Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Variable capacitance circuit, oscillator circuit, and method of controlling variable capacitance circuit
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Application No.: US16067250Application Date: 2016-12-06
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Publication No.: US10566954B2Publication Date: 2020-02-18
- Inventor: Masahiro Ichihashi
- Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Chip Law Group
- Priority: JP2016-009328 20160121
- International Application: PCT/JP2016/086142 WO 20161206
- International Announcement: WO2017/126241 WO 20170727
- Main IPC: H03H11/48
- IPC: H03H11/48 ; H03H11/04 ; H03B5/12 ; H03B5/08 ; H03F3/45 ; H03L7/10

Abstract:
A capacitor bank has a capacitance value that is discontinuous and has an extremely narrow variable range. Thus, in a case of obtaining a wide variable range of the capacitance value, a large number of capacitors are connected in parallel and used while being switched by switches. The present technology achieves at least one of: allowing the capacitance value of a variable capacitance circuit to be varied continuously by electrical control without increasing the parasitic capacitance; and decreasing the current consumption of an oscillator circuit using the variable capacitance circuit as compared to a conventional case. The variable capacitance circuit includes: a transconductance circuit that includes a MOS transistor; an inductor that is connected in parallel to the transconductance circuit; and a Gm control circuit that varies a transconductance of the MOS transistor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190020330A1 VARIABLE CAPACITANCE CIRCUIT, OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING VARIABLE CAPACITANCE CIRCUIT Public/Granted day:2019-01-17
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