Patents Represented by Attorney Jay M. Cantor
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Patent number: 5526365Abstract: A serial scan test architecture can perform testing of an electrical circuit without cycling through multiple data register shift operations required by conventional test architectures by permitting test signals to be transferred bidirectionally between serial scanning circuitry and functional circuitry while serial data is being transferred in a continuous serial data stream between the test controller and the serial scanning circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1995Date of Patent: June 11, 1996Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventor: Lee D. Whetsel
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Patent number: 5478139Abstract: A system for crushing a wall of rock comprising a first device, such as a track hoe, for moving with at least two degrees of freedom, a second device, such as an articulating boom, secured to and moving with the first device for moving with at least two degrees of freedom, one of the two degrees of freedom of the second device being different from the two degrees of freedom of the first device. A rotating stone cutting mechanism is secured to the second device, the stone cutting mechanism comprising a rotating drum having a plurality of tooth holders on the surface thereof in a helical array relative to the axis of the drum, each of the tooth holders having a very hard tooth, preferably of a refractory carbide, releasably secured thereto. A motive structure causes rotation of the drum about its axis. The motive structure includes a motor, preferably hydraulic, a sprocket driven by the motor, a chain and a second sprocket coupled to the drum.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 1993Date of Patent: December 26, 1995Assignee: Rockmaster Equipment Manufacturing, Inc.Inventor: Paul J. Scott
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Patent number: 5432740Abstract: A EEPROM memory array (10) includes a plurality of memory cells (24) which are connected in a symmetric array between row lines (26) and Column Lines (28) and Virtual Ground Lines (29). Each of the memory cells includes a merged pass gate which is connected to a control gate. A non-stacked structure is utilized wherein a floating gate (42) is formed, having two portions that extend over an active region, a tunnel diode portion (44) and a control gate portion (46). The floating gate portion (44) is disposed over a thin tunnel oxide layer (47) to form a tunnel diode which allows Fowler-Nordheim tunneling to occur. The control gate portion (46) is disposed over a much thicker oxide layer such that tunneling does not occur. A control gate layer (50) is disposed over the floating gate (42) such that it overlaps the edges thereof and encloses the floating gate (42).Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 1993Date of Patent: July 11, 1995Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Iano D'Arrigo, Georges Falessi, Michael C. Smayling
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Patent number: 5363871Abstract: A rigid substantially planar sheet, preferably but not limited to a rectangular shape, having a central fold region and a pair of fold regions spaced from opposing ends of the rectangle with a fastener, preferably hook and loop (Velcro), disposed in the regions between each of the pair of folds and the sheet end. There is also provided an attachment device, preferably containing hook and loop thereon, for attachment to an infant seat or other device as well as to the fasteners on the sheet via the hook and loop for securing the sheet to the seat. The sheet is dimensioned to have a V shape at the central fold when attached to the fasteners and in operating position.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1992Date of Patent: November 15, 1994Inventors: Michael L. Garrand, Margo A. Garrand
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Patent number: 5347149Abstract: Integrated circuits and fabrication methods incorporating both two-terminal devices such as IMPATT diodes (446) and Schottky diodes (454) and three-terminal devices such as n-channel MESFETs (480) in a monolithic integrated circuit.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 1989Date of Patent: September 13, 1994Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventor: Burhan Bayraktaroglu
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Patent number: 5324181Abstract: A pneumatic calibration system and the pump therefore, the system comprising a first fluid containing chamber for attachment to a device to be tested, a valve coupled to the first chamber to remove the fluid from the first chamber and a pump structure for providing a predetermined pressure to the fluid in the first chamber. The pump comprises a first piston disposed and moveable within first chamber to vary the volume of first chamber, a second piston, a second fluid containing chamber communicating between the first piston and the second piston, the second piston providing a predetermined pressure to the fluid in the second chamber and an expanding sleeve valve communicating between the first chamber and the second chamber to minimize the pressure differential across the first piston. The position of the first piston is adjustable in the first chamber. The second chamber includes a first portion and a second portion with a sleeve valve disposed therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 1993Date of Patent: June 28, 1994Assignee: Transmation, Inc.Inventors: Christopher R. McGoldrick, Donald F. Cimino
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Patent number: 5314340Abstract: An electronic learning device (10) uses keys (12a-d) which self-generate an electric signals responsive to a key being pressed. One signal drives the CORRECT segments (18b) of a display (18) and the other signal selectively drive the IN segments (18a) responsive to switching circuitry (16). Cards (14) provide a query and a plurality of possible answers, each possible answer associated with one of the keys (12a-d). A correct answer is encoded on the card.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1990Date of Patent: May 24, 1994Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventor: Ronald A. Gaddis
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Patent number: 5271887Abstract: A substrate and method of manufacture wherein a substrate is molded from particulate material wherein grooves on and through the body are formed during substrate molding and prior to sintering. The substrate includes all buss structure molded therein. Cooling of chips is provided by providing a heat sink in grooves formed within a substrate and beneath the chips. Microcircuits are formed by disposing on the substrate and interconnecting via buss structures on the substrate various semiconductor dies with encapsulation of some or all of the substrates and components thereon, if desired. In addition, connection from the board to external circuits is available by means of an edge connector.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1993Date of Patent: December 21, 1993Assignee: Witec Cayman Patents, Ltd.Inventor: Raymond E. Wiech, Jr.
