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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 09, 2016
Applicant:

Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Kiyoshi Sasai, Miyagi-ken, JP;

Akira Asao, Miyagi-ken, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 3/45 (2006.01); H03F 1/26 (2006.01); H03F 3/393 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 1/26 (2013.01); H03F 3/393 (2013.01); H03F 3/4565 (2013.01); H03F 3/45197 (2013.01); H03F 3/45668 (2013.01); H03F 2200/171 (2013.01); H03F 2200/261 (2013.01); H03F 2200/381 (2013.01); H03F 2200/411 (2013.01); H03F 2200/555 (2013.01); H03F 2203/45116 (2013.01); H03F 2203/45188 (2013.01); H03F 2203/45358 (2013.01); H03F 2203/45652 (2013.01); H03F 2203/45674 (2013.01); H03F 2203/45682 (2013.01);
Abstract

A differential signal is input to a pair of gates of a differential pair, a differential signal generated by a load circuit connected to drains of the differential pair is amplified by a differential amplifier stage, and the amplified differential signal is fed back to a pair of sources of the differential pair via a feedback circuit. It is possible to maintain a high input impedance in the pair of gates of the differential pair while not being influenced by a gain of negative feedback of an amplifier circuit, and it is possible to perform amplification in an input stage by using a pair of a first transistor and a second transistor of the differential pair. Therefore, compared with the related art, it is possible to decrease the number of transistors in the input stage and to reduce a flicker noise.


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