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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7936045 | Integrated circuit with multi-stage matching circuit An integrated circuit with a multi-stage matching circuit with an inductive conductive structure with a first end and a second end in the integrated circuit and a capacitor structure in the integrated circuit connected to a tap between the ends of the inductive cond... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7932622 | Power switch circuit for driving an airbag squib module A power switch circuit for driving an airbag squib module has a power transistor, a pre-charge capacitance for storing a charge, a charging circuit and a controllable energy-coupling element. The power transistor has a first electrode, a second electrode and a contr... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929936 | Receiver arrangement with AC coupling A receiver arrangement with AC coupling is specified in which a filter arrangement (3) is provided in a baseband signal processing chain in a homodyne receiver and can be switched between at least two high-pass filter cut-off frequencies. In this case, a brie... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929547 | Networks having plurality of nodes One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of communicating in a network with a plurality of nodes. In the method, information is gathered from the plurality of nodes, where information from each node specifies other nodes from which the node detect... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925230 | Diversity receiver with channel estimator A diversity receiver includes a plurality of antennas to receive radio frequency signals. A plurality of receiver circuits are each coupled to a respective one of the plurality of antennas to process the received radio frequency signals, and a channel estimator is c... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924582 | Switching device and method, in particular for photovoltaic generators The subject matter of the invention is an inverter (3), more specifically for use in a photovoltaic plant (1) with a direct voltage input (connection terminals 4; 5) for connection to a generator (2) and an alternating voltage output (con... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924546 | Burner ignition controller and improved coil bobbin A system is presented for an improved igniter and an igniter bobbin for a high voltage burner igniter that reduces parts count and simplifies assembly of the igniter used in fuel based burners for boilers, forced air furnaces and water heaters. In one aspect of the ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924159 | Remote wafer presence detection with passive RFID The present invention involves a system and method of remotely detecting the presence of a wafer comprising, a passive RFID circuit, wherein the RFID circuit is attached to an end of a transfer arm located inside a vacuum chamber of an ion implantation system, a rea... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923998 | Sensor device A sensor device has a sensor assembly with at least one sensor element, an additional sensor assembly having at least one additional sensor element, and a switch-in element which couples the additional sensor assembly to the sensor assembly responsive to a switch-in... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920592 | Method of bandwidth control and bandwidth control device A method of bandwidth control and a corresponding bandwidth control device are disclosed, in which a plurality of queues are provided, bandwidth is assigned to each of the queues on the basis of a strict priority scheme, and additional bandwidth is assigned to the q... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7916524 | Program method with locally optimized write parameters A method of addressing a memory cell includes applying a plurality of pulses to the memory cell, wherein a subsequent pulse has an amplitude greater than an initial pulse. In addition, a memory includes a memory cell and a control circuit configured to address the m... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7915597 | Extraction electrode system for high current ion implanter A system and method extraction electrode system, comprising an extraction electrode, wherein the extraction electrode, further defines an aperture and forms a portion of the outside wall of the ion source and is configured to extract ions from the ion source, a supp... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7911236 | Detection circuit and detection method A detection circuit includes a bias circuit configured to generate a first bias voltage and a second bias voltage. The detection circuit further includes a storage device configured to store a detection value corresponding to an amplitude of a radio frequency signal... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907965 | Apparatus and method for controlling the power consumption of a combined UMTS/GSM/EDGE radio station A mobile station has an apparatus by means of which the power consumption of the mobile station is controlled. The apparatus has a monitoring unit which is connected to the at least two radio systems in the mobile station. During activity pauses in the mobile statio... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7900119 | Interleaving redundancy apparatus and method One embodiment of the invention relates to a network communication device. The network communication device includes a network interface configured to receive an initial data stream. The network communication device also includes an interleaving redundancy encoder t... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899333 | Communication semiconductor component In order to solve the problem of determining a barrier layer temperature in a semiconductor communication component (1) and thus to guarantee normal operation of the same, for example in a communication system (10) in the form of an xDSL connection car... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899136 | Frequency-offset estimation A device for calculating an overall frequency-offset estimate from a plurality of frequency-offset estimates includes a receiver unit configured to receive a plurality of data streams, a phase shift estimation unit configured to generate a phase shift quantity repre... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899124 | Methods and systems for adaptive communication One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of transferring data in a communication system. In the method, an initial impulse noise protection value is determined. A number of redundancy bits is added to blocks of data to form codewords as a function... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7898847 | Method to prevent overreset A method of addressing a memory cell includes applying a plurality of pulses to the memory cell, wherein a subsequent pulse has an amplitude greater than an initial pulse. In addition, a memory includes a memory cell and a control circuit configured to address the m... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7897944 | Method and apparatus for measurement of beam angle in ion implantation An ion beam angle detection apparatus, comprising a linear drive assembly fixedly attached to a moveable profiler assembly, wherein the profiler assembly comprises, a profiler having a profiler aperture formed within a profiler top plate and a profiler sensor assemb... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895255 | Method and apparatus for performing a multiplication or division operation in an electronic circuit A multiplication or division operation X·K or X·1/K is performed in an electronic circuit. A software circuit area of the circuit calculates a digit shift sv such that psv is an approximate value for K. In a hardware circuit area, the value X is shifted... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894483 | Multi-carrier communication via sub-carrier groups One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for communicating over a multi-carrier communication channel. In the method, sub-carrier frequencies that are reserved for communication between a pair of network nodes are associated with different sub-car... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7889005 | Controllable amplifier and the use thereof A controllable amplifier amplifies a radiofrequency input signal on the basis of a control signal. A current path is formed between a supply potential connection and a reference potential connection. The current path includes an amplifier transistor and a cascode tr... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7888661 | Methods for in situ surface treatment in an ion implantation system A system and methods are provided for mitigating or removing workpiece surface contaminants or conditions. Methods of the invention provide treatment of the wafer surface to provide a known surface condition. The surface condition can then be maintained during and f... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7888218 | Using thick spacer for bitline implant then remove The present invention pertains to a system method of forming at least a portion of a dual bit memory core array upon a semiconductor substrate, the method comprising forming adjacent first memory cell process assemblies; comprising a charge trapping dielectric, a fi... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885797 | Method for production of a system for representation of an electrical network, and use of the method One embodiment of the present invention is a method for producing a system for describing an electrical network. An output signal of the electrical network is sampled at a frequency that corresponds to the Nyquist criterion for the input signal to the electrical net... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885405 | Multi-gigabit per second concurrent encryption in block cipher modes One embodiment is a system adapted to encrypt one or more packets of plaintext data in cipher-block chaining (CBC) mode. The system includes a plurality of digital logic components connected in series, where respective components are operative to process one or more... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7884680 | Dynamically adjustable Q-factors One embodiment relates to a circuit for active loss compensation. The circuit includes a parallel inductor-capacitive (LC) tank circuit having a first single-ended output. A first adjustable capacitor, which includes a first terminal and a second terminal, is couple... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7884044 | Pd-containing coatings for low chlorine overvoltage The present invention relates to an electrocatalytic coating and an electrode having the coating thereon, wherein the coating is a mixed metal oxide coating, preferably platinum group metal oxides with or without valve metal oxides, and containing a transition metal... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881401 | Transmitter arrangement and signal processing method A transmitter arrangement includes a first and a second phase-locked loop, each having a power amplifier. The first phase-locked loop generates a first amplified oscillator signal depending on a first input signal representing a first phase information, wherein a fi... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7880477 | Integrated circuit arrangement An integrated circuit arrangement has a signal input 20 and a signal output 60, a signal processing unit 100 which is connected to the signal input 20 and to the signal output 60, a noise source 50 for generating a noise sig... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7848715 | Circuit and method Implementations related to circuits including an oscillator and a switch-mode DC/DC converter are presented herein. ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7847642 | Frequency tuning circuit, use of the tuning circuit and method for frequency tuning A frequency tuning circuit includes a connection for coupling to a signal tap of an element which has a resonant frequency. The tuning circuit contains a controllable-capacitance capacitance array for tuning of a signal frequency of the element. The capacitance arra... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7878795 | Burner ignition controller A fuel burner controller and associated method is configured to establish fuel combustion in a fuel burner and to recycle a fuel combustion initiation process when a loss of combustion is detected and a call for heat is asserted. The controller is further configured... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7876813 | Communication system, device and data transmission method A communication system comprises a first modem part arranged at a first location and a second modem part arranged at a second location that is remote from the first location. The first modem part and the second modem part in combination perform functionalities of a ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7872851 | Fluidic based variable capacitor for use in a fluidic electrostatic energy harvester One embodiment of the present invention relates to a variable capacitor that operates without moving mechanical parts. In this capacitor electrically conductive electrodes are separated by an enclosed chamber filled with an electrically conductive material. The elec... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7872845 | Control system One embodiment relates to a control system. In one embodiment, a control system is configured to drive a load based on a set-point of the load, a measured load characteristic and a supply voltage of the load. The controller is configured to determine a duty cycle ba... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7860086 | Method and apparatus for voice data packets Data transmission method for voice data packets (SDP) between at least one voice signal processor (7-i) and a network processor (3) using a voice data bus (10) in time-division multiplex data frames which each have a predetermined number ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7858955 | System and method of controlling broad beam uniformity An ion beam uniformity control system, wherein the uniformity control system comprising a differential pumping chamber that encloses an array of individually controlled gas jets, wherein the gas pressure of the individually controlled gas jets are powered by a contr... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7856033 | Methods and systems for adaptive communication One embodiment relates to a method for transitioning from an initial data rate utilizing an initial transmission variable to a new data rate in a multi-carrier communication system. In the method, a first function or a second function is selected to calculate a modi... | 12/21/2010 |
