Patent GB-675906-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in cathode-ray tube deflecting circuits
IPC: H03K4/90
Filed: 1950-07-26
Abstract: 675,906. Saw-tooth generating circuits. RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA. July 26, 1950 [July 29, '1949], No. 18674/50. Class 40 (vi). In a cathode-ray tube deflecting circuit in which a power output stage is connected to the deflecting coil yoke and to a damping valve via a transformer, a first winding is in series with the anode-cathode circuit of the power valve, the deflecting coils are connected to a second winding and the heater connections to the damping valve are connected one through the second winding to a heater supply source and the other through a third winding to the source so that substantially equal voltage pulses are applied to the cathode and heater of the damping valve and in this way the likelihood of breakdown of heater-cathode insulation is substantially eliminated. Fig. 1 shows the application to the line scanning circuit of an otherwise conventional television receiver in which saw-tooth voltages generated in the line time base 40 are applied to a power output valve 48 to feed a saw-tooth current to line deflecting coils X, X via the output transformer 56. The scanning circuit is of the type in which a portion of the scanning saw-tooth cycle is provided by current flow through a damping diode 66, which is connected across a second winding 74 of transformer 56. During current flow in diode 66 capacitor 72 is charged in such a direction that when valve 48 is rendered conducting again the H.T.+ supply to its anode from terminal 88 is boosted by the charge across this capacitor. In order to reduce the likelihood of the high voltage pulse 86 which is produced at cathode 64 of the damping diode during fly-back from causing heater-cathode breakdown in this valve or from necessitating complex heater supply arrangements a third winding 84 is wound bifilarly with winding 74 and connected to the heater 82 so that the A.C. voltage of the cathode and heater of the damping diode rise and fall together in accordance with the pulse voltage. Thus if the heater supply is connected to terminals O, O it may be connected in series or parallel with the other heater circuits a, a; b, b, &c. of the television receiver in the conventional manner. Capacitor 72 has a high reactance at the heater supply frequency so that the terminals O, O are effectively isolated at this frequency from the remainder of the deflecting circuit. Linearity control may be effected by the variable inductors 60, 62. The boosted H.T. supply may be taken from terminal 92 for use in other parts of the receiver and since it is connected directly through the line deflecting coils X, X to the cathode 64 of diode 66 it will need little further filtering. In a modification, Fig. 4 (not shown), the deflecting coils are connected directly to the cathode and via a capacitor to the anode of the damping diode and the effect of stray capacities &c. is reduced by equalizing capacitors connected betweea the extremities of the bifilar wound transformer windings. In a further modification, Fig. 5 (not shown), a fourth winding on the transformer which is preferably wound bifilarly with the second and third enables an auxiliary boosted H.T. supply to be derived from the scanning circuit without the necessity of passing the current from an external load through the deflection coils. In a further modification shown in Fig. 6 an E.H.T. voltage supply is derived from rectification by diode 120 of the fly-back voltage produced across a winding 118, the anode of the power valve 48c being tapped on to this winding. In order to achieve optimum impedance matching the line deflecting coils X, X are tapped at 112 on to the third transformer winding 74c and the cathode of the damping diode 66c is separated from the upper terminal of coupling capacitor 72c by a few turns 114 of the first transformer winding 58c. An auxiliary winding 116 is connected between winding 58c and the deflecting coils X, X and develops a voltage which cancels any A.C. potential difference between these two points thereby preventing any resulting current flow between them so that boosted H.T.+ voltage may be taken from the terminal at the lower end of the coils X, X.