Circuit device including RF converter, tuner and if amplifier

• US 5,815,218 A
• Filed: 01/04/1996
• Issued: 09/29/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Maeda, Osamu
• Primary Examiner(s): Peng, John K.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Murrell, Jeffrey S.
• Application Number:
  US08/582,625
• Time in Patent Office: 999 Days
• Field of Search: 348/10, 348/11, 348/738, 348/733, 348/724, 348/731, 348/736, 455/6.2, 455/188.2, 455/196.1, 455/197.2, 455/197.3, 455/198.1, 455/193.1, 455/193.2, 455/258, 455/318, 455/319, 455/320, 332/138, 332/141
• US Class Current: 348/724
• CPC Class Codes: H03B 2201/0266 the means comprising a transistor
• CPC Class Codes: H03J 5/246 using electronic means H03J5/244 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/50 Tuning indicators; Automatic tuning control

Abstract

A circuit device provided in a video signal processing apparatus. The circuit device includes a tuner for tuning a television signal, an IF amplifier for demodulating the television signal, and an RF converter having an RF oscillator for modulating video and audio signals into a television signal in a VHF band. The tuner, IF amplifier and RF converter are accommodated in a shield case. Further, the circuit device includes a circuit including a resonance circuit having a coil and a capacitor for controlling an oscillation frequency of the RF oscillator and a switch for switching a parameter of the resonance circuit to vary the oscillation frequency.

Claims

1. A circuit device provided in a video signal processing apparatus, said circuit device comprising:

a tuner for tuning a television signal and means for supplying a plurality of RF television signals from an antenna to the tuner via an antenna input terminal, said tuner being arranged to convert an RF television signal into an IF television signal;

an IF amplifier for amplifying and demodulating the IF television signal to obtain a baseband video and for providing said baseband video signal to a video processing circuit;

an RF converter for re-modulating the video signal output by the video processing circuit and outputting an RF modulated signal to an antenna circuit connected between the antenna input terminal and an antenna output terminal, said antenna circuit being arranged to receive an RF television signal from said antenna input terminal and the RF modulated signal from said RF converter, and to output a converted RF television signal to said output terminal and to the tuner in accordance with a control signal; and

an RF oscillator circuit included in said RF converter for providing a VHF carrier which is modulated by the output of said video processing circuit, said oscillator circuit comprising a resonance circuit including at least one coil and a capacitor for controlling an oscillation frequency of the RF oscillator and a switch for shifting said oscillation frequency in order to shift from a first VHF carrier frequency to a second VHF carrier frequency; and

wherein said antenna circuit, said tuner, said IF amplifier, and said RF converter are all accommodated in a shield case.

2. The circuit device according to claim 1, wherein said resonance circuit includes two coils connected in series, and wherein the capacitor is connected in parallel to the two coils, and wherein said switch short-circuits both ends of one of said two coils to shift to the second VHF carrier frequency from the first VHF carrier frequency.

3. The circuit device according to claim 1, wherein said at least one coil of said resonance circuit includes two coils connected in series, and wherein the capacitor is connected in parallel to the two coils.

4. The circuit device according to claim 3, wherein said switch short-circuits both ends of one of the two coils.

5. The circuit device according to claim 1, wherein said tuner, IF amplifier and RF converter are accommodated in a shield case.

6. A circuit device provided in a video signal processing apparatus, said circuit device comprising:

a tuner for tuning a television signal;

an IF amplifier for demodulating the television signal;

an RF converter having an RF oscillator for modulating video and audio signals into a television signal in a UHF band; and

a circuit comprising a resonance circuit including a coil and a capacitor for controlling an oscillation frequency of the RF oscillator and a trimmer capacitor for varying a parameter of said resonance circuit to vary the oscillation frequency.

7. The circuit device according to claim 6, wherein the coil, capacitor and trimmer capacitor are connected to each other in parallel.

8. The circuit device according to claim 6, wherein an insulating material having a higher dielectric constant than that of air is inserted between electrodes of said trimmer capacitor.

9. The circuit device according to claim 6, wherein said tuner, IF amplifier and RF converter are accommodated in a shield case.