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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6752136 | Archery bow for shooting a sabot containing a plurality of darts or shot pellets A novel handheld compound archery bow (100) includes a riser (102) with a keyhole, an arrow rest assembly (150) extending through the keyhole, a bowstring (130), and a grip (106). A sabot (300) including top and bottom halve... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6728537 | GPRS mobile paging method The invention concerns a method of scheduling the time of transmission of one or more GPRS paging blocks in a cell of a cellular communications system, the paging blocks initiating communication to a mobile terminal in a cellular communications system, comprising ca... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6614806 | Method and apparatus for interfering receiver signal overload protection A method and apparatus for controlling incoming power to a receiver in a dual mode communication device. According to the method and apparatus, the received signal is simultaneously processed by two separate filters, one filter to process the incoming des... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6142133 | Archery bow having an improved cam arrangement A compound archery bow has a top cam which is larger than a bottom cam so that the nock point travel between an at-rest position and a fully-drawn position follows substantially a straight line. The nock point on the bowstring positions an arrow substanti... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6122525 | International mobile station identification method and signaling system for cellular radiotelephones and systems A cellular radiotelephone or MS (100) includes an international mobile station identification including a mobile country code MCC, a mobile network code MNC, an area code MIN2 and a local number MIN1, all of which are stored in the EEPROM memory (124) of ... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6064894 | Portable radio telephone having improved speaker and housing assembly for handsfree and private operation A portable radio telephone is adapted to provide handsfree operation and adapted to be held against a user's ear to provide private operation. A housing of the portable radio telephone has an ear placement region on a front surface thereof. A speaker is d... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6038457 | Apparatus and method for detecting and powering an accessory A radiotelephone (100) is coupled to accessory (200) by way of a novel interface provided by connector (190). Accessory (200) is a headset including a microphone (220) and a speaker (230) that may be plugged into a jack in radiotelephone (100) and worn by... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5907615 | Miniature wireless communication device A wireless communication device (10) is provided for maintaining acceptable acoustic coupling, increasing display and data input device capability and increasing antenna performance to encourage further miniaturization and weight reduction thereof. Two mo... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5784585 | Computer system for executing instruction stream containing mixed compressed and uncompressed instructions by automatically detecting and expanding compressed instructions In a computer system with a RISC processor (14) using 32-bit instructions, certain instructions are stored in 16-bit compressed form and expanded for use by the processor, reducing their fetch time. An instruction is extracted from memory (via bus 10) via... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5717307 | Apparatus and method for identifying the type and brand of a battery for a portable device A portable cellular radiotelephone (100), which is powered by main and auxiliary batteries (101, 102) in an operating state. The main and auxiliary batteries (101, 102) include respective memories (402, 410) for storing a 64- bit registration number and 1... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5699408 | International mobile station identification method and signaling system for cellular radiotelephones and systems A cellular radiotelephone or MS (100) includes an international mobile station identification including a mobile country code MCC, a mobile network code MNC, an area code MIN2 and a local number MIN1, all of which are stored in the EEPROM memory (124) of ... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5633786 | Shield assembly and method of shielding suitable for use in a communication device A shielding assembly (102) for shielding an electronic circuit (108) disposed on a substrate (107) includes traces (118) and a shield (200). The traces (118) are disposed on the substrate (107) about the electronic circuit (108). The shield (200) includes... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5606730 | Electronic device having an electronic coupler for coupling between two electronic components and method of assembling same An electronic device coupling apparatus is used to couple two electronic devices through a hinge. A first electronic device (221) is disposed within the main housing of a radiotelephone (101). The second electronic device (301) is disposed within a movabl... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5589796 | Method and apparatus for increasing amplifier efficiency A transmitter (107) includes amplifying circuitry (203) and control circuitry (215, 217, 219) for biasing the amplifying circuitry (203) so that it operates closer to saturation with increased efficiency. The gate voltage signal (213), which provides a ga... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5566224 | Radio frequency communication device including a mirrored surface A RF communication device (100, 200, 300) employs a mirrored surface (109, 209, 309). The mirrored surface (109, 209) contains a display area (108, 208) that may be used to output operational information of the RF communication device (100, 200), such as ... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5530922 | Power detector with matching impedance for radio frequency signal amplifiers A transmission line coupler (115) for a transmitter output signal (123) generated by an RF signal amplifier (103) includes a through-path transmission line (201) and a coupled-path transmission line (202) electromagnetically coupled thereto by multiple se... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5487184 | Offset transmission line coupler for radio frequency signal amplifiers An offset transmission line coupler (115) for a transmitter output signal (123) generated by an RF signal amplifier (103) includes a through-path transmission line (201) and a coupled-path transmission line (202) electromagnetically coupled thereto by mul... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5463674 | Cellular cordless telephone which polls information in a memory to determine a pre-selected preference and a stored availability of call forwarding A cellular cordless telephone (10) operates with both a cordless base station (180) and a cellular base station (190) and cellular control terminal (196). In one embodiment (FIG. 2 ), a cellular cordless telephone (100) includes a cellular transceiver (12... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5448771 | Embedded transmission line coupler for radio frequency signal amplifiers A transmission line coupler (115) for a transmitter output signal (123) generated by an RF signal amplifier (103) includes a through-path transmission line (201) and a coupled-path transmission line (202) electromagnetically coupled thereto by multiple se... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5371791 | Housing assembly fastener for fastening housing assembly portions and a substrate A fastener for fastening at least two tandemly-positioned surfaces, such as opposing surfaces of a housing assembly, theretogether. The fastener includes first and second hook members which are affixed in a defined relationship with top and bottom surface... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5367558 | Cellular cordless telephone A cellular cordless telephone (10) operates with both a cordless base station (180) and a cellular base station (190) and cellular control terminal (196). In one embodiment (FIG. 2), a cellular cordless telephone (100) includes a cellular transceiver (120... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5355517 | Method and apparatus for automatic alternate communications system access A method and means of automatically accessing several types of radio systems is described. The present invention allows a subscriber unit, which is normally operative in a operator selected radio system, to establish communication with an alternate system... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5349588 | Error detecting method and apparatus for data communications A unique method and apparatus processes and validates Manchester-coded data transmitted on a communications channel and containing a synchronization word and a data word including a plurality of data bits and coded according to a predetermined BCH error c... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5241693 | Single-block filter for antenna duplexing and antenna-switched diversity A single-block ceramic filter (102) is coupled to two antennas (142 and 144) for providing both antenna duplexing and antenna-switched diversity in a duplex radio transceiver (100). One antenna (142) is coupled by the filter (102) to a transmitter (132), ... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5235492 | Electromagnetic shielding apparatus for cellular telephones Electromagnetic shielding apparatus for portable telephones (300) and other electronic equipment, includes shield clips (100) for intercoupling the conductive surfaces of a housing (302 and 303) to the metal layer (205) of the circuit board (200). Each sh... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5193223 | Power control circuitry for a TDMA radio frequency transmitter A TDMA cellular telephone (600) includes in its transmit signal path, microphone (608), vocoder (612), data format circuitry (601), quadrature modulator (602), 90 MHz local oscillator (606), transmitter with mixer (604), transmitter filter (618), and ante... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5170492 | Digitally frequency-locking a radio transceiver to the received signal A unique cellular telephone (100) digitally frequency locks to the received base station transmitter signal. The cellular telephone (100) includes a radio transceiver (106), a reference oscillator (104), and microcomputer (102) with memory therein for con... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5162144 | Process for metallizing substrates using starved-reaction metal-oxide reduction A unique process metallizes a substrate surface using a reducing agent including a borohydride to reduce, in a starved reaction, metal oxide particles (300) substantially uniformly distributed and at a controlled concentration in a particle-filled resin (... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5127042 | Cellular cordless telephone A cellular cordless telephone (10) operates with both a cordless base station (180) and a cellular base station (190) and cellular control terminal (196). In one embodiment (FIG. 2) , a cellular cordless telephone (100) includes a cellular transceiver (12... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5124889 | Electromagnetic shielding apparatus for cellular telephones Electromagnetic shielding apparatus for portable telephones (300) and other electronic equipment, includes shield clips (100) for intercoupling the conductive surfaces of a housing (302 and 303) to the metal layer (205) of the circuit board (200). Each sh... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5109536 | Single-block filter for antenna duplexing and antenna-summed diversity A single-block ceramic filter (102) is coupled to two antennas (142 and 144) for providing both antenna duplexing and antenna-summed diversity in a duplex radio transceiver (100). One antenna (142) is coupled by the filter (102) to a transmitter (132) and... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5095503 | Cellular telephone controller with synthesized voice feedback for directory number confirmation and call status A unique cellular telephone controller (104 and 106) provides synthesized voice feedback for directory number confirmation, call status, and cellular telephone feature, option and service selection. Cellular telephone (100) includes a cellular telephone t... | 03/10/1992 |
| 5081674 | Double annular ring speaker gasket A double annular ring gasket (202) interfaces a speaker (201) to a housing (200) in a portable radiotelephone, providing a conformal and acoustic seal between the speaker (201) and the housing (200), and compensating for dimensional tolerance between the ... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5036532 | Portable telephone with power source/mode change during calls A unique cellular portable telephone (100) automatically accommodates a power source change during a cellular telephone call between the portable's battery (300) and another battery or an external power source from vehicular adaptor (200), such as, for ex... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5027388 | Method of selecting the most cost effective cellular service plan provided by cellular telephone resellers to multi-line customers A unique cellular telephone billing system (100) processes call detail records (102) of cellular telephone calls made by users of multi-line customers to produce invoices and reports containing consolidated billing, usage and cost information for the curr... | 06/25/1991 |
| 5023580 | Surface-mount filter A filter assembly (100) includes a ceramic block filter (102) and shielding bracket (132) which surface mounts to a printed circuit board (152) for interconnecting to radio frequency devices, such as a radio transceiver. The bracket (132) is soldered to t... | 06/11/1991 |
| 5020093 | Cellular telephone operable on different cellular telephone systems A unique dual-system cellular telephone includes a transceiver (100) having a dual bandwidth receiver, an audio/logic unit (200) having dual control programs, and a handset unit (300). The dual bandwidth receiver of the transceiver (100) has different fil... | 05/28/1991 |
| 5020092 | Dual-bandwidth cellular telephone A unique dual-bandwidth cellular telephone includes a transceiver (100) having a dual bandwidth receiver, an audio/logic unit (200) having dual control programs, and a handset unit (300). The dual bandwidth receiver of the transceiver (100) has different ... | 05/28/1991 |
| 5014294 | Speakerphone for cellular telephones with howl prevention, detection, elimination and determination A unique speakerphone for celluar telephones includes in the transmit audio path between microphone 112 and transmitter 118, a transmitter mute switch which disconnects the audio path to the transmitter from the microphone 112, and a transamit gain amplif... | 05/07/1991 |
| 5010309 | Ceramic block filter with co-fired coupling pins A ceramic block filter (100) includes coupling pins (101 and 102) disposed in holes (124 and 125) in corresponding electrodes (121 and 122) for interconnecting the filter to radio frequency devices, such as a radio transceiver. During manufacture of the f... | 04/23/1991 |
