Cable Systems And Components Patents (Class 375/257)
  • Patent number: 10534042
    Abstract: A bus system having at least two control devices, each of which has a bus driver. The bus drivers are connected together via at least two bus lines, each of which is equipped with at least one coupling capacitor. A terminal network is connected to the bus lines and consists of at least two resistors and a capacitor; each of the two resistors is connected to one of the bus lines and the resistors are connected together at a central tap. The capacitor of the terminal network lies between the central tap and a ground connection, and the bus system has a reference voltage source. The reference voltage source is connected to the central tap via an element. The voltage of the reference voltage source has a value between an operating voltage of the bus system and ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Olaf Krieger, Lothar Claus
  • Patent number: 10530512
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method receives a first time from a network device. The first time is derived from a first timing source in a first domain. The method receives a second time in a second domain from a second timing source. A difference time value is calculated between the first time and the second time. The method then sends the difference time value to the network device where the network device uses the difference time value to send a delay value to other computing devices to synchronize timing of the other computing devices in the second domain. The other computing devices are configured to synchronize the respective time using the delay value with mobile network devices to allow timing synchronization between the mobile network devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Yair Neugeboren, Eliezer Baruch, Ian G. Wheelock
  • Patent number: 10522194
    Abstract: In a data transmission system, one or more signal supply voltages for generating the signaling voltage of a signal to be transmitted are generated in a first circuit and forwarded from the first circuit to a second circuit. The second circuit may use the forwarded signal supply voltages to generate another signal to be transmitted back from the second circuit to the first circuit, thereby obviating the need to generate signal supply voltages separately in the second circuit. The first circuit may also adjust the signal supply voltages based on the signal transmitted back from the second circuit to the first circuit. The data transmission system may employ a single-ended signaling system in which the signaling voltage is referenced to a reference voltage that is a power supply voltage such as ground, shared by the first circuit and the second circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Scott C. Best, John W. Poulton
  • Patent number: 10523274
    Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments, an access point includes a communication interface having: a coupler configured to receive, via a transmission medium, first guided electromagnetic waves from a communication node of a radio distributed antenna system, wherein the first guided electromagnetic waves propagate along the transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path; and also a receiver configured to receive first data from the first guided electromagnetic waves. A data switch is configured to select first selected portions of the first data for transmission to at least one communication device in proximity to the access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Farhad Barzegar, Irwin Gerszberg, Giovanni Vannucci, Peter Wolniansky, Paul Shala Henry
  • Patent number: 10516556
    Abstract: Provided is a transmission device including a transmitter. The transmitter includes a first output, a second output, and a third output, and is configured to transmit a symbol signal corresponding to a combination of signals of the first output, the second output, and the third output. An output impedance of the second output is lower than an output impedance of the first output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsuya Sugioka
  • Patent number: 10517092
    Abstract: A method for transmitting node data in a wireless meshed network from a plurality of wireless nodes to at least one consolidating node includes assigning each of the plurality of wireless nodes to one of a plurality of node pools and causing each of the plurality of wireless nodes to transmit node data to one or more other wireless nodes and/or the at least one consolidating node during the assigned time slots. Each wireless node transmits its node data during timeslots which are adjacent to timeslots during which a wireless node from another node pool transmits its node data. The node data for each wireless node includes data originating at the wireless node and node data received from another wireless node of the same node pool which are linearly aggregated using network coding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Weiss, Maximilian R. F. King, Declan Oller, Philip Thomas Zucker, Benjamin Naidich Wiener
  • Patent number: 10505542
    Abstract: A semiconductor die. The die comprises a level shifter coupled to a positive differential input and to a negative differential input comprising a first operational amplifier, wherein the first operational amplifier is configured to generate an internal common mode voltage coupled to a positive differential output and to a negative differential output, a positive alternating current (AC) coupled feed-forward path comprising a first capacitor coupled to the positive differential input and to the positive differential output, a negative AC coupled feed-forward path comprising a second capacitor coupled to the negative differential input and to the negative differential output, a positive direct current (DC) feed-forward path coupled to the differential input, to the internal common mode voltage sense node, and to the positive differential output, and a negative DC feed-forward path coupled to the differential input, to the internal common mode voltage sense node, and to the negative differential output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Steven Ernest Finn
  • Patent number: 10504831
