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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8081036 | Electronic device used for measuring and detecting the variations of at least one input signal The device has a component providing an outlet signal whose oscillation frequency depends on a physical unit to be measured, and a reference oscillator. A phase comparison component compares the component and the oscillator for control on the component or for mutual... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8072273 | System employing synchronized crystal oscillator-based clock, to be used in either discrete or integrated applications A synchronized clock system, for use with an electronic system having several system nodes requiring a synchronized clock signal. The clock system may be formed in either discrete form or in integrated form, or in any combination, and includes a first synch bus and ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8058935 | Scalable millimeter wave power source An apparatus comprises a structure, an array of oscillator units, a plurality of waveguides in the structure, and a synchronizing cavity located within the structure. The array of oscillator units has a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns associated with th... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7952439 | System and method for phase locking multiple oscillators Multiple microwave oscillators can be phase locked such that the power output of multiple oscillators can be coherently combined to achieve a single output which has the total sum power of the multiple oscillators. Multiple oscillators assembled in a power combining... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7902931 | Wideband non-linear circuits for implementation in frequency channel separation A device includes a plurality of channel-capture circuits. Each circuit may include an array of N non-linear oscillators, wherein N≧3, circularly connected to each other in series such that unidirectional signal flow occurs between the oscillators. Each circuit ma... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7880551 | Systems and methods for distributing a clock signal Systems and methods for distributing a clock signal are disclosed. In some embodiments, systems for distributing a clock signal include a plurality of resonant oscillators, each comprising an inductor; and a differential clock grid that distributes the clock signal.... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7741921 | Trigger-mode distributed wave oscillator system A Trigger-Mode Distributed Wave Oscillator that provides accurate multiple phases of an oscillation and a method of use of the same. An auxiliary oscillator triggers an oscillation on independent conductor loops or rings forming a differential transmission medium fo... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7554414 | Fast starting circuit for crystal oscillators A method for assisting the oscillating starting process of an electromechanical oscillator (10) has the following steps: detection of oscillator oscillations (1b, 1c) which occur in the output signal (1a) from the ele... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7504895 | Multi-phase interleaved oscillator An oscillator for synchronizing and controlling a multi-phase, interleaved power supply system that has a plurality of power sources. The oscillator includes a first oscillator, having a pulse generator and a timing capacitor, and a second oscillator, having a pulse... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7446617 | Low power consumption frequency divider circuit The present invention discloses a low power consumption frequency divider circuit. It mainly comprises a signal source; a signal injection circuit; and an oscillator circuit. The low-power consumption frequency divider circuit according to the present invention main... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7427901 | Oscillator array, and synchronization method of the same Signals outputted from oscillators (1-1, 1-2, . . . 1-n) are in phase with signals as reflected by band elimination filters (3-1, 3-2, . . . 3-n) at elimination frequencies of the band elimination filters (3... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7414482 | Resonance mode selection using a resonator-synchronized second-order oscillator A resonator-synchronized oscillator for resonance mode selection is disclosed. In one embodiment, the resonator-synchronized oscillator comprises an oscillation loop, at least one capacitor switching circuit coupled to the oscillation loop, and a multi-mode resonato... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7342462 | Quadrature LC voltage controlled oscillator with opposed bias and coupling control stages A voltage controlled oscillator unit is provided with cross coupled voltage controlled oscillators to generate quadrature phases. One control stage adjusts coupling between the oscillators. Another control stage adjusts the tail current that applies operating bias t... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7317362 | Oscillator circuit and oscillation control method An oscillator circuit is disclosed that includes a first oscillation part configured to output a first oscillation output by charging and discharging a first capacitor, and a second oscillation part configured to output a second oscillation output by charging and di... | 01/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7295076 | Synchronously coupled oscillator A phase synchronous multiple LC tank oscillator is described. A plurality of oscillator stages are configured to oscillate synchronously. The phase of each of the plurality of oscillator stages is substantially the same and the plurality of oscillators are inductive... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292106 | Phase-locked loop with conditioned charge pump output A phase-locked loop system configured to cause an output signal to tend toward a desired output frequency. The phase-locked loop system includes a charge pump system configured to produce a charge pump output based on differences detected between the output signal a... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7277357 | Method and apparatus for reducing oscillation in synchronous circuits Control signal oscillation filtering circuits, delay-locked loops, clock synchronization methods and devices and system incorporating control signal oscillation filtering circuits is described. An oscillation filtering circuit includes a first oscillation filter con... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7236059 | Apparatus, system, and method for oscillator network with multiple parallel oscillator circuits A system, apparatus, and method to connect an oscillator network to multiple parallel oscillator circuits. The apparatus may include multiple modules located within a platform, where each of the multiple modules includes an internal oscillator circuit and the platfo... