Preamplification circuit
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorYasushi Amamiya
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Abstract
This preamplification circuit comprises a first circuit section, second circuit section the input signal of which is the output signal of the first circuit section, and third circuit section which is connected with the input section of the first circuit section and consumes a part of the current to be inputted to a connection point with the input section of the first circuit section and has the capacitance value of the third circuit section set at a value for suppressing a gain peaking of gain frequency characteristics which occurs in the preamplification circuit.
Claims18
A pre-amplification circuit including:
- a current to voltage conversion and amplification first circuit;
- a second circuit receiving an output signal transmitted from said first circuit, as an input signal;
- a voltage dependent variable capacitance third circuit which is electrically connected to an input of said first circuit, and which a part of a current running into said input of said first circuit enters,
- said third circuit including a circuit electrically connected between said input of said first circuit and a grounded voltage, and comprised of a diode and a power source electrically in series to each other, wherein,
- the first circuit comprises a first transistor (5) and a first resistor (6), the first resistor electrically connected at one end to a second power source (17) and at another end to both a collector of the first transistor and a base of a second transistor (8), and
- the second circuit is an emitter follower buffer stage, having a first emitter follower buffer circuit.
A pre-amplification circuit including:
- a current to voltage conversion and amplification first circuit;
- a second circuit receiving an output signal transmitted from said first circuit, as an input signal;
- a voltage-depended variable capacitance third circuit which is electrically connected to an input of said first circuit, and which a part of a current running into said input of said first circuit enters,
- said third circuit including a diode electrically connected between said input of said first circuit and a grounded voltage, and having a capacitance variable in accordance with a voltage;
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- a feedback resistor (4) electrically connected between said input of said first circuit and said second circuit and, wherein,
- said capacitance variable in accordance with a voltage is a first power source,
- the first circuit comprises a first transistor (5) and a first resistor (6), the first resistor electrically connected at one end to a second power source (17) and at another end to both a collector of the first transistor and a base of a second transistor (8),
- a base of the first transistor providing an input terminal of the pre-amplification circuit, and
- the second circuit is an emitter follower buffer stage comprising the second transistor, a third transistor (10), a fourth transistor (12), a second resistor (7), a third resistor (9), a fourth resistor (11), and a fifth resistor (13),
- the second transistor has a collector electrically connected to a third power source (21), an emitter electrically connected to a base of the third transistor and the second resistor, and a base electrically connected to a node at which the first resistor and the collector of the first transistor are electrically connected to each other, the second transistor and the second resistor comprising a first emitter follower buffer circuit.
A pre-amplification circuit including:
- a current to voltage conversion and amplification first circuit;
- a second circuit receiving an output signal transmitted from said first circuit, as an input signal;
- a voltage dependent variable capacitance third circuit which is electrically connected to an input of said first circuit, and which a part of a current running into said input of said first circuit enters,
- said third circuit including a circuit electrically connected between said input of said first circuit and a grounded voltage, and comprised of a diode and a first power source electrically in series to each other, wherein,
- the first circuit comprises a first transistor (5) and a first resistor (6), the first resistor electrically connected at one end to a second power source (17) and at another end to both a collector of the first transistor and a base of a second transistor (8)
- a base of the first transistor providing an input terminal of the preamplification circuit, and
- the second circuit is an emitter follower buffer stage comprising the second transistor, a third transistor (10), a fourth transistor (12), a second resistor (7), a third resistor (9), a fourth resistor (11), and a. fifth resistor (13),
- the second transistor has a collector electrically connected to a third power source (21), an emitter electrically connected to a base of the third transistor and the second resistor, and a base electrically connected to a node at which the first resistor and the collector of the first transistor are electrically connected to each other, the second transistor and the second resistor comprising a first emitter follower buffer circuit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.