Television receiver power supply regulation responding to beam current changes

• US 4,525,739 A
• Filed: 03/30/1983
• Issued: 06/25/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/1982
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: RCA Corporation (General Electric Company)
• Original Assignee: RCA Corporation (General Electric Company)
• Inventors: Fitzgerald, William V.
• Primary Examiner(s): Martin, John C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Parker, Michael D.
• Application Number:
  US06/480,514
• Time in Patent Office: 818 Days
• Field of Search: 358/190, 358/243, 363/21, 363/25, 363/26, 315/364, 315/387, 315/408, 315/411
• US Class Current: 348/730
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33507 with automatic control of the output voltage or current, e.g. flyback converters H02M3/33561, H02M3/33569 take precedence

Abstract

The raster scanned by a television receiver deflection circuit is subject to an increase in size resulting from a decrease in high voltage level caused by increasing electron beam current. The receiver comprises a switched mode power supply producing a voltage supply that is used to power the deflection circuit and generate the high voltage. The voltage supply level incorporates an ac ripple component caused by loading on the supply due to increasing beam current. A peak detector senses the peak level of the voltage supply and applies it to a regulator control circuit which maintains the peak level of the supply voltage constant. Increasing beam current loads the supply, decreasing the average dc voltage level applied to the deflection circuit, thereby decreasing the electron beam scan to compensate for a reduction in high voltage level.

Claims

1. A television receiver incorporating means for providing a plurality of load circuit voltage supplies including means for deriving a high voltage level from one of said load circuit voltage supplies, said high voltage level subject to reduction in response to a receiver operating characteristic, said receiver operating characteristic also loading said one of said load circuit voltage supplies, therefore producing an ac ripple component in the voltage level of said one of said load circuit voltage supplies, said receiver comprising:

a deflection circuit energized by said one of said load circuit voltage supplies for providing an electron beam deflection current, the level of said current determined by the average dc level of the voltage of said one of said load circuit voltage supplies;

control means responsive to a voltage level for controlling the operation of said voltage supply providing means in order to maintain the voltage levels of said voltage supplies substantially constant; and

means coupling said one of said load circuit voltage supplies to said control means comprising detector means for providing a voltage level to said control means representative of the peak level of the voltage of said one of said load circuit voltage supplies, such that said average dc level of the voltage of said one of said load circuit voltage supplies decreases in response to the presence of said ac ripple component to compensate said electron beam deflection current for said reduction in said high voltage level.

2. The arrangement defined in claim 1, wherein said means for providing a plurality of load circuit voltage supplies comprises:

a source of ac supply voltage;

means coupled to said source of ac supply voltage for developing a source of unregulated dc voltage;

a first transformer comprising a primary winding coupled to said source of unregulated dc voltage and to said control means, and at least one secondary winding; and

means coupled to said secondary winding of said first transformer for providing at least one load circuit voltage supply.

3. The arrangement defined in claim 2, wherein said transformer provides electrical isolation between said source of ac supply voltage and said load circuit voltage supply.

4. The arrangement defined in claim 2, wherein said one load circuit voltage supply comprises a horizontal deflection circuit voltage supply.

5. The arrangement defined in claim 2, wherein said means for providing at least one load circuit voltage supply comprises:

a second transformer having a primary winding coupled to said load circuit voltage supply and having at least one secondary winding; and

means coupled to said secondary winding of said second transformer for providing at least one additional load circuit voltage supply.

6. The arrangement defined in claim 5, wherein said one additional load circuit voltage supply comprises a kinescope high voltage supply.

7. The arrangement defined in claim 2, wherein said control means comprises a pulse width modulator circuit for controlling the flow of current from said source of unregulated dc voltage through said primary winding of said first transformer.

8. The arrangement defined in claim 1, wherein said detector means comprises a diode poled for conducting current from said one of said load circuit voltage supplies to said control means and a capacitor coupled from a terminal located between said diode and said control means to a point of reference potential.

9. The arrangement defined in claim 1, wherein said receiver operating characteristic comprises increasing electron beam current.

10. The arrangement defined in claim 1, wherein said means coupling said one of said load circuit voltage supplies to said control means comprises a voltage divider for controlling the level of the voltage supplied to said control means in order to control the voltage levels of said voltage supplies.

11. The arrangement defined in claim 10, wherein said voltage divider comprises a plurality of resistors, the selective exclusion of one or more of said resistors from electrical connection to said control means being effective to adjust the voltage level of said voltage supplies.

12. The arrangement defined in claim 10, wherein said detector means is disposed between said voltage divider and said control means.