    Abstract: An electronic circuit includes a generating circuit for generating a first group of signals and a second group of signals, and a transmission path for transmitting the first group of signals and the second group of signals. The first group of signals are composed of signals synchronized with a first edge that is one of the rising edge and the falling edge of a reference clock, and the second group of signals are composed of signals synchronized with a second edge that is the other of the rising edge and falling edge. The transmission path includes first transmission lines for transmitting the signals composing the first group and second transmission lines for transmitting the signals composing the second group, and the first and second transmission lines are alternately arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideo Kobayashi, Kazuo Yamazaki, Hiroki Hiyama
  • Patent number: 10484042
    Abstract: A bidirectional data link includes a forward channel transmitter circuit and a forward channel receiver circuit. The forward channel transmitter circuit includes a forward channel driver circuit, and a back channel receiver circuit. The back channel receiver circuit is coupled to the forward channel driver circuit. The back channel receiver circuit includes a summation circuit and an active filter circuit. The summation circuit is coupled to the forward channel driver circuit. The active filter circuit is coupled to the summation circuit. The forward channel receiver circuit includes a forward channel receiver, and a back channel driver circuit. The back channel driver circuit is coupled to the forward channel receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Abishek Manian, Amit Rane
  • Patent number: 10459512
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a receiver sense circuit configured to generate a detection signal responsive to detecting a connection to a sink device via a connector. The electronic device further includes a controller coupled to a hot plug detect (HPD) interface. The controller is configured to enable a direct current (DC) voltage source based on the detection signal received from the receiver sense circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Cheng Zhong, Nam Van Dang, Hung Quoc Vuong, Xiaohua Kong
  • Patent number: 10432264
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for transmitting analog and digital information while transmitting energy between a power transmitter (10) and a power receiver (12) which is galvanically isolated from the power transmitter, having the following steps: a) providing the analog (22a) and digital (24a) information to be transmitted; b) defining the number nAD of possible values ADi, i=1 to nAD which are possible when digitizing the analog information and defining the value range of the values ADi; c) assigning a digital value Dx (in binary notation) to the digital information; d) defining a minimum number of events nmin to be transmitted; e) determining a maximum number of events nmax to be transmitted; f) defining a first set of values nlow defined by: nlow (ADi)=nmin+f1(ADi), i=1 to nAD; g) defining a second set of values nlow defined by: nhigh(ADi)=nmax?f2(ADi), i=1 to nAD; h) digitizing the analog information in order to obtain a digital analog value ADx; i) determining a number of events nlow(ADx)=nmin+f1(
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: ETATRONIX GMBH
    Inventor: Dominik Huwig
  • Patent number: 10432435
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for the selection and/or configuration of scrambling operations to accommodate e.g., both scrambling and non-scrambling connections (such as to e.g., legacy type devices). In one embodiment, media interface devices (such as e.g., HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface)) devices may provide enhanced scrambling capabilities; solutions disclosed herein provide, among other things, support for both enhanced scrambling capable devices and legacy devices, and enable a device to determine the scrambling capabilities of a connected device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Colin Whitby-Strevens
  • Patent number: 10404502
    Abstract: Various techniques are described to terminate a differential wire pair using combinations of CMCs, transformers, autotransformers, differential mode chokes (DMCs), and AC-coupling capacitors. The techniques improve the AC common mode insertion loss without attenuating the differential data signals, while easing the requirements of the CMC. In one example, an autotransformer, having a first winding, a second winding, and a center tap, is connected across a PHY, where the center tap provides a low impedance to ground for attenuating common mode noise. A CMC is coupled across the autotransformer and a pair of wires carrying differential data, where the CMC greatly attenuates common mode noise. The requirements of the CMC are reduced due to the autotransformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Linear Technology LLC
    Inventor: Andrew J. Gardner
  • Patent number: 10382095
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, generating first traffic for transmitting along a network path toward a recipient device, determining a schedule for transmitting the first traffic, and facilitating transmission of the first traffic along the network path using a first waveguide system. The first waveguide system has a dielectric coupler, and operates by communicating electromagnetic waves via the dielectric coupler at a physical interface of a transmission medium that propagate without utilizing an electrical return path. The electromagnetic waves are guided by the transmission medium, wherein the electromagnetic waves at least partially surround an outer surface of the transmission medium, and wherein the electromagnetic waves have a non-optical frequency range. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: David Gross, Joshua Lackey, Donald E. Levy, Roger Piqueras Jover, Jayaraman Ramachandran, Cristina Serban
  • Patent number: 10374468
    Abstract: A device for communicating and providing power over a cable having at least two conductors comprises a first inductor having a primary and a secondary winding, a second inductor having a primary and a secondary winding, the primary winding of the second inductor being coupled at one end to the primary winding of the first inductor, each of the secondary windings of the first and second inductors being coupled to one of the at least two conductors in the cable. The device further includes a transceiver coupled to the primary windings of the first and second inductors, wherein the first inductor is coupled to local ground potential, in a manner that varies the potential of each of the said conductors symmetrically from an average potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: KOLLMORGEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: George B. Yundt, Robert Pearce
  • Patent number: 10367603
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a waveguide system for detecting a condition that adversely affects a propagation of electromagnetic waves generated by the waveguide system on a surface of the transmission medium, and adjusting characteristics of the electromagnetic waves generated by the waveguide system to reduce adverse effects caused by the condition. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Paul Shala Henry, Robert Bennett, Irwin Gerszberg, Farhad Barzegar, Donald J. Barnickel, Thomas M. Willis, III
  • Patent number: 10361524
    Abstract: An interface includes a connector that is physically and electrically connectable to a device conforming to a first interface standard and a device conforming to a second interface standard, and an interface circuit including a signal line extending to a terminal of the connector, a coupling capacitor disposed on the signal line, and a switch having a first end electrically connected to a first terminal of the coupling capacitor and a second end electrically connected to a second terminal of the coupling capacitor. The switch is turned on when the connector is connected to a device conforming to the first interface standard so that a signal bypasses the coupling capacitor and is transmitted through the switch and turned off when the connector is connected to a device conforming to the second interface standard so that the signal is transmitted through the coupling capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki Kimura
  • Patent number: 10355488
    Abstract: Energy storage devices, servers, and methods for controlling the same are disclosed. The energy storage device can include at least one battery pack, a network interface configured to exchange data with a server, and a connector that receives alternating current (AC) power from an internal power network or outputs AC power to the internal power network. Energy storage device can also include a power converter configured to convert the AC power from the internal power network into direct current (DC) power based on the information about the power to store when information about power to store is received from the server, or, convert DC power stored in the battery pack into AC power based on the information about the power to output when information about power to output to the internal power network is received from the server. Accordingly, energy may be more efficiently stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Heesoo Moon, Jaehyuk Park, Sanghun Kim, Seungyong Lee
  • Patent number: 10339061
    Abstract: A multi-core processor providing heterogeneous processor cores and a shared cache is presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Frank T. Hady, Mason Cabot, Mark B. Rosenbluth, John Beck
  • Patent number: 10333743
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus with power over coaxial cable (PoC) function including a transmission port, a low-pass filter, a dynamic impedance circuit and a switching power converter is provided. The transmission port is coupled to a coaxial cable. The low-pass filter is coupled to the transmission port to receive a mixed signal from the coaxial cable and filter the mixed signal to obtain a first power. The dynamic impedance circuit is coupled to the low-pass filter to receive and store the first power and provide a second power accordingly. The switching power converter is coupled to the dynamic impedance circuit to receive the second power and convert the second power to an operation power. The dynamic impedance circuit changes an impedance thereof dynamically in response to a current change of the second power, so as to prevent a noise of the switching power converter from being feedback to the transmission port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: REC Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Chien-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 10277040
    Abstract: A communications system for a battery-management system of a battery includes coupling networks that are each connected or connectable via two input-side connections to a transmission channel, and via two output-side connections to a respective one of a plurality of communications users. The transmission channel can be used for the transmission of communications signals at a transmission frequency and that are to be transmitted and/or received by the communications users during a communications process between the communications users. At least one of the coupling networks has a first and second operating state, in which an input impedance that occurs between the two input-side connections of the respective predefined coupling network at the transmission frequency has two different impedance amounts. A communications user allocated to a predefined coupling network can set the allocated predefined coupling network to each of its two operating states once or multiple times during the communications process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Clemens Schroff, Chrysanthos Tzivanopoulos, Juergen Seidel
  • Patent number: 10242046
    Abstract: A computing device receives a natural language query. The computing device determines, based on the natural language query, a set of search criteria. The computing device determines, from a plurality of data sets, two or more data sets that are relevant to the natural language query based at least in part on matches between the set of search criteria and attributes of the plurality of data sets. The computing device joins the two or more data sets, including joining one or more rows and one or more columns of the two or more data sets to produce a joint data set. The computing device outputs a representation of the joint data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mohsen Rais-Ghasem, Robin N. Grosset
