Patents by Inventor Robert Yapp

Robert Yapp 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: 4207436
    Abstract: The first monostable multivibrator of a series connected pair of monostable multivibrators is responsive to each break interval of input dial pulses for establishing a fixed time delay after which the second multivibrator initiates a corrected break interval and starts a first timing capacitor thereof charging at a rate set by a fixed time constant. Each input break interval also causes a capacitor of a second timing circuit to start discharging at a rate set by another fixed time constant, the time that the second capacitor starts discharging being a function of the pulse repetition frequency of input dial pulses. When the charge voltages on the two capacitors are the same values, the output of a comparator resets the second multivibrator to terminate an output break interval so as to cause corrected dial pulses in the output thereof to have a constant percent break.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1980
    Assignee: GTE Automatic Electric Laboratories Incorporated
    Inventors: Nam Tosuntikool, Robert Yapp