Amplifier device with frequency-response-compensating amplifier reactance, and use of the amplifier device

• US 6,573,788 B2
• Filed: 07/18/2001
• Issued: 06/03/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GMBH (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Oppelt, Ralph
• Primary Examiner(s): Pascal, Robert
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen, Khanh Van
• Application Number:
  US09/908,247
• Publication Number:
  US 20020041205A1
• Time in Patent Office: 685 Days
• Field of Search: 330/61.A, 330/174, 330/292, 333/213, 421/7
• US Class Current: 330/61.00A
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 1/486 with IC amplifier blocks
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 1/56 Modifications of input or output impedances, not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 11/44 Negative impedance converters H03H11/42 takes precedence; used in frequency selective networks H03H11/10

Abstract

The amplifier device serves the purpose of broadband amplification of an electric input signal fed from a signal source. It has an amplifier input for feeding the input signal, and a broadband amplifier element. Provided for the purpose of compensating a source reactance active at a source output is an amplifier reactance which is active at the amplifier input and is determined by an input impedance of a current-reversing negative impedance converter. The useful bandwidth for the input signal is raised thereby.

Claims

1. An amplifier device for broadband amplification of an electric input signal fed from a signal source comprising:

a broadband amplifier element with an amplifier input for feeding the input signal and with an input impedance, active at the amplifier input in the form of an amplifier reactance which serves to compensate a source reactance active at a source output,

in which case

the broadband amplifier element is designed as a current-reversing negative impedance converter which comprises a broadband INIC amplifier element with a first and a second input, respectively, and with an output, the output is fed back via a first INIC impedance and via a second INIC impedance respectively to the first and the second input, respectively, and the second input is led to ground via a third INIC impedance, and

the first input is simultaneously the amplifier input, and the output is simultaneously an amplifier output at which there is present an output signal generated from the input signal by means of amplification.

2. The amplifier device as claimed in claim 1, in which the source reactance and the amplifier reactance are equal in terms of absolute value at least within the useful bandwidth.

3. The amplifier device as claimed in claim 2, in which the source reactance and the amplifier reactance have opposite signs at least within the useful bandwidth.

4. The amplifier device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first and second INIC impedances are equal.

5. The amplifier device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first and the second INIC impedances are respectively of purely capacitive design.

6. An ultrasonic device comprising the amplifier according to claim 1 as a preamplifier in which the signal source supplying the input signal is an ultrasonic transducer.

7. An amplifier device for broadband amplification of an electric input signal fed from a signal source comprising:

a broadband and high-resistance amplifier element with an amplifier input for feeding the input signal, and with an input impedance, active at the amplifier input, in the form of an amplifier reactance which serves to compensate a source reactance active at a source output, and

a current-reversing negative impedance converter which is connected at the amplifier input in parallel with the broadband and high-resistance amplifier element, and whose INIC input impedance forms the amplifier reactance, in which

the current-reversing negative impedance converter comprises a broadband INIC amplifier element with a first and a second input, respectively, and with an output, the output is fed back via a first INIC impedance and via a second INIC impedance respectively to the first and the second input, respectively, and the second input is led to ground via a third INIC impedance.

8. The amplifier device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the source reactance and the amplifier reactance are equal in terms of absolute value at least within a useful bandwidth.

9. The amplifier device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the source reactance and the amplifier reactance have opposite signs at least within the useful bandwidth.

10. The amplifier device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the first and the second INIC impedances are equal.

11. The amplifier device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the first and the second INIC impedances are in each case of purely capacitive design.

12. The use of the amplifier device in an ultrasonic device as claimed in claim 8, in which case a parallel capacitance of the ultrasonic transducer constitutes the source reactance to be compensated.