Patent GB-771451-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to circuit arrangements for producing a d.c. voltage
Inventor: LIGHT LEON HENRY
IPC: H02M3/338
Filed: 1954-05-20
Abstract: 771,451. Automatic voltage regulation converting. MULLARD RADIO VALVE CO., Ltd. April 29, 1955 [May 20, 1954; June 11, 1954], Nos. 14834/54 and 17225/54. Classes 38 (2) and 38 (4). [Also in Group XL (c)] The invention relates to the stabilization of rectified output voltages from transistor oscillators. In Fig. 1, a transistor 4 is connected in a relaxation oscillator circuit of known type supplied from a D.C. source in which the transistor base current is supplied from the oscillation energy and the oscillations are rectified at 8 to give a D.C. output voltage at load terminals 25, 26 greater than that of the source. In order to compensate for fluctuations in the D.C. supply voltage and/or the load, the constant current to the base 3 of transistor 4 which determines the oscillator power output, is varied in a corrective sense by the " bleeding " action of a second transistor 13 having its collector 14 connected to base 3 through a rectifier 15. The latter prevents the application of the oscillations to transistor 13. Transistor 13 is con. trolled in accordance with the difference between a reference voltage applied to its eniitter 12 and a voltage applied to its base 13 representing the oscillator output, the latter voltage being derived from a potential dividing network 18, 19 over a grounded-collector impedance-matching transistor stage 21. The resistance-capacity network 17, 18, 19 smooths the output to terminals 25, 26, and the stabilized value of the output is determined by the ratio of resistors 18, 19 which may be varied by a tapping (not shown). In Fig. 2, a transistor 31 is connected in a relaxation oscillator circuit of the type described in Specification 771,003 [Group XL (c)]. The oscillations produce a fluctuating voltage in a winding 40 associated with the oscillator primary winding 35, the voltage being rectified at 46 for application to load terminals 55, 56. As above, source and load fluctuations are compensated by corrective variation of the base current of transistor 31, though in this case the current is not derived from the oscillation energy. The base 33 of transistor 31 is connected to the collector 54 of a transistor 51 through an intermediate amplifying transistor 44 of opposite conductivity type to 31 and 51. Transistor 51 is controlled in accordance with the difference between the ground potential of its emitter 52 and a potential on its base 53 representing the output across terminals 55, 56. The latter potential is derived from a voltage-dividing network, comprising resistors 48, 49 and a reference source 45, over a common-collector impedance-matching transistor stage 61. The stabilized value of the oscillator output is determined by the position of the tapping on resistor 49. In both the arrangements shown, the voltage representing the output may be derived from a secondary winding associated with the primary oscillator winding, and in the arrangement of Fig. 2, a further secondary winding may be provided if the output voltage required exceeds the rating of the collector of transistor 1. The range of control may be improved by providing means for by-passing the irreducible part of the transistor connector current, e.g. a resistor may be inserted in the arrangement of Fig. 2 between the connector 54 and the - 3 v. line. The Specification states that in certain cases the commoncollector stage may be dispensed with. The circuits may be employed as A.C. amplifiers if an A.C. signal is superimposed on the D.C. reference by means of a series-connected transformer winding.