Amplifying device comprising a compensation circuit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10797654-B2
Application number	US-201716327235-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 21, 2017
Priority date	Aug 22, 2016
Publication date	Oct 6, 2020
Grant date	Oct 6, 2020

Abstract

The present invention relates to an amplification device ( 10 ) of an input signal comprising:
a first amplification stage ( 12 ), a second amplification stage ( 14 ), each amplification stage ( 12, 14 ) comprising:
a switching circuit ( 22 ), the switching circuit ( 22 ) being able to generate, as output ( 22 A, 22 B), a switched signal having at least two states, and an inductive element ( 24 ) able to smooth the switched signal to obtain a smoothed signal (I 1 , I 3 ), the smoothed signal (I 1 , I 3 ) having a useful component and a stray component.

The amplification device ( 10 ) further comprises a compensation circuit ( 16 ), for each amplification stage ( 12, 14 ), able to generate a compensation signal (I 2 , I 4 ) of the stray component of the smoothed signal (I 1 , I 3 ) generated in the inductive element ( 24 ) of the corresponding amplification stage ( 12, 14 ).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An amplification device of an input signal comprising:
a differential input for the input signal,
a differential output for an output signal,
a first amplification stage having an input,
a second amplification stage having an input,
the inputs of each amplification stage forming the differential input,
each amplification stage comprising:
an output for a load, the outputs of each amplification stage forming the differential output,
a switching circuit, the switching circuit being able to generate, as output, a switched signal having at least two states,
an inductive element connected between the output of the switching circuit and the output of the amplification stage, the inductive element being able to smooth the switched signal generated by the switching circuit to obtain a smoothed signal, the smoothed signal having a useful component and a stray component, the switched signals at the output of the switching circuits of each amplification stage being opposite,

the amplification device further comprising a compensation circuit, for each amplification stage, the amplification device being capable of generating a compensation signal of the stray component of the smoothed signal generated in the inductive element of said amplification stage, each compensation circuit being connected to the output of the corresponding amplification stage and the output of the switching circuit of the other amplification stage, the differences of each smoothed signal and the corresponding compensation signal forming the output signal at the output of the amplification device; wherein
(a) the amplification stages are amplification stages of a digital signal, the device further comprising at least one analog amplifier, the output of which is connected at the output of one of the amplification stages;
(b) the or each analog amplifier is either a class A amplifier and a class AB amplifier; and
(c) the device further comprises a device for measuring the output current of each analog amplifier and a control module capable of receiving at least the measurement of the output current of each analog amplifier, the control module being able to generate the signals at the input of the amplification stages as a function of the measured output currents so that, on the one hand, the switched signals at the output of the switching circuits of said stages are opposite, and on the other hand, the output current of each of the analog amplifiers is minimized.

2. The amplification device according to claim 1 , wherein each compensation circuit comprises at least one inductive element, the relative deviation between the inductance of the inductive element of the compensation circuit and the inductance of the inductive element of the corresponding amplification stage being less than or equal to 30 percent.

3. The amplification device according to claim 1 , wherein each compensation circuit comprises a high-pass filter.

4. The amplification device according to claim 3 , wherein the high-pass filter comprises a capacitor.

5. The amplification device according to claim 3 , wherein the input signal is a signal modulated by a carrier frequency, the high-pass filter having a cutoff frequency strictly lower than a carrier frequency of the input signal.

6. The amplification device according to claim 3 , wherein the input signal is a useful frequency, the high-pass filter having a cutoff frequency strictly higher than the useful frequency of the input signal.

7. The amplification device according to claim 1 , wherein the input signals of each amplification stage are in phase opposition during more than 70 percent of the time.

8. An audio system comprising:
an amplification device according to claim 1 , and
a speaker connected to the output of each amplification stage.

Assignees

• Devialet

Inventors

• Huffenus Alexandre
• Calmel Pierre-Emmanuel

Classifications

• H03F1/14 Primary

  by use of neutralising means · CPC title

• H03F3/3033

  NMOS SEPP output stages (H03F3/3008 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H03F2200/33

  Bridge form coupled amplifiers; H-form coupled amplifiers · CPC title

• H03F3/3061

  Bridge type, i.e. two complementary controlled SEPP output stages · CPC title

• H03F2200/309

  the loading circuit of an amplifying stage being a series resonance circuit · CPC title