Patents by Inventor Werner Bradinal

Werner Bradinal 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: 6249158
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement for generating an output signal at an output by combining at least a first and a second input signal, includes controllable switches for applying a respective one of the input signals to the output, in which, for the purpose of switching the output from one of the input signals to the other, a first one of the controllable switches is gradually switched from the blocked to the conducting state and a second one of the controllable switches is switched complementarily thereto from the conducting to the blocked state. To implement such a circuit arrangement in such a way that distortions produced by tolerances and inaccuracies in matching the characteristics of the components used for switching can be avoided, while using a small number of components, the controllable switches are switched oppositely to each other between their completely conducting and their completely blocked state with a mutually complementary, gradually changed duty cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Udo Schillhof, Werner Bradinal, Norbert Nieke