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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2017
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hideki Shimauchi, Tokyo, JP;
Kanji Kitamura, Tokyo, JP;
Mutsuo Daito, Tokyo, JP;
Akio Kamimurai, Tokyo, JP;
Masatoshi Uchino, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshinori Tatenuma, Tokyo, JP;
Akira Koshimizu, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a comparator configured to compare input voltages, which are input to a first dynamic comparator and a second dynamic comparator, with a reference voltage, select either an output signal of the first dynamic comparator or an output signal of the second dynamic comparator based on the comparison result, output the selected output signal, and control clock signals, which are input to the first dynamic comparator and the second dynamic comparator respectively, based on the comparison result, so as to stop the operation of the dynamic comparator of which output signal is not selected.