Wave transmission lines and networks inventions 08/09

20090212887 - Method and system for processing signals via directional couplers embedded in an integrated circuit package: Methods and systems for processing signals via directional couplers embedded in an integrated circuit package are disclosed and may include generating via a directional coupler, one or more output RF signals that may be proportional to a received RF signal. The directional coupler may be integrated in a multi-layer package.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090212879 - Method and system for a balun embedded in an integrated circuit package: Methods and systems for a balun embedded in an integrated circuit package are disclosed and may include a multi-layer package bonded to an integrated circuit. The multi-layer package may include an integrated balun which may be enabled to process RF signals received from and/or communicated to an antenna. The integrated... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090212880 - Electrical circuit comprising a differential signal path and component with such a circuit: The invention relates to an electrical circuit that includes a first signal path having differential partial paths. An interface circuit arranged in the first signal path suppresses the common-mode signals in a blocking region of the signal path, but essentially does not influence differential signal parts.... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.l.p.

20090212881 - Coaxial-to-microstrip transitions and manufacturing methods: Coaxial-to-microstrip transitions may include a microstrip line and coaxial-line assembly. The microstrip line includes a first dielectric having an aperture, a conductive strip disposed on one primary face of the first dielectric, and a ground plane disposed on the opposite primary face of the first dielectric. The coaxial-line assembly includes... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.c.

20090212882 - Transmit/receive unit, and methods and apparatus for transmitting signals between transmit/receive units: In one embodiment, apparatus for transmitting and receiving data includes a transmission line network having at least three input/output terminals; at least three transmit/receive units, respectively coupled to the at least three input/output terminals; and a control system. The control system is configured to, depending on a desired direction of... Agent: Gregory W. Osterloth Holland & Hart, LLP

20090212883 - Feedthrough filter and electrical multi-layer component: A feedthrough filter includes a base plate having a first contact surface and a second contact surface. The first contact surface and the second contact surface are galvanically connected. The first contact surface is on an upper side of the base plate and the second contact surface is on an... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20090212884 - Nanotube device: A device comprising a nanotube configured as a resonator, a source electrode, a gate electrode, a drain electrode and at least one impeding element, wherein the at least one impeding element is configured to minimize energy loss due to a contact resistance between at least the source electrode and the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090212885 - Resonator and bandpass filter having overlay electromagnetic bandgap (ebg) structure, and method of manufacturing the resonator: Provided is an Electromagnetic Bandgap (EBG) structure, particularly, a resonator and a bandpass filter having an overlay EBG structure, and a method of manufacturing the resonator. The resonator is manufactured by forming a transmission line and ground plates on a substrate, arranging a plurality of reflector units at regular intervals... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090212886 - Dual-band bandpass resonator and dual-band bandpass filter: A dual-band bandpass filter according to the present invention includes a plurality of dual-band bandpass resonators. The dual-band bandpass resonator includes a central conductor having a central axis aligned with an input/output direction, a pair of grounding conductors, a central conductor short-circuit part and a pair of stub conductors that... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090206942 - Non-reciprocal circuit device: A non-reciprocal circuit device comprising a magnetic plate F1; center conductors L1, L2, and L3 that are mutually insulated and disposed so as to intersect on magnetic plate F1; a plane conductor P1 that is disposed facing the center conductors with magnetic plate F1 placed therebetween, the plane conductor being... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090206943 - Nonreciprocal circuit device: A nonreciprocal circuit device includes a permanent magnet, a ferrite to which the permanent magnet applies a direct-current magnetic field, first and second central electrodes arranged on the ferrite, and a circuit board. The first central electrode includes electrode layers provided on main surfaces of the ferrite connected by an... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090206944 - Method and system for frequency selection using microstrip transceivers for high-speed applications: Aspects of a method and system for frequency selection using microstrip transceivers for high-speed applications may include determining an operating frequency for operating one or both of a transmitter and a receiver. A frequency response and/or impedance of one or more transmission lines that may be utilized by the transmitter... