Patents Examined by Robert Pascal
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Patent number: 9325051Abstract: A transmission-line network may include a transmission-line sub-network. The sub-network may include at least first and second transmission lines having respective first ends connected electrically in series relative to a first circuit node and respective second ends connected electrically in parallel relative to a second circuit node. A third transmission line may have a first end directly connected to the second circuit node and a second end electrically connected to the second end of the first transmission line. A fourth transmission line may have a first end directly connected to the second circuit node and a second end electrically connected to the second end of the second transmission line. The transmission-line network may further include an impedance assembly disposed relative to the third and fourth transmission lines configured to produce resistance between the second end of the third transmission line and the second end of the fourth transmission line.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2015Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Werlatone, Inc.Inventors: Allen F. Podell, Ky-Hien Do, Philip M. Robertson, III
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Patent number: 9324480Abstract: An interference prevention apparatus includes a control module configured to send a working signal to the interference prevention module. An interference prevention module is configured to receive the working signal and to control a working state of a first component. The first component is connected to the control module by a first connection wire. The first connection wire is divided into at least two segments by an interference prevention material, which is connected to ground.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2014Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lianming Zhang, Yue Liu, Ke Ai
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Patent number: 9325046Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-mode cavity filter in which signals are coupled to or from a resonator body, using a coupling path with first and second portions arranged such that current flows in opposite directions and the couplings due to the magnetic fields generated partially cancel one another. In this way, the degree of coupling to any particular mode of the filter can be closely controlled by varying the length and/or orientation of the portions with respect to each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2012Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: MESAPLEXX PTY LTDInventors: David Robert Hendry, Steven John Cooper, Peter Blakeborough Kenington
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Patent number: 9325045Abstract: A filter according to embodiments includes n resonators, an input line, and an output line. Each of the resonators includes a first comb-like structure, a second comb-like structure, and a connection line that connect the first and the second comb-like structure. The first and second comb-like structures have a plurality of first lines and a second line that is connected to one end of the first lines. The first lines of the first and the second comb-like structures are arranged parallel to each other. The connection line has bending portions. Further, a second comb-like structure of a k-th resonator and a first comb-like structure of a (k+1)-th resonator are arranged so as to have an interlaced arrangement, and a second comb-like structure of the (k+1)-th resonator and a first comb-like structure of a (k+2)-th resonator are arranged so as to have an interlaced arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Noritsugu Shiokawa, Hiroyuki Kayano, Tamio Kawaguchi, Kohei Nakayama
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Patent number: 9318784Abstract: In certain aspects of the invention, an isolator is configured by a reception circuit, a transmission circuit, and a transformer. In some aspects, the transmission circuit is disposed in an anterior surface of a semiconductor substrate. The transformer is disposed in a posterior surface of the semiconductor substrate and transmits in an electrically isolated state to the reception circuit, a signal input from the transmission circuit. The transformer is configured by a primary coil and a secondary coil. The primary coil can be configured by a metal film embedded in an oxide film inside a coil trench. The secondary coil can be disposed inside an insulating film covering the primary coil so as to oppose the primary coil and is insulated from the primary coil by the insulating film.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Johnny Kin-On Sin, Lulu Peng, Rongxiang Wu, Hitoshi Sumida, Yoshiaki Toyoda, Masashi Akahane
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Patent number: 9312587Abstract: A common mode filter a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The common mode filter in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: a magnetic substrate; a receiving groove formed on the magnetic substrate; a dielectric layer formed in the receiving groove and having a coil pattern included therein; and a magnetic layer formed on upper surfaces of the dielectric layer and the magnetic substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hong-Ryul Lee, Young-Do Kweon, Sang-Moon Lee
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Patent number: 9312594Abstract: Embodiments provide a novel fabrication method and structure for reducing structural weight in radio frequency cavity filters and radio subsystems such as antennas and filters. The novel structures are fabricated by electroplating the required structure over a mold, housing, or substrate. The electrodeposited composite layer may be formed by several layers of metal or metal alloys with compensating thermal expansion coefficients. The first or the top layer is a high conductivity material or compound such as silver having a thickness of several times the skin-depth at the intended frequency of operation. The top layer provides the vital low loss performance and high Q-factor required for such filter structures while the subsequent compound layers provide the mechanical strength.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2012Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Ian Burke, Jason Cook, Ahmad Khanifar
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Patent number: 9306265Abstract: A photonically controlled microwave device having a photosensitive substrate having an interior region comprising a high radio frequency (“RF”) field for a resonant RF mode. An RF resonator is patterned on a surface of the substrate, the pattern includes an aperture in the resonator positioned to direct light received from a light source to the interior region. The light source may have a wavelength that enables illumination of the interior region to generate free carriers or other photo-induced changes in RF permittivity. An optical boundary may be provided that recirculates the unabsorbed optical power inside the high RF field region until it is fully absorbed.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: STC.UNMInventor: Mani Hossein-Zadeh
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Patent number: 9306261Abstract: A magnetic field method for mitigating passive intermodulation distortion. The method is useful both for mitigating passive intermodulation and for easily locating dominant sources of it, even in shielded components.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2010Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventors: Justin J. Henrie, Andrew Christianson, William J. Chappell
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Patent number: 9306530Abstract: A filter circuit is provided having multipath interference mitigation. The filter includes a signal path extending from an input to an output. The signal path includes a conductive path and a ground. A pass band filter is disposed along the signal path between the input and the output. The pass band filter passes a first frequency spectrum in a provider bandwidth, and attenuates a second frequency spectrum in a home network bandwidth. The filter circuit further includes a multipath interference mitigation leg operatively branched from the signal path. The multipath interference mitigation leg increases a return loss of the home network bandwidth. A frequency response of the filter circuit is characterized by an insertion loss characteristic between the input and the output being less than 3 dB in the provider bandwidth, and more than 20 dB in the home network bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.Inventors: Erdogan Alkan, Raymond W. Palinkas
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Patent number: 9300044Abstract: A concentric feed is provided. The concentric feed includes an outer-conductive tube electrically connected at a base of an inner-conductive tube to an outer-conductive tube by a process comprising the steps of: configuring the outer-conductive tube; configuring the inner-conductive tube; and positioning the outer-conductive tube to contact the inner-conductive tube at the base. The outer-conductive tube is configured to include: a side-port; a first-edge surface; a first-interior surface sharing an edge with and perpendicular to the first-edge surface; a second-edge surface; and a second-interior surface sharing an edge with and perpendicular to the second-edge surface. The inner-conductive tube is configured to include: the base at a base-end of the inner-conductive tube, the base including a first lip and a second lip protruding orthogonal to a first surface and a second surface, respectively, and a central-port centered on the central axis and parallel to the central axis; and a main-body.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2013Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Shawn David Rogers, James Martin Armfield, Craig A. Bunn, Tobi Stoll
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Patent number: 9300021Abstract: Q of resonant elements formed over lossy substrates such as in a CMOS process is improved by forming the ground plane of the resonant element immediately over a high impedance layer to reduce cross coupling and eddy currents. A new type of meandering hairpin resonator configuration is also introduced providing, for example, for 4th order cross coupled filters of high selectivity and compact layout.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2008Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: NITERO PTY LIMITEDInventors: Bo Yang, Stan Skafidas, Robin Evans
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Patent number: 9293801Abstract: A power combining apparatus includes an output waveguide section having inner and outer coaxial conductors, wherein an outer surface of the inner conductor and an inner surface of the outer conductor each includes a substantially linear taper, a center waveguide section having an input, an output, and a plurality of antenna elements, the output of the center waveguide section being coupled to the output waveguide section, and an output waveguide section coupled to the output of the center waveguide section.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2012Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: TriQuint CW, Inc.Inventors: Patrick Courtney, Scott Behan
