Current stabilizer comprising enhancement field-effect transistors
AssigneeU.S. Philips Corporation
InventorAdrianus Sempel
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Abstract
A current stabilizer having two parallel current paths coupled by means of two different current coupling circuits in order to obtain a stabilizing point. At least one of the two coupling circuits comprises two enhancement field-effect transistors which are each included in one of the two current paths. One of said field-effect transistors has a gate-source voltage which has a constant voltage difference with respect to the gate-source voltage of the other transistor by including between the gate electrodes of the two field-effect transistors, a biased bipolar semiconductor junction.
Claims8
A current stabiliser comprising first and second parallel current paths current-coupled to each other via first and second current coupling circuits which define a different relationship between the currents in the first and the second current paths and with a common value unequal to zero at which the currents in the first and second path stabilize themselves, the first current coupling circuit comprising enhancement type field-effect transistors of a first channel conductivity type and the second current coupling circuit comprising a first enhancement field-effect transistor of a second channel conductivity type opposite to the first one and having a channel included in the first current path and a second enhancement field-effect transistor of said second conductivity type and having a channel included in the second current path, of which first and second field-effect transistors the source electrodes are coupled to a first common terminal, and means for defining a substantially constant difference between the gate-source voltage of the first field-effect transistor and the gate-source voltage of the second field-effect transistor.
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