Patents by Inventor Dieter Janta

Dieter Janta 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: 6384673
    Abstract: A current mirror arrangement including an input current path comprising a main current path of a first current mirror transistor and a transistor connected thereto in a cascode configuration and referred to as first cascode transistor, an output current path comprising a main current path of a second current mirror transistor and a transistor connected thereto in a cascode configuration and referred to as second cascode transistor, the current mirror transistors being interconnected in a current mirror configuration and their control terminals being connected to a first circuit point, the connected control terminals of the cascode transistors being interconnected and being connected to an input terminal in the input current path of the current mirror arrangement, the input terminal being constituted by a terminal of the main current path of the first cascode transistor, and an output terminal being constituted by a terminal of the main current path of the second cascode transistor, and a current splitting cir
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Burkhard Dick, Dieter Janta
  • Patent number: 5039889
    Abstract: A phase comparison circuit includes a double balanced mixer stage which receives a sine signal as well as this sine signal in anti-phase and a square-wave switching signal of the same nominal frequency, two active current mirror circuits are used which incorporate at least two common negative feedback circuit elements, the first of which is operative in the input-sided negative feedback of the first current mirror circuit and in the output-sided negative feedback of the second current mirror circuit and the second of which is operative in the reverse way. The two current mirror circuits are alternately connected to the two balanced mixer stages by means of a switching stage during the half cycle clock of the switching signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1991
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corp.
    Inventors: Dieter Janta, Winfried Jansen
  • Patent number: 4560942
    Abstract: A demodulator circuit for demodulating a signal which varies substantially sinusoidally with time, such as a stereo signal having a carrier frequency, comprises a mixer circuit having a first input with a linear transfer characteristic which receives the stereo multiplex signal u.sub.m to be demodulated and having a second input with a substantially hyperbolic tangent transfer characteristic, the second input receiving a signal u.sub.d. The signal u.sub.d is a voltage having a triangular wave shape superimposed with the triangular wave shape having the carrier frequency. A stereo output signal L and R is produced having minimal third and fifth harmonics of the carrier frequency is produced from a matrix circuit as a result of the triangular shape and amplitude of the signal u.sub.d.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1985
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Dieter Janta, Wolfgang Nolde