US2172324A - Modulation circuit using a multigrid photoelectric cell - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to an arrangement for modulating high frequency by means of low frequency and deals more particularly with arrangements in which a photo-electric cell delivers the modulating frequency, as for example, in television.
- the circuit according to the invention is so arranged that the voltages required for the multiplying grids are taken off from a coil which is disposed in bridged circuit relation with a condenser and the photoelectric cell. That is, the photo-cell I and condenser form adjacent bridge arms, with the tapped transformer coil ⁇ acting as the remaining two arms, with load If, l3 in one conjugate arm and transformer primary It the other, and condensers 8 used to accurately balance the parts of transformer coil 9 used as arms.
- a photo-electric cell l contains a photo cathode 2, an anode 3, and a number of multiplying grids 4, 5, 6.
- the voltage for the photo-elec- 5 tric cell is taken off from a transformer secondary coil 9, which is disposed in bridged circuit relation together with condenser l and photoelectric cell l.
- the amplifier is connected to the terminals l2 and I3, whereas the carrier fre- 10 quency produced at H is impressed on primary winding l0 inductively connected to the transformer secondary coil 9.
- the tap-01f points for the multiplying grids l, 5, 6 are so disposed that the amplitude of the carrier frequency increases from grid to grid in the direction of the anode.
- condensers 8 e. g. differential condensers are used, whereas a condenser 1 serves to equalize the amplitude, and said condenser may form a bridged branch circuit.
- Coil 9 obviously may also be replaced by suitably disposed resistances.
- Means for modulating a carrier with a beam of energy comprising a balanced bridge circuit including a multiplier photo-cell with a plurality of secondarily emissive apertured electrodes disposed between a photosensitive cathode responsive to said beam of energy and a collecting anode, and a variable capacitance as adjacent arms; a tapped secondary coil arranged, when wet-- gized, to progressively energize said secondarily emissive electrodes and anode forming a second pair of adjacent arms, a primary coil inductively associated with said tapped secondarycoil and forming a conjugatebridge arm, output connections disposed across said variable condenser and a portion of said tapped secondary coil forming a second conjugate bridge arm, and phase-controlling condensers shunted across each portion of said tapped coil.
- Means for utilizing a multiplier photo-cell having a plurality of secondarily emissive grids disposed between a photo-cathode and a collecting anode, for modulating a carrier with a beam of energy to which said photosensitive cathode is responsive, comprising a balanced bridge circuit wherein a tapped secondary coil inductively coupled to a source of energy at carrier frequency is arranged to progressively energize said secondarily emissive grids and said anode and forms apair of adjacent bridge ai'ms, said cell and a variable capacitance forming a second pair of adjacent bridge arms; and an output circuit connected between said anode andtapped secondary coil, each of the adiacent arm portions of said work, an electron discharge device in a third arm" of said bridge network adjacent one of said portions or said source of periodically varying potential, said electron discharge device having an anode and cathode and an intermediate electrode, and means for applying operating potentials from said adjacent portion of said source oi. periodically varying potential to
- a source of periodically varyingpotential divided between two arms of said bridge network an electron discharge device having a cathode, anode andintermediate electron multiplying electrodes, said electron discharge device being connected by its cathode and anode in. another arm of said bridge network, and means for deriving operating potentials for said electron multiplying electrodes from said source of periodically varying potential.
- said electron discharge device being connected by its cathode and anode to another arm of said bridge network adiacent an arm including a. por-'- tion of said source of periodically varying potential, and means fo'r'deriving operating potentials for said electron multiplying electrodes from said source of periodically varying potential.
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P 5, 9 G. SCHUBERT 2,17 ,324 v MODULATION CIRCUIT USING A MULTIGRID PHOTOELECTRIC.GEIIL Filed Dec. 11,1956
5 8 (ONOIEY Elfin/YE Patented Sept. 5, 1939 MOliULATION CIRCUIT USING A MULTI- can) PHOTOELECTRIC CELL Georg Schubert, Berlin-Zehlendorf, Germany, as-
signor to the firm Fernseh Aktiengesellschai't. Zehlendorf, near Berlin, Germany Application December 11, 1936; Serial In Germany January 24, 1936 Claims. (Cl. 179-1715) The invention relates to an arrangement for modulating high frequency by means of low frequency and deals more particularly with arrangements in which a photo-electric cell delivers the modulating frequency, as for example, in television. I
It has been proposed to apply an alternating voltage in the nature of a suction or booster voltage (saugspanning') to a photo-electric cell the frequency of which at the same time determines the carrier frequency which is intended to be further amplified; in this case the procedure is to produce a carrier frequency voltage at the amplifier terminals by illuminating the photo-electric cell, the'amplitude of said carrier frequency being proportional to the amount of incident light. Since in most television methods the quantities of light available are very small, the carrier frequency voltage available at the amplifier likewise will be very small. Since on the other hand however, the photo-electric cell receives only the carrier frequency voltage in the nature of ,a booster voltage, and since the said carrier frequency must have a value of about 100 volts, it is necessary to provide a very exact compensation for the carrier frequency.
