Patents by Inventor Franco Toffolo

Franco Toffolo 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: 6931081
    Abstract: An antenna diversity receiver is disclosed. The diversity receiver has a multipath detector for controlling an antenna selective switching circuit. The switching circuit couples one of a plurality of antennas to a RF receiver input. The receiver allows suppression of adjacent channel interferences without unwanted side effects by employing a switching disabling circuit to automatically disabling the switching circuit when the signal delay between the occurrence of multipath distortions in the RF reception signal and the switching between antennas exceeds a predetermined critical signal delay value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens VDO AG
    Inventors: Pieter Meijer, Franco Toffolo, Christiaan Marie Hubertus Banziger
  • Publication number: 20010048401
    Abstract: An antenna diversity receiver is disclosed. The diversity receiver has a multipath detector for controlling an antenna selective switching circuit. The switching circuit couples one of a plurality of antennas to a RF receiver input. The receiver allows suppression of adjacent channel interferences without unwanted side effects by employing a switching disabling circuit to automatically disabling the switching circuit when the signal delay between the occurrence of multipath distortions in the RF reception signal and the switching between antennas exceeds a predetermined critical signal delay value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Publication date: December 6, 2001
    Inventors: Pieter Meijer, Franco Toffolo, Christiaan Marie Hubertus Banziger
  • Patent number: 4648126
    Abstract: Noise detector for detecting noise pulses in a non-limited radio broadcast signal modulated on a carrier, comprising an amplitude detection circuit and coupled thereto a first signal comparison circuit having a signal input and a threshold input, a first threshold signal depending on the average input level of the noise detector and a second threshold signal depending on the noise pulse repetition frequency being applied to this threshold input. To limit the repetition frequency of the detection output signals of the noise detector without reducing the input sensitivity, the threshold level of the noise detector is controlled in forward direction in dependence on the field strength and the noise pulse repetition frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1987
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Franco Toffolo