CRT Control circuit

• US 4,724,364 A
• Filed: 02/06/1986
• Issued: 02/09/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Newton, Anthony D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Blum, Theodore M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): CAIN, DAVID C
• Application Number:
  US06/835,850
• Time in Patent Office: 733 Days
• Field of Search: 315/383, 315/381, 358/168, 358/169, 358/27, 358/74
• US Class Current: 315/383
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 1/00 Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with cathode-ray tube indicators; General aspects or details, e.g. selection emphasis on particular characters, dashed line or dotted line generation; Preprocessing of datacathode-ray oscilloscopes G01R13/20; radar display arrangements G01S7/04; display of digital non-picture data in television systems H04N7/0255
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/645 Beam current control means

Abstract

A circuit for controlling a CRT including a control which monitors tube parameters and adjusts the nominal cut-off level of the tube cathode current accordingly, sensing when the control is near an extreme of its range of adjustment and responsive to the sensing to change a control signal applied to a grid of the tube so as to bring the nominal cut off level control loop within its range of adjustment.

Claims

1. A circuit for controlling a cathode ray tube comprising:

a nominal cut-off control loop for operatively monitoring tube parameters and adjusting the nominal cut-off level of the tube cathode current accordingly within a predetermined range of adjustment;

means for sensing when the nominal cut-off level control loop is near an extreme of its range of adjustment; and

means responsive to the sensing means for changing a control signal applied to a grid of the tube so as to bring the nominal cut-off level control loop within its range of adjustment.

2. A circuit according to claim 1 wherein the changing means is arranged to change the voltage applied to the G₂ grid of the tube.

3. A circuit according to claim 1 or 2 wherein the changing means comprises a shunt feedback regulator connected in parallel with the voltage applied to the G₂ grid.

4. A circuit according to claim 3 wherein the shunt feedback regulator comprises a low voltage transistor with a cascode high voltage thyristor.

5. A circuit according to claim 3 wherein the shunt feedback regulator comprises a low voltage transistor with a cascode high voltage triac.

6. A circuit according to 1 claim wherein the changing means is so arranged as to bring the nominal cutoff level control loop to substantially an extreme of its range of adjustment.

7. An integrated circuit for controlling a cathode ray tube comprising:

a cut-off control loop for operatively monitoring tube parameters and adjusting the nominal cut-off level of the tube cathode current accordingly within a predetermined range of adjustment;

means for sensing when said cut-off level control loop is near an extreme of its range of adjustment; and

means responsive to said sensing means for changing a control signal applied to a grid of the tube so as to bring said cut-off level control loop within its range of adjustment.