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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:
Jan. 09, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 08, 1994
Naonori Okabayashi, Sakurai, JP;
Koichi Hanafusa, Kitakatsuragi, JP;
Masaya Ohnishi, Kitakatsuragi, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a light-receiving and amplifying device capable of changing its gain at high speed. A cathode of a photodiode PD is connected to a power source V.sub.CC via a current mirror circuit. An anode of the photodiode PD is connected to an input of an amplifier circuit AMP. The amplifier circuit AMP receives a photocurrent from the photodiode PD, converts the photocurrent into a voltage, and amplifies the voltage to form an output signal V.sub.OUT. A control signal of a current having the same magnitude as that of the photocurrent and output from the current mirror circuit is input to a control input terminal of a gain switching circuit. The gain switching circuit is composed of a resistor Rf.sub.1, a resistor Rf.sub.2, and a switch SW. The resistor Rf.sub.1 is connected across the input and the output of the amplifier circuit AMP, and the resistor Rf.sub.2 and the switch SW connected in series are connected across the input and the output of the amplifier circuit AMP.
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