Patents by Inventor Eric Puechberty

Eric Puechberty 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: 6026287
    Abstract: A converter, transmitter and/or receiver for mixing an input signal (I.sub.RF) having a first frequency (RF) with an input signal (I.sub.LO) coming from a local oscillator having a second frequency (LO), and for producing an output signal (O.sub.IF) having an intermediate frequency (IF), with rejection of the harmonics of the second frequency (LO) up to a very high order, for example, higher than the tenth order. The device includes a double balanced ring mixer (17) of field effect transistors (12, 13, 14, 15), having a first and a second pair of input terminals (3, 4; 1, 2) and having a pair of output terminals (5, 6), and a first and a second coupler (18, 19) respectively acting as a phase separator and phase combiner for the input signal (I.sub.RF) having the first frequency (RF) and output signal (O.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Puechberty, Patrick Jean, Christophe Boyavalle
  • Patent number: 5745009
    Abstract: The invention relates to a semiconductor device including an amplifier, and a mobile telecommunication terminal comprising this semiconductor device. The amplifier has a very high frequency a.c. signal and comprises a last stage but one of depletion-layer MESFET transistors (T3) and a last transistor stage (T4) of the same type, coupled by a d.c. isolation capacitor (C4). This capacitor (C4) forms with the intrinsic diode (.increment.4) of the transistor (T4) of the last stage a series-arranged rectifier circuit. The latter imposes a shift of the mean level of the a.c. signal on the terminals of said isolation capacitor once the amplitude of the positive part of this a.c. signal has exceeded the conduction threshold of the intrinsic diode (.increment.4). This shift of the mean level (-1.5 volts) is used as a negative voltage (-VG) for biasing the coupled gates of all the stages of the amplifier circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Bruno Leroux, Didier Meignant, Eric Puechberty