Electrical pulse counters, pulse dividers, or shift registers: circuits and systems inventions 04/09

20090110137 - Feedback shift register control: Feedback shift register control circuit including a checking circuit having an input being coupled to a seed input of a feedback shift register or to an internal node of the feedback shift register, the checking circuit configured to be responsive to a signal at the input indicating that the feedback... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090110138 - Shift register circuit: A shift register circuit includes a plurality of bit register units, coupled in series, for transferring an input signal among the plurality of bit register units to sequentially output the input signal to a plurality of data output terminals according to a control signal and a clock signal, wherein the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090086879 - Sensor device, and sensor system and electronic device using the sensor device: A sensor device which detects a positional relationship between an first member and second member, includes a signal source generating an electrical signal, a first electrode receiving the electrical signal and storing an electrical charge at a first part on the first member, a second electrode inducing an electrical charge... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090086880 - Counter using shift for enhanced endurance: A counting device includes a set of memory cells, which are configured to store respective bits of a count code. A controller is coupled to the memory cells so as to increment, in response to occurrences of a count input, the count code in the set of the memory cells... Agent: Sandisk C/o Darby & Darby PC

20090086881 - Counter with overflow prevention capability: A counter with overflow prevention capability includes a counting unit configured to count an output code in response to an input signal and an overflow preventing unit configured to control the counting unit to stop counting the output code when a current value of the output code is a maximum... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP