Crystal oscillator

• US 7,595,701 B2
• Filed: 03/13/2007
• Issued: 09/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nihon Dempa Kogyo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nihon Dempa Kogyo Company Limited
• Inventors: Fukuda, Minoru
• Primary Examiner(s): Kinkead; Arnold
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tan; Richard
• Application Number:
  US11/717,456
• Publication Number:
  US 20070229176A1
• Time in Patent Office: 931 Days
• Field of Search: 331/58, 331/73, 331/139, 331/163, 331/154, 331/138, 331/158, 331/176, 331/66.R, 331/116.R, 331/116.FE, 331/23, 331/34, 331/36.C, 331/64, 331/66, 331/68, 331/69, 331/70, 331/175, 331/177.R, 331/185
• US Class Current: 331/158
• CPC Class Codes: H03B 5/04 Modifications of generator to compensate for variations in physical values, e.g. power supply, load, temperature
• CPC Class Codes: H03B 5/368 the means being voltage variable capacitance diodes

Abstract

The present invention provides a constant temperature oven type crystal oscillator for reducing the difference of frequency stability caused by controlling the temperature in the oscillator when detecting the change of the outside-air temperature and controlling the amount of generated heat of a heat source provided in the oscillator.

Claims

1. A constant temperature oven type crystal oscillator, comprising:

a detection circuit for detecting a difference between a temperature signal outputted from a temperature detection device for sensing temperature inside the crystal oscillator and a predetermined target temperature input signal corresponding to a target temperature and generating a first difference signal;

a temperature control circuit for generating an addition signal in which the influence on the temperature fluctuations of the first difference signal is suppressed, by adding the first difference signal and an extraction signal obtained by integrating and inverting the first difference signal due to temperature fluctuations so as to extract a change of the first difference signal and controlling an amount of generated heat of a heating source device for controlling heat generation, provided in the oscillator, on the basis of the addition signal; and

a frequency compensation circuit for detecting a difference between a frequency compensation signal for compensating for a frequency of a crystal oscillator device and the extraction signal and making a second difference signal of it and stabilizing a vibration frequency of the crystal oscillator device on the basis of the second difference signal.

2. The crystal oscillator according to claim 1, wherein the frequency compensation circuit uses a signal for controlling the heat source device of the temperature control circuit as an addition signal.

3. The crystal oscillator according to claim 1, wherein when there is a plurality of the heat source devices, the temperature control circuit controls the temperature of each of the heat source devices relatively.

4. The crystal oscillator according to claim 3, wherein the temperature control circuit compares control signals for controlling the amount of generated heat of each of the heat source devices with each other and adjusts the control signal on the basis of the comparison result.

5. The crystal oscillator according to claim 4, wherein the comparison is performed by a differential amplifier.