Patent US 3,955,100

A charge transfer device is made up of a plurality of charge transfer stages, each stage being composed of a plurality of capacitors and corresponding transfer electrodes. Signal charges are transferred from one stage to another by impressing clock pulses from a pulse supplying circuit to respective transfer electrodes. The pulse supplying circuit sequentially applies clock pulses which are adapted to transfer a signal charge to the initial capacitor of a respective stage during a fixed transfer time period, for a predetermined period of time within a variable time period corresponding to a delay period of time, to the respective transfer electrodes. The pulse supplying circuit also applies a clock pulse which is adapted to cause charges which are transferred to the initial capacitor to be retained therein, for the remaining period of time of said variable time period, this clock pulse being applied to a corresponding electrode of the initial capacitor.