Tuning circuit

• US 4,344,186 A
• Filed: 09/02/1980
• Issued: 08/10/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Ong, Kian K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bookbinder, Marc E.
• Application Number:
  US06/182,930
• Time in Patent Office: 707 Days
• Field of Search: 455/168, 455/169, 455/176, 455/180, 455/188, 455/195
• US Class Current: 455/168.1
• CPC Class Codes: H03J 5/244 using electronic means

Abstract

In a tuning circuit for a receiver which is continuously tunable over a number of wave ranges by means of a setting circuit, the receiver having an automatic wave range change-over, the tuning voltage is obtained from a subtracting circuit in which a changeable constant voltage is subtracted from a setting voltage which was obtained by means of the setting circuit, this changeable constant voltage depending on the wave range for adaptation of the wave range limits to the wave range.

Claims

1. A tuning circuit for providing a tuning signal to a tunable device, said device including a wave range change-over circuit, said tuning circuit comprising a setting circuit for generating a setting signal for consecutively tuning over a plurality of wave ranges, a threshold circuit, to which the said setting signal is applied, for providing a changeable d.c. voltage signal, which depends on the setting signal, said d.c. voltage signal having different, constant values corresponding, respectively, to each of said wave ranges and being switchable for each wave range at preselected amplitude levels of said setting signal by means of the threshold circuit, and further comprising a subtracting circuit responsive to said setting signal and said changeable d.c. voltage signal for providing said tuning signal.

2. A tuning circuit as claimed in claim 1, which further comprises an electrical tuning scale indicator controlled by the setting signal.

3. A tuning circuit as claimed in claim 2, characterized in that the setting circuit is non-linear in order to provide a substantially linear tuning scale indication.

4. A tuning circuit as claimed in claim 3, characterized in that the setting circuit is part of a search tuning circuit having a fixed time constant for AFC and stop signal suppression, respectively, at a start of a search tuning action.

5. A tuning circuit as claimed in anyone of the preceding claims 1 to 4, wherein the wave range change-over circuit is responsive to a signal combination from the threshold circuit for changing wave ranges.