Hughes Aircraft Company

Robert M Bentley

Ton Minh Do

Gaines W Allen

A degaussing system for color monitors is disclosed. During a degaussing cycle, the system successively reverses the coupling in a bridge circuit between a degaussing coil and a storage capacitor so as to generate oppositely directed degaussing currents through the coil. To insure that the residual magnetism after degaussing is substantially zero, feedback signals are developed in a feedback circuit and applied through a control circuit to the bridge circuit to successively decrease the coil's current magnitudes until they reach a predetermined threshold. Simultaneously, the feedback signals are adjusted to cause the time-integrated current in one direction of the coil to substantially equal the time-integrated current in the other coil direction.

Forced, resonant degaussing system and method

A magnetic compensation system for a CRT display that includes a magnetic shield and a compensation coil for generating a bucking field is disclosed. The magnetic shield houses the CRT and shunts the transverse component of an external magnetic field. An annular metal face plate is attached to the shield at its open end and extends inward from the edges of the shield in a plane substantially parallel to the display. The compensation coil is disposed on the face plate's outer surface, and provides a bucking magnetic field to oppose the axial component of the external magnetic field in response to a drive signal. A pair of magnetic field sensors for sensing the difference between the external and bucking fields are spaced inward from the coil and opposite each other. The sensors are positioned substantially perpendicular to the plane of the face plate at its inner edge. A circuit senses the average of the outputs of the sensors, and adjusts the drive signal to the coil to reduce the magnitude of the average sensed field. The system also includes a magnetic field sensor outside the shield for sensing the transverse component of the external field. When either the transverse or axial components traverse predetermined triggering levels, the circuit produces a degaussing trigger signal.

Bucking field system and method for mitigating the effects of an

A system for improving the operation of a cathode ray tube (CRT) is disclosed whereby interference caused by external magnetic fields is mitigated. The system comprises a CRT having a CRT magnetic shield housing and at least one electromagnetic field sensor disposed adjacent to the inner surface of the CRT housing. Sensors form to generate a reference magnetic field and to generate a sensor output signal in response to the detection of both the reference field and an external field as sensed within the housing. A bucking field coil drive circuit is provided in electrical communication with the field sensor, the drive circuit being operative to generate a bucking field coil drive signal responsive to the field sensor output signal. A bucking field coil is disposed circumferentially about the CRT and is driven by the bucking field coil drive signal. The bucking field coil generates a bucking electromagnetic field in opposition to the sensed external magnetic field, thereby opposing and reducing the degrading effects of the external magnetic field on the CRT display.

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Hacienda Heights, CA, United States of America

Robert M Bentley