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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6741814 | Balun for coaxial cable transmission A balun is constructed from a parallel pair of lines (coaxial or bifiler) that are bent to form a U-shape including a more curved (bent) section with two ends each of which are connected to a respective less curved (straight leg) section. One or more single hole fer... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6738606 | FM receiver with bandwidth control means An FM receiver includes control means for controlling the IF filter. The control means receive a first input signal in dependence of a received RF level signal and a second input signal in dependence of a demodulated signal and have an output coupled to the controll... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6731124 | Integrated device for testing contacts The invention relates to a device (10) for testing a series of contacts (Cij), which are provided with connection conductors (G, H) for supplying electric current to the contacts (Cij). The known device is less suitable for testing large numbers of contacts (... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6717305 | Apparatus having an electroacoustic transducer forming a sound reproducing means and a part of vibration generating means In an apparatus (1) having an electroacoustic transducer (12) which includes a magnet system (13) generating a useful magnetic field and a stray magnetic field, a sound generating coil arranged in the useful field to associate with a diaphragm for generating an acou... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6700435 | Local supply generator for a digital CMOS integrated circuit having an analog signal processing circuitry Digital CMOS integrated circuit (120) comprising an analog signal processing circuitry with a series of two or more field-effect transistors (FETs). The FETs have a maximum allowed supply voltage value (Vmax). The digital CMOS integrated circuit (120) fur... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6693423 | Arrangement for angular measurement An arrangement for angular measurement includes an angle sensor that supplies sensor signals phase shifted 90° with respect to each other and having actual amplitude values. A signal-processing device provides expected amplitude values of the sensor sign... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6693785 | Electronic component with reduced inductive coupling The invention relates to an electronic component comprising a package PACK including input pins PIi and output pins PSj, and an integrated circuit IC, encased in the package PACK, which integrated circuit is provided with input contact pads CIi and output... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6681051 | Arrangement for transforming picture data In an arrangement for transforming picture data while using a method of two-dimensional hierarchic sub-band segmentation, particularly a two-dimensional Discrete Wavelet Transformation (2-D DWT), in which pictures, possibly in a plurality of planes, are s... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6680545 | Semiconductor devices In plastics-encapsulated semiconductor devices, for example surface-mount power devices, aluminium corrosion due to ingress or generation of moisture within the encapsulation (150) is avoided by bonding at least one sacrificial additional wire (24, 25, 26... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6680523 | Semiconductor wafer with process control modules A semiconductor wafer (1) has a multitude of chips (5), of which chips (5) each one of a given number of chips (5) is situated in one of a multitude of adjacent exposure fields (2), and further has process control modules (4) which are each arranged in an... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6681024 | Device including a built-in electroacoustic transducer for optimum speech reproduction A device (8) which includes an electroacoustic transducer (7) for the acoustic reproduction of sound signals to an ear (14) of a user (2) who assumes a user position at the device. The transducer is optimized for the acoustic reproduction of speech-signal... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6677733 | Single reference DC/DC converter A DC/DC converter (1), comprising inductive electrical energy storage means (L), switching means (S1, S2) and control means (6). The control means (6) are arranged for selectively operating the switching means (S1, S2) for transferring an amount of electrical ... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6674268 | Swithing regulator utilizing seperate integrated circuits for driving each switch A switching circuit for switching an input dc voltage of predetermined polarity is used, for example, for a synchronous dc-dc converter. The switching circuit is divided between a high side package (52) and a low side package (56) each having a logic inpu... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6674152 | Bipolar diode A bipolar p-i-n diode has a first (1) and second (5) region of opposite conductivity type and an intermediate drift region (3) between the first and second regions. Trenched field relief regions (14) are arranged to deplete the intermediate drift region (... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6674632 | Mobile telephone device with passive integrated module A mobile telephone device fitted with a transmitter and a receiver each having a high-frequency component with an integrated decoupling capacitor. The high-frequency component includes a substrate with the decoupling capacitor on one surface thereof, firs... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6671493 | Data carrier designed for contactless communication and having detection means for detecting a temperature prevailing in the data carrier A data carrier (1) for contactless communication with a communication station (2) has an integrated circuit (7) and has a direct voltage generation circuit (20), and has detection means (28) for detecting a temperature prevailing in the data carrier (1) a... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6665930 | Printed circuit board with SMD components A printed circuit board with SMD components electrically connected to the printed circuit board by means of a reflow soldering process. In order to provide the printed circuit board with connection elements which can be mounted at minimal cost, the printe... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6667931 | Memory circuit designed for a parallel reading or writing access to data comprising various components The present invention relates to a memory circuit (MEM) able to receive a first data block comprising a number of components and coming from an external memory (EXT) for them to be written (W) in an internal memory. The memory circuit is also able to supp... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6665192 | Synthetic resin capping layer on a printed circuit A printed circuit is provided with a synthetic resin capping layer that exhibits a continuous variation of mechanical properties in a direction at right angles to its surface. The printed circuit can be in a mobile telephone or other portable device, and ... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6664593 | Field effect transistor structure and method of manufacture A field effect transistor structure is formed with a body semiconductor layer (1) having source (3), channel (7), drift region (9) and drain (5). An upper metallisation layer (15, 17) is separated from the body by an oxide layer (11). The upper metallisat... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6664134 | Method of mounting a semiconductor device with a eutectic layer A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device (10) including a semiconductor element (1), such as a transistor, which is provided, on the rear side, with a conductive layer (3) including gold, and which is attached, on said side, to a conductive plate ... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6664821 | Line driver with current source output and low sensitivity to load variations Line driver for a LIN-bus. The line driver has a current source output transistor (T1) for pulling down the LIN-bus wire (LB) to ground (GND). The LIN-bus wire (LB) is connected to a positive supply voltage (VBAT) through a pull-up resistor (R1). The outp... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6662261 | Data processing arrangement and method for connecting storage elements and groups selectively to processing circuits In a data processing arrangement that includes multiple processing circuits, a group of storage elements provides temporary storage of data intended for the processing circuits. An element selection circuit enables a single storage element to be selected ... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6661291 | Fractional and rapid response frequency synthesizer, and corresponding frequency synthesizing method The present invention relates a frequency synthesizer comprising in a phase-locked loop: a phase-frequency comparator (16) connected to a reference frequency source (20), at least a voltage-controlled oscillator (12) and a fractional frequency divi... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6661208 | Synchronous DC-DC regulator with shoot-through prevention A synchronous dc--dc converter converts an input dc voltage to an output dc voltage. A control FET (6) and a sync FET (8) are connected in series between input dc voltage terminals (2,4). An alternating control signal input from a control circuit (18) con... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6661074 | Receiver comprising a variable capacitance diode A receiver for radio or television signals provided with a high-frequency circuit having a discrete semiconductor component which includes a planar variable capacitance diode and an integrated series resistor formed on a common semiconductor or substrate.... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6661071 | Memory having plural magnetic layers and a shielding layer The object of the invention is the shielding of a magnetic memory against high external magnetic fields. The magnetic memory (1) comprises an array of magnetic memory elements (2), each memory element (3) including at least one layer of magnetic material ... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6661059 | Lateral insulated gate bipolar PMOS device A lateral insulated gate bipolar PMOS device includes a semiconductor substrate, a buried insulating layer and a lateral PMOS transistor device in an SOI layer on the buried insulating layer having a source region of p-type conductivity. A lateral drift r... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6660591 | Trench-gate semiconductor devices having a channel-accommodating region and their methods of manufacture Compact trench-gate semiconductor devices, for example a cellular power MOSFET with sub-micron pitch (Yc), are manufactured with self-aligned techniques that use sidewall spacers (52) in different ways. Thereby, the source region (13) and a contact window... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6661280 | Electronic filter circuit with feed back loop The invention relates to an electronic filter circuit comprising a controllable transconductance circuit wherein a feedback loop is added to a substantially linear transconductance amplifier G, between two electronic leads having an input portion before t... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6657659 | Flicker compensation for cameras In a method of compensating an image signal (10) having a field frequency of substantially N times a mains frequency, in which Nࣙ2, for AC light source induced fluctuations, the image signal (10) and an average signal representing an average image signa... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6657425 | Power measurement circuit including harmonic filter A shorting element, preferably a resonant inductor-capacitor circuit, is inserted in parallel with a sense transistor, which itself is in parallel with a power transistor. The use of the shorting element in combination with the sense transistor, provides ... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6657294 | Data carrier having an IC module with a protection mechanism for protecting the parts of the IC module from mechanical stress A data carrier (1) includes an IC module (3), having a substrate (4), and a conductor configuration (5) connected to the substrate (4), and an IC (2) connected to the substrate (4), and connecting leads (10, 11) between the conductor configuration (5) and... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6656760 | Solid state imaging sensor in a submicron technology and method of manufacturing and use of a solid state imaging sensor A detector and a camera system for electromagnetic radiation being integrated in a solid state substrate are disclosed. Said substrate comprises a first region of a first conductivity and a second region of a second conductivity, said first region being a... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6655599 | Data carrier having reset means for interrupting the processing A data carrier (4) for the contactless communication of communication information (KD) with a transmitting/receiving station (1) includes receiving circuit (7) for receiving an HF signal (HF) containing the communication information (KD) from the transmit... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6657477 | Integrated circuit An integrated circuit (100) comprising an analogue circuit (30) and optionally a digital circuit (50) couples substrate noise present on the integrated circuit ground rail (114) onto a supply rail (116) of the analogue circuit. The voltage difference betw... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6653913 | Tunable piezoelectric filter arrangement using a dielectric material with a voltage-dependent dielectric constant The invention describes a tunable filter arrangement with at least two resonators which are coupled to one another and of which at least one is connected to a capacitor with tunable capacitance. The electrical properties of the resonator, and thus the ove... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6650169 | Gate driver apparatus having an energy recovering circuit A novel gate driver apparatus in which an energy recovery circuitry is incorporated in a square-wave gate driver. The energy recovery circuitry has a first loop circuit for discharging the energy from the gate capacitor to an inductor when the gate driver... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6650144 | Line driver for supplying symmetrical output signals to a two-wire communication bus A line driver for driving a two-wire communication bus (8, 9) consisting of a chain of inverters (I1, . . . , I6). Each inverter may consist of a series arrangement of a PMOS (M1) and an NMOS (M2) transistor. The output terminals (1b, 3b, 5b) of the odd-n... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6649978 | Semiconductor module having multiple semiconductor chips A multiple semiconductor chip (multi-chip) module includes at least an output semiconductor chip and a control semiconductor chip mounted on an electrically conductive heat sink. The output semiconductor chip may have a bulk substrate configuration and th... | 11/18/2003 |
