Patents Represented by Attorney William J. Street
  • Patent number: 4788503
    Abstract: In magnetic resonance imaging apparatus in which bird-cage coils are used in combination with other coils, a capacitance is bridged by means of an inductive element. Substantial detuning and hence adequate uncoupling of the bird-cage coil from the other (receiving) coil is achieved. Use can be made of the already present coaxial transmission line via which the RF energy is applied to the bird-cage coil. Connecting the core and the jacket of the coaxial transmission line there is arranged a diode switch so that the bird-cage coil circuit can be electronically detuned, thus enabling fast switching on and off of the bird-cage coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1988
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Teunis R. Van Heelsbergen
  • Patent number: 4697046
    Abstract: In order to obtain fast and simple processing of a recieved page address (65, 67, 69) into a write command (95) for a multi-page memory (99) of a teletext processing circuit, a page-number memory (81) is used which can be addressed by the received page address and in which a write command for the multi-page memory is stored for the desired pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1987
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Michael P. W. Geerings, Wilhelmus J. Christis, Wilhelmus F. Fekkes, Herman J. R. Schmitz