Skew corrected deflection circuit

1,122,724. Cathode-ray tube circuits. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP. 11 Oct., 1966 [28 Oct., 1965], No. 45362/66. Heading H4T. In a cathode-ray tube display arrangement in which beam deflections are produced by applying, via switch means, step currents to the deflection circuits, undesired variations of the current in these circuits during the switching operation are prevented from occurring by the provision of shunt means rendered operative during the switching operation to shunt the applied current step from the deflection circuits. The invention is described in connection with an arrangement in which transistor switches S 1 , S 1 . . . SN, SN controlled by the bipolar outputs of X and Y binary registers 11, 111 respectively supply binary weighted current sources I 1 , I 2 ... IN, with opposite polarities to the push-pull deflection windings X, #X and Y, #Y. Because of the different current levels the different switches require different switching times and the current flow in the windings therefore varies undesirably during such, transient, switching moments resulting in a beam movement referred to as " beam skew." To eliminate this the invention provides shunt circuits comprising diodes D 1 , D 2 and D 3 , D 4 for the X and X deflection windings (with similar elements for the Y and Y windings) which are rendered operative by transistor switches 16, 18 for periods embracing the operation of the switches S the action being to limit the voltage swings of the points P 1 and P 2 below and above, respectively, a nominal value which is approximately midway between the voltages V 1 , V 2 applied to the switches 16, 18 under steady state conditions.