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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7498872 | Transistor devices configured to operate above a first cutoff frequency Transistor devices are provided configured to operate at frequencies above a typical first cutoff frequency. In one aspect, a method is provided for configuring a transistor device to operate above a first cutoff frequency. The method comprises selecting a desired o... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7408399 | Active driving of normally on, normally off cascoded configuration devices through asymmetrical CMOS Disclosed is a method of controlling a High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) through a cascode circuit, the cascode circuit including first and second switches, a capacitor connected to a source of the first switch, a source of the HEMT being connected to the dra... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7359640 | Optical coupling device and method for bidirectional data communication over a common signal line Optical coupling device operates over a bidirectional data link between at least first and second communicators, each communicating data along a common wire of the data link. The device includes at least first and second optical couplers, each including a photon flu... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7280335 | Protection circuit and method for protecting a switch from a fault A protection circuit for protecting a switch from a fault includes a first sensing circuit and a second sensing circuit. The first sensing circuit senses a low-side load current through a switch that includes a first terminal, a second terminal and a control termina... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7266421 | System for controlling lifting and remote handling units located in a confined enclosure The control system is used to control manipulation equipment (41) and carrying equipment (43) confined in a containment (40) inaccessible to operators and to perform maintenance operations related to electronic circuits for onboard equipment enc... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7255476 | On chip temperature measuring and monitoring circuit and method A device temperature measurement circuit, an integrated circuit (IC) including a device temperature measurement circuit, a method of characterizing device temperature and a method of monitoring temperature. The circuit includes a constant current source and a clampi... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7245189 | High linearity digital variable gain amplifier Variable gain amplifiers offering high frequency response with improved linearity and reduced power dissipation are provided. An amplifier is disclosed that is constructed from a one-stage topology with multiple signal paths and compensation networks for improved li... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7239205 | High frequency amplifier circuit and mobile communication terminal using the same A first FET is inserted in a series position between a signal input terminal and a signal output terminal, while second and third FETs are inserted in a shunt position respectively between the signal input terminal and a ground terminal and between the signal output... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7173474 | Load-generated drive, no quiescent current, techniques and circuits for high speed switching of transistors Techniques and circuits for high speed switching of transistors are provided. These techniques and circuits switch an output device while varying the drive current to the output device in proportion to the output current through the output device. In addition, these... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7119640 | Chua's circuit and it's use in a hyperchaotic circuit The present invention provides an improved Chua's circuit providing current mode operation, access to all state variables, minimum use of grounded passive elements, and freedom from passive component matching comprising a dual output current conveyer based inductor ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7085088 | Method of controlling reader amplifier gain variations of a HDD preamplifier, or the like An amplifier (70) has a differential input stage (84,86). An output transistor (102) is connected to receive a single ended output developed by transistor 86. First (74) and second (76) current sources are connected to estab... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7071784 | High linearity digital variable gain amplifier Variable gain amplifiers offering high frequency response with improved linearity and reduced power dissipation are provided. An amplifier is disclosed that is constructed from a one-stage topology with multiple signal paths and compensation networks for improved li... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6954377 | Non-volatile differential dynamic random access memory In accordance with the present invention, a memory cell includes a pair of non-volatile devices and a pair of DRAM cells each associated with a different one of the non-volatile devices. Each DRAM cell further includes an MOS transistor a capacitor. The DRAM cells a... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6927988 | Method and apparatus for measuring fault diagnostics on insulated gate bipolar transistor converter circuits A method for diagnosing faults using a load. In the method IGBTs are controlled such that certain currents are expected. If the currents are not as expected, a fault may be diagnosed. ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6603347 | Amplifier having controllable input impedance An amplifier circuit includes a circuit input, and a circuit output. An inverter, including first and second MOS transistors is connected between first and second supply voltages, and has an inverter input connected to the circuit input, and an inverter o... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6288660 | BiCMOS circuit for controlling a bipolar current source There is described a BiCMOS switch circuit which allows a low voltage CMOS signal to control a bipolar current source or sink circuit. The circuit includes a current mirror circuit, drawing a constant current through a first bipolar transistor. The collec... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6232822 | Semiconductor device including a bipolar transistor biased to produce a negative base current by the impact ionization mechanism A semiconductor device includes a bipolar transistor whose emitter-collector voltage is set to satisfy a condition IBE | 05/15/2001 |
| 6225851 | Temperature level detection circuit The invention concerns a temperature level detection circuit including means (B1, B2, B3, 11, 12, 21, 31, 32) for generating diode voltages (VBE1 to VBE5) and calculating means including capacitive elements (51, 52, 53) and switching... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6175268 | MOS switch that reduces clock feedthrough in a switched capacitor circuit The accumulation of a small positive charge on the source of a MOS switch which occurs after the switch has been turned off due to the parasitic capacitance that exists between the gate and the source of the transistor, known as clock feedthrough, is redu... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6144252 | High power heterojunction bipolar transistor A plurality of heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs), each including one or more HBT cells, are combined so as to drive all of the cells equally and involves coupling the input drive signal via a pair of microstrip transmission lines to the two farthe... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6100745 | Combination positive temperature coefficient resistor and metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor devices The present invention sets forth a new device comprising a PTC, and a transistor in direct physical contact with the PTC. The PTC has a first surface and a second surface wherein at least one of the surfaces is substantially flat. Preferably, the transist... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5969569 | Process for controlling at least one IGBT type transistor enabling its operation under irradiation This invention relates to a process for controlling at least one IGBT type transistor enabling its operation under irradiation, in which the value of the threshold value Vges of the gate-emitter voltage of a first IGBT transistor (30) under irr... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5736890 | Method and apparatus for controlling transistors as rectifiers A rectifying device comprising of a SRMOS, an inductor, and a control circuit is disclosed. The SRMOS has a gate, a drain, and a source. The gate of the SRMOS is connected to the output of the control circuit. The inductor is connected to the drain of the... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5731999 | Method of controlling clamp induced ringing A method of designing improved CMOS input circuits by understanding and selecting appropriate drive strength for a CMOS output from a previous stage. The method involves modeling the net using HSPICE and including a transit time term to accurately model c... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5671437 | Quantum dot-tunnel device and information processing apparatus and method using same A novel quantum dot-tunnel device having a revolutionarily faster processing speed and higher processing precision than conventional computer computation, which device has an array consisting of a large number of quantum dots which confine electrons three... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5654662 | Inverted BJT current sources/sinks in RF circuits and methods A integrated circuit, high impedance, current source/sink for wireless communications systems comprising one or more inverted bipolar junction transistors, and a method of ensuring high output impedance at RF frequencies. Mixers, differential amplifiers a... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5373201 | Power transistor A power transistor (11) having a control electrode (16), a first electrode (17), a second electrode (181), and a kelvin electrode (19) is provided. The power transistor (11) comprises a plurality of transistors (12-15) coupled in parallel. Each transistor... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5352911 | Dual base HBT This invention discloses a dual base heterojunction bipolar transistor for use in a number of different application. Current is introduced into one of the base contacts such that current is forced through the base region of the transistor to the other bas... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5347210 | Current switch with bipolar switching transistor and ଲ compensating circuit A current switch (30) includes a switching transistor (Q1) having a collector electrode for coupling to a first voltage source (Vcc), an emitter electrode, and a base electrode for receiving a control signal (VIN1). Switching transistor (Q1) is... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5333282 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device with at least one bipolar transistor arranged to provide a direct connection between a plurality of MOSFETs In a semiconductor integrated circuit device having at least two logic blocks each including at least two logic units each having a number of MOS FET's integrated therein, bipolar transistors for driving the MOS FET's are selectively arranged between the ... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5317208 | Integrated circuit employing inverse transistors Relatively constant current sources and current mirrors are formed with vertical bipolar transistors operated in the inverse mode. In one embodiment of the invention, an integrated circuit current mirror includes a dual collector vertical NPN bipolar tran... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5278461 | Integrated transistor circuit The invention relates to an integrated transistor circuit comprising a transistor (Q1) of which the collector is connected to an input of a circuit (S) and between the base and collector of which an antisaturation diode (D1) is connected. According to the... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5256991 | Broadband microwave active inductor circuit A broadband microwave active inductor circuit for producing a flat inductive response versus frequency comprises a pair of bipolar transistors arranged in a gyrator configuration for producing an active inductance. Because the transistors exhibit intrinsi... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5124596 | Single-temperature-trimmable FET input circuit having active channel segments of different areas In an FET differential input, preferably using a quad set of devices according to the teaching of U.S. Pat. No. 3,729,660, the channel of each transistor is formed in a piecewise manner, of multiple segments. Each channel segment is associated with a corr... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5124586 | Impedance multiplier A circuit for presenting a multiplied impedance at in input node includes a resistor having a value desired to be multiplied at the input node connected at one end to a reference potential. A first transistor has a current path in series between the input... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5107134 | Matrix circuit of FM stereo multiplex demodulation circuit A matrix circuit includes a first resistor having one end connected to receive a current signal and another end connected to a first output node, a second resistor having one end connected to the one end of said first resistor, a first bipolar transistor ... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5097142 | Balancing network for parallel connected transistors In conjunction with parallel connected transistors, a balancing network including a load-current sensing resistance in the emitter/collector path of each transistor and a shunt resistance connected between the sensing resistor and the base to control base... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5091664 | Insulated gate bipolar transistor circuit with overcurrent protection A semiconductive device integrated on a single chip and adapted for self-protecting use in control applications, including an insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) useful as a series controller for a load. In the event of a load failure (short), the up... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5087831 | Voltage as a function of temperature stabilization circuit and method of operation There is disclosed a circuit and method for providing bias voltage levels which are precisely controlled as a function of temperature. The circuit is arranged to mix a precise bandgap regulated voltage with a temperature compensated circuit to provide the... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5086241 | Costas loop carrier wave reproducing circuit A Costas loop carrier wave reproducing circuit includes a first differential amplifier circuit, a second differential amplifier circuit, a multiplying circuit, a first square circuit, a second circuit, and a double-balanced differential amplifier circuit.... | 02/04/1992 |
