Amplifiers – With semiconductor amplifying device – Including push-pull amplifier
Patent
1983-09-07
1985-04-02
Mullins, James B.
Amplifiers
With semiconductor amplifying device
Including push-pull amplifier
H03F 326
Patent
active
045090203
ABSTRACT:
For a satisfactory cross-over behavior of the transistors T.sub.1 and T.sub.2 of push-pull amplifier comprising an input 2 and an output 3, it is necessary that the sum of the base-emitter voltages of the transistors T.sub.1 and T.sub.2 remains substantially constant. For this purpose a first voltage-current converter 5 is coupled between the base and the emitter of transistor T.sub.1, the inverting input of this converter being coupled to the base of transistor T.sub.1 via a first reference-voltage source 8 and the non-inverting input to the emitter of transistor T.sub.1. Similarly, a second voltage-current converter 9 and a second reference-voltage source 12 are arranged between the base and the emitter of transistor T.sub.2. The output currents of the first and the second voltage-current converters 5 and 9 are compared with each other in the combining circuit 14 which drives the control amplifier 15, which in its turn controls the base-emitter voltage of transistor T.sub.2 in such a way that the sum of the base-emitter voltages of transistor T.sub.1 and T.sub.2 remains constant. The push-pull amplifier exhibits a minimal amount of second-harmonic distortion, because only the difference of the errors introduced by the first and the second voltage-current converters 5 and 9 is of importance in this respect and these errors are substantially equal to each other due to the method of fabrication of the voltage-current converters.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4087759 (1978-05-01), Iwamatsu
Dijkmans Eise C.
van de Plassche Rudy J.
Briody Thomas A.
Goodman Edward W.
Mullins James B.
Streeter William J.
U.S. Philips Corporation
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