Low and high frequency oscillators having common voltage regulator circuit

• US 4,136,315 A
• Filed: 07/27/1977
• Issued: 01/23/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Union Switch & Signal, Inc. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation
• Inventors: Kuhn, John J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Grimm, Siegfried H.
• Application Number:
  US05/819,659
• Time in Patent Office: 545 Days
• Field of Search: 331/46, 331/56, 331/110, 331/117 R, 331/142, 331/186, 331/108 D
• US Class Current: 331/46
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 1/188 Use of coded current
• CPC Class Codes: H03B 5/1206 using multiple transistors for amplification
• CPC Class Codes: H03B 5/1296 the feedback circuit comprising a transformer
• CPC Class Codes: H03B 5/26 frequency-determining element being part of bridge circuit in closed ring around which signal is transmitted; frequency-determining element being connected via a bridge circuit to such a closed ring, e.g. Wien-Bridge oscillator, parallel-T oscillator
• CPC Class Codes: H03C 1/36 by means of semiconductor device having at least three electrodes H03C1/34, H03C1/50, H03C1/52, H03C1/62 take precedence

Abstract

A low frequency modulating signal and a high frequency carrier signal circuit employing a twin-T oscillator having an integrated circuit operational amplifier for producing the modulating signal and an L-C resonant feedback oscillator having a transistor amplifier for producing the carrier signal, and a monitoring shunt regulator for supplying a reference potential to the twin-T oscillator and biasing and operating potentials to the L-C resonant feedback oscillator and for deactivating the L-C resonant feedback oscillator when an increase in resistance occurs in the shunt regulator.

Claims

1. A low and high frequency signal generating circuit comprising, a low frequency oscillating circuit including an operational amplifier having an inverting and noninverting input and an output, a twin-T feedback network coupled between the output and one of the inverting and noninverting inputs, a voltage regulating circuit connected to the other of the inverting and noninverting inputs, and a high frequency oscillating circuit including a resonant feedback transistor amplifier being biased by voltage supplied by said voltage regulating circuit.

2. The low and high frequency signal generating circuit as defined in claim 1, wherein said twin-T network includes a plurality of resistors and capacitors which are imperfectly nulled to a predetermined frequency.

3. The low and high frequency signal generating circuit as defined in claim 1, wherein said voltage regulating circuit includes a current-limiting resistor and voltage breakdown device.

4. The low and high frequency signal generating circuit as defined in claim 3, wherein said voltage breakdown device is a Zener diode.

5. The low and high frequency signal generating circuit as defined in claim 1, wherein the output of said operational amplifier includes a variable resistor and a four-terminal capacitor.

6. The low and high frequency signal generating circuit as defined in claim 1, wherein said high frequency oscillating circuit is tuned to the resonant frequency by an L-C circuit.

7. The low and high frequency signal generating circuit as defined in claim 1, wherein said high frequency oscillating circuit includes a tickler coil for providing regenerating feedback signals to said transistor amplifier.

8. The low and high frequency signal generating circuit as defined in claim 6, wherein the inductor and capacitor of said L-C circuit are coupled as a tank circuit when said voltage regulating circuit is conductive and establishes a low impedance path for said tank circuit.

9. The low and high frequency signal generating circuit as defined in claim 1, wherein said transistor amplifier includes a PNP transistor.

10. The low and high frequency signal generating circuit as defined in claim 1, wherein said high frequency oscillating circuit includes an L-C resonant PNP transistor amplifier.