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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
James Barclay Compton, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Clyde 'Kip Brown, Jr, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Engineering Consortium, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F / ; H03F / ; H03F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
330 10 ; 330251 ; 330297 ;
Abstract
A battery polarity insensitive amplifier utilizes a power management architecture to reduce the size of the circuitry used to accomplish the polarity correction function. An efficient Class D amplifier and compact voltage multiplying driver circuit reduce the size of the battery polarity insensitive amplifier circuit.