US 2006/0164018 A1Published application

Passive compensation of focus tracking utilizing winding and capacitor

AssigneeThomson Licensing

InventorsKevin Williams, Michael Boyer

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Abstract

A video display apparatus includes a cathode ray tube and a high voltage transformer. The high voltage transformer incorporates a high voltage winding for producing an anode voltage in the cathode ray tube. The high voltage winding has a tap which provides a focus voltage for the electron gun assembly of the cathode ray tube. The transformer also includes a primary winding which is included in a resonant circuit. A third winding has a second portion that is wound to be closely coupled to the portion of the high voltage winding not associated with the generation of focus voltage. The third winding is coupled between the primary winding and a capacitor to produce a current that controls a variation of a ratio between the focus voltage and the anode voltage as a function of variation in a beam current in the cathode ray tube.

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Dependent claims

A focus voltage generator in a video display apparatus having a cathode ray tube, comprising:

a high voltage transformer including a first winding, a focus winding, a high voltage winding and a tracking winding, said tracking winding being disposed closer to said focus winding than to said high voltage winding to provide a tighter magnetic coupling to said focus winding than to said high voltage winding;
a semiconductor switch responsive to a periodic signal and coupled to a resonant circuit that includes said first winding for generating resonant pulses in said first winding, said resonant pulses being transformer coupled to said high voltage winding to generate an ultor voltage at an ultor voltage electrode of said cathode ray tube and being transformer coupled to said focus winding to generate a focus voltage at a focus electrode of said cathode ray tube;
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a capacitance coupled to said tracking winding to generate from said resonant pulses a current in said capacitance and in said tracking winding that selects a mode of tracking between said focus and ultor voltages, as a function of a beam current in said cathode ray tube.

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