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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120126613 | MIXED SIGNAL CONVERSION, ISOLATION, AND TRANSMISSION FOR AEROSPACE MULTI-CHANNEL DATA AND POWER INTERFACE SYSTEMS An electrical power distribution system for a vehicle may comprise two or more independently grounded buses. An evaluation system may selectively connectable to either of the buses. The evaluation system may comprise a primary side; and a secondary side isolated from th... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126821 | System and Method for Testing a Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit In an embodiment, a method of testing a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) includes generating high frequency test signals using the on-chip test circuit, measuring signal levels using on-chip power detectors, and controlling and monitoring the on-chip test circu... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120081128 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTION OF OPEN CONNECTIONS BETWEEN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND A MULTI-CELL BATTERY PACK An apparatus comprises an integrated circuit and an open connection detection circuit within the integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes a plurality of inputs for connecting with a plurality of outputs of a multi-cell battery pack. The open connection detect... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120068719 | MEASURED DEVICE AND TEST SYSTEM UTILIZING THE SAME A measured device coupled to test equipment providing at least two test factors and receiving a test result is disclosed. The measured device includes a combinatorial logic circuit and a main circuit. The combinatorial logic circuit includes a first storage module and a... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120049855 | Dark IV monitoring system for photovoltaic installations A photovoltaic (PV) monitoring system performs dark current and dark IV testing of PV installations; computes the passive electrical characteristics of the installed array; determines the performance status and likely cause of underperformance; and communicates the coll... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120049856 | PIN TEST ASSISTANT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR USING THE DEVICE A pin test assistant device includes a shaft and a hook. The shaft is made of strong lightweight material that is easily formed into a shaft, and the hook is made of material that resists heat. If a pin on an integrated circuit (IC) chip needs to be tested, the hook is ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120043968 | VARIABLE EQUALIZER CIRCUIT A variable equalizer circuit equalizes a signal received via a transmission line from a device which is a communication partner device. A first resistor is arranged between an output terminal and a fixed voltage terminal, and is configured to have a variable resistance.... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120038366 | System and Method for Detecting Sensor Leakage A test system for testing a sensor system includes a high-impedance resistor for forming a voltage divider with any corrosion or foreign substance that might be present between a signal conductor and a ground conductor. While a voltage is applied across the voltage divi... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120032683 | METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING CURRENT SENSORS IN AN INDUCTION MACHINE DURING OPERATION THEREOF A method diagnoses current sensors of an n-phase induction machine which has n−1 current sensors. The n phases of the induction machine are short-circuited for a brief period of time during normal operation of the induction machine, and the time progressions of the nâ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120035874 | BATTERY PACK AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME A battery pack includes a battery cell; a protective circuit for protecting the battery cell; a first analog/digital (A/D) converter for converting a voltage of the battery cell into a digital value and outputting the digital value as a first voltage value; a second A/D... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120032810 | THERMAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR FAULT DETECTION WITHIN A POWER GENERATION SYSTEM A system includes a radiation sensor configured to direct a field of view toward a conduit within a heat recovery steam generator, and to output a signal indicative of a temperature of the conduit. The system also includes a controller communicatively coupled to the rad... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120024671 | TRANSFERRING MECHANISM OF CONTACT TEST A transferring mechanism of contact test, applied to transfer a raw material band of terminals for a contact test of fan-shaped band of terminals is disclosed. The transferring mechanism of contact test comprises a main body, a driving shaft, a driving gear, a driven sh... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120025841 | CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT IN MICROCHIPS A measurement system for determining the capacitance of a device-under-test in an integrated circuit is disclosed. In one aspect, the measurement system has a reference circuit and a test circuit. Each circuit has first and second diodes that are switched in accordance ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120013343 | RECEIVING APPARATUS, TEST APPARATUS, RECEIVING METHOD, AND TEST METHOD A receiving apparatus that acquires a reception signal using a recovered clock that is recovered from an edge of the reception signal. The receiving apparatus comprises a recovered clock generating section that generates the recovered clock; a multi-strobe generating se... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120013344 | DEVICE FOR DIAGNOSING MEASUREMENT OBJECTS USING A MEASUREMENT VOLTAGE A device for diagnosing measurement objects using a measurement voltage comprises a housing, in which at least one electric measurement circuit is arranged for carrying out the diagnosis. To this end, the device is designed for the simultaneous diagnosis of a plurality ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120007626 | TESTING TECHNIQUES FOR THROUGH-DEVICE VIAS Techniques for testing an electronic device with through-device vias can include using a probe card assembly with probes for contacting connection structures of the electronic device including ends of through-device vias of the electronic device. A pair of the probes ca... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120002495 | MEMORY SYSTEM, MEMORY TEST SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TESTING MEMORY SYSTEM AND MEMORY TEST SYSTEM A memory test system is disclosed. The memory system includes a memory device, a tester generating a clock signal and a test signal for testing the memory device, and an optical splitting module. The optical splitting module comprises an electrical-optical signal conver... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120001641 | GAS SENSOR CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD A gas sensor control apparatus (1) includes a gas sensor (8) having an oxygen pump cell (14); a sensor drive circuit (52) which energizes the gas sensor; terminal voltage output means (54) which detects and outputs a terminal voltage o... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110316554 | SWITCHING APPARATUS AND TEST APPARATUS To perform a forcible disconnection when voltage outside a reference range is applied to a terminal, provided is a switching apparatus comprising a main switch provided between a first terminal and a second terminal; a voltage detection section that detects whether volt... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110309843 | Discontinuous Type Layer-ID Detector For 3D-IC And Method of The Same A 3D-IC detector for each layer of a stacked device with N layer, includes a dividing-two circuit coupled to a (N−1) signal; a first comparator is coupled to the dividing-two circuit, wherein an input A is coupled to an initial layer number signal, an input B of the f... