Efficient high performance envelope detector with controlled dec

Details Efficient high performance envelope detector with controlled dec Efficient high performance envelope detector with controlled dec

1980-10-29

1983-01-25

Grimm, Siegfried H.

Demodulators

Amplitude modulation demodulator

Having specific distortion, noise or other interference...

307351, 307358, 329204, 329206, 360 29, 455337, H03D 110, H03D 118

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043706207

ABSTRACT:
In this controlled decay envelope detector, a capacitor is used to hold the momentary peaks of the input signal. Its only discharge current path is controlled by a circuit which simultaneously monitors the capacitor voltage and the input signal such that the discharge current from the capacitor is proportional to the voltage difference between the capacitor voltage and a conventional exponential RC decay voltage provided in the control circuit. The resulting discharge from the capacitor, in response to a negative-going step input voltage, is an increasing current starting from zero at the time of the transient. The resulting detector output describes an upwardly convexing voltage decay curve which holds its level essentially equal to that of the initial peak input voltage until the next estimated peak input occurs. Only when the next peak input does not come, or is lower than the last one, will the output start dropping at an increasing rate, which provides a correspondingly precise detection of the envelope.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4001702 (1977-01-01), Kaufman
patent: 4143330 (1979-03-01), Nagasawa
patent: 4258327 (1981-03-01), Fujimoto

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