Oscillators inventions 12/07

20070296510 - Frequency hopping oscillator circuit: A method for controlling a frequency output of a phase locked loop (PLL) is provided. The method includes providing digital control words to the PLL to discretely change at least one dividing factor within the PLL. The method further includes applying a time-varying control voltage to a voltage controlled oscillator.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070296508 - Auto-adjusting high accuracy oscillator: An auto-adjusting high accuracy oscillator is disclosed, which comprises: a frequency comparator, for comparing a synchronization signal obtained from a USB host with an oscillation signal obtain from a device; a control tuning circuit, further comprising a counter and an adder/sub circuit; and an oscillating element; wherein a variation is... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070296509 - Auto-adjusting high accuracy oscillator: An auto-adjusting high accuracy oscillator is disclosed, which comprises: a frequency comparator, for comparing a synchronization signal obtained from a USB host with an oscillation signal obtain from a device; a control tuning circuit, further comprising a counter and an adder/sub circuit; and an oscillating element; wherein a variation is... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070296511 - Digital adjustment of an oscillator: The invention concerns the adjustment of an oscillation frequency of an oscillator, in particular the digital coarse adjustment of a PLL oscillator by means of a circuit arrangement comprising at least one pair of capacitors (C, C′), of which first terminals are connected with the oscillator, and second terminals can... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070296512 - Voltage-controlled crystal oscillator: A voltage-controlled crystal oscillator having a voltage-variable capacitive element and a crystal vibrator, includes a control voltage generating circuit, a first charging circuit which charges an output-side capacitive component, a low pass filter having a first resistor and a first fixed capacitor, a timer circuit which outputs a control signal,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070296513 - Oscillator: The invention pertains to an oscillator with a resonator element and a control element for adjusting the resonant frequency of the resonator element to a plurality of different values, wherein the resonator element consists of at least one resonator. The control element can be realized as a control layer for... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070296514 - Oscillation stabilization circuit: An oscillation stabilization detecting circuit comprises a T flip flop receiving a pulse-type oscillation signal generated by oscillating a crystal oscillator and then dividing the oscillation signal to output; a pulse control unit including inverters and transistors, the pulse control unit converting the signal output from the T flip flop... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070290763 - Microelectromechanical oscillator having temperature measurement system, and method of operating same: There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. In one aspect, the present inventions relate to a temperature measurement system comprising (1) a first microelectromechanical resonator to generate a first output signal having a frequency that varies with operating temperature, wherein the first microelectromechanical resonator includes a frequency function of... Agent: Neil Steinberg

20070290764 - Microelectromechanical oscillator and method of operating same: There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. In one aspect, the present inventions relate to a temperature measurement system comprising (1) a first microelectromechanical resonator to generate a first output signal having a frequency that varies with operating temperature, wherein the first microelectromechanical resonator includes a frequency function of... Agent: Neil Steinberg

20070285182 - Robust phase-lock detector: A robust phase-lock detector for a phase-locked loop examines both the sum frequency and baseband components of an error signal from the phase-locked loop to determine that both a reference signal and an output signal for the phase-locked loop are present and that the reference and output signals have a... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20070285179 - Signal distribution architecture and semiconductor device: Provided is a grid-type high-speed clock signal distribution network capable of reducing a difference in amplitude of a standing wave on a transmission line and of supplying a signal from any position. The network for transmitting the clock signal is such that ends of the differential signal transmission line are... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070285180 - Wide tuning range and low jitter voltage controlled oscillator: A voltage control oscillator includes a first current source for providing a coarse tune current; a second current source for providing a fine tune current; and a delay line, coupled to the first current source and the second current source, comprising: a first delay cell, coupled to the first current... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070285181 - Multi-mode open-loop type clock extraction apparatus: Provided is a multi-mode open-loop type clock extraction apparatus. In the apparatus, a power divider block divides an input data signal into two data signals. A first band-pass filter block and a second band-pass filter block extract a first clock frequency component or a second clock frequency component contained in... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070285176 - Phase-slipping phase-locked loop: A phase-slipping phase-locked loop which generates an output signal whose frequency is a non-integer multiple of a reference frequency. The PLL has a first input for receiving a first binary value i which specifies an integer portion of the frequency multiplier, and a second input for receiving a second binary... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070285178 - Phase locked loop for the generation of a plurality of output signals: The invention concerns a phase locked loop or “PLL” (12) as well as a method for the operation of a PLL, in which a controllable oscillator (DCO) generates an output signal (CKout) of the phase locked loop, and a phase detector (PD) determines a phase difference between a clock signal... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070285177 - Switchable phase locked loop and method for the operation of a switchable phase locked loop: The invention relates to a phase locked loop or “PLL” (12) and a method of operating a PLL (12), wherein a controllable oscillator (DCO) generates an output signal (CKout) and it is possible to switch between a first clock (CKin1 or CKin2) and a second clock (CKin2 or CKin1) for... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070285184 - Fully integrated tuneable spin torque device for generating an oscillating signal and method for tuning such apparatus: The present invention is related to a a device and corresponding methods for generating an oscillating signal. The device comprises a means for providing a current of spin polarised charge carriers, a magnetic, e.g. ferromagnetic, excitable layer adapted for receiving the generated current of spin polarised charge carriers thus generating... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070285183 - Apparatus and methods for performing a test: A circuit structure has a circuit portion with negative resistance and a test resonator structure. Furthermore, the circuit structure has a unit for coupling the test resonator structure to the circuit portion with negative resistance during testing and for decoupling the test resonator structure from the circuit portion with negative... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20070285185 - Self calibrating rc oscillator: There is disclosed a self-calibrating resistor-capacitor (RC) oscillator in which a resistor has a resistance value varied minimally by temperature change and process variation, a capacitor has a capacitance value selected adequately according to needs, and the resistor and capacitor are configurable as a one-chip by a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070285186 - Oscillator reducing clock signal variations due to variations in voltage or temperature: Provided is an oscillator including a logic signal generator and a clock generator. The logic signal generator generates a first logic signal and a second logic signal that have the same period but have different logic level transition timing. The clock generator generates a clock signal in response to the... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20070279135 - Phase-locked loop bandwidth calibration: A novel circuit for obtaining the bandwidth of a phase-locked loop circuit is disclosed. The circuit adjusts a phase of a signal (reference or generated), causing the phase-locked loop circuit to adjust the frequency of its voltage-controlled oscillator as it recovers a phase lock. The circuit times the duration of... Agent: Carrie A. Boone, P.C.