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Patent number: 9287605Abstract: A passive coaxial signal power splitter apparatus includes an input port, an input coaxial waveguide section coupled to the input port, a guided wave structure coupled to the input coaxial waveguide section, a plurality of antenna elements arranged in the guided wave structure, and an output port coupled to each of the antenna elements. A passive coaxial signal power combiner includes a plurality of input ports, a guided wave structure coupled to the plurality of input ports, a plurality of antenna elements in the guided wave structure, wherein each antenna element is coupled to one or more of the input ports, a coaxial waveguide section coupled to the guided wave structure, and an output port coupled to the coaxial waveguide section.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: TriQuint CW, Inc.Inventors: Paul Daughenbaugh, Jr., Scott Behan, Patrick Courtney
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Patent number: 9287845Abstract: A bandpass filter comprising two or more resonators arranged between two input/output terminals in a laminate substrate comprising pluralities of dielectric layers; each resonator being constituted by a resonance line and a resonance capacitance connected to one end of the resonance line; capacitance electrodes forming said resonance capacitances and said resonance lines being arranged on different dielectric layers, via a planar ground electrode covering the entire structural portion of the bandpass filter when viewed in a lamination direction; and in each of the resonators connected to said two input/output terminals, the junctions of said input/output terminals to said paths between said resonance lines and said resonance capacitances being closer to said resonance capacitances than said resonance lines in a lamination direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2009Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Keisuke Fukamachi, Takahiro Yamashita, Takahiro Umeyama
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Patent number: 9287607Abstract: A tunable resonator assembly includes a resonator coil having an inductance, and a tile residing at a position relative to the resonator coil the position selected to produce a desired change in the inductance of the resonator coil.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2012Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: WiTricity CorporationInventors: Volkan Efe, Katherine L. Hall, Alexander Patrick McCauley, Morris P. Kesler
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Patent number: 9282631Abstract: Circuit with flat electromagnetic band gap resonance structure, includes a plurality of flat units formed at a conductor layer; each flat unit spirally revolves inward from a first end to an internal point following a rotation direction, and spirally revolves outward from the internal point to a second end following an opposite rotation direction. Each flat unit is connected to a ground plane by a conductive stand (e.g., a via) at a connection point, for suppressing noise resonances at certain frequencies, and the frequencies are related to a stub length of each flat unit, and the stub length is related to a route length from the connection point to an end.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2014Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignees: GLOBAL UNICHIP CORPORATION, TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Po-Wei Chiu, Yi-Jung Liu, Ling-Chih Chou
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Patent number: 9281550Abstract: Wave mode converters, and methods of using wave mode converters are disclosed. The wave mode converters include a radial waveguide including a generally disk-like structure to receive a radially propagating field derived from rectangular TE10 waveguide mode, and a body including a plurality of spaced apart apertures.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2014Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: L&J ENGINEERING, INC.Inventors: Louis J Jannotta, Jeffrey D Clay
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Patent number: 9276304Abstract: A power combining apparatus includes a waveguide structure and a plurality of antenna elements arranged in the waveguide structure, wherein each of the antenna elements comprises a center planar antenna layer, two outer planar antenna layers arranged on opposite sides of the center planar antenna layer, a non-conductive layer between the center planar antenna layer and one of the outer planar antenna layers, and another non-conductive layer between the center planar antenna and the other one of the outer planar antenna layers. The power combining apparatus includes a waveguide structure having an input, an output, and a plurality of antenna elements arranged in the waveguide structure, wherein each antenna element is configured to transform an electric field direction of an electromagnetic field by substantially 90 degrees rotation about a longitudinal axis of the waveguide structure, wherein a bandwidth of the antenna is less than, equal to, or greater than a decade of frequency range.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2012Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Triquint Semiconductor, Inc.Inventors: Scott Behan, Patrick Courtney
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Patent number: 9270499Abstract: A network signal enhancement circuit assembly includes a processing circuit installed in a circuit board and having opposing first and second connection ends thereof respectively coupled to a network connector and a voltage-mode network-on-chip. The processing circuit includes coupling modules for coupling network signals, EMI protection modules for removing noises from coupled network signals, and a signal enhancement module including a voltage source and a plurality of pull-up resistors and adapted to compensate for an attenuation of the network signal due to long distance signal transmission, assuring a high level of signal transmission stability.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2013Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: AJOHO ENTERPRISE CO., LTDInventors: Chia-Ping Mo, You-Chi Liu