Appeal No. 1998-0992
Application 08/706,978
This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
examiner’s rejection of the appellants’ claims 1-3 and 6-22.
Claims 4 and 5 have been allowed. The real party in interest
is SGS-Thomson Microelectronics, S.r.l. of Italy.
The References
Yu et al. (Yu) 5,394,026 Feb.
28, 1995
Henry 4,525,663 Jun. 25,
1995 Kimura 5,440,224 Aug.
08, 1995
The Invention
The claimed invention is directed to a circuit and method
for generating a temperature stable reference voltage.
According to the claimed invention, the invention generates a
stabilized voltage as a sum of two terms, the first being a
fraction of the base-emitter voltage of a bipolar transistor.
In the appeal brief on page 8, the appellants use the
following equation to characterize the reference voltage
generated:
V’ = K V + ŠV’
ref be be
Claims 1, 6, 11, 15 and 19 are independent claims.
Claims 1 and 6 are reproduced below:
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