Amplifiers – Modulator-demodulator-type amplifier
Patent
1974-09-30
1976-01-06
Grimm, Siegfried H.
Amplifiers
Modulator-demodulator-type amplifier
307253, 330146, H03F 3217, H03F 3387
Patent
active
039315819
ABSTRACT:
A switching power amplifier for use in low-frequency sonar applications. s amplifier comprises a set of four switching transistors arranged in a bridge configuration for switching a power source through a highly resonant, low-frequency, underwater transducer. The signal to be amplified is taken from a signal generator, filtered, converted to voltage logic levels, delayed and modified a predetermined amount in time to prevent a power short circuit through the bridge due to slow transistor switching, and applied to a set of four voltage transformers. A different voltage transformer is coupled to each of the switching transistors in the bridge circuit. These voltage transformers are coupled to switch their respective bridge transistors only when their primary currents are collapsing, thus effectively decoupling the bridge transistors and the power source from the signal conditioner and driver delay circuitry.
An inductance is connected in electrical series with the underwater transducer to form a series resonant circuit with the transducer's shunt capacitance. This resonant circuit converts the squarewave output from the bridge to its sinewave fundamental so that it may be applied to drive the transducer. This resonant circuit also protects the transducer from short circuit currents and voltages.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3579132 (1971-05-01), Ross
patent: 3694764 (1972-09-01), Barron
Janota Claus P.
Koontz Richard D.
Kush, Jr. Louis J.
Sibul Leon H.
Ellis W. T.
Grimm Siegfried H.
Schneider P.
Sciascia R. S.
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