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Speaker protection circuit

A technology for protecting circuits and speakers, which is applied in the layout of amplifier protection circuits, transducer circuits, amplifiers, etc., and can solve problems such as leakage and speaker 121 damage.

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-03-28
PANASONIC CORP
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[0003] On the other hand, the BTL amplifying device has the disadvantage that when the coupling capacitor for signal input deteriorates and leakage occurs, a DC offset (offset) signal is generated from the BTL amplifying device, and an offset current flows through the speaker.
At this time, if an excessive bias current is input to the speaker 121, the speaker 121 may be damaged.

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[0039] FIG. 1 is a circuit diagram of a BTL amplifying device including a speaker protection circuit according to a first embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1 , an input signal is input to an input terminal 4 via a coupling capacitor 1 . The signal Vsin input to the input terminal 4 is supplied to the first non-inverting amplifying circuit 9 as an input signal. The capacitor 2 is connected to the first reference bias terminal 5 connected to the other input terminal of the first non-inverting amplifying circuit 9 . In addition, the capacitor 3 is connected to the second reference bias terminal 6 . In addition, the first bias terminal 7 outputs a first reference voltage (that is, the voltage of the first reference bias terminal 5 ) VREF1 . In addition, the second bias circuit 8 outputs VREF2 as a second reference voltage. The first non-inverting amplifying circuit 9 uses VREF1 as a reference potential. In addition, the first level shift circuit 10 generates VREF3 a...

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[0055] 2 is a circuit diagram of a BTL amplifying device including a speaker protection circuit according to a second embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 2 , the same reference numerals are assigned to the same components as those of the first embodiment shown in FIG. 1 , and overlapping descriptions are omitted. The description will focus on newly added components in the circuit shown in FIG. 2 .

[0056] In FIG. 2, the second voltage comparator 34 compares the first reference voltage VREF1 with the second threshold voltage V2. In addition, the second threshold voltage V2 is set to a value larger than the threshold voltage (first threshold voltage) V1 of the first voltage comparator 30 . That is, there is a relationship of V1<V2.

[0057] In addition, the AND circuit 36 ​​performs a logical product operation on the output signal of the first voltage comparator 30 and the output signal of the second voltage comparator 34 . The output signal Vcpa of the AND circuit ...

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[0069] 3 is a circuit diagram of a BTL amplifying device including a speaker protection circuit according to a third embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 3 , the same symbols are assigned to the same components as those in the second embodiment shown in FIG. 2 , and repeated descriptions are omitted. The description will focus on newly added components in the circuit shown in FIG. 3 .

[0070] In the circuit of FIG. 3, the window comparator 37 is the same as that described in the second embodiment, and its specific circuit configuration is shown in FIG. 4A. In addition, a second window comparator 39 having the same configuration as the window comparator 37 is added to the circuit shown in FIG. 3 , and a specific circuit configuration example thereof is shown in FIG. 4B .

[0071] In addition, a low-pass filter 38 that smoothes the signal Vsin of the input terminal 4 to output a DC voltage is provided, and the output voltage Vdet is input to the second window comparato...

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This speaker protection circuit includes: a voltage comparator that compares a voltage of a reference bias terminal of an amplifying circuit constituting a BTL amplifying device with a preset threshold voltage; and first and second switches for switching between a mode of supplying an electric current to each of two power amplifying circuits and a mode of cutting off the electric current. When the voltage of the reference bias terminal is lower than the threshold voltage, based on an output level of the voltage comparator, at least one of the first and second switches is turned off to cut off a current supply to each of the power amplifying circuits so that driving of a speaker by the power amplifying circuits is halted. Thus, it is possible to suppress, using a relatively simple configuration, an offset current generated in a speaker due to an abnormality of the voltage of a reference bias terminal.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a circuit for protecting a speaker driven by the amplifying device in an amplifying device constituted by a BTL (Balanced Trans Less: bridge push-pull amplifying circuit). Background technique [0002] As an amplifying device for driving a load such as a speaker, an amplifying device having a BTL configuration is known. An amplifying device composed of a BTL (hereinafter referred to as a BTL amplifying device) uses two amplifiers, and a signal having the same phase as the input signal is input to one amplifier, and a signal in which the input signal is inverted is input to the other amplifier. Through this structure, the BTL amplifier circuit obtains twice the output voltage, that is, four times the power. Thus, the BTL amplifying device can directly drive a load such as a speaker without using a transformer, so the frequency characteristic and distortion characteristic are good. In addition, compared with amplifiers ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): H03F3/68H03F1/52H04R3/00
CPCH03F3/181H03F3/45475H03F2203/45138H03F1/52H03F3/72H03F2203/7227H03F2200/78H03F2200/03H03G3/342
Inventor 石田琢磨山本睦
Owner PANASONIC CORP