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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8149066 | Integrated circuit distributed oscillator An integrated circuit distributed radio frequency oscillator comprises a semiconductor chip which includes a differential input transmission line, a differential output transmission line and, coupled in parallel between these transmission lines at spaced apart porti... | 04/03/2012 |
| 7365612 | Low noise, hybrid tuned wideband voltage controlled oscillator An oscillator comprising an active device having first, second and third terminals, a plurality of micro-stripline resonators coupled together to form a coupled-resonator network, the coupled-resonator network being coupled to the second terminal of the active devic... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7353011 | Method and apparatus for operating a PLL for synthesizing high-frequency signals for wireless communications A method and apparatus for synthesizing high-frequency signals, such as wireless communication signals, includes a phase-locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizer with a variable capacitance voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) that has a discretely variable capacitanc... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352264 | Electronically tunable dielectric resonator circuits In order to permit electronic tuning of the frequency of a circuit including dielectric resonators, such as a dielectric resonator filter, tuning plates are employed adjacent the individual dielectric resonators. The tuning plates comprises two separate conductive p... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7274262 | Methods and apparatus based on coplanar striplines A standing wave oscillator to generate at least one voltage standing wave, comprising a closed-loop coplanar stripline including two conductors, and at least one amplifier disposed between the two conductors at a first location. The two conductors are connected toge... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7262670 | Low thermal drift, tunable frequency voltage controlled oscillator An oscillator comprising a cascode configured device having first, second and third terminals, a plurality of resonators and first circuitry coupled between the plurality of resonators and the second terminal of the cascode configured device. The first circuitry is ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7248129 | Microstrip directional coupler A microwave directional coupler includes a microstrip conductor formed on a dielectric substrate and forming a main transmission line having in and out ports that receive signals to be coupled. A substantially U-shaped microstrip conductor is formed over the dielect... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7239220 | Adjustable delay transmission line A transmission line includes a signal conductor and at least one varactor diode capacitively coupled to the signal conductor. The transmission line's signal path delay is a function of its shunt capacitance, and the varactor's capacitance forms a part of the transmi... | 07/03/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7227434 | Tuning screw assembly The present invention relates to a tuning screw assembly comprising a sleeve (100) with internal threads for engaging a tuning screw (200) having external threads. The sleeve comprises a first threaded portion (32) which is axially displaced in ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7199633 | Electric pulse generator and method for generating short electric pulses A method for generating short electric pulses, comprising the steps of generating a control pulse, feeding the control pulse to a bipolar transistor, which subsequently emits an output signal with a steep switch-off side by exploiting the charge storage effect of th... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7183876 | Variable coupling factor directional coupler A variable coupling factor directional coupler having a variable aperture positioned between a transmission line section and a coupling conductor connected at either end to a center conductor of a pair of connectors. The coupling factor of an RF signal in the transm... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7176769 | Harmonic termination circuit for medium bandwidth microwave power amplifiers A compact amplifier output bias circuit is used as a broadband harmonic termination. The bias circuit is adapted as a harmonic termination circuit to produce an effective low impedance at the signal harmonic frequencies while having the capability of supplying DC po... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177591 | Frequency converter and radio communications system employing the same In a frequency converter, a phase-locked loop generates a local-oscillation signal having a low frequency, of a plurality of local-oscillation signals having different frequencies, based on an intermediate frequency beacon signal that results from mixing a predeterm... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7170354 | Oscillator circuit with laser-trimmable load impedance An oscillator circuit for generating signals with a predetermined oscillator frequency is provided. The oscillator circuit has at least one resonator and at least one load impedance connected to the resonator. The oscillator circuit may be fully automatically trimme... | 01/30/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7145410 | Wireless communication terminal and voltage controlled oscillator therefor A wireless communication unit (100) comprises a voltage controlled oscillator (123) having an active device (450) operably coupled to a first variable capacitance (425) to provide a variable capacitance value based on an applied steering ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7116956 | Power oscillator for control of waveshape and amplitude An RF power oscillator for contactless card antennas shapes a carrier signal at the operating frequency utilizing a delay circuit having a number of taps for delaying the carrier signal by different lengths of time. The delayed signals are input into a buffer and ou... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7109589 | Integrated circuit with substantially perpendicular wire bonds An integrated circuit comprises an integrated circuit package and a plurality of circuit elements disposed within the integrated circuit package. A plurality of wire bonds provide connections for at least one of the circuit elements. At least one wire bond in a firs... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7102466 | Method of reducing switching noise in a power distribution system by external coupled resistive terminators Voltage fluctuations, especially due to a resonant effect of a power distribution system, result in serious timing skews in a high-speed digital system. Adding extra resistive loadings for coupling out the noise into external terminations will reduce a quality facto... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7095366 | High-frequency oscillation apparatus, radio apparatus, and radar A high-frequency oscillation apparatus wherein an oscillation signal output from a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) is transferred through a transfer line to a resonator and the resonator is excited. The resonator is coupled with a second transfer line and an RF ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092675 | Apparatus and methods for generating radio frequencies in communication circuitry using multiple control signals A radio-frequency (RF) apparatus capable of transmitting RF signals includes transmitter path circuitry. The transmitter path circuitry includes a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) that generates an output signal. The frequency of the output signal of the VCO circ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7091802 | Methods and apparatus based on coplanar striplines Methods and apparatus for implementing standing wave oscillators (SWOS) using coplanar striplines (CPS). One example is given by a quarter-wavelength (λ/4) coplanar stripline standing wave oscillator (SWO), while another implementation utilizes a closed-loop coplan... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088194 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device In an oscillator, a FET, an output matching circuit having a diode, an LC series resonant circuit having a capacitor and an inductor, a transmission line, and a source inductor are arranged on one surface of a substrate consisting of a semiconductor material. The so... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7075378 | High spectral purity microwave oscillator using air-dielectric cavity A high spectral purity microwave oscillator is provided. The Oscillator uses an air-dielectric cavity and employs the known carrier-suppression technique. In one embodiment, the oscillator employs a high-Q cavity to self-sustain an oscillating signal formed by feedi... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7068127 | Tunable triple-mode mono-block filter assembly The present invention incorporates triple-mode, mono-block resonators that are tunable. Four novel and unobvious methods of tuning are disclosed. The first tuning method is to mechanically grind areas on three orthogonal faces of the mono-block in order to change th... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068115 | Monolithic microwave integrated circuit voltage controlled coupled feedback oscillator A feedback oscillator device formed with an integrated circuit having a semiconductor material substrate on a ground plane. The circuit has an amplifier having an input and an output is provided at least in part on said semiconductor material substrate. A directiona... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7061336 | High frequency oscillator A high frequency oscillator which obtains an oscillation output by combining the outputs of two oscillators has a substrate, first and second amplifiers for oscillation so disposed that their output ends be opposite each other, first and second signal lines each con... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062247 | Active double-balanced mixer The present invention describes active double-balanced mixers. The mixers use an isolation and matching section that provides RF section input matching and superior isolation between the LO and RF port. The mixers can be implemented using an inexpensive semiconducto... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057474 | Adjustable delay transmission lines A transmission line includes a signal conductor and at least one varactor diode capacitively coupled to the signal conductor. The transmission line's signal path delay is a function of its shunt capacitance, and the varactor's capacitance forms a part of the transmi... | 06/06/2006 |
| 6993307 | Method and apparatus for operating a PLL with a phase detector/sample hold circuit for synthesizing high-frequency signals for wireless communications A method and apparatus for synthesizing high-frequency signals, such as wireless communication signals, includes a phase-locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizer with a variable capacitance voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) that has a discretely variable capacitanc... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6967538 | PLL having VCO for dividing frequency A PLL comprising a phase detector, a loop filter and a VCO is disclosed. The phase detector periodically compares an externally inputted clock signal with a frequency of an internal clock signal, and outputs an output signal resulting from phase difference of the tw... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6967540 | Synthesizers incorporating parascan TM varactors A synthesizer incorporating voltage tunable capacitors, comprising at least one resonator coupled into a base circuit of a bipolar transistor, the at least one resonator including at least one voltage tunable capacitor; the bipolar transistor including a collector w... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965761 | Controlled oscillator circuitry for synthesizing high-frequency signals and associated method A method and apparatus for synthesizing high-frequency signals, such as wireless communication signals, includes a phase-locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizer with a variable capacitance voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) that has a discretely variable capacitanc... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6952190 | Low profile slot antenna using backside fed frequency selective surface A low profile, wide band gap antenna having a high impedance surface, the high impedance surface including a conductive plane and an array of conductive elements spaced from the conductive plane by a distance which is no greater than 10% of a wavelength of an operat... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6949887 | High frequency inductive lamp and power oscillator An oscillator includes an amplifier having an input and an output, a feedback network connected between the input of the amplifier and the output of the amplifier, the feedback network being configured to provide suitable positive feedback from the output of the amp... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6949982 | Voltage controlled oscillators incorporating parascan R varactors A voltage controlled oscillator incorporating voltage tunable capactiors, comprising at least one resonator coupled into a base circuit of a bipolar transistor, said at least one resonator including at least one voltage tunable capacitor. The bipolar transistor incl... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6950478 | Transmitter and method having a low sampling frequency for digital to analog conversion An apparatus and a method having a low sampling clock frequency for converting a digital signal having IF frequency channels to an analog IF signal. A DAC uses the sampling signal for converting the digital signal to the analog IF signal. A high-low RFLO signal gene... | 09/27/2005 |
