Temperature-stable tuned-circuit oscillator, especially in a proximity switch

• US 5,278,523 A
• Filed: 07/12/1991
• Issued: 01/11/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Festo AG (Festo SE & Company KG)
• Original Assignee: Christian Lohse Beruhrungslose Schalttechnik
• Inventors: Kriz, Dieter
• Primary Examiner(s): MIS, DAVID C
• Application Number:
  US07/766,486
• Time in Patent Office: 914 Days
• Field of Search: 331/66, 331/65, 331/117 R, 331/117 FE, 331/176, 324/236, 324/327
• US Class Current: 331/176
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/9547 with variable amplitude
• CPC Class Codes: H03L 1/02 against variations of temperature only

Abstract

The invention relates to a temperature-stable transistorised tuned-circuit oscillator. Provided for the purpose of temperature stabilisation of the tuned-circuit voltage is a transistor T2, which is thermally coupled to the tuned-circuit coil L and controls a current source Q in the circuit of the oscillator L, C1, T1, in such a way that temperature-induced variations of the data of the tuned-circuit coil L are compensated.

Claims

1. In a transistorized tuned-circuit oscillator having a current source (Q), which is arranged in a circuit of a tuned-circuit transistor (T1), is controlled by a temperature sensor, which drives the current source (Q) high with rising temperature and vice versa in order to stabilize the tuned-circuit voltage, the improvement wherein the temperature sensor is a transistor (T1) thermally coupled to a tuned-circuit coil( L), the driving of the current source (Q) being performed by said transistor (T1) via a control circuit (S) which matches to one another the linear gradients of the thermally coupled transistor (T2) and of the tuned-circuit coil (L).

2. Tuned-circuit oscillator according to claim 1, wherein the transistor (T2) is mounted directly on the tuned-circuit coil (L).

3. Tuned-circuit oscillator according to claim 1 wherein the tuned-circuit coil (L) having a core the transistor (T2) is mounted on the core.

4. Proximity switch having a tuned-circuit oscillator according to claim 1, wherein a resistor (R_TK) for the switching-interval compensation of the oscillator is included in the control circuit (S) of the current source (Q).