Patents by Inventor Mark Van Ness Faulkner

Mark Van Ness Faulkner 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: 5978666
    Abstract: First and second slotlines are mounted on an electrically insulating substrate having a planar face with a connection region. Each slotline has first and second, spaced-apart coplanar conductors that extend into the connection region. A fifth, ground conductor, also mounted on the substrate face, is spaced from and coplanar with the first and second slotlines and has a proximal portion in the connection region. A chip circuit includes first and second field-effect transistors (FETs) flip mounted in the connection region to all five conductors. The gates of the FETs are connected to the first slotline for receiving an input signal. The drains are connected to the second slotline for outputting the signal amplified by the transistors. The sources of the FETs are connected to the fifth conductor. This general configuration can be modified for use as an amplifier, oscillator, frequency multiplier or mixer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Endgate Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Van Ness Faulkner, Bert C. Henderson, Clifford A. Mohwinkel, Edward B. Anderson
  • Patent number: 5942804
    Abstract: A means of connecting a plurality of essentially identical active devices is presented for the purpose of multifunction and multiple function operation. These devices, mounted on a chip, are flip-mounted to a circuit motherboard having large passive elements. A push-pull amplifier is presented as an example in which the multiple function operation is the combining of amplifiers whose active devices are on a single chip. The electromagnetic coupling, impedance matching and signal transmission are variously provided by the use of striplines, slotlines, coplanar waveguides, and a slotline converted into a coplanar waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: Endgate Corporation
    Inventors: Clifford A. Mohwinkel, Mark Van Ness Faulkner
  • Patent number: 5698469
    Abstract: A process of connecting a plurality of essentially identical active devices is presented for the purpose of multifunction and multiple function operation. These devices, mounted on a chip, are flip-mounted to a circuit motherboard having large passive elements. A push-pull amplifier is presented as an example in which the multiple function operation is the combining of amplifiers whose active devices are on a single chip. The electromagnetic coupling, impedance matching and signal transmission are variously provided by the use of striplines, slotlines, coplanar waveguides, and a slotline converted into a coplanar waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: Endgate Corporation
    Inventors: Clifford A. Mohwinkel, Mark Van Ness Faulkner
  • Patent number: 5623231
    Abstract: A means of connecting a plurality of essentially identical active devices is presented for the purpose of multifunction and multiple function operation. These devices, mounted on a chip, are flip-mounted to a circuit motherboard having large passive elements. A push-pull amplifier is presented as an example in which the multiple function operation is the combining of amplifiers whose active devices are on a single chip. The electromagnetic coupling, impedance matching and signal transmission are variously provided by the use of striplines, slotlines, coplanar waveguides, and a slotline converted into a coplanar waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1997
    Assignee: Endgate Corporation
    Inventors: Clifford A. Mohwinkel, Mark Van Ness Faulkner