At Least One Push-pull Stage Patents (Class 330/77)
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Patent number: 8446228Abstract: An oscillator circuit comprises a push-push oscillator and a differential output, comprising a first and a second output circuit. The push-push oscillator has a first and a second branch. Each of the first and second branch comprises an own voltage divider branch of a common bridge circuit. Each of the first and second voltage divider branches comprises an own pair of micro-strip lines connected in series. Each of the first and second voltage divider branches has an own tap. Both taps are connected to each other by at least one of a first capacity and a micro-strip line. The differential output comprises a first and a second output terminal. The first output terminal is connected via the first output circuit to a first node. The second output terminal is connected via the second output circuit to a second node. Each of the first and second nodes of the push-push oscillator is a common node of both of the first and the second branches.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2009Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.Inventor: Saverio Trotta
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Patent number: 8022776Abstract: The present disclosure relates to coupled circuits and methods of coupling circuits having a power supply wherein a plurality of transistors are inductively coupled directly to the power supply for providing a single DC supply voltage directly to each of the plurality of transistors, and wherein a plurality of transformers have primary and secondary windings, the primary and secondary windings providing, at least in part, inductive loads for inductively coupling the plurality of transistors to the power supply, the plurality of transformers also providing an AC signal path for coupling neighboring ones of the plurality of transistors together.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2006Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Mau-Chung Frank Chang, Daquan Huang, Tim Richard LaRocca
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Patent number: 7669426Abstract: Circuits, methods, and systems are directed to controlling the amount and polarity of current to multiple loads with switches, where the loads share switching components. The loads may be thermoelectric elements, which heat or cool based on the state of the switches. The switches may be run in a single mode during a duty cycle, or multiple successive modes during the duty cycle to achieve full control of the loads.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2006Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Robert Alan Iovanni, Peter Edward Cann, David J. Kelley
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Patent number: 4644289Abstract: A variable power amplifier having a constant current differential amplifier driving a cascaded driving amplifier, a variable power amplifier including a vacuum tube for selectively amplifying output signals wherein the drive of the variable power amplifier is determined by the plate shunt resistive loading of the vacuum tube, a push-pull amplifier including an output transformer operatively coupled to the variable power amplifier and to an amplifier output terminal to amplify and apply to the amplifier output terminal a selectively amplified output signal, and a variable damping circuit including a sensing element for sensing the loading on the output tranformer and a circuit for defining a feedback loop for producing a feedback signal having magnitude and polarity which are determined by the sensing element and wherein the variable damping circuit includes a circuit for applying the feedback signal as an input to the constant current differential amplifier to control the current level thereof as a function oType: GrantFiled: December 3, 1984Date of Patent: February 17, 1987Assignee: Carter-Duncan CorporationInventors: Bruce L. Kennedy, Joseph K. Beller, Roger A. Modjeski
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Patent number: 4415865Abstract: A circuit arrangement incorporated in a class AB amplifier for controlling the quiescent current through the transistors (T1, T2) incorporated therein so that the load current (I.sub.L) is zero when the input voltage (I.sub.IN) to the amplifier is zero. The arrangement comprises two feedback loops, each connected to the base circuits of both amplifier transistors. One feedback loop comprises a sensing resistor (R1) connected to the load (Z), an adder (S1) and an amplifier element (A1) with high gain and input impedance. The second feedback loop comprises a sensing resistor in the main current flow of the second transistor (T2), an adder (S2) and an amplifier element (A2) of the same kind as the first one (A1). The degree of feedback in the second loop is suitably selected greater than that of the first loop to achieve a greater control range for the amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1981Date of Patent: November 15, 1983Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M EricssonInventor: Rolf E. O. Gustafsson