Patents by Inventor David Richard Helms

David Richard Helms 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: 7205836
    Abstract: A high-power, high frequency (1–100 GHz) power amplifier, made using SiGe transistors. A differential common-emitter amplifier section supplies the voltage amplification, allowing the total voltage swing of the amplifier to be twice the breakdown voltage of the individual transistors. Current amplification is supplied by a differential common-emitter amplifier section, connected in cascode with the differential common-emitter amplifier section. Appropriately chosen resonators in the cascode connection resonate out the Miller effect, negative current feed back of the circuit at the amplifier's operational frequency, allowing the amplifier to provide high power output at the operational frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: M/A-Com, Inc.
    Inventors: David Richard Helms, Robert Warrant Point, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5969575
    Abstract: A new class A/F amplifier has an filtering and matching input circuit, a summing junction, an amplifying circuit, a filtering and feedback biasing circuit, and an output filtering and matching circuit. The filtering and matching input circuit responds to a radio frequency access input signal, for providing a filtered and matched radio frequency access input signal. The summing junction responds to the filtered and matched radio frequency access input signal, and further responds to a filtering and feedback biasing signal, for providing a summed, filtered, matched and feedback radio frequency access input signal. The amplifying circuit responds to the summed filtered, matched and feedback radio frequency access input signal, for providing an amplified, summed, filtered, matched and feedback radio frequency access input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventor: David Richard Helms