Patents by Inventor Lawrence O. Friend

Lawrence O. Friend 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: 4605915
    Abstract: An electromagnetically-decoupled stripline circuit on a conventional circuitboard includes a center groundplane and two coplanar striplines that are sandwiched within a dielectric material between two outer groundplanes. A plurality of connectors conductively interconnect the groundplanes. The center groundplane has a decoupling strip portion lying between the striplines that is split in two by a gap. The gap traverses the direction an electromagnetic field would propagate from one of the striplines toward the other, and a pair of the connectors are positioned to straddle the gap. Z-wires, plated-through holes, and additional gaps may be employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1986
    Assignee: Cubic Corporation
    Inventors: Henry D. Marshall, Jeffrey K. Iida, Douglas J. Crow, Lawrence O. Friend