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Patent number: 5269021Abstract: An interface for use with a multiprocessor computer system, having a host processor system and a graphics processor system. The interface permits extended functions to be developed on the host system or on another system, and subsequently loaded to the graphics processor system. The interface comprises software residing on both the host system side and the graphics system side, which operates at run time to permit the function to be called from a main program running on the host. The function's arguments are passed to the graphics system so that the function is executed by the graphics processor.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 1989Date of Patent: December 7, 1993Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Michael A. Denio, William S. Egr, Douglas C. Crawford, Michael D. Asal, Graham Short, James G. Littleton, Jerry R. Van Aken
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Patent number: 5262122Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of binder removal from a green body before sintering or the like wherein the green body is initially heated to a temperature above the melting or flow point of the binder to liquify the binder and, at the elevated temperature, a small portion of the green body is brought into intimate contact with a non-supporting porous body of lower capillarity potential for the liquid binder. The liquid is drawn from all parts of the green body to the region of contact between the porous body and the green body and enters the body of lower capillarity potential preferentially, removing liquid from the green body through the surface of the green body only at said region of contact. The draining is continued with or without further increase in temperature until the green body is opened or becomes permeable.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 1991Date of Patent: November 16, 1993Assignee: Witec Cayman Patents, Ltd.Inventor: Raymond E. Wiech, Jr.
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Patent number: 5260512Abstract: Sound signal generator, comprising a housing (1,2) containing a microcontroller for the storage and control of reproduction of several sound messages, and a loudspeaker for reproducing the said sound messages connected to the in lieu thereof microcontroller. The housing of the sound-signal generator also carries, over at least a portion of its outer wall, a keyboard associated with the microcontroller and formed by selection keys (3) respectively bearing identification symbols for the sound messages stored in the microcontroller.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 1992Date of Patent: November 9, 1993Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Michel Chomette, Robert J. Mathews, Remond Sautreau
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Patent number: 5258331Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, which has the steps of connecting adjacent outer leads, with an insulating photoresist or prepeg material with a width locally provided only in areas with said width along the direction of arrangement of outer leads, and of resin-sealing areas other than said outer leads and said insulating material while preventing the outflow of sealing resin by way of said insulating photoresist or prepeg material.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 1992Date of Patent: November 2, 1993Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Kenji Masumoto, Takashi Nakashima
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Patent number: 5237411Abstract: System for processing teletext information which makes it possible practically without any delay to reproduce the information pages transmitted by television transmitters on the screen of a television set, the updated state of the reproduced pages being ensured. The system includes a buffer (46) for the data signals corresponding in each case to an information page. Furthermore, it includes a microprocessor (32) which receives the buffered data signals and within the period required for the transmission of an information page stores them in a main memory (24) for all information pages. In dependence upon a page request signal entered by a user a control unit (26) generates a control command for the microprocessor (32) which causes the latter to fetch from the main memory (24) the page requested by the page request signal and supply it to an image processor (42) which generates from the data signals the signals necessary for the reproduction on the screen.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1991Date of Patent: August 17, 1993Assignee: Texas Instruments Deutschland GmbHInventors: Helmut Fink, Trevor C. Jones, Colin Hinson
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Patent number: 5234655Abstract: A substrate and method of manufacture wherein a substrate is molded from particulate material wherein grooves on and through the body are formed during substrate molding and prior to sintering. The substrate includes all buss structure molded therein. Cooling of chips is provided by providing a heat sink in grooves formed within a substrate and beneath the chips. Microcircuits are formed by disposing on the substrate and interconnecting via buss structures on the substrate various semiconductor dies with encapsulation of some or all of the substrates and components thereon, if desired. In addition, connection from the board to external circuits is available by means of an edge connector.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 1990Date of Patent: August 10, 1993Assignee: Witec Cayman Patents, Ltd.Inventor: Raymond E. Wiech, Jr.
