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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:
Sep. 02, 1980
Filed:
Mar. 28, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360 66 ;
Abstract
An automatic bias level setting circuit for tape recorders includes a variable loss attenuator for stepwisely increasing the level of a high frequency bias signal which is superposed on a constant amplitude audio test signal. The recorded signal is detected by means of an envelope detector coupled to the playback head and fed into a resettable integrator for integrating the input signal in response to each stepwise variation of the signal to generate a series of sawtooth waves. The output of the integrator is coupled to a maximum peak detector to detect the maximum peak point of the recorded test signal to determine an optimum bias level in relation to the detected peak point.