Wave transmission lines and networks inventions 06/09

20090160574 - Boundary acoustic wave filter: A boundary acoustic wave filter device includes an electrode structure provided at a boundary between a piezoelectric body and a dielectric body laminated on the piezoelectric body and utilizes an SH-type boundary acoustic wave that propagates along the boundary. In the boundary acoustic wave filter device, the electrode structure includes... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090160573 - Gfci-compatible circuit for plasma cutting system: In one embodiment, a system is provided that includes a GFCI compatibility control configured to filter noise, improve symmetry between lines, or a combination thereof, when connecting a device to a GFCI-protected power source. In another embodiment a circuit for a torch power unit is provided that includes an inductor... Agent: Fletcher Yoder (illinois Tool Works Inc.)

20090160575 - Power combiners and dividers based on composite right and left handed metamaterial structures: Techniques, apparatus and systems that use composite left and right handed (CRLH) metamaterial structures to combine and divide electromagnetic signals at multiple frequencies. The metamaterial properties permit significant size reduction over a conventional N-way radial power combiner or divider. Dual-band serial power combiners and dividers and single-band and dual-band radial... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090160576 - Passive fourier transform circuits and butler matrices: The coupling circuit described herein comprises passive analog components for coupling a transceiver to an antenna, such as an antenna array. The coupling circuit transforms an input signal into an appropriate format for each element of the antenna array. The coupling circuit comprises a coupling network having a plurality of... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090160577 - Charge sampling filter circuit and charge sampling method: (Means for Resolution) A charge sampling filter circuit includes a first capacitor that samples an input signal, and in which at least a portion of electric charge stored in the first capacitor by sampling is output to a second capacitor that is connectable with the first capacitor. The charge sampling... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090160578 - Filter design methods and filters based on metamaterial structures: Filter design techniques and filters based on metamaterial structures including an extended composite left and right handed (E-CRLH) metamaterial unit cell.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090160579 - Digital signal processor: A digital signal processor includes a component for processing a digital signal, a power line for supplying a power to the component, and a decoupling capacitor connected between the power line and a ground. The decoupling capacitor has an equivalent series resistance larger than zero and not larger than 25... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090160580 - Coil leading structure and filter thereof: A filter includes a coil leading structure and at least one coil. The coil leading structure includes a board and at least one pin. The pin is disposed at a side of the board and formed integrally with the board as a monolithic piece. The core is disposed on the... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090160581 - Temperature stable mems resonator: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method for decreasing a temperature coefficient of frequency (TCF) of a MEMS resonator. The method comprises lithographically defining slots in the MEMS resonator beams and filling the slots with oxide. By growing oxide within the slots, the amount of oxide growth... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090160582 - Band-pass filter, high-frequency component, and communication apparatus: A band-pass filter according to the present invention includes two or more resonant lines arranged side by side in a direction orthogonal to a laminating direction in a laminate substrate formed by laminating plural dielectric layers. Each of the resonant lines has a first coil pattern portion formed in the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090160583 - Hybrid surface mountable packages for very high speed integrated circuits: In one example, a hybrid surface mountable package includes a housing at least partially defining a sealed cavity, two microwave integrated circuits (MIC) chips positioned inside the sealed cavity, and a very-high-speed interconnect connecting the two MIC chips to each other. The very-high-speed interconnect includes strong coupling co-planar waveguide (CPWG)... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090160584 - Mems switch with improved standoff voltage control: A MEMS switch is provided including a substrate, a movable actuator coupled to the substrate and having a first side and a second side, a first fixed electrode coupled to the substrate and positioned on the first side of the movable actuator to generate a first actuation force to pull... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090153260 - Method and system for a configurable transformer integrated on chip: Aspects of a method and system for a configurable transformer integrated on-chip are provided. In this regard, an integrated circuit may comprise a transformer with a configurable windings ratio, and the windings ratio may be configured to enable transmitting and/or receiving signals via an antenna communicatively coupled to said transformer.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090153261 - Method and system for matching networks embedded in an integrated circuit package: Methods and systems for matching networks embedded in an integrated circuit package are disclosed and may include controlling impedance within an integrated circuit via one or more impedance matching networks. The impedance matching networks may be embedded within a multi-layer package bonded to the integrated circuit. The impedance of one... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090153262 - Repeater of global input/output line: A repeater of a global input/output line includes a data transmitter including first and second drivers for outputting data signals of the global input/output line through different transmission routes in response to a transmission direction control signal, and a third driver for driving the global input/output line in response to... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090153263 - Modulized wave filter: A wave filter is installed in a multimedia wideband router, and includes a circuit board having a first low-pass wave-filtering circuit, and a band-pass wave-filtering circuit; the band-pass wave-filtering circuit consists of a high-pass wave-filtering circuit and a second low-pass wave-filtering circuit; the first low-pass wave-filtering circuit is connected to... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090153264 - Filter having switch function and band pass filter: The filter has a switch function of selectively transmitting a transmission signal through one of first and second branch waveguides branching from a primary waveguide. The filter includes resonators disposed in the first and second branch waveguides. The resonator includes a space formed inside a metal cover, a central conductor... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090153265 - Method and system for controlling mems switches in an integrated circuit package: Methods and systems for controlling MEMS switches in an integrated circuit package are disclosed and may include controlling one or more arrays of MEMS switches utilizing a control chip. The arrays of MEMS switches and one or more circuit components may be integrated in and/or on a multi-layer package. The... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090153266 - Modulized wave filter: A wave filter includes a circuit board, and a shell housing the circuit board; the circuit board includes a band-pass wave-filtering circuit, and a low-pass wave-filtering circuit; the shell has an input end and an output terminal thereon, which are connected to the band-pass wave-filtering circuit of the circuit board;... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090153267 - Mems resonator structure and method: A microelectromechanical resonator may include one or more resonator masses that oscillates in a bulk mode and that includes a first plurality of regions each having a density, and a second plurality of regions each having a density, the density of each of the second plurality of regions differing from... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090153268 - Thin-film bulk-acoustic wave (baw) resonators: A thin-film bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator, such as SBAR or FBAR, for use in RF selectivity filters operating at frequencies of the order of 1 GHz. The BAW resonator comprises a piezoelectric layer (14) having first and second surfaces on opposing sides, a first electrode (16) extending over the... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20090153269 - Acoustic wave filter: An acoustic wave filter includes: a first acoustic wave filter having a first group of multimode filters connected, a first unbalanced input node and two first balanced output nodes, a first multimode filter among the first group of multimode filters being connected to the two first balanced output nodes; and... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090153270 - High-pass filter: The invention relates to a high-pass filter comprising a signal line with several capacitors connected in series as well as a ground line, wherein several inductors are connected between the signal line and the ground line. In order to configure the high-pass filter as a coaxial construction it is suggested... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, LLC

