Patents by Inventor Jörg Schambacher

Jörg Schambacher 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).

  • Patent number: 6411717
    Abstract: An SC filter with intrinsic anti-alias function for adjustably decreasing or increasing the amplitude of audio signals in a predetermined frequency range. The SC filter includes a filter module having an RC network with at least one frequency-response-determining RC member whose resistor component R is realized in SC technology. The SC filter also includes a setting means connected to the filter module such that its setting determines the frequency response of the SC filter. The setting means also renders possible a neutral setting in which the effective audio signal path of the SC filter circumvents the filter module so that no decrease or increase of the amplitude of individual frequency portions takes place. An anti-alias low pass filter unit is connected into the audio signal path when the setting means is not set to the neutral setting and the anti-alias low pass filter unit is not located in the audio signal path when the setting means is set to the neutral setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Lübbe, Peter Kirchlechner, Jörg Schambacher
  • Patent number: 6191631
    Abstract: In an integrated circuit comprising a so-called “switched” capacitor, the latter is switched by a parallel circuit of two complementary switching transistors having mutually complementary switching pulse trains. Due to parasitic effects during this switching operation, disturbing offset voltages arise at the switched capacitor. In order to avoid such offset voltages, the edges of the one switching pulse train are shifted in time with respect to the corresponding edges of the complementary switching pulse train. To this end, a switching pulse generator contains a delay member fed with a control signal which is formed by means of a constant reference voltage using a dummy or simulation of that circuit that contains the switched capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics, S.r.l.
    Inventors: Jörg Schambacher, Peter Kirchlechner, Jürgen Lübbe