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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 1978
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JA;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ; H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3311 / ; 329102 ; 332 / ; 332 14 ; 332 / ;
Abstract
A multivibrator circuit has a main constant current source through which the main portion of the current of the multivibrator circuit is supplied and a by-pass current source through which a portion of the current to be supplied to the main constant current source is supplied, whereby the duty cycle of the multivibrator circuit is controlled. When the by-pass current is changed, the frequency of the multivibrator circuit is changed. The frequency of the multivibrator, when used as the frequency-modulated oscillator in a video tape recorder, may thus be set regardless of the signal clipping level and signal clamping level in a video recording circuit of the video tape recorder.