20090153271 - Variable radio frequency band filter: A variable radio frequency band filter capable of varying the resonance frequency band comprises a housing having a support; a number of resonator rods arranged along the longitudinal direction of the housing; at least one tuning rod positioned on top of the resonator rods; a tuning support extending through the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20090153272 - Waveguide bandstop filter: In a bandstop filter having an input port (2; 3), an output port (3; 2) and a waveguide (1, 1′) connecting the two ports, at least one resonator body (4, 5; 4′ 5) is located in the waveguide (1, 1′), which resonator body has resonance frequency above the limit frequency... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090153273 - Energy transferring system and method thereof: An energy transferring system including a source-side resonator, an intermediate resonant module, and a device-side resonator is provided. The three resonators substantially have the same resonant frequency for generating resonance. The energy on the source-side resonator is coupled to the intermediate resonant module, such that non-radiative energy transfer is performed... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090153274 - Thermal expansion compensation assemblies: Filter and manifold compensation assemblies for thermal compensation of a filter cavity and a manifold which include at least one a lever element pivotally coupled to the filter or manifold at a first pivot point, an anchoring element pivotally coupled to the lever element at the second pivot point and... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20090146755 - Planar emi filter: An EMI filter for use between a power source and an electronic product is formed of at least one planar element including a pair of opposed coreless spiral planar windings, and a planar capacitor. This enables the integration of common mode and differential mode filters into integrated planar structures. Furthermore... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20090146764 - Down-converter having 90-degree hybrid coupler with open-circuited transmission line(s) or short-circuited transmission line(s) included therein: A down-converter includes two low-noise amplifiers, a 90-degree hybrid coupler, and a down-converting circuit. The 90-degree hybrid coupler is coupled to the two low-noise amplifiers for transforming a first amplified signal and a second amplified signal into a first coupler output signal and a second coupler output signal. The 90-degree... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090146765 - Down-converter having matching circuits with tuning mechanism coupled to 90-degree hybrid coupler included therein: A down-converter includes two low-noise amplifiers, a 90-degree hybrid coupler, two first matching circuits, and a down-converting circuit. The two low-noise amplifiers respectively amplify a first beacon signal and a second beacon signal to generate a first amplified signal and a second amplified signal. The 90-degree hybrid coupler includes two... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090146756 - Output circuit for semiconductor device, semiconductor device having output circuit, and method of adjusting characteristics of output circuit: To decrease the circuit scale necessary for the calibration of the output circuit and to decrease the time required for the calibration operation. The invention includes a first output buffer and a second output buffer that are connected to a data pin, and a calibration circuit that is connected to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090146757 - Coaxial automatic impedance adaptor: The invention concerns a coaxial automatic impedance adaptor characterized in that it comprises two slugs and has only a lateral translational movement along an axis Ox. The double slug tuner principle is based on the movement of two line segments of different characteristics of 50 O inside a closed cylinder... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090146758 - Directional coupler: A directional coupler (500), which comprises a dielectric substrate (501) on top of a metal plate (510), is functioning as a ground plane. The transmission path is a suspended stripling so that there is a recess on the ground plane below the transmission conductor (520) being on the surface of... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090146759 - Circuit topology for multiple loads: A circuit topology for multiple loads includes a driving terminal, a first node coupled to the driving terminal via a main transmission line, a second node coupled to the first node via a first branch transmission line, a first receiving terminal coupled to the first node via a second branch... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090146760 - Assembly, chip and method of operating: The chip (100) comprises a network of trench capacitors (102) and an inductor (114), wherein the trench capacitors (102) are coupled in parallel with a pattern of interconnects (113A,B, . . . ) that is designed so as to limit generation of eddy current induced by the inductor (114) in... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20090146761 - Rf monoblock filter with recessed top pattern and cavity providing improved attenuation: An electrical signal filter defined by a block of dielectric material with a top surface, a bottom surface, side surfaces, and through-holes extending between the top and bottom surfaces. In one embodiment, a plurality of walls extend outwardly from the top surface to define a peripheral rim and filter cavity.... Agent: Daniel J. Deneufbourg Cts Corporation

