IP Library Granted Patent US 9,590,654
Granted Patent B2
US 9,590,654 · App. 14/594,329 · Granted Mar 7, 2017

Signal modulation circuit

Inventors: Yoshinori Nakanishi (Osaka, JP); Tsuyoshi Kawaguchi (Osaka, JP); Mamoru Sekiya (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: Onkyo Corporation
H03M3/324H03M3/348H03M3/358H03M3/42
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Patent No.
US 9,590,654
App. No.
14/594,329
Granted
Mar 7, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a circuit which can correct an output state in real time and reduce influences of distortion/noise components generated by a delay device. A signal modulation circuit includes a subtractor, an integrator, a phase inverting circuit, a DFF for while inserting a zero level at timing synchronous with the clock signal, delaying and quantizing the signal, a ternary signal generating circuit for generating a ternary signal for selectively driving a load connected to a single power supply into ternary conductive states including a positive current on-state, a negative current on-state, and an off-state, a driver circuit for generating a driving signal for driving a load, and a feedback circuit for feeding back the driving signal from the driver circuit to the input signal.

Claims (15)

1. A signal modulation circuit for performing delta sigma modulation on an input signal in synchronization with a clock signal to output the modulated signal, the circuit comprising:

a subtractor for calculating a difference between the input signal and a feedback signal;

an integrator for integrating an output from the subtractor;

a quantizer for, while inserting a zero level into the signal integrated by the integrator at timing synchronous with the clock signal in order to maintain a pulse width, delaying the signal and quantizing the signal;

a driver circuit for generating a driving signal for driving a load based on the signal from the quantizer; and

a feedback circuit for feeding back the driving signal from the driver circuit to the input signal.

2. A signal modulation circuit for performing delta sigma modulation on an input signal in synchronization with a clock signal to output the modulated signal, the circuit comprising:

a subtractor for calculating a difference between the input signal and a feedback signal;

an integrator for integrating an output from the subtractor;

a phase inverting circuit for inverting a phase of the signal integrated by the integrator;

a first quantizer for, while inserting a zero level into the signal integrated by the integrator at timing synchronous with the clock signal in order to maintain a pulse width, delaying and quantizing the signal;

a second quantizer for, while inserting a zero level into the signal whose phase is inverted by the phase inverting circuit at the timing synchronous with the clock signal in order to maintain a pulse width, delaying and quantizing the signal;

a ternary signal generating circuit for generating a ternary signal for selectively driving a load connected to a single power supply into ternary conductive states including a positive current on-state, a negative current on-state, and an off-state using the signal from the first quantizer and the signal from the second quantizer;

a driver circuit for generating a driving signal for driving the load based on the signal from the ternary signal generating circuit; and

a feedback circuit for feeding back the driving signal from the driver circuit to the input signal.

Assignments (3)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE SPELLING OF ASSIGNEE ADDRESS SHOULD BE CHUO-KU NOT CHOU-KU PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 066074 FRAME 0383. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Jan 17, 2024
From: ONKYO HOME ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
To: ONKYO CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 066343/0076 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 19, 2023
From: ONKYO HOME ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
To: ONKYO CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 066074/0383 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 12, 2015
From: NAKANISHI, YOSHINORI; KAWAGUCHI, TSUYOSHI; SEKIYA, MAMORU
To: ONKYO CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 034683/0841 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-9807 · Jan 22, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
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