Patent GB-1389071-A (GB)
Title: Electrical channel selscting devices
IPC: H03J7/08
Filed: 1972-02-08
Abstract: 1389071 Channel selecting circuits; frequency modulators; transistor oscillators MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO Ltd 8 Feb 1972 [9 Feb 1971 (8) 3 March 1971 (3) 5 March 1971 (3) 25 June 1971 (4) 13 Jan 1972 (3)] 5706/72 Headings H3Q H3R and H3T In a channel selecting device when the detected difference in oscillation frequency between a first sweep oscillator 3 and a second sweep oscillator 6 reaches a first or second predetermined frequency 9, 10 the sweep of one oscillator 3 (or 6) is stopped and the sweep of the other oscillator 6 (or 3) is started so that a stepwise frequency sweep can be accomplished alternately by the first and second sweep oscillators, a counter 16 counts the number of times the two sweep oscillators 3, 6 change operating modes and when the count in the counter corresponds to the desired channel number stored in a memory 19 an output from a coincidence detector 20 stops the sweep operations of the first and second oscillators. In the television channel selector shown, a predetermined channel is selected in a register 19 by operating a keyboard 17. This resets the voltage sweep circuits 14 and 15 and starts one of the sweep oscillators 3 or 6. When the frequency difference between the oscillators 3, 6 as detected by a frequency detector 8 reaches a predetermined frequency f 1  or f 2  as determined by a reference generator 9 or 10 the flip-flop 13 is operated to stop the sweep of the one oscillator 3 or 6 and start the sweep of the other oscillator 6 or 3. This alternate sweeping of the oscillators 3, 6 continues until the output of the counter 16 coincides with that of the register 19 when the channel selector is tuned to the channel selected by the keyboard 17. The difference frequency determined by detector 8 may be 1/n of the difference between adjacent channels where n is preferably 1 or 2. The sweep oscillations 3, 6 have variable capacitance diodes for tuning and may consist of VHF transistor oscillators (Fig. 13A, 13B, not shown), or #/4 UHF transistor oscillators (Figs. 14A, 14B, 14C, not shown), or #/2 UHF transistor oscillators (Figs. 15A, 15A, not shown). A thyristor may be used for resetting the output voltage of the sweep circuit which may include a transistor integrator circuit (Fig. 29, not shown). In a modification (Figs. 4A-4C, 10A, 10B and 20A, 20B, not shown), the mixer 2 and IF amplifier 4 are omitted and the HF amplifier 1 (24, 64) feeds the mixer 5 (25, 26). The first and second sweep oscillators (26, 27, Figs. 4A-4C, not shown), are also controlled by a multiplexer (62) so as to switch the sweep oscillators to an appropriate reference frequency for lower and higher VHF bands (3, 4, Fig. 5, not shown). A transistor circuit (Fig. 12, not shown), provides the reference voltage at the output of the voltage sweep circuits (68, 69, Figs. 10A, 10B, not shown), when the channel selector is reset. In a further modification the output of a third oscillator (104, Figs. 21A, 21B, not shown), is mixed with the output of the second IF amplifier 7 (101) a mixer and tuned amplifier (105) which feeds a frequency discriminator (106) used in place of detector 8. In a still further modification (Figs. 26A-26C, not shown), phase locked loops (121, 123, 124, 131 and 129 and 122, 121, 123, 124, 132 and 130), are provided. This arrangement may be modified (Figs. 30A, 30B, not shown), by using the third oscillator (166) and a mixer and tuned amplifier (167) similar to that described above. Specifications 1,377,100 and 1,372,576 are referred to.