Patent GB-924965-A (GB)
Title: Transistor deflection circuit
IPC: H03K4/72
Filed: 1959-08-18
Abstract: 924,965. Transistor saw-tooth wave generating circuits. RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA. Aug. 18, 1959 [Sept. 3, 1958], No. 28264/59. Class 40 (6). A circuit for producing a sawtooth current wave in a vertical deflection yoke comprises a transistor amplifier having a push-pull output stage coupled to the yoke and an input circuit coupled to a capacitor which has its charge varied in one direction by the output circuit to produce a linear trace and which has the charge varied rapidly in the other direction by a discharge transistor to which synchronizing pulses are applied, feed-back from the output circuit rendering the discharge transistor insensitive to triggering except when the synchronizing pulse is due to occur. In the Figure, a capacitor 150 connected in a feed-back circuit between the output and input of an amplifier has the charge therein changed linearly by current through resistors 144 and 146 from a D.C. supply obtained by smoothing, by means of a capacitor 148, the output derived from the common emitter terminals of the output stage of the amplifier. The transistors of this stage are of complementary type and are biased by means of resistors 128, 130 and 132 and temperature-sensitive diodes 114 and 116 to operate in class B. Accordingly, during the first part of the cycle the capacitor 150 voltage applied to the pre-amplifier transistor 98 causes the conduction of transistor 118 to decrease progressively until it is cut-off, whereupon transistor 106 commences to conduct and the current therein progressively increases, thus producing a sawtooth wave in the frame deflecting coils 138. Positive feed-back is provided through capacitor 134 to increase the input impedance of the amplifier and a further positive feedback circuit through resistor 140 increases again on the amplifier while transistor 106 is conducting. The increasing current through transistor 106 developes a voltage across resistor 126 which provides a slowly increasing voltage for the emitter of transistor 98 and for the base of a further transistor 82. The current in output transistor 106 increases until the transistor bottoms, and this produces a negative voltage pulse which is applied from the output circuit through capacitor 156 and 158 to the base of transistor 80. This pulse, together with the increasing negative voltage obtained resistor 160, makes transistor 82 sensitive to pulses at its base so that frame synchronizing pulses derived by a double integrating network 66, 72, 68, 74 from mixed line and frame pulses applied to transistor 36 render transistor 80 conductive, causing capacitor 150 to discharge and the flyback to occur. The feed-back from resistor 160 and through capacitor 156 renders the circuit insensitive to noise occurring in the synchronizing supply channel before the frame synchronizing pulse occurs. Potentiometer 160 adjusts the sensitivity of the circuit to synchronizing pulses while resistors 144 and 130 adjust the waveform and scanning amplitude. Transistor 80 receives a temperature-sensitive bias from a circuit comprising resistor 92 and diode 90 and receives a pulse on its base from capacitor 96 upon switching on the circuit to ensure starting. A further capacitor 105 reduces the high-frequency gain of the circuit and improves stability.