Patents by Inventor Jan Rune
Jan Rune 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).
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Patent number: 10466851Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a first electrode, one or more processors, and one or more memory units coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more memory units collectively store logic that is configured to cause the one or more processors to control connections of the first electrode by connecting the first electrode to a first reference voltage, then connecting the first electrode to a second reference voltage lower than the first reference voltage, and then connecting the first electrode to a third reference voltage lower than the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage. The second reference voltage is coupled to a capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Atmel CorporationInventors: Trond Jarle Pedersen, Torgeir Fenheim, Jan Rune Herheim, Stefan Markus Schabel
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Publication number: 20190121462Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a first electrode, one or more processors, and one or more memory units coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more memory units collectively store logic that is configured to cause the one or more processors to control connections of the first electrode by connecting the first electrode to a first reference voltage, then connecting the first electrode to a second reference voltage lower than the first reference voltage, and then connecting the first electrode to a third reference voltage lower than the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage. The second reference voltage is coupled to a capacitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Trond Jarle Pedersen, Torgeir Fenheim, Jan Rune Herheim, Stefan Markus Schabel
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Patent number: 9983748Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a first electrode, one or more processors, and one or more memory units coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more memory units collectively store logic that is configured to cause the one or more processors to control connections of the first electrode by connecting the first electrode to a first reference voltage, then connecting the first electrode to a second reference voltage lower than the first reference voltage, and then connecting the first electrode to a third reference voltage lower than the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage. The second reference voltage is coupled to a capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Atmel CorporationInventors: Trond Jarle Pedersen, Torgeir Fenheim, Jan Rune Herheim, Stefan Markus Schabel
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Publication number: 20170235388Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a first electrode, one or more processors, and one or more memory units coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more memory units collectively store logic that is configured to cause the one or more processors to control connections of the first electrode by connecting the first electrode to a first reference voltage, then connecting the first electrode to a second reference voltage lower than the first reference voltage, and then connecting the first electrode to a third reference voltage lower than the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage. The second reference voltage is coupled to a capacitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2016Publication date: August 17, 2017Inventors: Trond Jarle Pedersen, Torgeir Fenheim, Jan Rune Herheim, Stefan Markus Schabel
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Patent number: 8493045Abstract: A voltage regulator is configurable to operate in a linear regulator mode or a buck regulator mode. To operate in the buck regulator mode, the voltage regulator is coupled to an inductor. To determine whether an inductor is coupled to voltage regulator, and thus whether the voltage regulator can be configured in the buck regulator mode, a detection circuit determines whether a regulator output of the voltage regulator resists a change in current driven to the regulator output.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2010Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Atmel CorporationInventors: Kai Renton, Frode Milch Pedersen, Jan Rune Herheim
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Patent number: 8223049Abstract: A low-cost charge injection mechanism may enable oversampling to be used on low frequency signals by injecting dither noise into the ADC input. The dither noise can reduce the quantization noise allowing even direct current (DC) signals to be oversampled correctly. A low-cost charge injection mechanism can also be used to improve the ENOB by characterizing the ADC and digitally correcting the converted signal for non-linearity errors such as INL. Reducing INL errors may also allow a higher degree of oversampling to be used to further improve the ENOB.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2010Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Atmel CorporationInventors: Fredrik Larsen, Frode Milch Pedersen, Jan Rune Herheim, Ronan Barzic
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Publication number: 20120161732Abstract: A voltage regulator is configurable to operate in a linear regulator mode or a buck regulator mode. To operate in the buck regulator mode, the voltage regulator is coupled to an inductor. To determine whether an inductor is coupled to voltage regulator, and thus whether the voltage regulator can be configured in the buck regulator mode, a detection circuit determines whether a regulator output of the voltage regulator resists a change in current driven to the regulator output.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2010Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: ATMEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kai Renton, Frode Milch Pedersen, Jan Rune Herheim
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Publication number: 20120139767Abstract: A low-cost charge injection mechanism may enable oversampling to be used on low frequency signals by injecting dither noise into the ADC input. The dither noise can reduce the quantization noise allowing even direct current (DC) signals to be oversampled correctly. A low-cost charge injection mechanism can also be used to improve the ENOB by characterizing the ADC and digitally correcting the converted signal for non-linearity errors such as INL. Reducing INL errors may also allow a higher degree of oversampling to be used to further improve the ENOB.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2010Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: ATMEL CORPORATIONInventors: Fredrik Larsen, Frode Milch Pedersen, Jan Rune Herheim, Ronan Barzic
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Patent number: 6340440Abstract: A method for producing a tubular container of plastic material, in which the plastic material is supplied to an injection mould (3) which forms therein a blank (1) including a blank body (15) with a tubular portion (16). The tubular portion is open at one end (11) and has, in its other end (10), an emptying aperture or mouth (12) of the future container with a closure device thereat. The tubular portion (16) is displaced or drawn through an annular gap (4) for reduction of the wall thickness and axial extension thereof. After extension, the tubular portion is cut to the desired length. The thickness of the drawn material is between 0.1 and 0.15 mm. The closure device is confined within an outline formed by the drawn wall of the tubular portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2000Date of Patent: January 22, 2002Assignee: Plastech A.p.S.Inventor: Jan Rune Pedersen
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Patent number: 5656225Abstract: A method for producing a squeezable, thin-walled tube container of orientable plastic material in which the container includes a mouth portion, a squeezable thin-walled tubular container body having an open bottom-forming portion and a connecting portion located between the mouth portion and the container body and in which the mouth portion and the connecting portion consists of non-oriented material includes forcing the non-oriented material in the tube portion, by mechanical means, through a gap with a gap width at most amounting to approximately half the wall thickness of the material in the tube portion for orientation of the material passing through the gap, thereby obtaining substantially monoaxial orientation of the material which forms the container body and the open bottom-forming portion of the thin-walled squeezable tube container.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1995Date of Patent: August 12, 1997Assignee: PLM ABInventor: Jan Rune Pedersen
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Patent number: D435882Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 1999Date of Patent: January 2, 2001Inventors: Jorgen Rieffensthal Pedersen, Jan Rune