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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7317371 | Linear variable differential transformer with complimentary step-winding secondary coils A linear variable differential transformer comprising a coil form; a first primary coil; an optional second primary coil; a first secondary coil; and a second secondary coil; wherein the windings of the secondary coils create complimentary and preferably uniform ste... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315112 | Color cathode-ray tube apparatus An insulating frame of a deflection yoke is fixed to a funnel with a metal band and a metal screw. A partition formed so as to be integrated with a holder holding a magnet ring of a CPU includes a first partition provided on a first axis so as to hide the metal scre... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7271553 | Deflection circuit to control base current of output transistor A horizontal deflection circuit having a horizontal output transistor that receives an input horizontal driving signal and drives a horizontal deflection coil includes a current controlling unit to selectively perform an operation to decrease a base current applied ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7233118 | Line deflection circuit for a television receiver A line deflection circuit for a television receiver having a deflection coil, an S capacitor for S correction of the linearity of the deflection, the capacitor being connected in series with the deflection coil, and having means for changing over the linearity of th... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7166972 | Vertical deflection apparatus A vertical deflection apparatus supplies a vertical deflection current to a vertical deflection coil to deflect an electron beam in the vertical direction of a screen. The apparatus includes: a vertical deflection current output circuit that outputs a vertical defle... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7126292 | Cathode-ray tube apparatus A deflection coil for deflecting an electron beam emitted from an electron gun is provided outside a cathode-ray tube in which the electron gun is housed, and a phosphor screen is formed. The cathode-ray tube further includes a velocity modulation coil for modulatin... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7076401 | Method and apparatus for measuring data timing using unity time-voltage sawtooth ramps A method and apparatus for converting skew in a received signal to a low frequency voltage. A signal is received at a destination node from an original signal from a source node. A unity time-voltage sawtooth ramp signal is created at the destination node. The ampli... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7064501 | Sawtooth line circuit for a cathode ray tube A circuit arrangement is described for generating a sawtooth current in a cathode ray tube deflection coil. The circuit arrangement has a first and a second multiresonant section. The sections are arranged in series. The cathode ray tube deflection coil is part of t... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7023149 | CRT vertical scanning circuit with a low power standby The invention concerns a scanning circuit, comprising a power supply providing a negative voltage on a first terminal (Tdown), an intermediate voltage on a second terminal (Gnd) and a positive voltage on a terminal of a switch (S), the other terminal of the switch b... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6995526 | Digitally controlled vertical C linearity correction with constant start and end points without using an AGC A method and circuit for digitally controlled vertical C linearity correction with constant start and end points without using an AGC. A squared voltage and a negative squared voltage are added as a correction voltage to a sawtooth-shaped ramping voltage that is emp... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6972805 | Display of a video signal by means of a line scan An apparatus displays a video signal (VID) by means of a scan (SCAN). The apparatus may be, for example, a television set. The apparatus comprises a device (SCAVEM) for modulating the scanning rate (Vscan) as a function of the derivative (DLUM) of a luminance signal... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6963181 | Cathode-ray tube, cathode-ray tube apparatus, image display apparatus, and coil unit A color cathode-ray tube apparatus having: a glass bulb including a face panel, a funnel, and a neck; a deflection yoke attached to the funnel to surround thereof; and a color-selection electrode disposed inside the face panel. A pair of degaussing coils are wound a... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6949875 | Deflection yoke for cathode ray tube A deflection yoke for a cathode ray tube includes a ferrite core that has a body that is funnel-shaped and with an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface of the ferrite core including a first section formed as a circle with a predetermined, unvarying ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6888325 | Method for self correcting inner pin distortion using horizontal deflection coil and deflection yoke thereof Disclosed is a method for correcting inner pin distortion generated in the CRT product and deflection yoke thereof. According to the disclosed method and deflection yoke thereof, the additional circuit for suppressing inner pin distortion phenomenon on the screen is... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6885143 | Cathode ray tube with offset deflection center A cathode ray tube is provided, and more particularly, a cost-effective cathode ray tube effective for minimizing deterioration of color purity and obtaining a sufficient margin for a beam strike neck (BSN) phenomenon by moving a ½ center (deflection center) closer... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6882097 | Deflection yoke A deflection yoke apparatus include a saddle-type coil bobbin, first guide grooves, second guide groove, third guide groove, and a multi-wire conductor. The saddle-type coil bobbin has a front end portion and a rear end portion. The first guide grooves is formed in ... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6882096 | Active landing control system for raster based devices Correction of electron beam landing misalignment in a raster-type display is undertaken without using the usual set of coils, but rather by superimposing a landing misalignment correction signal on the already-existing velocity modulation (VM) coil or on another coi... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6771030 | Color cathode ray tube apparatus A cathode ray tube apparatus comprises the deflection yoke including a horizontal deflecting coil for deflecting the electron beams in a horizontal direction. The horizontal deflecting coil has a main coil portion located along the direction of a tube axis, a flange... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6703801 | Deflection yoke and color cathode ray tube device In a deflection yoke including a horizontal deflection coil, an insulation frame, a vertical deflection coil, and a ferrite core arranged in this order outwardly, on an outer wall of a minor diameter portion of the insulation frame, a plurality of elastic... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6674253 | Scan velocity modulation technique A video signal is split into a first signal and a second signal. The first signal includes low amplitude/high frequency components of the video signal, which can be properly amplified by a video amplifier. The second signal includes high amplitude/high fr... