Patents by Inventor Charles E. Conner

Charles E. Conner 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).

  • Diversity reception system
    Patent number: 6256484
    Abstract: An inexepensive diversity receiver compares the received signal strength signal with a threshold value. When the received signal falls below the threshold value a signal is transmitted through a conductor and a delay circuit to a NAND gate. If the signal is applied to the the two inputs of the NAND gate at the same time, the output of the NAND gate switches a bistable flip-flop which in turn connects or disconnects a second antenna that is 180 degrees in phase from the first antenna between a state in which the signals from the two antenna is combined and a state in which they are not combined and only one antenna applies signals to the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Telex Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles E. Conner, Robert B. Basine