20070279134 - Phase-locked loop circuit and data reproduction apparatus: This invention relates to a phase-locked loop circuit and a data reproduction apparatus, which can reduce a processing time that is required for initial adjustment in the data reproduction apparatus. In a digital data reproduction apparatus having two control functions, i.e., phase and duty adjustments for binarized data, the phase... Agent: Marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan LLP

20070279136 - Electromagnetic-wave oscillator: An electromagnetic-wave oscillator includes a substrate, an EMW oscillating unit including a gain portion, an EMW resonance portion, an EMW radiating portion, and a ground (GND) portion, and a supplying unit for supplying electric power to the EMW oscillating unit. The ground portion regulates a predetermined reference electric potential for... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070279137 - Analog circuit and method for multiplying clock frequency: A signal generating circuit includes a relaxation oscillator operating to alternately generate a first ramp signal that is periodic at a frequency of the relaxation oscillator and a second ramp signal that is periodic at the frequency of the relaxation oscillator and is out of phase with respect to the... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070279138 - Induction sensor: Position sensor circuits are disclosed for use with variable reluctance sensors. Variable reluctance sensors are described for linear, angular and rotary position measurement and for acceleration measurement.... Agent: Burns & Levinson, LLP

20070279139 - Integrated differential oscillator circuit: An integrated differential oscillator circuit is provided, which has an amplifier circuit with an input and an output, a frequency-selective feedback network with a first inductor and a second inductor, and a DC power supply. The oscillator circuit is distinguished in that the output is transformer-coupled to the input through... Agent: Mcgrath, Geissler, Olds & Richardson, PLLC

20070279140 - Flap type nano/micro mechanical device and fabrication method thereof: A μ-flap type nano/micro mechanical device with a lower electrode 1,1a, 1b, an upper electrode layer 2, an dielectric layer 3 arranged between the lower electrode 1,1a,1b and the upper layer 2, such that the dielectric layer 3 and said upper electrode layer—2 form a layered body 4, the layered... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070279141 - Oscillator circuit having temperature and supply voltage compensation: An oscillator circuit includes a current source comprising an amplifier, a first resistor, a second resistor, and a third inverter whose input and output are connected and coupled with an input of the amplifier. The amplifier is configured to generate a first current flowing through the first resistor and the... Agent: Xin Wen

20070279142 - Resonant circuit arrangement, method for operating said resonant circuit arrangement and method for the operation and use thereof: A resonant circuit arrangement for generating an Amplitude-shift-keyed and/or frequency-shift-keyed Signal comprises a capacitive storage element (1) and an inductive storage element (2). A first terminal (11) of the capacitive storage element (1) is connected to a terminal for providing a control voltage and a second terminal (12) is connected... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070279143 - Active antenna oscillator: An antenna oscillator includes a first strip line type resonator and a second resonator functioning as an antenna. The first resonator is fabricated by stacking a first conductor onto a grounding conductor with a first dielectric part including a gain part therebetween. The second resonator is fabricated by stacking a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto