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A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8111217 | Driving circuit for an OLED (organic light emission diode), in particular for a display of the AM-OLED type A driving circuit of an OLED diode is inserted between a first and a second voltage reference and having at least one input terminal receiving an input voltage signal and an output terminal for the generation of a driving current of the OLED diode, the driving circu... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8097868 | Galvanic optocoupler and method of making A galvanic optocoupler of the type monolithically integrated on a silicon substrate and having at least one luminous source and a photodetector interfaced by means of a galvanic insulation layer. The photodetector can be a phototransistor realized in the silicon sub... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8054131 | Transconductor circuit A transconductor circuit, particularly according to the multi-tanh principle, having a first input node and a second input node, a first differential amplifier coupled to the first and second input nodes, and having a first offset voltage, and a second differential ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054130 | Method for measuring the saturation rate of an audio amplifier A method and corresponding circuit that adjusts the gain of an audio output stage having a class D amplifier, this method including the steps of setting the gain to a nominal value, analyzing an output signal during successive clock periods, counting the number of c... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051698 | Micro-electro-mechanical gyroscope with open-loop reading device and control method thereof A micro-electro-mechanical gyroscope includes a first mass, which is able to oscillate along a first axis with respect to a fixed body, an inertial sensor having a second mass constrained to the first mass so as to oscillate along a second axis in response to a rota... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8046655 | Area efficient memory architecture with decoder self test and debug capability An integrated test device reduces external wiring congestion to a memory. The integrated test device provides for separate decoder testing and debugging to find specific errors in the memory. The device also helps in reducing the complexity of the test of external B... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045381 | Device for protecting a memory against attacks by error injection A memory is secured against an error injection during the reading of a datum. The memory includes: means for reading a reference datum in the memory during a phase of reading a datum stored in the memory; means for comparing the reference datum read with an expected... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8044718 | Integrated programmable gain amplifier circuit and system including the circuit An integrated programmable gain amplifier circuit that receives at an input an analog signal, circuit including an operational amplifier and a gain setup network comprising resistive elements and selection elements, which may be controlled in order to setup the gain... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8044538 | Multi-cellular photovoltaic panel system with DC-DC conversion replicated for groups of cells in series of each panel and photovoltaic panel structure A photovoltaic energy conversion system includes a distributed control structure for groups of cells of each multi-cellular panel, the components of which are entirely physically integrated in the photovoltaic panel. Each multi-cellular photovoltaic panel has a DC b... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8037756 | Microelectromechanical gyroscope with open loop reading device and control method A microelectromechanical gyroscope that includes a first mass oscillatable according to a first axis; an inertial sensor, including a second mass, drawn along by the first mass and constrained so as to oscillate according to a second axis, in response to a rotation ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036317 | Phase/gain imbalance estimation or compensation Apparatus and methods for estimation and compensation of phase imbalance and gain imbalance are provided. A receiver for estimation or compensation of phase imbalance or gain imbalance utilizing a QPSK modulation and a modulation scheme based on a complex scrambling... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8035450 | Operational transconductance amplifier having two amplification stages An operational amplifier having a first amplification stage with an input terminal to receive a signal to be amplified, and a first output terminal, and a second amplification stage having a first input terminal connected to the first output terminal, and an output ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031579 | Read/write transducer for a ferroelectric storage medium, and corresponding storage device and method A transducer for a storage medium has a supporting element positioned over the storage medium with a first head configured to interact with the storage medium and a second head operatively connected to the first head to interact with the storage medium. The second h... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8026753 | Prescaling stage for high frequency applications A prescaling stage includes bistable circuit in turn including respective master and slave portions inserted between a first and a second voltage reference and feedback connected to each other. Each portion is provided with at least one differential stage supplied b... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024977 | Pressure sensor having a high full-scale value with package thereof A pressure sensor including a pressure-sensor element having a monolithic body of semiconductor material, and a first main face and a second main face acting on which is a stress resulting from a pressure, the value of which is to be determined; and a package enclos... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8022889 | Antenna impedance modulation method A method for modulating the impedance of an antenna circuit supplying pump signals to a charge pump comprising at least one first pump stage and one last pump stage, the last pump stage supplying a continuous voltage. The output of the first pump stage is short-circ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018819 | Microelectromechanical device having an electromagnetic micromotor, in particular mass storage device made by probe storage technology A microelectromechanical device that includes a fixed supporting body, at least one semiconductor body, which is movable with respect to the fixed supporting body, and at least one micromotor for moving the semiconductor body with respect to the fixed supporting bod... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018364 | Control apparatus for a load supply device A control apparatus for a supply device of a load, the supply device is of switching type and connected between a supply voltage and a reference voltage, the apparatus including a sigma-delta device having an input terminal at which is present a first digital signal... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8008738 | Integrated differential pressure sensor An integrated differential pressure sensor includes, in a monolithic body of semiconductor material, a first face and a second face, a cavity extending at a distance from the first face and delimited therewith by a flexible membrane formed in part by epitaxial mater... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7986182 | Fully differential demodulator with variable gain, and method for demodulating a signal A demodulator is provided for demodulating an amplitude-modulated input signal defined by a carrier signal having a carrier frequency modulated by a modulating signal, the demodulator including an amplifier stage having a gain and structured to receive the amplitude... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7986181 | Calibration circuit for an adjustable capacitance A calibration circuit for calibrating an adjustable capacitance of a circuit having a time constant depending on the adjustable capacitance, the calibration circuit generating a calibration signal for calibrating the capacitance and including a calibration loop, sui... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7982652 | Analog-to-digital converter A method of analog-to-digital conversion over n bits of an analog signal, including the steps of: comparing the amplitude of the analog signal with a threshold representing the amplitude of the full-scale analog signal divided by 2k, where k is an integer... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7980135 | Microelectromechanical gyroscope with self-test function and control method A microelectromechanical gyroscope having a microstructure that includes a first mass and a second mass, wherein the first mass is oscillatable according to a first axis and the second mass is constrained to the first mass so as to be drawn along by the first mass a... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7973767 | Manual pointing device for a computer system with inertial click-event detection and corresponding click-event detection method A manual pointing device for a computer system, the device having at least one key that can be actuated manually by a user, and a click-event detection module coupled to the key for detecting actuation thereof. The click-event detection module is provided with an in... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7965107 | Base cell for engineering change order (ECO) implementation A base cell for an Engineering Change Order (ECO) implementation having at least a first pair of CMOS transistors and a second pair of CMOS transistors, characterized in that said at least first pair of CMOS transistors have a common gate and said at least second pa... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7949367 | Baseband signal input current splitter A current steering mechanism is provided in a radio transmitter (e.g., a multiband radio transmitter) to provide compatibility with a variety of baseband parts. Different proportions of an input signal current (“in”) are steered to a dummy load, a mixer for a fi... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7940708 | PCM type interface An interface device having a first and second data terminal configured for the communication of data in duplex mode, with one of the first and second data terminals always assigned to each direction of the communication, the first and second data terminals configura... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7929756 | Method for classifying a digital image A method for associating with a digital image a class of a plurality of predefined classes having respective models, the method including the phases of dividing the digital image pixel by pixel into one or more regions belonging to a set of predefined regions that d... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928578 | Electric linkage in a semiconductor electronic device between a nanometric circuit architecture and standard electronic components A semiconductor electronic device that includes a semiconductor substrate having a top surface; a seed layer positioned on the substrate and having a notched wall extending transversely with respect to the substrate top surface, the wall defining a first recess exte... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7911276 | Transconductor circuit A low noise, highly linear transconductor circuit, which may be applied, e.g., in communication systems, includes a first input node for receiving a first input signal of the transconductor circuit and a second input node for receiving a second input signal of the t... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911241 | Frequency synthesizer circuit comprising a phase locked loop A frequency synthesizer circuit that reduces undesired spurious sidebands while maintaining phase noise performance having a phase locked loop circuit comprising at least a phase detector, a controlled oscillator, a frequency divider coupled to the controlled oscill... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908921 | Barometric-pressure-sensor device with altimeter function and altimeter-setting function A barometric-pressure-sensor device for a portable electronic device, having a pressure sensor of a MEMS type designed to supply a barometric-pressure measurement, and with a processing circuit coupled to the pressure sensor that is designed to supply an altitude me... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7899860 | Method and system for high-speed floating-point operations and related computer program product A circuit for estimating propagated carries in an adder starting from operands that include actual addition inputs or at least one earlier carry, the circuit performs statistical circuit operations with independent binary traffic for the operands. Preferably, this b... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7893758 | Quadrature modulator and calibration method A quadrature modulator and a method of calibrating same by applying a first test tone signal to an in-phase modulation branch input of the modulator and a ninety degree phase-shifted version of the first test tone signal to a quadrature modulation branch input of th... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7892923 | Power field effect transistor and manufacturing method thereof A method of manufacturing a vertical power MOS transistor on a wide band gap semiconductor substrate having a wide band gap superficial semiconductor layer, including the steps of forming a screening structure on the superficial semiconductor layer that leaves a plu... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7876153 | Transconductor circuit A transconductor circuit, particularly according to the multi-tanh principle, having a first input node and a second input node, a first differential amplifier coupled to the first and second input nodes, and having a first offset voltage, and a second differential ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7842574 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor power device A trench is formed in a semiconductor body, the side walls and the bottom of the trench covered with a first dielectric material layer, the trench filled with a second dielectric material layer, the first and the second dielectric material layers are etched via a pa... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7836300 | Security integrated circuit A semiconductor integrated circuit for the processing of conditional access television signals, the circuit including an input interface for receiving encrypted television signals and an output interface for output of decrypted television signals. Control signals br... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7836239 | Secured USB peripheral A device includes a serial port for connecting as a slave to a master device through a serial link. The device further includes a detection circuit for detecting the presence of an impedance of the master device, linked to a terminal of the serial port. The device c... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7827864 | Microelectromechanical gyroscope with suppression of capacitive coupling spurious signals and control method A microelectromechanical gyroscope having a microstructure with a first mass, which can oscillate according to a first axis, and a second mass constrained to the first mass so as to oscillate according to a second axis in response to a rotation of the microstructure... | 11/09/2010 |