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Patent number: 5235496Abstract: The device comprises at least one printed circuit board (11,12) on which is fixed a heightening board (15) comprising at least one opening (16) for forming with the surface of the printed circuit board (12) located in facing relation to the opening, the bottom and the lateral walls of a cavity (17) for at least one integrated circuit (18) connected with the printed circuit carried by the board defining the bottom of the cavity by means of conductive wires (19). The cavity containing the integrated circuit is filled with a resin (22) completely covering the integrated circuit. The printed circuit board (11,12) is cut on its periphery along a line of through holes (23) provided with a metal coating (24) and connected to printed conductors of the board, metallized grooves (23,24) resulting from the cutting constituting connection terminals of the device.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1992Date of Patent: August 10, 1993Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Michel Chomette, Robert J. Mathews
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Patent number: 5231363Abstract: A pulse width modulating circuit including a shift register and a subtraction circuit, with first and second binary counters respectively connected to the outputs of the shift register and the subtraction circuit, and a logic circuit connected to the outputs of the binary counters. Pulse width control data bits are input to the shift register and the subtraction circuit. The shift register processes the pulse width control data bits by shifting them one bit to the right and dividing the control data bits in half. The output of the shift register is also connected to the subtraction circuit and provides one-half of the pulse width control data bits to the inputs of the subtraction circuit and the first counter. A load signal is respectively applied to the first and second binary counters which are responsive thereto for sensing the left and right edges of a pulse width modulation signal based upon the outputs from the shift register and the subtraction circuit.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 1992Date of Patent: July 27, 1993Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Takayuki Sano, Yasuhide Igura
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Patent number: 5229190Abstract: A card (10) and a method of manufacturing handleable cards includes providing front and back sheets (44, 46) of thin, flexible, opaque material, depositing images on such sheets by electrophotographic process to affix toner particles (14, 32) on the sheet surfaces, adding sheets (16, 24) carrying thermal adhesive (18, 22) and a thickening sheet (20), to provide a core, aligning the images front and back on the sheets, laminating the sheets and core under heat and pressure to bond the sheets into an integral structure and then cutting the sheets to define individual cards.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 1992Date of Patent: July 20, 1993Assignee: All American Image, Inc.Inventors: Vaughn M. Clement, Stuart M. Pindell, Joseph H. Zilligen
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Patent number: 5221634Abstract: The invention relates to such semiconductor devices comprising: a wiring layer with a predetermined pattern formed over a major surface of a semiconductor substrate through an insulating film, a diffusion layer formed under a contact hole formed in said insulating film in an adjacent region of the wiring layer, and a conductive layer deposited into said contact hole in a state of being connected to said wiring layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 1991Date of Patent: June 22, 1993Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Songsu Cho, Shinichi Hasegawa
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Patent number: 5216810Abstract: A method of making an aluminum extrusion having a pair of thermal brakes therein and the extrusion, comprising the steps of providing an aluminum extrusion having a pair of side walls, upper and lower wall members, each secured to each of the side walls and a chamber forming a portion of each of the wall members spaced from the side walls, one of the chambers having a continuous bridge member forming a wall thereof and forming the only bridge connecting portions of the upper wall member, the other of the chamber having a discontinuous bridge member forming a portion of a wall thereof, and a "V"-shaped member bridging the discontinuity in the discontinuous bridge member, disposing thermal braking material in the chamber having a continuous bridge member and allowing the thermal braking material to set in the chamber, providing a continuous slit in the continuous bridge member and the V-shaped member to cause a thermal separation of the side walls from each other, placing a leak preventing member in the V-shapeType: GrantFiled: June 17, 1992Date of Patent: June 8, 1993Assignee: Aluminum Shapes, Inc.Inventor: Stephen F. Kendall
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Patent number: 5216380Abstract: An operational amplifier (10) is provided which includes a differential input stage (18) for receiving differential signals. A differential loop (30, 64), (86) amplifies said differential signals. The amplified differential signals are output on a pair differential output terminals (80, 84). A common mode loop (54), (30, 64) maintains the mean voltage of the amplified differential signals at a preselected value.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1991Date of Patent: June 1, 1993Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventor: Pierre Carbou