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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110175648 | PHASE-FREQUENCY COMPARATOR AND SERIAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE Disclosed is a phase-frequency comparator stabilizing a loop band width by a simple circuit, there is provided a phase-frequency comparator which is a phase-frequency comparator of inputting a reference clock and a feedback clock and outputting an up signal to a frequen... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110050283 | SYNCHRONOUS PHASE DETECTION CIRCUIT A phase detection circuit arranged as sigma-delta modulator for determining a phase difference between a periodic signal and a reference signal, the periodic signal and the reference signal having a substantially equal frequency, includes: a source input configured to r... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20100182049 | Digital Phase Detection A method of detecting a phase difference between a circuit output signal and a reference signal is useful in all digital phase locked loops. A plurality of feedback signals are generated from the circuit output signal by means of a process that includes phase interpolat... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100176845 | METHOD FOR DETECTING THE LOCKING OF A PHASE-LOCKED LOOP AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE A method is for detecting locking of a phase-locked loop that generates an output signal and includes a phase comparator receiving, as an input, a reference signal and a second signal based upon the output signal. A time window having a duration of at least two periods ... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100171526 | PHASE-DISCRIMINATING DEVICE AND METHOD A high-accuracy and computational efficient phase-discriminating device is provided and includes a phase-discriminating unit. The phase-discriminating unit converts an input and a reference signals into an input and a reference sequences respectively by a one-bit A/D co... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100171527 | PHASE COMPARATOR AND PHASE-LOCKED LOOP A phase comparator is provided that solves the problem that a VCO cannot be controlled with high precision. A frequency divider frequency-divides a VCO signal applied as input to an input terminal (10) in steps, and supplies the VCO signals of each step as output... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100123482 | PHASE DETECTOR CIRCUITRY Phase detector circuitry for a phase-locked loop frequency synthesizer, the phase detector circuitry comprising
| 05/20/2010 |
| 20100061490 | Timing Phase Detection Using a Matched Filter Set Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for phase identification in data processing systems. As one example, a circuit is disclosed that includes a bank of matched filters with two or more matched filters tuned to detect patterns corresp... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100019801 | APPARATUS, TEST APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A CHANGING POINT OF MEASURED SIGNAL Provided is an apparatus comprising a delaying section that generates a plurality of delayed signals by delaying a single first input signal by different delay amounts; a first acquiring section that acquires each of a plurality of input second input signals at a first ... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20090261779 | TRANSMISSION LINE DIRECTIONAL AWARENESS Coupling a charging station to a power line segment that is terminated at a first end by a charging terminal includes: sensing a communication signal propagating on the power line and being coupled from multiple taps connected to the power line segment, and determining ... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090243660 | Mutual charge cancelling sample-reset loop filter for phase locked loops In general, in one aspect, an apparatus includes a phase frequency detector, a charge pump, a voltage controlled oscillator, an integral capacitor to maintain an integral charge and provide an integral voltage, and a mutual-charge canceling sample reset (MCSR) capacitor... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090121746 | FRACTIONAL-N FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZER A circuit, with applications to phase-locked loops and frequency synthesis, where a divider circuit shuffles between dividing the output of a voltage-controlled oscillator by N or N+1, where N is an integer, and where a phase frequency detector provides three logic sign... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090033381 | PHASE LOCKED LOOP, VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR, AND PHASE-FREQUENCY DETECTOR A phase locked loop, voltage controlled oscillator, and phase-frequency detector are provided. The phase locked loop comprises a phase-frequency detector (PFD), a loop filter (LF), a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), and a 3-stage frequency divider. The PFD receives ... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20080207138 | Phase Detector A phase detector includes a plurality of phase detectors located in a phase correction loop, each phase detector configured to receive as input a radio frequency (RF) input signal and an RF reference signal, each of the plurality of phase detectors also configured to pr... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080100386 | PHASE/FREQUENCY DETECTOR, PHASE LOCKED LOOP, METHOD FOR PHASE/FREQUENCY DETECTION AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN OSCILLATOR SIGNAL A phase/frequency detector has a modulo counter for outputting a counter word with a predetermined word length depending on an oscillator signal. In addition, a modulo integrator for outputting an integrator word with the predetermined word length as a function of integ... | 05/01/2008 |
| 20080042690 | DATA RECEIVING APPARATUS USING SEMI-DUAL REFERENCE VOLTAGE A semi-dual reference voltage data receiving apparatus includes a first input buffer, a second input buffer, and a phase detector wherein the first input buffer includes a first input receiving unit, a first sense amplifier, and a first current offset controlling unit. ... | 02/21/2008 |
| 20070279102 | DETECTOR DEVICE The present invention relates to a detector device and, more particularly, to a detector device comprising a self-diagnosis means for monitoring the correct performance or otherwise of the device. During testing, the device, which normally operates using the Doppler shi... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070194811 | Method and arrangement for interference compensation in a voltage-controlled frequency generator The invention, which relates to a method and an arrangement for interference compensation in a phase-locked loop comprising a voltage-controlled frequency generator, wherein the frequency generator is tuned to a nominal frequency by a tuning voltage Vtune and... | 08/23/2007 |