20090146763 - High q surface mount technology cavity filter: A cavity filter device includes a micro-strip structure comprising a low dielectric organic material forming a printed wiring board. The printed wiring board may be soldered, welded, or adhered to the base of one or more cavity filters. The cavity filter may include a coupling pin such as a RF... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090146762 - Resonator and filter: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a resonator including: a transmission line including a conductor line with a bent portion, wherein the conductor line has a plurality of slits formed therein, the slits being formed in an extending direction of the conductor line to pass... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L. L.p.

20090140822 - Toolless video balun: A toolless video balun is disclosed to include a bottom cover shell covered with a top cover shell to hold a circuit board and a BNC connector, two metal terminals bonded to the circuit board with the respective sharp-edged top metal holder portions respectively inserted into respective insertion slot in... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20090140824 - Baluns, a fine balance and impedance adjustment module, a multi-layer transmission line, and transmission line nmr probes using same: A pseudo-Marchand balun, compound balun and tunable multi-resonant coaxial balun, and NMR probes employing each such balun, and a fine balance and impedance adjustment module and a multi-layer transmission line for use in such NMR probes.... Agent: Iandiorio Teska & Coleman

20090140823 - Broadband microstrip balun and method of manufacturing the same: A broadband microstrip balun and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. In the balun, transmission lines formed at different layers partially overlap in parallel with each other, and a common ground having a predetermined opening is inserted between the transmission lines. Thus, an unbalanced signal may be converted... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090140825 - Semiconductor device: Disclosed is a microwave phase shifter including switches each of which utilizes resonance between an off-capacitance of an FET and an inductor connected in parallel with the off-capacitance of the FET, an LPF, and an HPF, a series circuit of an inductor and an MIM capacitor is arranged in parallel... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090140826 - Axial dielectric component array with retention system and method of assembly: An electromagnetic filter, which may include a feed-through conductor. The feed-through conductor may have an integral extension for contacting an electrically conductive clip. The clip may have an extension-engaging portion to contact the extension and a dielectric component-contacting end to contact a dielectric component. The dielectric component may be, for... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building

20090140827 - Bandpass filter and high frequency module using the same and radio communication device using them: A bandpass filter having a bandpass width appropriate for UWB, a high frequency module including the bandpass filter, and radio communication device including both is provided. The bandpass filter including a laminate composed of a plurality of dielectric layers 11; first and second ground electrodes arranged on the bottom and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090140828 - Methods and apparatus for controlling characteristics of a plasma: Methods and apparatus for controlling characteristics of a plasma, such as the spatial distribution of RF power and plasma uniformity, are provided herein. In some embodiments, an apparatus for controlling characteristics of a plasma includes a resonator for use in conjunction with a plasma reactor, the resonator including a source... Agent: MoserIPLaw Group / Applied Materials, Inc.