Patents by Inventor Bernd Adler

Bernd Adler has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20120178388
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are techniques, systems, and methods relating to minimizing mutual coupling between a first antenna and a second antenna. In one implementation, a plurality of antennas and at least one tuning module are provided. A control module may be coupled to the tuning module. The control module may be configured to control the at least one tuning module to alter a phase and an amplitude of a control signal communicated to at least one of the plurality of antennas to reduce mutual coupling between the plurality of antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Inventors: Mikael Bergholz Knudsen, Bernd Adler, Peter Bundgaard, Jan-Erik Mueller, Gert F. Pedersen, Mauro Pelosi
  • Publication number: 20120142289
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement includes a signal processing unit and a regulation unit. The signal processing unit processes an input signal to form an analog output signal. The regulation unit is coupled to the signal processing unit in order to produce a digital regulation signal as a function of the analog output signal for regulation of the analog output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Elmar Wagner, Bernd Adler, Andrea Camuffo, Alexander Belitzer
  • Patent number: 8185063
    Abstract: A transmitting arrangement includes a matching circuit, a reference circuit and a comparator. The output of the matching circuit can be coupled to an antenna and comprises an adjustable impedance. The reference circuit is connected to an input of the matching circuit and comprises a reference impedance. Inputs of the comparator are coupled to the matching circuit and the reference circuit and its output is coupled to the adjustable impedance via a control input of the matching circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Grigory Itkin, Bernd Adler
  • Patent number: 8170510
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are techniques, systems, and methods relating to minimizing mutual coupling between a first antenna and a second antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Mikael Bergholz Knudsen, Bernd Adler, Peter Bundgaard, Jan-Erik Mueller, Gert F Pedersen, Mauro Pelosi
  • Publication number: 20120083236
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a wireless multimode receiver having an off-chip duplex filter associated with a multimode band, and a blocker cancellation circuit disposed on a semiconductor chip are described in the present disclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Volker Thomas, Bernd Adler
  • Patent number: 8116701
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement includes a signal processing unit and a regulation unit. The signal processing unit processes an input signal to form an analog output signal. The regulation unit is coupled to the signal processing unit in order to produce a digital regulation signal as a function of the analog output signal for regulation of the analog output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Delta GmbH
    Inventors: Elmar Wagner, Bernd Adler, Andrea Camuffo, Alexander Belitzer
  • Patent number: 8085834
    Abstract: A communication device partition for multiple device data standards to be received on one baseband integrated circuit is described. At least two interfaces are partitioned according to the data rate speed of various types of data standards and coupled to a multimode software define radio (SDR) modem. A digital baseband processor is coupled to the multimode SDR modem and receives the various types of application data compliant with various data standards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Andre Hanke, Bernd Adler
  • Patent number: 8086205
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a wireless multimode receiver having an off-chip duplex filter associated with a multimode band, and a blocker cancellation circuit disposed on a semiconductor chip are described in the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Volker Thomas, Bernd Adler
  • Publication number: 20110248792
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement includes a component having a closed signal path, that closed signal path connected to a first port, a second port and at least a third port. The component has a directed signal flow of a signal applied to one of that ports. Such a coupling device can be connected to a transmitter and to a receiver path, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Bernd Adler, Zdravko Boos
  • Publication number: 20110201297
    Abstract: An apparatus provides a baseband signal for exploiting receive antenna diversity by means of a digital baseband processor. The apparatus includes a combiner configured to temporally alternately select at least one sample of a first received signal corresponding to a first receive antenna and at least one sample of a second received signal corresponding to a second receive antenna and to interleave the selected samples of the first and second received signal to obtain a temporally continuous stream of samples of a baseband representation of a combined signal at an output of the combiner as the baseband signal for exploiting receive antenna diversity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventors: Bernd Adler, Elmar Wagner, Christian Drewes, Clemens Buchacher
  • Publication number: 20110201175
    Abstract: Structures of a system on a chip are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system on a chip (SoC) includes an RF component disposed on a first part of a substrate, a semiconductor component disposed on a second part of the substrate, the semiconductor component and the RF component sharing a common boundary, and a conductive cage disposed enclosing the RF component. The conductive cage shields the semiconductor component from electromagnetic radiation originating from the RF circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Barth, Andre Hanke, Snezana Jenei, Oliver Nagy, Jiro Morinaga, Bernd Adler, Heinrich Koerner
  • Publication number: 20110200144
