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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 1989
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1987
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A differential amplifier circuit including not only first and second transistors whose emitters are coupled together through a resistor to form a differential transistor pair, but also first and second distortion-correcting transistors, is disclosed. In this circuit, the base terminal of the first transistor is connected to the emitter terminal of the first distortion-correcting transistor, the base terminal of the second transistor is connected to the emitter terminal of the second distortion-correcting transistor, the emitter terminals of the first and second distortion-correcting transistors are connected to a current source of the current control type, and a ratio of the current flowing through the first distortion-correcting transistor to the current flowing through the second distortion-correcting transistor is made equal to a ratio of the emitter current of the second transistor to the emitter current of the first transistor, to cancel the non-linear distortion due to the base-to-emitter voltages of the first and second transistors by the non-linear distortion due to the base-to-emitter voltages of the first and second distortion-correcting transistors, thereby eliminating non-linear distortion from the output of the differential amplifier circuit.