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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8000117 | Buck boost function based on a capacitor bootstrap input buck converter A buck boost voltage converter circuit has a capacitor pump circuit for boosting an input voltage in a first mode of operation when an input voltage is below a desired voltage level. A buck converter circuit provides the output voltage responsive to the boosted inpu... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7948194 | Waveform current monitor using RDSon of low-side bridge FET An apparatus for monitoring current for a motor drive including at least high-side and low-side switching transistors includes a driver circuit for driving a gate of the low-side switching transistor. First circuitry measures a drain to source voltage across the low... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7928787 | Enable pin using programmable hysteresis improvement An apparatus for providing programmable hysteresis control using an enable pin of a device is disclosed. An enable pin is configured to receive an input signal to enable and disable an associated device responsive to the input signal. A current sink is attached to t... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7921873 | Service valve assembly having a stop-fill device and a liquid level indicating dial A combination overfill protection device, fluid level gauge, includes a service valve having a body defining a set of wrench flats, an input port, and a tank port wherein the overfill protection device has a float that rotates a shaft in response to a change in flui... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7890832 | Method for accuracy improvement allowing chip-by-chip measurement correction A method for allowing measurement corrections on a chip-by-chip basis. Error correction values are generated responsive to the input value to a circuit of the calibrated integrated circuit chip and to a measured value from the circuit of the calibrated integrated ci... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7880443 | System and method of trickle charging a battery in a narrow rail architecture The charging circuit for charging a battery of an electronic device using a connected AC power adaptor includes circuitry responsive to an applied regulated voltage for charging the battery connected to the charging circuitry. The circuitry prevents the regulated vo... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7876067 | High frequency connector-less charging scheme A connector-less charging circuit includes a transformer having a primary side associated with a secondary side. A primary switch is responsive to a control signal for connecting the transformer to ground during a first portion of a duty cycle, and disconnecting the... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873854 | System for monitoring power supply voltage The single chip microcontroller unit includes a processing unit having normal power mode of operation and a low power mode of operation. Analog circuitry and digital circuitry are connected to the processing unit. A power management unit controls power operations of... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7868294 | Apparatus and method for display control using ambient light measurement signal from an infrared receiver A system having an infrared receiver is shown, where the system includes an infrared receiver circuit configured to receive an infrared data signal using a receive photodiode and compensate for an ambient light level incident on the receive photodiode by generating ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7819316 | Portable scanner for enabling automatic commerce transactions A method for initiating and completing a commercial transaction is disclosed that allows a user to acquire and own an article of commerce having associated therewith a machine resolvable code (MRC), the MRC having encoded therein information relating to the article ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7818442 | Streaming media encoder with front panel control interface A streaming media encoder for encoding and delivering media content is disclosed. The streaming media encoder has a media input interface for receiving a media stream, a media encoder for receiving the media stream from the input interface and encoding the media str... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7818423 | Retrieving personal account information from a web site by reading a credit card A method of accessing personal account information of a credit card (3400) over a global communication packet-switched network (306). At a user location disposed on the network (306), a machine-resolvable code (MRC) (3402) of the credit c... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7792696 | Method and apparatus for allowing a broadcast to remotely control a computer The present invention disclosed and claimed herein comprises a system and method for launching an advertisement on a computer having an audio input interface and a display; an audio output acoustically coupled from a broadcast source to the input interface for outpu... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7768242 | DC/DC boost converter with resistorless current sensing A DC to DC boost converter circuit receives a DC input voltage and converts it to a DC output voltage at a different voltage level than the DC input voltage. The DC to DC boost converter includes a switching power converter for receiving the input voltage on an inpu... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7690323 | Gauge head assembly with non-magnetic insert A gauge head assembly for use with a magnetically actuated dial includes a cylindrical body formed from a magnetic material having a cylindrical sidewall with an threaded outer surface, wherein the sidewall defines an axially extending passage for receiving a tubula... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7680976 | Method and apparatus for emulating rewritable memory with non-rewritable memory in an MCU An integrated circuit having an embedded multiple time programmable memory includes a processing core for executing stored instructions with a data memory and a non volatile memory. The non-volatile memory block provides for storage of program instructions and inclu... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7653446 | Method and apparatus for automatic configuration of equipment An architecture for automatically configuring equipment. A piece of equipment connected externally to a user PC has one or more machine-resolvable codes (MRCs) associated therewith. The piece of equipment receives configuration information from a remote location dis... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7596699 | Battery authentication system An authentication process for authenticating a battery to a cellular telephone includes the step of receiving a challenge from the cellular telephone at the battery over a single wire conductor. In response to the challenge, the seed values are retrieved from the me... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7592846 | Method for using digital PLL in a voltage regulator A circuit comprises a digital phase locked loop for generating a synchronization signal and a voltage regulator for providing regulated output voltage responsive to the synchronization signal from the digital phase locked loop. ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7561566 | Photonic home area network The present invention discloses a photonic home area network for interfacing an external communications data network with a plurality of buildings, residential or commercial, in a neighborhood. The network includes an apparatus for a service node used in a multimedi... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7558902 | Bus to MCU bridge An integrated circuit enables interconnection of a serial digital bus with a microcontroller unit. A physical interface provides for the transmission and reception of messages over the serial digital bus. A communication interface includes a serial interface for com... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7554490 | Space-filling miniature antennas A novel geometry, the geometry of Space-Filling Curves (SFC) is defined in the present invention and it is used to shape a part of an antenna. By means of this novel technique, the size of the antenna can be reduced with respect to prior art, or alternatively, given... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7550806 | Bondwire utilized for coulomb counting and safety circuits A sense resistor and integrated circuit package combination is disclosed. A package lead frame is provided having a plurality of landing zones associated therewith and a die mounting area for mounting of a die thereon. The die has a plurality of bond pads associated... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7518350 | MCU/driver point of load digital controller with optimized voltage A system for optimizing the power efficiency of a switching power converter operating at a switching frequency includes a digital controller for receiving an analog signal representing an output DC voltage of the switching power converter for comparison to a desired... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7498962 | Analog-to-digital converter with low power track-and-hold mode A method for converting analog data to digital data includes operating an analog-to-digital data converter in a tracking mode to sample an input signal and in a convert mode to convert the sampled input signal after sampling to a digital signal. The analog-to-digita... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7428159 | Digital PWM controller A digital controller for controlling the operation of a DC-DC switching converter is disclosed. A digital feedback control system is provided for receiving an analog input voltage representing the output of the switching converter and digitally processing the analog... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7421028 | Transformer isolator for digital power supply A system for providing voltage isolation includes the first and second chips, each containing functional circuitry. The chips are interconnected via at least one RF isolation link that provides voltage isolation between the first chip and the second chip. ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7385453 | Precision oscillator having improved temperature coefficient control A free running clock circuit includes a switching circuit for switching between first and second logic states at a predetermined frequency based upon a trip voltage the switching circuit has a programmable temperature profile associated therewith. The switching circ... | 06/10/2008 |
| D567370 | Pant crotch liner | 04/22/2008 |
| 7257619 | Bar code scanner and software interface interlock for performing encrypted handshaking and for disabling the scanner or input device in case of handshaking operation failure An interlocking architecture for a software interface and a bar code scanner. Upon power-up, a handshaking operation is performed between a scanner (1600) having a scanner processor (2600) and a computer processor (2612) of a computer (302 | 08/14/2007 |
| 7228282 | Method and apparatus for directing an existing product code to a remote location A method for interfacing a user location on a network to a destination location on the network is disclosed. A bar code having product information contained therein relating to an associated product is first scanned with a scanner, which bar code has no network rout... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7212061 | DPWM with leading edge blanker circuit An apparatus for providing over current protection for a digital pulse width modulator is disclosed. The apparatus includes first logic circuitry for generating a primary interrupt indicating that a detected output current is greater than a threshold current. Second... | 05/01/2007 |
| D539685 | Dial assembly design | 04/03/2007 |
| D538693 | Gauge dial housing | 03/20/2007 |
| 7188199 | DMA controller that restricts ADC from memory without interrupting generation of digital words when CPU accesses memory DMA controller for mixed signal device. A mixed signal integrated circuit with memory control is disclosed. A data conversion circuit is provided that is operable to receive an analog input signal and convert discrete samples thereof at a predetermined sampling rate... | 03/06/2007 |
| D535901 | Float arm | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171542 | Reconfigurable interface for coupling functional input/output blocks to limited number of i/o pins A reconfigurable processor system n an intergrated circuit includes a processor core that operates on a set of instructions to carry out predefined processes. A plurality of input/output pins are provided for interfacing with external signals. A reconfigurable inter... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7119527 | Voltage reference circuit using PTAT voltage A voltage reference generator is disclosed that includes a current generator for generating a current that is proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT), the current generator having an internal resistance. This provides a PTAT current that is proportional to the r... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7117240 | Method and apparatus for launching a web site with non-standard control input device A method for launching a web browser application on a user's computer. A browser application is provided on the user's computer that is launchable in response to predetermined browser inputs being received by the user's computer. A non-browser input is provided that... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113011 | Low power PLL for PWM switching digital control power supply A timing source for a pulse generator is disclosed, which timing source includes an input for receiving a reference clock output at a reference operating frequency. An edge generator is provided for generating a plurality of clock edges from an edge of the reference... | 09/26/2006 |