  • Patent number: 10230370
    Abstract: In one form, a data transmission system includes transmission and reception circuits. The transmission circuit includes a first driver having an input for receiving a first transmit data signal, an output, a positive power supply terminal for receiving an input/output (I/O) power supply voltage, and a negative terminal for receiving an I/O ground voltage, a second driver having an input for receiving the I/O power supply voltage, an output, and a positive power supply terminal for receiving the I/O power supply voltage, and a third driver having an input for receiving the I/O ground voltage, an output, and a negative power supply terminal coupled to the I/O ground voltage. The reception circuit forms a reference voltage based an average of signal content below a predetermined frequency of outputs of the second and third drivers, and receives a signal from the output of the first driver using the reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC
    Inventors: Fei Guo, Mark Edward Frankovich
  • Patent number: 10218356
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first power source (PS1) pad supplied with a PS1 voltage; a PS1 line connected to the PS1 pad; a first ground line (G1); an output circuit operated using the PS1 voltage; a second power source (PS2) pad supplied with a PS2 voltage; a PS2 line connected to the PS2 pad; a second ground line (G2); a signal line connected to an output end of the output circuit; an input circuit connected to the signal line at an input end receiving a signal from the output end and operated using the PS2 voltage; a main protection circuit unit providing discharge routes between the PS1 pad and G1, G1 and G2, and G2 and the PS2 pad; and a sub protection circuit unit. The output circuit includes: a circuit element arranged between the PS1 line and the signal line and able to function as a resistive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mototsugu Okushima
  • Patent number: 10219073
    Abstract: A two-wire communication system includes a first audio circuit, and a second audio circuit electrically connected to the first audio circuit via a two-wire bi-directional multi-node communication bus. The communication connects the first audio circuit to the second audio circuit wherein an audio signal, an enable signal, and a clip detect signal are transmitted over the bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: David M. Walus, Ronald Eric Zlotnik, Ryan Anderson
  • Patent number: 10158423
    Abstract: A test equipment module and method of communicating maintenance data in a cable system is disclosed. The module comprises a receiver, a measurement system, a pilot generator, and a signal encoder. The receiver receives downstream signals from a host communication network. The measurement system determines a maintenance parameter value associated with the downstream signals. The pilot generator generates a pilot within the downstream frequency band, and a signal encoder encodes the pilot with the maintenance parameter value. The pilot generator adds the encoded pilot to the downstream signals in the communication network, such that a cable modem in the network can receive the encoded pilot and generate a spectrum that includes the encoded pilot. A PNM server receives the spectrum from the cable modem and determines the maintenance parameter value from the spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: ARCOM DIGITAL, LLC
    Inventor: Victor M. Zinevich
  • Patent number: 10153917
    Abstract: Methods, integrated circuits and computer-readable media for communicating back-channel data over a data link by modulating the phase or frequency of a clock signal of a data signal transmitted over the data link. Slow modulation of the clock signal allows it to be detected and extracted by a receiver without affecting the integrity or bit rate of the data signal. Some embodiments allow the functionality to be implemented without the use of extra hardware in the transmitter or receiver or either.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Davide Tonietto, Dustin Tarl Dunwell, Anthony Chan Carusone
  • Patent number: 10141975
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining whether communications are encrypted, determining a communication type for the communications according to sensitivity criteria, encrypting the communications according to the communication type to generate encrypted communications, and transmitting to a second network device the encrypted communications. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: David Gross, Joshua Lackey, Donald E. Levy, Roger Piqueras Jover, Jayaraman Ramachandran, Cristina Serban
  • Patent number: 10135742
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a data transmission apparatus and method. The data transmission apparatus includes: a processor, configured to, record a link quality indication value corresponding to received data and add 1 to a count value, if the data is received within a preset period of time; if it is learned by comparison that the count value is not less than a quantity N of pieces of data allowed to be transmitted in a current period, calculate an average value of link quality indication values; and compare the average value with a threshold to determine a quantity of pieces of data allowed to be transmitted in a next period The apparatus also includes a transceiver, configured to reply with a periodicity acknowledgment frame that carries the quantity of pieces of data allowed to be transmitted in the next period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Pei Liu
  • Patent number: 10128904
    Abstract: A repeater circuit is disclosed. The repeater circuit is coupled to a transmission line driven by a first transmitter circuit and configured to detect a signal transition from a first voltage level to a second voltage level at a first position on the transmission line. The repeater circuit then reinforces the signal transition from the second voltage level to a third voltage level at the first position on the transmission line without interrupting a current through the transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: William J. Dally
