System for advancing an electrical signal in phase under the control of an external voltage more especially for an engine of a motor vehicle

Claim 1

A system for advancing in phase an electrical signal under the control of an external voltage, comprising: a control oscillator circuit, delivering an output signal of which the frequency is controlled in dependence upon a frequency control voltage; a phase comparison circuit, with two input terminals delivering said frequency control voltage, and receiving at one of said input terminals the signal to which a phase advance lead is to be applied; a controlled phase delay circuit included in a return loop connected between the output of said controlled oscillator and the other of said input terminals of the phase comparison circuit, said frequency control voltage thus being dependent upon the phase comparison between the input signal and the delayed signal, by which the output signal of the controlled oscillator circuit is advanced in phase relative to the input signal, by an amount which is dependent upon the value of a phase control voltage, said phase control voltage being provided by said external voltage through a correcting circuit, wherein said correcting circuit is formed by: a second phase comparison circuit which delivers a correcting voltage in dependence upon the phase comparison between the input signal to be phase-shifted and the output signal of the controlled oscillator circuit; a voltage comparator-amplifier circuit which respectively receives at its inputs said correcting voltage and the external control voltage, said circuit thus delivering a voltage which is dependent upon the difference between the two voltages received, and which constitutes said phase-control voltage applied to said phase-delay controlled circuit, by which the phase delay, introduced by the controlled phase delay circuit, is substantially independent of the frequency of the output signal.

Claim 2

A system for advancing in phase an electrical signal under the control of an external voltage, comprising: a control oscillator circuit, delivering an output signal of which the frequency is controlled in dependence upon a frequency control voltage; a phase comparison circuit, with two input terminals delivering said frequency control voltage, and receiving at one of said input terminals the signal to which a phase advance lead is to be applied; a controlled phase delay circuit included in a return loop connected between the output of said controlled oscillator and the other of said input terminals of the phase comparison circuit, said frequency control voltage thus being dependent upon the phase comparison between the input signal and the delayed signal, by which the output signal of the controlled oscillator circuit is advanced in phase relative to the input signal, by an amount which is dependent upon the value of a phase control voltage, said phase control voltage being provided by said external voltage through a correcting circuit, wherein said correcting circuit is formed by: a second phase comparison circuit which delivers a correcting voltage in dependence upon the phase comparison between the input signal to be phase-shifted and the output signal of the controlled oscillator circuit; a voltage comparator-amplifier circuit which respectively receives at its inputs said correcting voltage and the external control voltage, said circuit thus delivering a voltage which is dependent upon the difference between the two voltages received, and which constitutes said phase-control voltage applied to said phase-delay controlled circuit, by which the phase delay, introduced by the controlled phase delay circuit, is substantially independent of the frequency of the output signal.