Receiver having a measurement instrument which is used as a tuning scale

• US 4,201,944 A
• Filed: 11/06/1978
• Issued: 05/06/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Beunders, Johan W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Martin, John C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chin, Tommy P.
• Application Number:
  US05/958,319
• Time in Patent Office: 547 Days
• Field of Search: 325/455, 325/452, 325/464, 325/468, 325/363, 325/364, 325/67, 325/457, 325/465, 334/18, 334/29, 334/48, 334/86, 358/191, 358/192, 358/193
• US Class Current: 455/155.1
• CPC Class Codes: H03J 3/14 Visual indication, e.g. magic eye
• CPC Class Codes: H03J 5/0218 Discontinuous tuning using an electrical variable impedance element, e.g. a voltage variable reactive diode, by selecting the corresponding analogue value between a set of preset values

Abstract

With a receiver, tunable by means of a tuning voltage, which receiver is provided with a measuring instrument as a tuning scale, a convenient adjustment of presetting potentiometers to transmitters found by means of a main tuning device is enabled by a periodically switching of the measuring instrument between the relevant presetting potentiometer and the main tuning device.

Claims

1. A receiver comprising a tuning section, an adjustable tuning signal source means for supplying to said section an electrical quantity corresponding to a frequency, a presettable tuning signal source means for supplying to said section an electrical quantity corresponding to a frequency, said electrical quantities causing said tuning section to be tuned to said corresponding frequencies respectively, a measuring instrument means for indicating the frequency to which an electrical quantity supplied by one of said sources corresponds, and means for providing presetting of said presettable source to an electrical quantity equal to an electrical quantity of said adjustable source including periodic commutator means coupled to said measuring instrument and source and means for alternately coupling each of said source means to said measuring instrument means.

2. A receiver as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a switch means disposed in said presettable source means for activating said commutator means.

3. A receiver as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an astable multivibrator means coupled to said commutator means for causing said commutator means to alternately couple each of said source means to said instrument means in accordance with a signal from said astable multivibrator means.

4. A receiver as claimed in claim 1, wherein said presettable source means comprises a plurality of presettable potentiometers, and further comprising a switch having a plurality of contacts coupled to said potentiometers respectively and a master contact coupled to said commutator.