  • Patent number: 10122414
    Abstract: Spatially Enabled Communication technologies are disclosed. A proximity boundary can be defined by a communication range of one or more SRC devices configured to communicate using near field magnetic induction (NFMI) using at least two antennas to provide magnetic induction diversity. A data block can be securely communicated by interspersing the data between an short range communication (SRC) device for near field magnetic induction (NFMI) communication within the proximity boundary and a radio frequency (RF) radio for RF communication. Data received on the SRC device and the RF radio can be reassembled to form the data block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: FREELINC TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Douglas Howard Dobyns, Michael Scott Abrams
  • Patent number: 10122425
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as a long term evolution (LTE). A method for receiving transmission beam (Tx beam) information by a user equipment (UE) in a communication system supporting a multi-user multi-input multi-output (MU-MIMO) scheme is provided. The method includes transmitting information on a selected Tx beam to a base station (BS), and receiving Tx beam information including information for a Tx beam selected by at least one UE other than the UE from the BS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-Wook Suh
  • Patent number: 10086608
    Abstract: An ink-jet recording apparatus includes: a conveyor conveying a sheet; a recording head including first nozzles, second nozzles, first driving elements corresponding to the first nozzles respectively, and second driving elements corresponding to the second nozzles respectively; a controller; and a head driving circuit connected to the controller by first and second signal lines and a third signal line through which a clock signal is transmitted, and connected electrically to the first driving elements and the second driving elements. Each of the first and second driving elements is driven to jet an ink droplet from one of the first and second nozzles when driving voltage is applied from the head driving circuit. The controller repeatedly executes conveyance processing for conveying the sheet with the conveyor and recording processing in which pattern signals indicating patterns of the driving voltage are outputted serially and a jetting instruction signal is outputted serially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoji Sato, Keisuke Yamamoto, Kenji Kawamoto, Satoru Arakane
  • Patent number: 10084512
    Abstract: Technology is described for proximity based communications. A proximity boundary can be defined with dimensions defined, in part, by a communication range of one of a first Short Range Communication (SRC) device and a second SRC device. The first SRC device and the second SRC device can be configured to communicate using near field magnetic induction (NFMI). A proximity signal can be communicated in the proximity boundary between the first SRC device and the second SRC device, wherein at least one of the first and second SRC devices includes at least two antennas to provide magnetic induction diversity. A security permission can be provided to enable selected data to be communicated from one or more of the first SRC device and the second SRC device using NFMI when the proximity signal is detected between the first SRC device and the second SRC device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: FREELINC TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: Douglas Howard Dobyns, Michael Scott Abrams
  • Patent number: 10075211
    Abstract: A crosstalk reduction method includes providing a signal transmission unit including first to eighth main transmission paths, the first and second paths, the third and sixth paths, the fourth and fifth paths and the seventh and eighth paths being respectively paired to transmit differential signals, providing a first coupling transmission path in the signal transmission unit, the first coupling transmission path being adapted to electrically couple the third main transmission path to the fifth and seventh main transmission paths that are located adjacent to the sixth main path, and providing a second coupling transmission path in the signal transmission unit, the second coupling transmission path being adapted to electrically couple the sixth main transmission path to the second and fourth main transmission path that are located adjacent to the third main transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Shirakawa, Koki Hirano, Yoshitake Ageishi
  • Patent number: 10063220
    Abstract: A signal generator that provides signals for multiple outputs is presented. In some embodiments, a signal generator can include switching circuitry that is coupled to provide a signal to an active output of a plurality of outputs in response to control signals; a driver that provides the signal to the switching circuitry, the signal being at a frequency appropriate for the active output; and a logic that provides the control signals to the switching circuitry and provides a waveform to the driver, the waveform having the frequency appropriate for the active output, the control signals indicating which of the plurality of outputs is the active output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: METROTECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: George Mainescu, Ion Dracea, Razvan Gabriel Stefanoiu, Paul Lucian Lacatus
  • Patent number: 10050648
    Abstract: Satellite controller circuitry includes a connection (i.e. coaxial or single wire with ground), with a control unit receiving a data message and generating a response message as output, and transmitter circuitry transmitting the response message. The transmitter circuitry has a first transistor having a first conduction terminal coupled to the connection, a second conduction terminal coupled to ground, and a control terminal coupled to receive output from the control unit, a second transistor having a first conduction terminal coupled to the connection, a second conduction terminal coupled to ground, and a control terminal coupled to receive the output from the control unit. The first and second transistors are configured such that a second current flowing through the first conduction terminal of the second transistor is in a non-unity ratioed relationship, or in a unity ratioed relationship, with a first current flowing through the first conduction terminal of the first transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
