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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7994870 | Tunable filter with gain control circuit An apparatus includes a filter and a gain control circuit. The filter receives and filters an input signal and provides an output signal in a first mode and operates as part of an oscillator in a second mode. The gain control circuit varies the amplitude of an oscil... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7786816 | Phase controlled oscillator circuit with input signal coupler An oscillating signal in an oscillator is caused to phase shift toward the phase of an input signal coupled to the oscillating signal. The resonant frequency of the oscillator is about equal to an integer multiple of the frequency of the input signal. The input sign... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7522008 | Injection locker frequency divider An injection locked frequency divider includes a ring oscillator, a first injection unit and a second injection unit. The ring oscillator includes a first delay cell and a second delay cell each including differential input terminals and differential output terminal... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7522007 | Injection locked frequency divider An injection locked frequency divider includes a signal injection unit, a Hartley voltage controlled oscillator and a biasing unit. The signal injection unit and the biasing unit output an injection signal to the Hartley voltage controlled oscillator to bias the Har... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7440568 | Bipolar pulse forming line A bipolar pulse forming transmission line module for linear induction accelerators having first, second, third, fourth, and fifth planar conductors which form an interleaved stack with dielectric layers between the conductors. Each conductor has a first end, and a s... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7414489 | Phase controlled oscillator circuit with input signal coupler An oscillating signal in an oscillator is caused to phase shift toward the phase of an input signal coupled to the oscillating signal. The resonant frequency of the oscillator is about equal to an integer multiple of the frequency of the input signal. The input sign... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7394328 | Oscillator circuit and test apparatus An oscillator circuit that generates an oscillation signal is provided. The oscillator circuit includes an oscillator that generates the oscillation signal based on positive feedback of a signal, a synchronization signal generating section that generates a compulsor... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7365615 | Method and apparatus for digital synthesis of microwaves Conductor segments are positioned within a two conductor transmission line in order to generate microwave pulses. The conductor segments are switchably coupled to one or the other of the transmission lines in parallel. Microwave pulses may be induced in the transmis... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7332950 | DLL measure initialization circuit for high frequency operation A memory device, delay lock loop circuit (DLL) and DLL reset circuitry are described. The DLL includes a shift register and a measured delay for pre-loading the shift register. The reset circuitry selectively filters a clock signal propagation through the measured d... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7307481 | Minimum synchronization frequency discriminator A minimum frequency synchronization discriminator for use in providing a clock signal for a switch mode power supply automatically detects when the frequency of a sync signal is above a minimum frequency and causes the sync signal to serve as the clock signal for th... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7268641 | Method and apparatus for digital synthesis of microwaves Conductor segments are positioned within a two conductor transmission line in order to generate microwave pulses. The conductor segments are switchably coupled to one or the other of the transmission lines in parallel. Microwave pulses may be induced in the transmis... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7180254 | Method and apparatus for controlling an oscillating electric motor of a small electric appliance A method of controlling an oscillating electric motor of a small electric appliance, the method including supplying an electric current to a coil to produce a magnetic field emanating from a first motor component and setting a second motor component in an oscillator... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7120216 | Data/clock recovery circuit for recovering data and clock signal with high accuracy A data/clock recovery circuit can recover high-rate data using the data as a clock signal. It includes an edge detector, a clock selection signal generating circuit, a clock selection circuit and a synchronizing circuit. The edge detector generates edge position inf... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7095815 | Receiver and method for initial synchronization of a receiver with the carrier frequency of a desired channel The invention relates to a receiver and a method for initial synchronization of a receiver with the carrier frequency of a desired channel. It can happen during synchronization that the locally generated frequency van indeed be generated correctly although a divider... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7088565 | Load drive control apparatus with performances of power-consumption reduction and overheat protection A load drive control apparatus comprises a drive control circuit and a mode switchover circuit. The drive control circuit, which operates under a driving power, for driving/controlling a load on a control signal. The drive/control of the load includes an overheat pr... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7078979 | Phase controlled oscillator circuit with input signal coupler An oscillating signal in an oscillator is caused to phase shift toward the phase of an input signal coupled to the oscillating signal. The resonant frequency of the oscillator is about equal to an integer multiple of the frequency of the input signal. The input sign... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7061335 | Processing of signals with regenerative opto-electronic circuits Opto-electronic regenerative circuits and devices for processing RF or microwave signals based on opto-electronic oscillator designs. ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7005935 | Switched reactance modulated E-class oscillator A modulated Class E oscillator. In one embodiment, the modulated Class E oscillator may achieve high coil currents (about 1A) and voltages (about 500V) with low power components. Current may be injected when the oscillating current in the inductor passes through zer... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6977557 | Injection mode steering oscillator A means is provided to establish oscillations on a particular mode or resonance of a quartz crystal in a crystal oscillator and to discriminate against other modes. This is done by injecting a signal close in frequency to the desired mode until oscillation have been... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6970048 | Inductive-capacitive (LC) based quadrature voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) with deterministic quadrature signal phase relationship A circuit and method for generating quadrature signals with a deterministic phase relationship. Between two inductive-capacitive (LC) based quadrature voltage controlled oscillators (VCO), phase shift circuitry is interposed such that the individual LC VCO circuits ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6963249 | Injection locking using direct digital tuning The invention relates to the field of electronics and more particularly to the tuning and injection locking of voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs). An improved injection locking circuit is provided which allows the VCO to injection lock with a smaller reference si... | 11/08/2005 |
