Patent GB-421504-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electrical control and modulating systems
IPC: H03C1/06
Filed: 1934-01-17
Abstract: 421,504. Wireless transmitting systems; valve amplifying circuits. MARCONI'S WIRELESS TELEGRAPH CO., Ltd., Electra House, Victoria Embankment, London.- (Assignees of Finch, J. L. ; Rocky Point, Long Island, New York, U.S.A.) Jan. 17, 1934, No. 1704. Convention date, Feb. 27, 1933. [Class 40 (v)] Modulation is effected by taking off small amounts of energy from the output circuit of a carrier wave amplifier and applying it in the anode circuit of a triode rectifier the grid of which is coupled to the modulating source. A voltage derived from the rectified current is amplified and applied as a modulating voltage to an earlier stage of the carrier wave amplifier. As shown in Fig. 1, the carrier wave generator 15 is coupled through two push-pull amplifying stages B, A, to the aerial or other load circuit 38. Energy of carrier frequency is picked up by a capacity coupling 61 (or by an inductive coupling) from the output coil 34 of the stage A. This energy is applied to the plate circuit of a rectifying triode 1, the grid voltage of which is determined by a biassing battery 5 and a microphone transformer 4. The rectified current creates a voltage across a resistance 7 which is amplified by direct-coupled valves 11, 12 and is applied to the screen-grids S, S<1> or other electrodes of the valves of stage B. The retro-active system thus set up adjusts itself so that for every value of grid voltage on the valve 1 there is a definite value of carrier amplitude in the coil 34; and as the signal varies the grid voltage in the valve 1, the carrier amplitude in the coil 34 follows these variations accurately. The output resistance 17 may alternatively be connected in the plate supply circuit of stage A or stage B, (Figs. 3 and 4, not shown), or in the input grid circuits of these stages, (Figs. 5 and 6, not shown). A push-pull stage may be introduced before the stage B and the resistance 17 arranged in the plate supply circuit thereof, (Fig. 7, not shown). Additional stages of signal amplification may be introduced between the valves 11, 12, and screen-grid valves employed therein (Figs. 8 and 9, not shown) ; or the valves 11, 12 may be omitted and the resistance 7 connected directly in the screengrid circuit of the valves of stage B (Fig. 10, not shown). In Fig. 11, the capacity coupling 61 applies the carrier to an outer grid 641 of the valve 64, which has its inner grid coupled to the microphone circuit 4. The outer grid is biassed positively by a battery 63 through a choke 62, and the plate circuit includes a battery 61 and the resistance 7. The functions of the two grids may be reversed (Fig. 12, not shown). Fig. 13 shows a push-pull oscillator G with long-line frequency control 65 in the grid circuits and with cross-connected reaction condensers 68, 69. Signal voltages arising across a resistance 83 in the plate circuit of the valve 12 are applied through a choke 85 shunted by a resistance 84 to the grids of the oscillator G. The oscillator output is taken to the load circuit through a push-pull neutralized amplifier D ; and a plate 80 is associated with the output circuit of the amplifier and connected to the plate of the microphone-controlled triode rectifier 1. Specification 342,976 is referred to. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 also includes the circuits of Figs. 14 (Cancelled) and 15 (Cancelled). In Fig. 14 (Cancelled) the microphone input signal is amplified by valves 114, 117 and the output current varies the magnetization of a core 101. A magnetron valve 103 is placed in the magnetic field and its anode current reacts by the resistance 110 on the microphone circuit. In Fig. 15 (Cancelled) the input signal is applied to the grid of a valve 130 and the plate circuit includes a variable light source 133 which illuminates a photo-electric cell 132. The cell circuit includes a resistance 127 in the grid circuit of the valve 130. The input signal may be derived from a microphone 124, or from the detector output of a television wireless receiver 122. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.