Patents by Inventor Alexander Fairgrieve

Alexander Fairgrieve has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5812026
    Abstract: A circuit used with a differential amplifier to eliminate the effect of Early Voltage from voltage gain provided by the differential amplifier. With a differential amplifier utilizing PNP transistors which experience the lowest, and most undesirable Early Voltage, the circuitry includes a pair of transistors 400 and 402, each with a base connected to an input of the differential amplifier corresponding to a similar base connection of a respective one of transistors 100 and 102 of the differential amplifier, an emitter connected to a current source, and a collector connected to the collector of a respective one of NPN current sink transistors 306 and 308 connected at outputs of the differential amplifier. The circuitry for elimination of Early Voltage further includes components to assure the collector voltages of transistors 400 and 402 are equal and the collector voltages of transistors 102 and 400 are equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: Elantec, Inc.
    Inventor: Alexander Fairgrieve
  • Patent number: 5493254
    Abstract: The input capacitance of a differential amplifier is reduced by connecting a positive feedback path between the collector of each input transistor and a terminal of a resistor connected in the other parallel current path. The positive feedback paths cause the voltage at the collector of each input transistor to move in the same direction as the voltage at the base of that input transistor, and thereby reduce the effective input capacitance seen at the input terminals of the differential amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1996
    Assignee: National Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Alexander Fairgrieve