It is however possible to overcome this drawback by using a photo-electric cell which effects multiplication of the photo-electrons by means of secondary emission, so that the ratio of effective voltage to booster voltage is improved. Such cells heretofore have always been connected to direct current obtained from a battery or adevice connected to the power line. This results in the successive grids of the photo-electric cell receiving a potential which increases from stage to stage. However, if an alternating voltage of carrier frequency is applied to the cathode and anode of such a cell while the other grids retain their direct current voltage the result will be that the efficiency of the arrangement will not increase to the degree expected butwill rather be decreased.
In order to achieve a usable result the circuit according to the invention, is so arranged that the voltages required for the multiplying grids are taken off from a coil which is disposed in bridged circuit relation with a condenser and the photoelectric cell. That is, the photo-cell I and condenser form adjacent bridge arms, with the tapped transformer coil} acting as the remaining two arms, with load If, l3 in one conjugate arm and transformer primary It the other, and condensers 8 used to accurately balance the parts of transformer coil 9 used as arms.
The drawing shows an embodiment of the subject matter of the invention.
A photo-electric cell l contains a photo cathode 2, an anode 3, and a number of multiplying grids 4, 5, 6. The voltage for the photo-elec- 5 tric cell is taken off from a transformer secondary coil 9, which is disposed in bridged circuit relation together with condenser l and photoelectric cell l. The amplifier is connected to the terminals l2 and I3, whereas the carrier fre- 10 quency produced at H is impressed on primary winding l0 inductively connected to the transformer secondary coil 9. The tap-01f points for the multiplying grids l, 5, 6 are so disposed that the amplitude of the carrier frequency increases from grid to grid in the direction of the anode.
In order to equalize the phases accurately, condensers 8, e. g. differential condensers are used, whereas a condenser 1 serves to equalize the amplitude, and said condenser may form a bridged branch circuit. Coil 9 obviously may also be replaced by suitably disposed resistances.
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1. Means for modulating a carrier with a beam of energy comprising a balanced bridge circuit including a multiplier photo-cell with a plurality of secondarily emissive apertured electrodes disposed between a photosensitive cathode responsive to said beam of energy and a collecting anode, and a variable capacitance as adjacent arms; a tapped secondary coil arranged, when wet-- gized, to progressively energize said secondarily emissive electrodes and anode forming a second pair of adjacent arms, a primary coil inductively associated with said tapped secondarycoil and forming a conjugatebridge arm, output connections disposed across said variable condenser and a portion of said tapped secondary coil forming a second conjugate bridge arm, and phase-controlling condensers shunted across each portion of said tapped coil. x
2. Means for utilizing a multiplier photo-cell, having a plurality of secondarily emissive grids disposed between a photo-cathode and a collecting anode, for modulating a carrier with a beam of energy to which said photosensitive cathode is responsive, comprising a balanced bridge circuit wherein a tapped secondary coil inductively coupled to a source of energy at carrier frequency is arranged to progressively energize said secondarily emissive grids and said anode and forms apair of adjacent bridge ai'ms, said cell and a variable capacitance forming a second pair of adjacent bridge arms; and an output circuit connected between said anode andtapped secondary coil, each of the adiacent arm portions of said work, an electron discharge device in a third arm" of said bridge network adjacent one of said portions or said source of periodically varying potential, said electron discharge device having an anode and cathode and an intermediate electrode, and means for applying operating potentials from said adjacent portion of said source oi. periodically varying potential to said intermediate electrode and said anode.
4. In a bridge network, a source of periodically varyingpotential divided between two arms of said bridge network, an electron discharge device having a cathode, anode andintermediate electron multiplying electrodes, said electron discharge device being connected by its cathode and anode in. another arm of said bridge network, and means for deriving operating potentials for said electron multiplying electrodes from said source of periodically varying potential.
5.'In a bridge network, a source of periodically varying potential divided between two arms or said bridgenetwork, an electron'discharge device havlng a photo-sensitive cathode, an anode andiinte'rmediate electron multiplying electrodes,
'said electron discharge device being connected by its cathode and anode to another arm of said bridge network adiacent an arm including a. por-'- tion of said source of periodically varying potential, and means fo'r'deriving operating potentials for said electron multiplying electrodes from said source of periodically varying potential.
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US2509998A (en) * | 1942-03-13 | 1950-05-30 | Hartford Nat Bank & Trust Co | Pulsing arrangement |
US2728863A (en) * | 1953-04-03 | 1955-12-27 | Tracerlab Inc | Radiation meter |
US2828424A (en) * | 1954-04-15 | 1958-03-25 | Time Inc | Photoelectric method and apparatus |
US4519616A (en) * | 1982-10-25 | 1985-05-28 | George Angus & Company Limited | Shaft seal |
US4959545A (en) * | 1988-02-19 | 1990-09-25 | Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. | Radiation image read-out apparatus |
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US2509998A (en) * | 1942-03-13 | 1950-05-30 | Hartford Nat Bank & Trust Co | Pulsing arrangement |
US2728863A (en) * | 1953-04-03 | 1955-12-27 | Tracerlab Inc | Radiation meter |
US2828424A (en) * | 1954-04-15 | 1958-03-25 | Time Inc | Photoelectric method and apparatus |
US4519616A (en) * | 1982-10-25 | 1985-05-28 | George Angus & Company Limited | Shaft seal |
US4959545A (en) * | 1988-02-19 | 1990-09-25 | Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. | Radiation image read-out apparatus |
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