| RE38862 | Oscillator with two outputs in quadrature An oscillator includes four identical cells each producing a phase shift of 90 degrees. The output signal from one cell is applied to the input of the next cell, and with the cells looping back to themselves. Each cell includes a current amplifier and a parallel ind... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6911873 | Detection circuit and method for an oscillator A method and circuit are disclosed for detecting the performance of an oscillator circuit. In particular, the circuit may detect a signal, such as the output of the oscillator circuit, failing to oscillate as desired. The second circuit may be capable of detecting w... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6867656 | Self-dividing oscillators A system for generating in-phase and quadrature phase signals is provided. The system includes a first and a second differential output, such as from a sinusoidal oscillator. A first injection-locked frequency divider, such as one that uses an LC oscillator in conju... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6864756 | Automatic gain control circuit for controlling start-up time of oscillator and method thereof An automatic gain control circuit for controlling a start-up time of an oscillator and a method thereof are provided. An oscillation detection unit is used to detect the start-up time of the oscillator. In addition, a control unit is used to move the start-up time o... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6861916 | Phase controlled oscillator circuit with input signal coupler An oscillating signal in an oscillator is caused to phase shift toward the phase of an input signal coupled to the oscillating signal. The resonant frequency of the oscillator is about equal to an integer multiple of the frequency of the input signal. The input sign... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6856208 | Multi-phase oscillator and multi-phase oscillation signal generation method The invention provides a multi-phase oscillator includes a delay loop buffer and plurality of oscillators. The delay loop buffer has N delay units. The oscillator can be a single phase oscillator, a 180° phase difference oscillator or a multiple phase difference os... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6771139 | Microwave pulse generator The microwave pulse generator of the invention for generating microwave pulses with a pulse duration in the nanosecond range has a pulse generator that generates pulses of constant width, and a microwave resonant circuit for generating microwave oscillations. Additi... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6717481 | Injection-locked high-frequency oscillator An injection-locked high-frequency oscillator has an annular transmission line, and m (m>1) units of oscillating amplifiers, and is provided with an oscillation closed loop formed with the transmission line and the oscillating amplifiers, the oscillating frequency t... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6703904 | High frequency oscillator A high frequency oscillator for combining outputs of two oscillator to generate an oscillation output. The oscillators has a substrate, a slot line formed on a first main plane of the substrate and having both longitudinal ends, the both longitudinal ends... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6677826 | Controlling equipment and radio equipment The invention relates to a controlling equipment for properly maintaining a length of a period where an oscillator is to operate and also relates to a radio equipment incorporating such a controlling equipment. The oscillator is to supply a predetermined ... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6633203 | Method and apparatus for a gated oscillator in digital circuits A gated oscillator is provided for digital circuits. The gated oscillator is achieved by the unconventional use of controlling the operating point of a Van der Pol oscillator. Oscillations are achieved by Van der Pol self-oscillation behavior. The result ... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6617936 | Phase controlled oscillator An oscillating signal in an oscillator is caused to phase shift toward the phase of an input signal coupled to the oscillating signal. The resonant frequency of the oscillator is about equal to an integer multiple of the frequency of the input signal. The... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6593820 | High frequency voltage controlled oscillator A voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) and method for generating voltage controlled oscillating signals utilizes a plurality of timing blocks that form a circular signal path to provide delays to control the frequencies of the signals. The VCO is suitable ... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6564160 | Random sampling with phase measurement Repetitive sampling of a data signal is performed. A clock reference is generated. The clock reference has a known period relationship with the data signal. The clock reference and the data signal are simultaneously sampled. The sampled information from t... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6496078 | Activating on-chip oscillator using ring oscillator In one embodiment of the present invention, an oscillator activator includes a trigger circuit, a controller, and a stability generator. The trigger circuit generates a trigger signal based on a reset signal. The controller controls generation of an oscil... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6369647 | Demodulator circuit and method of tuning A demodulator circuit (10) includes an oscillator (12) and an injection circuit (14). An Automatic Frequency Control (AFC) signal adjusts the tail current of a current source (28) provided in the oscillator (12) and the tail current of a current source (4... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6317008 | Clock recovery using an injection tuned resonant circuit A tuning signal is injected into an LC tank circuit oscillator, e.g., through an impedance (either reactive, inductive, capacitive and/or resistive) to tune the phase and/or frequency of the LC tank circuit oscillator. A negative resistance is included in... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6310522 | Multiple-push oscillator The present invention proposes a multiple-push oscillator for providing a high-frequency signal. The multiple-push oscillator combines N (at least 3) fundamental oscillators. Through the design of circuit connection, the N fundamental oscillators will ope... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6275539 | System and method for modulating a frequency signal A radio frequency transmitter circuit including a user input switch for producing an input signal, an oscillator for producing a frequency signal having a first frequency, an antenna connected to the oscillator for broadcasting the frequency signal, a cou... | 08/14/2001 |