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6636006 | Deflection yoke with multiple pairs of vertical coils and switched deflection current A deflection yoke for use in a cathode ray tube includes a switching circuit, which is coupled to each vertical coil. The deflection yoke employs two pairs of vertical coils. The vertical coil pairs can be two pairs of saddle type coils, one pair of saddl... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6630802 | Color CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) integrated with deflection circuit Disclosed is a color CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) integrated with deflection circuit. The color CRT includes a sync signal separation and deflection circuit board attached on at least a portion of the color CRT. The sync signal separation and deflection circuit... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6621240 | Centering circuit A horizontal deflection winding centering circuit includes a Darlington transistor and a diode. The Darlington transistor and diode form a non-linear network that is coupled in series with an inductor. The series arrangement of inductor and non-linear net... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6570349 | Cathode-ray tube apparatus A second grid is supplied with a low potential acceleration voltage. A fourth grid and a sixth grid are supplied with a first focus voltage. A third grid and a seventh grid are supplied with a dynamic focus voltage (Vf2+Vd). A prefocus lens having a horiz... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6552504 | Deflection circuit with a feedback controlled capacitive transformation A horizontal deflection circuit includes a first retrace capacitance and a second retrace capacitance. A horizontal deflection winding is coupled to the first and second retrace capacitances to form a resonant circuit, during retrace. A first switching tr... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6509936 | Cathode ray tube with magnetic coil for display enhancement A method and projection television system for projecting images having a plurality of color components, includes a device for filtering a first color component signal from a composite signal to provide a filtered first color component signal. A defocusing... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6501238 | Apparatus for correcting mis-convergence and geometric distortion in deflection yoke using variable resistance The present invention relates to a deflection yoke, and in particular, to an apparatus for correcting a mis-convergence and geometric distortion in a deflection yoke using a variable resistance, proving a more convenient way to adjust VCR by adjusting the... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6492783 | Deflection yoke and cathode ray tube device Horizontal line misconvergences produced at screen upper and lower portions, among rasters displayed by side electron beams are corrected without producing degradation in vertical deflection sensitivity so much and changing horizontal trapezoidal distorti... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6479953 | Deflection circuit with a retrace capacitive transformation A horizontal deflection circuit of a video display includes a first retrace capacitance and a second retrace capacitance. A deflection winding is coupled to the first and second retrace capacitances to form a resonant circuit, during retrace. A first swit... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6469458 | Deflection yoke and a method of winding a deflection coil Auxiliary deflection coils are connected to horizontal deflection coils. Each auxiliary deflection coil is disposed in the intermediate region between the inner peripheral end adjacent to a window and the outer peripheral end. Each horizontal deflection c... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6459219 | Horizontal deflection circuit with dynamic S-correction A simple and cheap dynamic S-correction circuit compensates the higher order errors like the so-called moustache effect and the inner linearity distortion. This is achieved in a known way by connecting an additional proper tuned S-capacitor in parallel wi... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6441567 | Display device comprising a deflection unit and a deflection unit for a display device A color display device comprising a cathode ray tube and a deflection unit. The display device includes a compensation coil arranged circumferentially around the display tube, for example on the deflection unit, and means to supply dc current to the coil ... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6417632 | Deflection apparatus and control method thereof A deflection apparatus capable of generating a stable deflection pulse in a deflection output circuit even when turning on the power source or changing over the frequency of horizontal synchronizing signal is disclosed. A pulse width modulation (PWM) cont... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6366036 | Arrangement for coupling out an output current from a load current and for gaining a control value to control the load current In an arrangement for coupling out an output current from a load current by a load (2), particularly a deflection coil of a cathode ray tube by means of an output resistor (4), which arrangement comprises an output current mirror (9, 10, 11), in which a c... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6323607 | Horizontal drive circuit in a display device which provides surge protection and a method therefor A horizontal drive circuit for a video display device includes a switching device for switching according to a horizontal oscillation frequency generated by a horizontal oscillator and a surge protector, and a method therefor. A driving transformer has a ... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6291948 | Image distortion correction circuit An image distortion correction circuit is provided in which a horizontal deflection current (IH) flows through horizontal correction coils (L1, L2) and a vertical deflection current (IV) flows through either of vertical correction coils (L3, L4). The vert... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6288504 | Deflection current/high voltage integration type power supply A deflection current/high voltage integration type power supply has a flyback transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding; a series circuit of a deflection coil and a first capacitor, connected in series to the primary winding of the flyb... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6225763 | FET discharging circuit of a horizontal deflection circuit In a field effect transistor (FET) discharging circuit for a horizontal deflection circuit, a backward voltage is removed by employing a diode to discharge a high level voltage formed on the FET. The FET discharging circuit includes: a horizontal oscillat... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6222329 | Horizontal deflection circuit This invention is directed to a circuit for permitting stable operation of horizontal deflection output, and comprises: a first parallel circuit P1 composed of a first switching element 11, a first damper diode 12 and a first resonance capacitor 13; a sec... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6222328 | Horizontal deflection circuit A horizontal deflection circuit capable of performing various corrections. It is characterized by grounding one end of a first parallel circuit connecting a first switching element 11, a first damper diode 12, and a first resonance capacitor 13 in paralle... | 04/24/2001 |