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North-south pincushion corrected deflection circuit

US4668897A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateApr 2, 1985
Grant dateMay 26, 1987
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Expiry dateApr 2, 2005

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N3/233
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A field deflection amplifier generates a field deflection current in a field deflection winding. An LC resonant circuit is coupled to the deflection winding and to an output switching amplifier. A control circuit switches conductive states of the amplifier at a line rate, with a 50% duty cycle, to excite the LC resonant circuit into providing a line rate correction current for the field deflection winding. The control circuit varies the modulation envelope of the field deflection current at a field rate in a generally sawtooth manner to provide north-south pincushion correction. When used in conjunction with raster scanning in a square-planar picture tube, the modulation envelope is nonlinearly waveshaped to take into account the aspherical nature of the picture tube faceplate.

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