Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices – circuits – and – Signal converting – shaping – or generating – Current driver
Patent
1997-11-26
2000-11-28
Cunningham, Terry D.
Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and
Signal converting, shaping, or generating
Current driver
327111, 327484, 327486, H03B 100
Patent
active
061540692
ABSTRACT:
A circuit for driving a capacitive load using a booster having a low power consumption, which amplifies spike-like signals at high speeds and produces a large voltage and a large current, and wherein two transistors 104 and 111 are connected in series across a first power source H1 and a second power source L1 having a potential lower than that of the first power source. An output terminal OUT is provided at a portion where the two transistors are connected together, and the first transistor 104 connected between the first power source and the output terminal has a complementary relationship to the second transistor 11 connected between the output terminal and the second power source. The first transistor 104 is constituted by a PNP-type bipolar transistor or a P-type field-effect transistor, the second transistor 111 is constituted by an NPN-type transistor or an N-type field-effect transistor, and between an input terminal IN and a control terminal of each of the transistors are connected in parallel a capacitor and a means that applies a bias to the control terminal.
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Citizen Watch Co. Ltd.
Cunningham Terry D.
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