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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 1980
Filed:
Aug. 14, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jesse P Lerma, La Habra, CA (US);
Assignee:
Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
330 11 ; 2502 / ; 330 85 ; 330110 ;
Abstract
A pre-amplifier for photomultiplier tubes includes means to compensate for the combined dark current and noise output of a photomultiplier tube without inducing a noise dependent offset voltage at the pre-amplifier output. A feedback amplifier and a compensating network, including a capacitor, cooperate to monitor the pre-amplifier output and during this time to maintain the feedback amplifier in a linearly responsive state while charging the capacitor to an amount necessary to clamp the average value of the most negative excursion of the pre-amplifier output to ground.