.
  • the thus formed voltage divider closes the resulting circuit as a substituate circuit even when the picture tube system is switched off and the intensity control voltage is zero.
  • the circuit maintains an operating point which, since it can be set by use of the variable resistance R1, furnishes the necessary blocking voltage of V for the intensity control grid Gll. Since when the intensity control voltage v, is applied, resistances R1, R2 are negligible as compared to the measuring resistance R and the comparably greater internal resistance Ri 1/5 (S steepness of the picture tube) which effectively exists at the cathode, the operation of the resulting circuit is not changed by the presence of the substitute circuit with R1 and R2.
  • the intensity control voltage v is preferably derived from the current fluctuations in the deflector coil in the manner disclosed in German Pat. No. 1,916,851.
  • the described regulating circuit must provide an extremely fast operation, i.e., with a very slight delay with respect to the changes in the intensity control voltage. This can be accomplished with the above-described configuration of the regulating circuit, particularly by using transistors in the differential amplifier having a high frequency limit.
  • a character writing cathode-ray picture tube having a cathode constituting a cathode-ray electron beam source, an intensity control grid within the tube for controlling the magnitude of the electron beam current, and an intensity control means for providing an intensity control voltage which is proportional to the deflection speed of a spot traveling across the face of the cathode-ray tube, the improvement comprising blocking means coupled to said control grid for providing a signal to block out the electron beam and a circuit arrangement for causing the magnitude of the beam current to be proportional to the deflection speed, said circuit including: a measuring resistor connected to said cathode for receiving a current proportional to the beam current; regulating means including a differential amplifier having a first input connected to receive the voltage across said measuring resistor, a second input connected to the output of said intensity control means, and an output directly conductively connected to said control grid for regulating the beam current such that the difference between the voltage across said measuring resistor and the intensity control voltage remains substantially at zero.
  • control grid exhibits a stray grid capacitance and said cathode exhibits a stray cathode capacitance, both of which capacitances are effectively connected to said first input of said regulating means
  • said arrangement further comprising: first and second variable capacitors connected to said second input of said regulating means for matching the stray grid and cathode capacitances.
  • a circuit arrangement as defined in claim 4 wherein said measuring resistor and said cathode are connected such that said stray capacitances and said measuring resistor form a first branch, said variable capacitors and said connecting resistor are connected to form a second branch, and said first and second branches are disposed so as to form parallel branches of a bridge circuit having two output terminals forming said first and second inputs of said regulating means.
  • said end stage includes a protective switch means for interrupting the current flowing within said differential amplifier towards said output of said differential amplifier when at least one of the voltages from said voltage sources is reduced.

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