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090206962 - Integrated front-end passive equalizer and method thereof: A passive equalizer circuit incorporated at a front-end of an integrated receiver circuit uses passive components that are distributed between inside and outside of an integrated circuit package. The passive equalizer circuit has off-chip components that are placed on a printed circuit board and on-chip components that are fabricated on... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090206946 - Apparatus and method for reducing propagation delay in a conductor: An apparatus and method is provided that reduces the propagation delay in a conductor carrying an electrical signal from a first area of a circuit to a second area of the circuit. The conductor is fabricated to include a first conductor extending from the first area to the second area.... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20090206945 - Reconfigurable duplexing couplers: A multi-port reconfigurable coupler includes a coupler and a switching system configured to selectively reconfigure multiple ports of the coupler for increased application flexibility and for efficiently transmitting and receiving radio-frequency signals. The multi-port reconfigurable coupler includes a transmit signal port, a termination port, a receive signal port, an antenna... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20090206947 - Directional coupler: In a directional coupler with two coupled lines arranged in a flat chamber of an enclosed metal housing within the coupling region side-by-side in the longitudinal direction and at a spacing distance from one another, of which the ends are connected to connecting ports attached at the sides of the... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090206948 - Multi-band high-frequency circuit, multi-band high frequency circuit component and multi-band communication apparatus using same: A multi-band high-frequency circuit for performing wireless communications among pluralities of communication systems having different communication frequencies, comprising a high-frequency switch circuit comprising switching elements for switching the connection of pluralities of multi-band antennas to transmitting circuits and receiving circuits; a first diplexer circuit disposed between the high-frequency switch circuit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090206949 - Electrical waveform adjuster: As shown in FIG. 1A, an electrical waveform adjuster including a power factor adjusting capacitor 6 connected in parallel with a power feeding line 3 for feeding an alternating-current voltage to an electric apparatus, is characterized in that at least one or more low-resistance line sections having lower line resistivity... Agent: Chapman And Cutler

20090206950 - Dynamic harmonic filter for an ac power system: A dynamic harmonic filter for an AC power system comprising at least one voltage source (V) and at least one load. The harmonic filter comprises a current sensing or voltage injection transformer (T1) connected in series with the voltage source and the load with one end of the primary (P1)... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20090206952 - Delay line regulation using high-frequency micro-regulators: A regulated delay line device includes main regulator coupled to a node, and a plurality of delay branches coupled to the node to receive a voltage output to the node by the main regulator. Each of the plurality of delay branches includes a micro-regulator and a delay line. The delay... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090206951 - Electronic device: An electronic device comprising: a wiring substrate having a first power-supply wiring to which a first power-supply potential is applied and a second power-supply wiring to which a second power-supply potential lower than the first power-supply potential is applied; a microcomputer having first and second power-supply terminals in which the... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090206953 - Resonant mems device that detects photons, particles and small forces: A resonant MEMS device that detects photons, particles and small forces including atomic forces is disclosed. The device comprises a planar substrate 1, two electrodes 2 and 3 on top of the substrate, a resonant micro-electromechanical (MEMS) structure 6, such as a cantilever, anchored to first electrode 2 and arranged... Agent: Venable LLP

20090206954 - Elastic surface wave device: A surface acoustic wave device includes a pair of reflectors and an interdigital transducer having a cross electrode having a interdigitated portion and a dummy portion and a dummy electrode. The dummy electrode has a length different from the length of the dummy portion of the cross electrode arranged adjacent... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090206955 - Surface acoustic wave device and surface acoustic wave oscillator: A surface acoustic wave device, includes: an interdigital transducer serving as an electrode pattern to excite a Rayleigh surface acoustic wave, the interdigital transducer including a comb-tooth-shaped electrode having a plurality of electrode fingers; a piezoelectric substrate on which the interdigital transducer is formed, the piezoelectric substrate being made of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090206956 - Substrate, communication module, and communication apparatus: A substrate for mounting a filter has a connection line layer having a transmission line for connecting a filter, a ground layer placed below the connection line layer and having a ground, and an insulation layer placed between the transmission line and the ground layer and having a thickness which... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090206957 - Resonant element and method for manufacturing the same: A resonant element is manufactured through a process including a setting step and a forming step. A substrate of the resonant element is made of a dielectric material. A ground electrode is formed on a rear principal surface side of the substrate. Principal-surface electrodes that define resonators together with the... