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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 1980
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1978
Patrick A Wigley, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Edwin L Dana, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Alfred Pletz, Jr, Milpitas, CA (US);
CPS, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A voltage power supply, particularly one which is especially suitable for providing a relatively high DC voltage output of rapidly changing amplitude adapted to drive a cathode ray tube (CRT), is disclosed herein. This voltage supply includes circuitry adapted for connection to a relatively low amplitude (actually magnitude) DC voltage input for first converting this input to an AC voltage output and then converting the AC voltage output to a DC drive voltage having a fixed amplitude substantially higher than the DC voltage input. This higher amplitude DC voltage is applied to voltage varying circuitry, specifically a pullup and pulldown circuit arrangement, for producing at its output an adjustable DC output voltage having an amplitude which does not exceed the amplitude of the drive voltage. A voltage adjusting circuit is connected to this latter circuit arrangement and is also adapted for connection to a coded signal for rapidly changing the amplitude of the adjustable output voltage in response thereto.