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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 1988
Filed:
Jun. 18, 1987
Blaupunkt-Werke GmbH, Hildesheim, DE;
Abstract
To permit cooling of transistor push-pull bridge-type audio end stages in car radios, where heat dissipation and cooling of components is difficult to achieve, without entire interruption of signals being amplified, the temperature of a heat sink (HS) is being sensed by a temperature sensor (14), and, if a predetermined level is exceeded as determined, for example, by a threshold circuit (15), one of the bridge arms formed by a transistor (10) is controlled to become saturated, thereby grounding-out the applied signal, so that a loudspeaker (6) will operate at only half voltage and hence 1/4 power, to thereby permit cooling of components, while providing some reproduction of introduced audio signals from an audio input terminal (11).