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110304341 | METHOD OF TESTING INTEGRATED CIRCUITS A method of testing integrated circuits includes providing an integrated circuit test system that has a voltage supply and a plurality of control channels. A first switching element is connected between the voltage supply and a first integrated circuit, and a second swi... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110304342 | DEVICE FOR A SYSTEM COMPONENTS OF A HIGH-VOLTAGE IMPULSE TEST SYSTEM The present invention relates to a device for system components of a high-voltage impulse test system, preferably for quality assurance of power transformers. According to the invention, a common base frame having only one main electrode common to the system components ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110298471 | CIRCUIT CONFIGURATION FOR DETECTING AN ERROR IN A CONVERTER A circuit configuration for detecting an error occurring in a converter, that is designed for integrating an analog useful signal and a digital useful signal of the converter and checking in each instance, when the integrated analog useful signal reaches a specific thre... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110298467 | Subsea Line Monitoring Device A subsea line monitoring device comprising a diagnostic unit adapted to be deployed, in use, in a subsea location and having a first connector, the diagnostic unit being operable, in use, to output a signal indicative of the integrity of a line or device connected to th... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110291663 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND LIQUID DETECTION SENSOR INSPECTION METHOD The printing apparatus applies a first waveform to the liquid detection sensor, and measures a second waveform output from the liquid detection sensor in response to the application of the first waveform. Based on a measurement result of the second waveform, the printin... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110291662 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR ELECTRIC ISOLATION OF A HIGH-VOLTAGE DIRECT CURRENT ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT An electrically isolated high-voltage direct-current electric circuit is monitored. Electrical signals are periodically sampled, and ground isolation indexes are calculated. A trend corresponding to trend elements is characterized. The characterized trend is compared wi... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110295530 | FAULT DIAGNOSIS DEVICE FOR AMPLITUDE MODULATION DEVICE The fault diagnosis device is for diagnosing presence of a fault in an amplitude modulation device which modulates an amplitude of a carrier wave signal to generate a modulated wave signal, comprising. The fault diagnosis device includes a sampling means to perform samp... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110285539 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING ABNORMALITY IN CELL BALANCING CIRCUIT Provided are an apparatus and a method for diagnosing an abnormality in a cell balancing circuit. The apparatus may include a floating capacitor charged with voltage of a battery cell, a cell balancing circuit for discharging the floating capacitor, a voltage measuring ... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110273184 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED TESTING OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES An improved method of testing and sorting electronic devices uses two or more test stations and two or more sorting stations applied to a single track to improve system throughput. Applying two or more test stations and two or more sorting stations to a single track acc... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110267071 | HYBRID SELF-TEST CIRCUIT STRUCTURE A hybrid self-test circuit structure comprises a plurality of input terminals and a plurality of output terminals for testing a plurality of memory units. The circuit structure comprises a first level functional unit for driving a plurality of first output terminals ele... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110260734 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE TEST APPARATUS A carrier and a frame, movable relative to one another in both an x-y direction and a z direction provide a test bed for MEMS like integrated circuits. The carrier includes receptacles mounted on a test substrate. The frame includes pins projecting from a surface of a p... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110248721 | PARTIAL DISCHARGE MONITORING METHOD AND SYSTEM The invention relates to a method and system of monitoring partial discharges occurring in an electrical system, and to a method of measuring or analyzing partial discharges occurring in an electrical system. The method comprising receiving a signal or impulse, or infor... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110248720 | TESTING SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS A system for testing an integrated circuit including components for receiving clock signals corresponding to different clock domains includes a pin of the integrated circuit to receive a test clock signal for components included in different clock domains, clock gating ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110248722 | Diagnostic Circuit and Method of Testing a Circuit A diagnostic circuit is configured for connecting to a unit under test that has a load and a sinusoidal source. The diagnostic circuit includes a voltage sensing device that has an input for sensing a signal, a first terminal for connecting to the load, a second termina... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110241694 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN ABUSED SENSOR DURING ANALYTE MEASUREMENT A method of measuring an analyte in a biological fluid comprises applying an excitation signal having a DC component and an AC component. The AC and DC responses are measured; a corrected DC response is determined using the AC response; and a concentration of the analyt... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110238337 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, MEASUREMENT METHOD, TEST APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM Provided is a measurement apparatus for measuring an error of a modulation apparatus that outputs an output signal obtained as a sum of a first modulated signal output from a first modulating section and a second modulated signal output from a second modulating section.... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110234236 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR DETECTING AN ELECTRICAL FAILURE AFFECTING AN ELECTRIC CONTROL SYSTEM OF A HYDRAULIC ACTUATOR OF VARIABLE GEOMETRIES OF AN AEROENGINE After the control system has been started, which system has two control paths that are used as alternatives for delivering a control electric current to an electrohydraulic member for transforming said current into hydraulic power that is delivered to the actuator, and ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110221449 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING A SHORT CIRCUIT This invention provides a method and an apparatus for detecting a short-circuit occurring between a signal line and a ground line of a lead wire. The apparatus comprises a circuit and a resistive element. The circuit has an output terminal, an input terminal and ground.... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110215813 | FUEL PROPERTY SENSOR ABNORMALITY DETERMINING DEVICE A plurality of capacitance values at different obtained fuel temperatures are obtained. Ethanol concentrations of fuel to be measured are obtained from these capacitance values after correcting for an amount of change in the capacitance values due to a temperature chara... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110215812 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INSPECTING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT In one embodiment, a method for inspecting an electronic component includes preparing a current detector which is electrically connected to a current detection terminal via a gating device, and electrically connecting the current detection terminal to an interconnect wh... | 09/08/2011 |