    Inventor: Nabarun Dasgupta
  • Patent number: 10038474
    Abstract: A power/data electrical coupler, designed to send over a two-wire bus or to receive therefrom data signals and to deliver to said two-wire bus or receive therefrom a power-supply potential. Such a coupler includes a transformer, a first winding of which and a second and third winding of which are connected in series with each other with a common terminal connected to a power supply line and the other two terminals to a two-wire bus. It also includes a second isolation transformer connected between said first transformer and said two-wire bus. According to the invention, said terminal common to said second and third windings is connected to said power supply line by means of a band-rejection filter rejecting one or more of the frequency bands including the resonant frequency or frequencies resulting from the association of the isolation transformer and the transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE SAS
    Inventor: François Guillot
  • Patent number: 10020842
    Abstract: The invention relates to a reception device, etc., applied to a transmission/reception system capable of performing high-speed transmission, having a structure to enable to adjust an offset without increasing a circuit area and power consumption. The reception device includes a signal input unit including an offset adjusting circuit, and an adjustment unit. When a pair of adjusting signals of which a voltage between signals is fixed to zero V is outputted from a transmission device to the reception device connected to each other via a differential signal line including at least a pair of signal lines, the signal input unit that has received the pair of adjusting signals outputs logical value data corresponding to the voltage between signals. The adjustment unit determines adjustment value data to adjust the offset of a threshold to obtain the logical value data based on the logical value data inputted in a certain period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: THINE ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventor: Satoshi Miura
  • Patent number: 9984033
    Abstract: A bi-directional differential bus interface that includes a differential transmitter having a non-inverting terminal and an inverting terminal, a differential receiver having a non-inverting terminal and an inverting terminal, and a biasing circuit that is electrically coupled to the non-inverting terminal of the differential transmitter and the inverting terminal of the differential transmitter. The biasing circuit is configured to generate a voltage between the non-inverting terminal of the differential transmitter and the inverting terminal of the differential transmitter that is approximately 200 mV or more in response to assertion of a control signal received on a control input of the biasing circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daniel J. Rohr, Richard Earl Jenkins
  • Patent number: 9985634
    Abstract: An efficient regulated power supply for a communications interface is disclosed using a data-dependent charge pump design. Data patterns known to produce increased power supply load concurrently raise power supply source current, leading to significant overall power savings for the combined communications driver and regulator over known switched and linear regulator solutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: KANDOU LABS, S.A.
    Inventor: Roger Ulrich
  • Patent number: 9979570
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for the selection and/or configuration of scrambling operations to accommodate e.g., both scrambling and non-scrambling connections (such as to e.g., legacy type devices). In one embodiment, media interface devices (such as e.g., HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface)) devices may provide enhanced scrambling capabilities; solutions disclosed herein provide, among other things, support for both enhanced scrambling capable devices and legacy devices, and enable a device to determine the scrambling capabilities of a connected device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Colin Whitby-Strevens
  • Patent number: 9977852
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing Chronos Channel interconnects in an ASIC are provided. Chronos Channels rely on a reduced set of timing assumptions and are robust against delay variations. Chronos Channels transmit data using delay insensitive (DI) codes and quasi-delay-insensitive (QDI) logic. Chronos Channels are insensitive to all wire and gate delay variations, but for those belonging to a few specific forking logic paths called isochronic forks. Chronos Channels use temporal compression in internal paths to reduce the overheads of QDI logic and efficiently transmit data. Chronos Channels are defined by a combination of a DI code, a temporal compression ratio and hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: CHRONOS TECH LLC
    Inventors: Stefano Giaconi, Giacomo Rinaldi
  • Patent number: 9949393
    Abstract: A cable managing device for a case is disclosed. The cable managing device includes at least one straight cable manager including a straight base whose sides respectively upward extend to form two first sidewalls and a first accommodation space. At least one curved cable manager includes a curved base whose outer side upward extends to form a second sidewall and a second accommodation space inside the second sidewall. The bottoms of two ends of the curved base are respectively provided with a second male tenon and a second female tenon. One of the tenons is fastened with one of a female tenon and a male tenon at two ends of the straight cable manager to connect the first accommodation space with the second accommodation space, thereby accommodating the cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: NZXT INC.