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090206960 - High voltage isolation dual capacitor communication system: According to one embodiment, there is provided a high voltage isolation dual capacitor communication system comprising communication drive and sense electrodes and corresponding first and second capacitors that are formed in two separate devices. The two devices are electrically connected in series to provide a single galvanicly-isolated communication system that... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20090206958 - High voltage isolation semiconductor capacitor digital communication device and corresponding package: According to one embodiment, there is provided a semiconductor digital communication device comprising communication drive and sense electrodes formed in a single plane, where the electrodes have relatively high sidewalls. The relatively high sidewalls permit low electrical field densities to be obtained in the sense and drive electrodes during operation,... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20090206959 - Rf module: In a radio-frequency wave module including a transmission path based on a distributed parameter element, the transmission path being part of an input/output terminal, a plurality of cavity-structured concave portions for containing semiconductor-including mounted components therein, grounding-use metallic electrodes, dielectric substrates of at least two or more layers, and semiconductors,... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090206961 - High-frequency member assembly with waveguide: A high-frequency member assembly has two high-frequency members of which surfaces are attached to each other. Each member has a rectangular waveguide hole penetrating through the member and two choke grooves opened on the attaching surface. The waveguide holes communicate with each other to form a rectangular waveguide. An electromagnetic... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090201098 - Active nonlinear transmission line: A system for propagating a non-dispersive signals includes a transmission line with a voltage dependent propagation constant and distributed gain elements to maintain the non-dispersive signal between a maximum propagating amplitude and a minimum propagating amplitude.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090201107 - Waveguide junction: A junction (300) for connecting two waveguides having an angular offset between longitudinal symmetry axes of their cross-sections and a first linear offset of the center axes of the waveguides. The junction (300) comprises at least a first and a second transformer sections (202, 206) both having said first angular... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090201108 - Switched length match transmission path instrument: A testing apparatus includes one or more trace banks. Each trace bank includes (1) an input switch operable to couple an input port to one of multiple output ports, (2) an output switch operable to couple one of multiple input ports to one output port, and (3) transmission lines of... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20090201099 - Multi-band high-frequency circuit, multi-band high-frequency circuit component and multi-band communication apparatus using same: A multi-band high-frequency circuit for performing wireless communications among pluralities of communication systems having different communication frequencies, comprising a high-frequency switch circuit comprising switching elements for switching the connection of pluralities of multi-band antennas to transmitting circuits and receiving circuits; a first diplexer circuit disposed between the high-frequency switch circuit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090201100 - Inductor combining primary and secondary coils with phase shifting: An inductor including a primary coil coaxially arranged and operated in parallel with isolated secondary coils each including at least one loop winding with two open-circuited ports. At least one phase shifting device is arranged between open-circuited ports of at least one secondary coil. A method to operate an inductor... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090201101 - Inductor and method of operating an inductor by combining primary and secondary coils with coupling structures: An inductor and method of operating the inductor by combining primary and secondary coils with passive coupling, active parallel, or active cross-coupling structures. The first includes at least one passive coupling structure having at least one coupling coil arranged between a primary coil and at least one of the secondary... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090201102 - Boundary acoustic wave element, boundary acoustic wave device, and manufacturing methods for the same: A boundary acoustic wave element includes an IDT electrode arranged at the interface between a piezoelectric substance and a dielectric layer, a heat dissipation film is arranged on the outer side surface of the dielectric layer or on the outer side surface of a sound-absorbing film laminated on the outer... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090201103 - Surface acoustic wave filter device: A first and a second longitudinally coupled resonator-type surface acoustic wave filter are disposed on a piezoelectric substrate. One end of a first IDT arranged at the middle of the first longitudinally coupled resonator-type surface acoustic wave filter is connected to a first unbalanced terminal, and one end of a... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090201105 - Acoustic wave device: An acoustic wave device includes first and second 3-IDT acoustic wave filters provided on a piezoelectric substrate. A second IDT in the first acoustic wave filter is electrically connected to a second IDT in the second acoustic wave filter and a third IDT in the first acoustic wave filter is... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090201104 - Acoustic wave device, duplexer, communication module, and communication apparatus: An acoustic wave device includes a ladder-type filter in which resonators are connected in a ladder configuration. In the acoustic wave device, series-connected resonators are connected in a parallel line in the ladder-type filter, and the resonators connected in the parallel line have mutually different resonance frequencies.... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090201106 - Harmonic suppression resonator, harmonic propagation blocking filter, and radar apparatus: A harmonic suppression resonator comprises a plurality of waveguide resonators that resonate in TE mode, in which harmonic suppression resonator, adjoining resonators are coupled via a plurality of coupling windows. Four coupling windows 33bc1, 33bc2, 33bc3 and 33bc4 are provided between a resonant region 51b and a resonant region adjoining... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090201098 - Active nonlinear transmission line: A system for propagating a non-dispersive signals includes a transmission line with a voltage dependent propagation constant and distributed gain elements to maintain the non-dispersive signal between a maximum propagating amplitude and a minimum propagating amplitude.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090201107 - Waveguide junction: A junction (300) for connecting two waveguides having an angular offset between longitudinal symmetry axes of their cross-sections and a first linear offset of the center axes of the waveguides. The junction (300) comprises at least a first and a second transformer sections (202, 206) both having said first angular... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090201108 - Switched length match transmission path instrument: A testing apparatus includes one or more trace banks. Each trace bank includes (1) an input switch operable to couple an input port to one of multiple output ports, (2) an output switch operable to couple one of multiple input ports to one output port, and (3) transmission lines of... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20090201099 - Multi-band high-frequency circuit, multi-band high-frequency circuit component and multi-band communication apparatus using same: A multi-band high-frequency circuit for performing wireless communications among pluralities of communication systems having different communication frequencies, comprising a high-frequency switch circuit comprising switching elements for switching the connection of pluralities of multi-band antennas to transmitting circuits and receiving circuits; a first diplexer circuit disposed between the high-frequency switch circuit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090201100 - Inductor combining primary and secondary coils with phase shifting: An inductor including a primary coil coaxially arranged and operated in parallel with isolated secondary coils each including at least one loop winding with two open-circuited ports. At least one phase shifting device is arranged between open-circuited ports of at least one secondary coil. A method to operate an inductor... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090201101 - Inductor and method of operating an inductor by combining primary and secondary coils with coupling structures: An inductor and method of operating the inductor by combining primary and secondary coils with passive coupling, active parallel, or active cross-coupling structures. The first includes at least one passive coupling structure having at least one coupling coil arranged between a primary coil and at least one of the secondary... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090201102 - Boundary acoustic wave element, boundary acoustic wave device, and manufacturing methods for the same: A boundary acoustic wave element includes an IDT electrode arranged at the interface between a piezoelectric substance and a dielectric layer, a heat dissipation film is arranged on the outer side surface of the dielectric layer or on the outer side surface of a sound-absorbing film laminated on the outer... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090201103 - Surface acoustic wave filter device: A first and a second longitudinally coupled resonator-type surface acoustic wave filter are disposed on a piezoelectric substrate. One end of a first IDT arranged at the middle of the first longitudinally coupled resonator-type surface acoustic wave filter is connected to a first unbalanced terminal, and one end of a... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090201105 - Acoustic wave device: An acoustic wave device includes first and second 3-IDT acoustic wave filters provided on a piezoelectric substrate. A second IDT in the first acoustic wave filter is electrically connected to a second IDT in the second acoustic wave filter and a third IDT in the first acoustic wave filter is... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090201104 - Acoustic wave device, duplexer, communication module, and communication apparatus: An acoustic wave device includes a ladder-type filter in which resonators are connected in a ladder configuration. In the acoustic wave device, series-connected resonators are connected in a parallel line in the ladder-type filter, and the resonators connected in the parallel line have mutually different resonance frequencies.... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090201106 - Harmonic suppression resonator, harmonic propagation blocking filter, and radar apparatus: A harmonic suppression resonator comprises a plurality of waveguide resonators that resonate in TE mode, in which harmonic suppression resonator, adjoining resonators are coupled via a plurality of coupling windows. Four coupling windows 33bc1, 33bc2, 33bc3 and 33bc4 are provided between a resonant region 51b and a resonant region adjoining... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090195335 - Semiconductor configuration having an integrated coupler and method for manufacturing such a semiconductor configuration: A semiconductor configuration having an integrated coupler is provided. The semiconductor configuration includes a coupler which is integrated in the substrate and which includes a first port and a second port. The coupler defines, in a plan view onto the substrate, an inner region of the substrate surrounded at least... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090195324 - Balun transformer with improved harmonic suppression: An electronic assembly includes a substrate (66), a balun transformer (42) formed on the substrate (66) and including a first winding (50) and a second winding (52), each having respective first and second ends, and a reaction circuit component (48) formed on the substrate (66) and electrically coupled to the... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (fs)

20090195325 - Differential internally matched wire-bond interface: In wireless communication devices, internally matching impedance in millimeter wave packaging enables better signal retention at high frequencies in the range of 15 GHz and above. Through the use of differential wire bond signal transmission, the inherent inductance of a millimeter wave package can be matched by the capacitance of... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20090195326 - Dual-frequency matching circuit: The connection topology of input terminals 2, elements 4a, 4b, 4c and 4d and load 5 is designed similarly to a so-called “seven-segment display”, which is often used to display numerals on an electronic calculator or a digital watch. More specifically, suppose in the three horizontally running segments, the top... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090195327 - Transmitting radio frequency signal in semiconductor structure: A semiconductor device for transmitting a radio frequency signal along a signal line includes a signal line that extends along a principal axis. On one side of the signal line is a first dielectric, and on the opposite side of the signal line is a second dielectric. First and second... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090195328 - Delay line, signal delay method, and test signal generating apparatus: Provided is a delay line that prevents reflection signals output from a test signal generator from being superimposed as noise. The delay line delays an electrical signal input into a signal line and outputs the thus delayed signal, and includes three or more passive elements that are provided on the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090195329 - Variable phase shifter: Disclosed is a variable phase shifter The variable phase shifter includes a housing; a fixed board unit fixedly installed inside the housing, equipped with an input microstrip line with a via hole for receiving an input signal on one face thereof, and equipped with at least one circular arc-shaped output... Agent: Storm LLP

20090195330 - Vibrator, resonator using the same and electromechanical filter using the same: An object is to provide a resonator and a vibrator with a high Q value in which dissipation of vibration energy in vibration of the vibrator is small, and a thickness of a support part of the vibrator of a beam structure is made thicker than a thickness of the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090195331 - Filter: A filter includes: a container; at least one barrier, an input device and an output device. The at least one barrier divide the container into at least two resonant cavities. Each resonant cavity has a harmonic oscillators disposed therein. At least one of the harmonic oscillators comprises a supporter and... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090195332 - Wireless non-radiative energy transfer: The electromagnetic energy transfer device includes a first resonator structure receiving energy from an external power supply. The first resonator structure has a first Q-factor. A second resonator structure is positioned distal from the first resonator structure, and supplies useful working power to an external load. The second resonator structure... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090195333 - Wireless non-radiative energy transfer: The electromagnetic energy transfer device includes a first resonator structure receiving energy from an external power supply. The first resonator structure has a first Q-factor. A second resonator structure is positioned distal from the first resonator structure, and supplies useful working power to an external load. The second resonator structure... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090195334 - High frequency module provided with power amplifier: The present invention is provided with a high frequency module comprising a multilayered substrate, a power amplifier IC mounted on the upper surface of the multilayered substrate, first and second filters disposed substantially directly below the power amplifier IC in an inner layer of the multilayered substrate, and coupling-reducing ground... Agent: Young Law Firm, P.C. Alan W. Young