| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| D590811 |
Loudspeaker |
April 21, 2009 |
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| D584287 |
Loudspeaker |
January 6, 2009 |
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| D582392 |
Loudspeaker |
December 9, 2008 |
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| D578104 |
Loudspeaker |
October 7, 2008 |
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| 7620866 |
Test access architecture and method of testing a module in an electronic circuit |
November 17, 2009 |
| According to an example embodiment of the present invention, there is a test access architecture for testing modules in an electronic circuit. The test access architecture includes a test access mechanism (TAM) having a plurality of modules connected in series thereto; the test acces |
| 7620728 |
Method of monitoring the communication in a network |
November 17, 2009 |
| Described is a method of monitoring the communication in a group of data processing units, wherein a data processing unit transmits data signals to other data processing units for carrying out certain operations. The remarkable thing about the invention is that, upon reception of a data |
| 7620135 |
Data processing apparatus that identifies a communication clock frequency |
November 17, 2009 |
| A data processing apparatus receives a message containing a sync break interval with a unique bit pattern and a sync field interval identified by the sync break interval. A timing property of the sync field interval specifies the length of bit periods of the message. A clock source c |
| 7619560 |
GPS processing arrangement |
November 17, 2009 |
| A software GPS processing arrangement comprising a FIFO buffer for receiving a stream of the GPS signal samples, a memory, a DMA controller for transferring the GPS signal samples from the FIFO buffer to the memory, a CPU running GPS signal processing software configured to retrieve |
| 7619431 |
High sensitivity magnetic built-in current sensor |
November 17, 2009 |
| A sensor for contactlessly detecting currents, has a sensor element having a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ), and detection circuitry, the sensor element having a resistance which varies with the magnetic field, and the detection circuitry is arranged to detect a tunnel current flowing |
| 7618858 |
Method of fabricating a heterojunction bipolar transistor |
November 17, 2009 |
| The invention provides a method for fabricating a heterojunction bipolar transistor with a base connecting region (23), which is formed self-aligned to a base region (7) without applying photolithographic techniques. Further, a collector connecting region (31) and an emitter region ( |
| 7616619 |
TDMA communication system |
November 10, 2009 |
| The invention relates to a communication system with at least two communication nodes for the transmission of information via a common transmission medium in a time division multiplex process.During the system start, at least one node is provided for monitoring whether a first signal |
| 7616051 |
Integrated circuit, electronic device and integrated circuit control method |
November 10, 2009 |
| An integrated circuit (10) comprises a plurality of functional blocks (101, 102, 103), each of the functional blocks (101, 102, 103) being coupled between a first power supply line (110) and a second power supply line (120). A first functional block (101) is coupled to the first power |
| 7615994 |
Magnetoresistive speed sensor |
November 10, 2009 |
| Consistent with an example embodiment, there is a magnetoresistive speed sensor with a permanent magnet and a sensor for a magnetic field for detecting the speed of an object rotating about an x-axis. The magnetoresistive speed sensor is equipped with a measuring direction, in which |
| 7615430 |
Field effect transistor and method of manufacturing a field effect transistor |
November 10, 2009 |
| The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a field effect transistor, in which a semiconductor body of silicon is provided at a surface thereof with a source region and a drain region of a first conductivity type, which regions are both provided with extensions, and with a ga |
| 7615390 |
Method and apparatus for forming expitaxial layers |
November 10, 2009 |
| The present invention provides a method of depositing epitaxial layers based on Group IV elements on a silicon substrate by Chemical Vapor Deposition, wherein nitrogen or one of the noble gases is used as a carrier gas, and the invention further provides a Chemical Vapor Deposition a |
| 7609127 |
Electronically controllable RF switch |
October 27, 2009 |
| An RF switch circuit (10) and a tuner (12) comprising an RF switch circuit are described. The switch circuit comprises at least two input terminals and one output terminal. The input terminals are connected to different RF signal sources, e. g. a terrestrial TV antenna (16) and a TV cabl |
| 7609045 |
Reference voltage generator providing a temperature-compensated output voltage |
October 27, 2009 |
| The present invention concerns a reference voltage generator (40) that provides a reference voltage (Vref new). The voltage generator (30) is operated at a supply voltage (Vdd) being lower than the Silicon bandgap voltage. It comprises a MOSFET transistor (MN; MN3; MP4; MP7) serving as |
| 7606983 |
Sequential ordering of transactions in digital systems with multiple requestors |
October 20, 2009 |
| A digital system with an improved transaction ordering policy is disclosed. Individual occurrences of requests for access to common system resources specify whether or not the request is ordered. In some embodiments, the invention includes a memory that holds data, a controller, and |
| 7606956 |
12C slave device with programmable write-transaction cycles |
October 20, 2009 |