    Inventor: Shin Feng
  • Patent number: 9882653
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of a device that determines transmit and receive skew times between pairs of lanes of an electrical interface of a network element is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receive a plurality of configurations corresponding to a plurality of electrical loopbacks that can each couple transmit and receive interfaces of the electrical interface via the plurality of lanes in different patterns. In addition, for each of the plurality of electrical loopbacks, the device couples this electrical loopback to the transmit and receive interfaces of the electrical interface and measures overall skew times for pairs of the plurality of lanes of the electrical interface. Furthermore, the device computes the transmit and receive skew times for the transmit and receive interfaces from the overall skew times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Arista Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Ahern Tamoney
  • Patent number: 9870331
    Abstract: Devices and methods are provided where a first signal and a second signal are received. The second signal may be a single-ended signal and may be selectively converted to a differential signal based on a type of the first signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Peter Amreich
  • Patent number: 9860078
    Abstract: An apparatus, comprising a receiver configured to receive a primary signal that comprises a narrowband noise component and a broadband noise component, a processor coupled to the receiver and configured to determine, in a time domain, an estimate of the narrowband noise component in real-time, determine a cancelled output signal in real-time that comprises an estimate of the broadband noise component, and determine an estimate of a power level of the narrowband noise component in real-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Syed Habib Rahman, Fan Wang, Xiaoshu Si, Tao Ouyang, Chuan Niu
  • Patent number: 9838082
    Abstract: Technology is described for proximity based communications. A proximity boundary can be defined with dimensions defined, in part, by a communication range of one of a first Short Range Communication (SRC) device and a second SRC device. The first SRC device and the second SRC device can be configured to communicate using near field magnetic induction (NFMI). A proximity signal can be communicated in the proximity boundary between the first SRC device and the second SRC device, wherein at least one of the first and second SRC devices includes at least two antennas to provide magnetic induction diversity. A security permission can be provided to enable selected data to be communicated from one or more of the first SRC device and the second SRC device using NFMI when the proximity signal is detected between the first SRC device and the second SRC device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Freelinc Technologies
    Inventors: Douglas Howard Dobyns, Michael Scott Abrams
  • Patent number: 9819388
    Abstract: A method and apparatus in a noise cancellation system that receives a noise reference signal via a noise reference signal input port, and performs at least one of procedures a and b set forth below for reducing noise in a DSL data signal transmitted on a DSL transmission line to which the noise cancellation system is coupled: a.i.) creating a noise free representation of a DSL synchronization symbol repeatedly occurring in the transmitted DSL data signal, and a.ii.) reducing the noise in the transmitted DSL data signal based on the noise free representation of the DSL synchronization symbol and the received noise reference signal, and b.i.) analyzing at least one of the received noise reference signal and the transmitted DSL data signal to identify one or more frequency bands in which to de-emphasize noise cancellation in the transmitted DSL data signal, and b.ii.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Inventors: Mark B. Flowers, Mark Mallory, Mark Brady, John M. Cioffi, Mehdi Mohseni
  • Patent number: 9780974
    Abstract: A Power Over Data Lines (PoDL) system includes Power Sourcing Equipment (PSE) supplying DC power and Ethernet data over a single twisted wire pair to a Powered Device (PD). The PSE supplies the DC current and AC data through a cascaded coupling network including a series of AC-blocking inductor stages having different inductances to substantially filter out the AC component and pass the DC component. The data is supplied to the wires via capacitors. The PD may have a matched decoupling network for providing the separated DC power and data to a PD load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Linear Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Andrew J. Gardner