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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a maximum output constant independently of the magnitude of the impedance of a load. SOLUTION: A power amplifier 3 amplifies an input signal amplified by an input amplifier 1 via a voltage limiter circuit 2 and a speaker 6 is driven by the amplified signal. A current detection amplifier 5 detects a voltage across a resistor 4 that is proportional to an output current flowing through the speaker 6. The voltage limiter circuit 2 controls the amplitude of the signal to be inputted to the power amplifier 3 in response to the detected current. Thus, the maximum output power can be controlled to be constant independently of the impedance of the speaker 6. Further, an instantaneous output current also controls the voltage limiter circuit 2 so as to be able to independently control a continuous maximum output value and an instantaneous maximum output value. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an operational amplifier which avoids the lowering an S/N ratio while coping with a high power voltage. SOLUTION: High withstand voltage type PMOS transistors MP4, MP5 with their gates biased at specified voltages are interposingly put on a current line between PMOS transistors MP1, MP2 for the input of a differential amplifier stage and a negative potential power source VN. Resistance elements R1, R2 forming a load circuit are interposingly put on current lines between drains of the high withstand voltage PMOS transistors and the power source VN. This limits the drain voltages of the input PMOS transistors MP1, MP2 to a lower limit value of a specified voltage added with a gate threshold voltage, and hence, if the input PMOS transistors MP1, MP2 are usual withstand voltage types, a voltage applied between electrodes of the usual withstand voltage type MOS transistors MP1, MP2 does not exceed their withstanding voltages. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tracking servo circuit, in which the comparative accuracy of laser beams for the follow-up detection is improved and the tracking servo for reading data is performed at a high speed by effectively removing the component of a superimposing offset voltage VOFF from a detected signal OUT. SOLUTION: This servo circuit for an optical pickup, which makes the laser beams exactly converge on a pit of the optical disk, has a feature that a VCA.10 for amplifying a reflected signal IN based on the reflection of the laser beams in accordance with the voltage of a trigger signal FB, a VCA.50 for operating the amplification based on the trigger signal FB while being constituted similarly to the VCA.10, and a differential amplifier 54 for outputting the voltage of the difference between an amplified voltage V outputted by the VCA.10 and an amplified voltage VOFFD' outputted by the VCA.50, as a detection signal OUT of the laser beams, are furnished therein. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a supply voltage detection circuit for stably detecting a plurality of supply voltages (multiple power supplies) where the supply voltages differ one another. SOLUTION: A first power supply system is divided by a PMOS transistor MP1 and a resistor R1, and the voltage of the power supply is reflected on a signal appearing at a connection node N3. Additionally, a second power supply system is divided by resistors R2 and R3, and a signal level appearing at a connection node N4 is determined according to whether the gate threshold voltage of a PMOS transistor MP2 is exceeded or not. Further, a third power supply system is divided by PMOS transistors MHP1, MHP2, and a resistor R9, and the supply voltage is reflected on a signal appearing at a connection node N7. The signals appearing at the connection nodes are given to the gates of NMOS transistors MHN1-MHN3, thus generating a detection signal DETECT. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable stable negative feedback in a power amplifier circuit employing a PWM circuit by reducing the phase rotation in the circuit. SOLUTION: The PWM circuit 10 comprises a comparator 11 having hysteresis characteristics applied with positive feedback and an integrator 20. In the circuit 10, an input signal from a signal source 16 which is inputted via an amplifier 15 is compared with an integrated output by the comparator 11, thereby outputting a PWM signal having a leading phase characteristic which is obtained by differentiating an input signal. This PWM signal is amplified in a switching circuit 21, is applied to a speaker 27 via an LC filter 26, and is negatively fed back to an input side via a resistor 28. The PWM signal which is leading in phase passes through the filter 26, thereby reducing the phase rotation of the output to enable an stable negative feedback operation.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a D-class amplifier improved in S/N and reduced in distortion factor. SOLUTION: The amplifier is constituted by an integrating circuit 1 for integrating an input signal, a flash A/D convertor 2 for performing A/D conversion on an output signal of the integrating circuit 1, a waveform conversion circuit 3 for generating a PWM signal with a pulse width corresponding to a digital value outputted from the flash A/D converter, and a pair of MOS transistors 5 and 6 connected between a first power supply and a second power supply. The amplifier has a switching circuit in which a node P of the pair of MOS transistors 5 and 6 is connected to a speaker 51 serving as a load, a driving circuit 4 for driving the pair of MOS transistors 5 and 6 in response to a PWM signal outputted from the waveform conversion circuit 3, and a feedback resistor RNF serving as a feedback circuit which is connected to the node P and the input side of the integrating circuit 1 and performs negative feedback on an output signal of the amplifier, the signal being supplied to the speaker 51.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain high current detecting accuracy, without bringing about new power loss to detect a current. SOLUTION: A current detector circuit comprises sample hod capacitors C1, C2 for holding a voltage between switching transistors P1 and N1, when the transistors P1, N1 are on, analog switches 31, 32 connected between the transistors P1 and N1 via the capacitors C1, C2, a control circuit 30 for controlling, so that the switches 31, 32 are turned on synchronously with a timing in which the transistors P1, N1 are turned on, and buffer amplifiers 33, 34 for outputting a voltage between both terminals of the transistors P1, N1 which are held at the capacitors C1, C2 and are on, as a detection voltage. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a digital/analog converter with high accuracy that is capable of multi-bits processing and configured with CMOS transistors(TRs). SOLUTION: A switch matrix circuit 1 consists of a resistor string 5 comprising resistors in series connection, switches S0a-S8a, S0b-S8b, amplifiers 16, 17 and resistors 6, 7 connected like a matrix state. Each switch is on/off- controlled by a signal resulting from decoding high-order 4-bits of data to be converted and a voltage corresponding to the high-order 4-bits of the data to be converted is obtained as an output of the amplifiers 16, 17 thereby. A low-order bit conversion circuit 2 is a circuit conducting digital/analog conversion adopting conventional resistance weighting and converts low-order 4-bits of the data to be converted into an analog voltage. An operational amplifier 3 synthesizes the outputs of the circuits 1, 2 to obtain an analog conversion output.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a digital/analog converter that can prevent the accuracy from being deteriorated due to dispersion in characteristics of resistors and transistors(TRs). SOLUTION: High-order eight bits in 12-bit converted data are applied to a decoder 21 and low-order four-bits are fed to a current summing circuit 22. A decoder 21 selects any of FET F0-F255 based on the high-order eight bits to apply any of voltages divided by a series circuit consisting of resistors t0-t255 to an operational amplifier 40. Switches 30-33 of the current summing circuit 22 are switch-controlled by the low-order four-bits and FETs 35-38 are on/off- controlled by the switches. Then the currents of the conductive FETs are composited and the resulting current flows to a resistor ra. The operational amplifier 40 composites both the voltages and provides an output. The FET 24 and the FETs 35-38 configure current mirror circuits so as to eliminate the effect of dispersion in the resistance.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for driving a vibration source which can give a joy without causing a feeling of something wrong when an incoming of a call is announced by generating sound and vibration simultaneously. SOLUTION: An apparatus has a sound source 10 for producing a sound signal, a DC motor 24 as a vibration source for generating vibration, a low-pass filter(LPF) 16 as a signal extracting means extracting low area components from the sound signal output from the sound source 10, a detection circuit 18 for detecting the detection output of the circuit 18, a rectification circuit 20 for rectifying the detection output of the circuit 18, an amplifier 22 for driving the vibration source on the basis of the sound signal of the low area components extracted by the low-pass filter 16.