| Consistent with one example embodiment, communications systems, using a serial data transfer bus having a serial data line and a clock line used to implement a communications protocol, incorporate programmable updating of slave device output banks sequentially or simultaneously. The |
| 7606343 |
Phase-locked-loop with reduced clock jitter |
October 20, 2009 |
| The present invention relates to a phase-locked-loop (PLL) circuit and a method for controlling such a PLL circuit, wherein the frequency of an input reference signal and the frequency of a feedback signal derived from an output oscillation signal are divided by a predetermined rate to |
| 7606163 |
Selective delivery of data |
October 20, 2009 |
| The delivery of data broadcast over a unidirectional communication data link is targeted at receivers having an environment exhibiting a specific characteristic by labelling the data prior to transmission with a status indicator that defines the characteristic that the local environment |
| 7605740 |
Flash analog-to-digital converter |
October 20, 2009 |
| A flash analog-to-digital converter comprises a resistive string powered by a reference voltage source for providing a set of equidistant reference voltages and a set of comparators for comparing the analog input signal with the reference voltages. A set of switches are arranged and |
| 7605733 |
Radio frequency .SIGMA..DELTA.-modulator |
October 20, 2009 |
| A radio-frequency .SIGMA..DELTA.-modulator comprises a first mixer in the forward path for down-converting the signals in this forward path with a local oscillator frequency and a second mixer in the feedback path for up-converting the feedback signal with the same local oscillator f |
| 7605731 |
Signal processor with a signal strength detection circuit that is coupled to a loop of an analog |
October 20, 2009 |
| A signal processing circuit has an analog to digital converter (31) for providing a digital signal to a processor (15) from an analog input signal that is susceptible to variations in signal power, e.g. from a radio front end (12). The device has a variable gain amplifier (13) contro |
| 7605728 |
Method for calibrating a multi-bit digital-to-analog converter, multi-bit digital-to-analog conv |
October 20, 2009 |
| In a method for calibrating a multi-bit DAC intended, particularly, for application in high-speed and high-resolution ADCs, such as .SIGMA. .DELTA. ADCs, and comprising a number of DAC cells, apart from the number of DAC cells applied in the multi-bit DAC for conversion, an additional |
| 7605641 |
Apparatus comprising a charge pump and LCD driver comprising such an apparatus |
October 20, 2009 |
| Apparatus comprising a charge pump (20) with multiple independently regulated outputs (V1, V2) for providing different voltage levels at each of said outputs. The charge pump (20) comprises a low voltage input (12), on/off regulation (30), and at least two charge stages (11, 21) which ar |
| 7605598 |
Undercurrent sense arrangement and method |
October 20, 2009 |
| An on-state low current detector uses a transistor with main (32) and sense (34) cells. Feedback circuit (36) acts to keep the voltage across main cells (32) at a substantially constant target value when the load current falls below a level that generates the target voltage value in |
| 7605089 |
Method of manufacturing an electronic device |
October 20, 2009 |
| A method of manufacturing an electronic device is provided wherein an interconnect is made using 193 nm lithography. No deformation of the desired linewidth takes place in that during a plasma gas is used which dissociates in low-weight ions. The electronic device is particularly an |
| 7605060 |
Method of epitaxial deoposition of an n-doped silicon layer |
October 20, 2009 |
| The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device (10) with a semiconductor body (1) comprising silicon is provided with an n-type doped semiconductor region (2) comprising silicon by means of an epitaxial deposition process, wherein the epitaxial deposition proce |
| 7605027 |
Method of fabricating a bipolar transistor |
October 20, 2009 |
| A method of fabricating a bipolar transistor in a first trench (11) is disclosed wherein only one photolithographic mask is applied which forms a first trench (11) and a second trench (12). A collector region (21) is formed self-aligned in the first trench (11) and the second trench (12) |
| 7604170 |
Portable device with an active communication station configuration and a passive data carrier co |
October 20, 2009 |
| A portable device includes an active device (communication station) configuration for contactless communication with at least one external data carrier and a passive device (data carrier) configuration for contactless communication with at least one external communication station. A |
| 7603090 |
Circuit for contractless device having active and passive send modes |
October 13, 2009 |
| In a circuit (2) for a communication partner appliance (1) designed for contactless communication having two activatable send modes (ABM, PBM), which send modes (ABM, PBM) differ from one another with regard to their energy requirement, a determination stage (15) is provided, which is |
| 7602845 |
Adaptive filter |
October 13, 2009 |
| The present invention relates to a filter apparatus and method having a fixed aspect for providing a predetermined selectivity and having an adaptive aspect for determining the frequency response of said filter apparatus. The adaptive aspect is controlled to change the frequency resp |
| 7602176 |
AMR sensor element for angle measurement |
October 13, 2009 |
| In order to provide a magneto-resistive angle sensor (100) comprising a sensor device for detecting an angle (.alpha.) of an external magnetic field relative to a reference axis of the sensor device, which allows measurement of the angle (.alpha.) without the measurement result being |
| 7601278 |
Precursor solution, method of preparation thereof and use thereof |
October 13, 2009 |
