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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 1982
Filed:
Jan. 29, 1980
Shigeru Morokawa, Saitama, JP;
Ryoji Iwakura, Saitama, JP;
Citizen Watch Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A quartz crystal oscillator for a timepiece including a complementary field effect transistor (FET) pair, wherein one field effect transistor is constant current-biased and the other field effect transistor is self-biased, with high impedance negative feed back loop circuit. The gates of the field effect transistor pair are AC coupled by a condenser, and the drains of the field effect transistor pair are connected to cooperate for AC amplification. The constant current-biased field effect transistor assures a low constant mean current and low start voltage for the oscillator, and the self-biased field effect transistor assures a sure amplifying operation. The AC coupling of the gates assures a high amplification factor and high efficency in excitation of a quartz crystal resonator of an oscillator, whereby the constitution of this invention is simple and easy to form in a monolithic IC chip for a timepiece.