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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. 20, 1982
Filed:
May. 24, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
455188 ; 455176 ; 455180 ;
Abstract
A television tuner comprises a VHF tuner section and a UHF tuner section and is configured in the two tuned modes of VHF high band and VHF low band between which the input tuning circuit of the VHF tuner section is switched by a diode in response to a source voltage. The television tuner further comprises a bias circuit for biasing said band-switching diode in reverse or forward direction by use of the UHF band source voltage during the receipt of UHF band.