| Crystalline, single-phased layers of PbMg.sub.0.33 Nb.sub.0.670.sub.3 with relative dielectric constants of 1500 and more are prepared through the use of a precursor solution that comprises a macrocyclic complexing agent. This agent is added to the lead component in an organic solution. |
| 7599713 |
Mobile terminal with reduced components |
October 6, 2009 |
| The invention relates to a mobile terminal (20, 30) having a first processing unit (7), a first memory device (21) and SIM card chip (23) including a second memory device (22), the second memory device (22) is reprogrammable. To provide a low price mobile terminal having reduced comp |
| 7599661 |
Method for generating power supply interruption time information in a contactless data carrier |
October 6, 2009 |
| In a method for the determination of disconnection time information (DTI) significant for an inadequate power supply of an integrated circuit (2) of a data carrier (1) such as an RFID-tag. The disconnection time information (DTI) is determined on the basis of the discharge behavior of |
| 7599425 |
Multiple channel joint decoding at mobile handset |
October 6, 2009 |
| A system and method suppresses the interference caused by non-orthogonal signals on multiple channels of the same receiver by applying an inverse of the correlation among the non-orthogonal signals to the decoded signals. In a multi-channel receiver, the receiver is aware of the codes |
| 7596774 |
Hard macro with configurable side input/output terminals, for a subsystem |
September 29, 2009 |
| A hard macro device (HMD), for a subsystem (TMi) such as a data processor, comprises a processing core (C) provided with at least one time critical input terminal (CIT) adapted to feed it with time critical input data to be processed and at least one time critical output terminal (COT) a |
| 7596679 |
Interconnections in SIMD processor architectures |
September 29, 2009 |
| A single instruction multiple data (SIMD) processor (1) comprises a processing element array (10) including a plurality of processing elements (PEO . . . PEN), and a memory array (14) operably divided into memory portions (14.sub.1 . . . 14.sub.N), each memory portion being assigned |
| 7594046 |
Data processing in which concurrently executed processes communicate via a FIFO buffer |
September 22, 2009 |
| A processing circuit executes a data producing process and a data consuming process. The data producing process produces a stream of data, the data consuming process consumes the stream of data concurrently with production of the stream. A first-in first-out buffer passes data from t |
| 7593699 |
Distortion/efficiency adaptation in a variable-data-rate radio transmitter |
September 22, 2009 |
| The present invention generally speaking, provides for adaptive control of an RF power amplifier in view of a desired data rate. For low data rates, the RF amplifier (121) is controlled so as to allow significant output signal distortion, at the same time operating within a region of |
| 7592884 |
High frequency component |
September 22, 2009 |
| The invention relates to a high frequency component with a substrate constructed of a plurality of dielectric layers and, between them, electrode layers having conducting track structures, in which substrate at least one capacitive element and at least one inductive element is formed |
| 7590821 |
Digital signal processing integrated circuit with I/O connections |
September 15, 2009 |
| A digital signal processing integrated circuit contains an array of interconnected and programmed or programmable digital signal processors (10). Configurable multiplexing circuits (12), are placed between IO connections (11a,b) and the IO ports of at least a plurality of the digital |
| 7590235 |
Reduction calculations in elliptic curve cryptography |
September 15, 2009 |
| An Elliptic Curve Cryptography reduction technique uses a prime number having a first section of Most Significant Word "1" states, with N=n.sub.m-1+N.sub.1B+n.sub.0 and a second section with a plurality of "1" or "0" states. The combination of the first section and the second section |
| 7589579 |
Mixer circuit |
September 15, 2009 |
| A sub-harmonic mixer circuit having an input stage (52) and a current modulating stage (64 is disclosed. The input stage (52) receives an RF input signal (RF+, RF-) at a first frequency and generates output currents (il , i2) varying in dependence upon the Rf input signal. The curren |
| 7587050 |
Method, system, base station and data carrier for clash-free transmission between a base station |
September 8, 2009 |
| To enable a method and a system, having at least one base station and/or one data carrier, for transmitting signals between the base station and a number of mobile data carriers operating in the crypto mode or in the plain mode, wherein [a] the base station emits at least one command |
| 7586953 |
Method for monitoring a communication media access schedule of a communication controller of a c |
September 8, 2009 |
| The invention refers to a method for monitoring a communication media access schedule of a communication controller (5) of a communication system (1) by means of a bus guardian (6). The communication system (1) comprises a communication media (2) and nodes (3) connected to the commun |
| 7586933 |
Network comprising an interconnecting network and several network nodes that are coupled to said |
September 8, 2009 |
| The invention concerns a network comprising an interconnecting network and several network nodes that are coupled to said interconnecting network and are designed to adapt their local communication time schedule to the communication time schedule of at least one other network mode, prior |
| 7586387 |
Electronic device and method of matching the impedance thereof |
September 8, 2009 |
| An adjustable impedance matching network comprising passive elements (2, 4, 10, 12) and at least a pair of micro-electromechanical switch-assemblies (6, 8, 14, 16), said switch-assemblies (6, 8, 14, 16) being connected to the passive elements (2, 4, 10, 12) to form parallel circuits |
