Abstract:
When the oscillator which supplies the alternating drive voltage for a liquid crystal display fails, the circuit of the present application removes the direct current operating voltage from the liquid crystal driver transistors. The oscillator drives a voltage converter which produces the operating voltage. A transistor in series with the line carrying the operating voltage is controlled by the operating voltage developed by the converter so that when the oscillator fails and the converter goes off, the transistor cuts off.
Abstract:
Two field-effect transistors interconnected in such a way that the output voltage produced by the first, which is a function of its voltage threshold, controls the conductivity of the second. One transistor may be reverse biased source-to-substrate to maintain its threshold voltage higher than that of the other. A small change in voltage level may be detected by this circuit by causing that change concurrently to reduce the source-tosubstrate reverse bias of the first transistor and to reverse bias the source-to-substrate of the second transistor.
Abstract:
A circuit for regulating the voltage across a capacitor which is charged by a pulse driven voltage converter. In the present circuit the voltage across the capacitor is sampled during each pulse period. The width of the pulse employed to drive the converter is then adjusted in response to this voltage to the lowest value required to replace the charge lost by the capacitor since the preceding pulse.