Including D.c. Path For Signal Feedback Patents (Class 330/83)
  • Patent number: 11736074
    Abstract: A circuit including an amplifier having an input and an output; and a feedback path comprising a transmission line electrically coupled or electrically connected to the output and the input. A low noise amplifier including the circuit wherein the feedback path cancels noise generated in the low noise amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Tianchi Zeng, Kenneth Pedrotti
  • Patent number: 7423480
    Abstract: A front-end circuit suitable for digital multimeters and measurement devices may be configured with strictly capacitive attenuators replacing the resistive attenuators in the AC signal path. An inverting programmable-gain amplifier (PGA) may be built around an operational amplifier (op-amp), with a single resistor for DC feedback providing a 1st-order response for AC coupling. The single resistor may be replaced by a more complex RC network to provide a 2nd-order response. The feedback circuit may also include active components such as additional op-amps, which may assist in shaping the overall response and/or reducing the DC offset at the output of the circuit. The capacitive load presented to the input by the front-end circuit may be minimized to compare to capacitances present in resistive implementations. The circuit would not present a DC load to the input since DC loads are typically the result of a resistive attenuator in the DC signal path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: National Instruments Corporation
    Inventor: Christopher G. Regier
  • Patent number: 4107620
    Abstract: A bipolar regulated power supply employing an autotransformer to couple the output to the load is provided with a direct current feedback connected directly across the load. In this way losses in the transformer and leads connecting to the load are compensated for and direct current is eliminated from the output transformer when the input is ac coupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1978
    Assignee: Forbro Design Corp.
    Inventors: Paul Birman, Sarkis Nercessian
  • Patent number: 3976954
    Abstract: An anti-skid brake control system having two wheel velocity pick-up coils connected to respective common mode rejection circuits. A coil open detector including a Norton amplifier is also connected from the said circuits to disable the system controller should an open develop in one of the pick-up coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1976
    Assignee: International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
    Inventor: Said Sapir