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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:
May. 13, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 21, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
SGS-Thomson Microelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, IT;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F / ; G01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
330-2 ; 324613 ;
Abstract
A method and device for measuring the switching noise of an audio amplifier by measuring the energy of the noise signal at the output of the audio amplifier as the amplifier is switched from one operating condition to another by a control signal, and after first weighing the energy according to the frequency and volume sensitivity of the human ear. The device comprises a control signal generator; an audio band filter connected to the output of the audio amplifier; a meter for measuring the power of the filtered signal; and an integrating element for calculating the energy of the filtered signal.