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236060 | Electronic pulse generator and oscillator Distributed traveling wave oscillator circuitry is disclosed. The oscillator circuitry includes a signal path, a plurality of active switching means, and a direction promoting means. The signal path is formed from a pair of adjacent conductors and exhibits endless e... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7230986 | Multistandard video decoder and decompression system for processing encoded bit streams including a video formatter and methods relating thereto A pipeline video decoder and decompression system handles a plurality of separately encoded bit streams arranged as a single serial bit stream of digital bits and having separately encoded pairs of control codes and corresponding data carried in the serial bit strea... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7218180 | Low noise oscillator A low noise oscillator constructed using a rotary traveling wave oscillator. The conductors of the rotary traveling wave oscillator provide at any tap position a pair of oppositely phased oscillations and these oscillations have slightly different phases at position... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7209065 | Rotary flash ADC A system and method for converting an analog signal to a digital signal is disclosed. The system includes a multiphase oscillator preferable a rotary oscillator, a sample and hold circuit, an integrator and a time-to-digital converter. The multiphase oscillator has ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7161438 | Electronic circuitry Electronic circuitry for generating and distributing standing wave clock signals. The electronic circuitry includes one or more two-conductor transmission line segments that are interconnected with an odd number of voltage-reversing connections to form a closed loop... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7149811 | Multistandard video decoder and decompression system for processing encoded bit streams including a reconfigurable processing stage and methods relating thereto A pipeline video decoder and decompression system handles a plurality of separately encoded bit streams arranged as a single serial bit stream of digital bits and having separately encoded pairs of control codes and corresponding data carried in the serial bit strea... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7138937 | Radar system having low-profile circulator A circulator comprises first and second couplers. The first and second couplers are coupled by first and second transmission lines. First and second magnetic fields are provided crossing the first and second transmission lines, respectively. In an exemplary embodime... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7095783 | Multistandard video decoder and decompression system for processing encoded bit streams including start codes and methods relating thereto A pipeline video decoder and decompression system handles a plurality of separately encoded bit streams arranged as a single serial bit stream of digital bits and having separately encoded pairs of control codes and corresponding data carried in the serial bit strea... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7046095 | Reference vibration generator, its mutual synchronizing system, and its mutual synchronizing method A reference vibration generator 1 receives transmission waves from all reference vibration generators including itself as transmission/reception waves kk0ΣPi (Σ is the sum of i=1 to N), amplifies them by an amplifier 3, superimp... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043655 | Redundant clock synthesizer A clock architecture employing redundant clock synthesizers is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer system includes first and second clock boards. The first clock board may act as a master, generating a system clock signal, while the second clock board acts as a... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7009458 | Method and system for fast wake-up of oscillators A method and system for fast wakeup of a high-Q oscillator (300) that includes a resonating element (304), preferably a crystal resonator (304), and an amplifier (310). The method comprises connecting the resonating element (304) t... | 03/07/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6950930 | Multistandard video decoder and decompression system for processing encoded bit streams including pipeline processing and methods relating thereto A pipeline video decoder and decompression system handles a plurality of separately encoded bit streams arranged as a single serial bit stream of digital bits and having separately encoded pairs of control codes and corresponding data carried in the serial bit strea... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6946921 | Method and apparatus for producing high-frequency oscillations A method and apparatus for producing high-frequency oscillations is disclosed. A new resonator architecture minimizes via losses and supports a compact layout of active circuitry. The resonator architecture incorporates dual resonant transmission lines to reduce res... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6943680 | Identification system interrogator An improved interrogator for an inductively coupled identification system is disclosed. The interrogator provides a multidimensional electromagnetic field through a plurality of coils aligned relative to each other. The coils provide a rotating magnetic field having... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6910125 | Multistandard video decoder and decompression system for processing encoded bit streams including a decoder with token generator and methods relating thereto A pipeline video decoder and decompression system handles a plurality of separately encoded bit streams arranged as a single serial bit stream of digital bits and having separately encoded pairs of control codes and corresponding data carried in the serial bit strea... | 06/21/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6850122 | Quadrature oscillator and methods thereof A quadrature oscillator includes a master tuned oscillator and two injection-locked slave tuned oscillators. ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6816020 | Electronic circuitry Timing signal generation and distribution are combined in operation of a signal path exhibiting endless electromagnetic continuity affording signal phase inversion and having associated regenerative active means. Two-or more-phases of substantially square-wave bipol... | 11/09/2004 |