    Abstract: An apparatus provides a baseband signal for exploiting receive antenna diversity by means of a digital baseband processor. The apparatus includes a combiner configured to temporally delay a first received signal corresponding to a first receive antenna with respect to a second received signal corresponding to a second receive antenna, and to add the delayed first received signal and the second received signal to obtain a baseband representation of a combined signal at an output of the combiner as the baseband signal for exploiting receive antenna diversity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventors: Bernd Adler, Elmar Wagner, Christian Drewes, Clemens Buchacher
  • Publication number: 20110189969
    Abstract: A receiver arrangement with AC coupling is specified in which a filter arrangement (3) is provided in a baseband signal processing chain in a homodyne receiver and can be switched between at least two high-pass filter cut-off frequencies. In this case, a brief changeover is made to a higher cut-off frequency when varying the gain of a low-noise baseband amplifier (2), for example when the received field strength changes, during the reception mode. The described arrangement allows changes to be carried out to the gain in baseband during the normal reception mode. The present receiver is accordingly suitable for code division multiple access methods, such as those which are provided in the UMTS Standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Bernd Adler, Dieter Pimingsdorfer, Harald Pretl, Werner Schelmbauer
  • Patent number: 7983627
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement includes a component having a closed signal path, that closed signal path connected to a first port, a second port and at least a third port. The component has a directed signal flow of a signal applied to one of that ports. Such a coupling device can be connected to a transmitter and to a receiver path, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Bernd Adler, Zdravko Boos
  • Patent number: 7970364
    Abstract: A power control system includes a reference path filter used to suppress high frequencies in an input signal and generate a filtered envelope signal, a reference path amplifier to scale the filtered input signal based on a gain signal and generate a reference signal, a signal path amplifier to amplify an RF modulated signal and generate a signal path output signal scaled by a gain of an actuator signal, and a power detector to detect a power associated with the signal path output signal. The system includes an ADC to receive, pre-filter and convert the detected envelope signal into a measurement signal, and a comparator block to receive the reference signal and the measurement signal, and generate an error signal based on the difference, and a controller to generate the actuator signal for controlling the gain of the signal path amplifier based on the error signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Christian Mayer, Andreas Schwarz, Nick Shute, Günter Märzinger, Andrea Camuffo, Bernd Adler, Michael Meixner, Peter Bundgaard
  • Patent number: 7948064
    Abstract: Structures of a system on a chip are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system on a chip (SoC) includes an RF component disposed on a first part of a substrate, a semiconductor component disposed on a second part of the substrate, the semiconductor component and the RF component sharing a common boundary, and a conductive cage disposed enclosing the RF component. The conductive cage shields the semiconductor component from electromagnetic radiation originating from the RF circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Barth, Andre Hanke, Snezana Jenei, Oliver Nagy, Jiro Morinaga, Bernd Adler, Heinrich Koerner
  • Publication number: 20110117862
    Abstract: A device or system for transmission and reception for voice or data communication applications. The device or system is capable of duplex operation and adapted to operate in an environment using a plurality of frequency bands. The present disclosure also relates to a communication means including a transmitter and receiver arrangement and to antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Inventors: Oluf Bagger, Bernd Adler, Mikael Bergholz Knudsen, Michael Wilhelm
  • Patent number: 7929936
    Abstract: A receiver arrangement with AC coupling is specified in which a filter arrangement (3) is provided in a baseband signal processing chain in a homodyne receiver and can be switched between at least two high-pass filter cut-off frequencies. In this case, a brief changeover is made to a higher cut-off frequency when varying the gain of a low-noise baseband amplifier (2), for example when the received field strength changes, during the reception mode. The described arrangement allows changes to be carried out to the gain in baseband during the normal reception mode. The present receiver is accordingly suitable for code division multiple access methods, such as those which are provided in the UMTS Standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Bernd Adler, Dieter Pimingsdorfer, Harald Pretl, Werner Schelmbauer
  • Publication number: 20110007842
    Abstract: A transmission arrangement for modulating useful signals onto a carrier frequency signal has a frequency generator for generating the carrier frequency signal, a first modulation path for modulating a first useful signal onto the carrier frequency signal, and a second modulation path for modulating a second useful signal onto the carrier frequency signal. The first modulation path has a digital modulator for providing an amplitude signal and a Cartesian signal pair from the first useful signal and a Cartesian modulator for modulating the Cartesian signal pair onto the carrier frequency signal in order to provide an intermediate signal. The first modulation path is configured in such a manner that the amplitude signal is modulated onto the intermediate signal in order to provide an output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Inventors: Bernd ADLER, Andre Hanke
  • Publication number: 20100302123
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to wireless communication device antennas with tuning elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Mikael Bergholz Knudsen, Bernd Adler, Peter Bundgaard, Jan-Erik Mueller, Gert F. Pedersen, Mauro Pelosi