Abstract:
A printed circuit assembly (5) has a surface mount electronic component (14), a printed circuit board (10), and a locating means (16) for locating the surface mount electronic component on the printed circuit board. The locating means may comprise solder bumps (24) on the printed circuit board. The locating means is arranged on the surface of the printed circuit board to lie proximal to the main body (22) of the surface mount electronic component. The locating means prevents movement of the surface mount electronic component prior to soldering the surface mount electronic component to the printed circuit board.
Abstract:
An electronic device coupling apparatus is used to couple two electronic devices through a hinge. A first electronic device (221) is disposed within the main housing of a radiotelephone (101). The second electronic device (301) is disposed within a movable element (103) of the radiotelephone (101). The coupling apparatus uses a piece of flex (215) which is torsionally twisted upon the opening of the movable element (103) of the radiotelephone (101). Additionally, the flex (215) is coupled to the electronic devices (221, 301) using an elastomeric connector (217).
Abstract:
A transmission line coupler (115) for a transmitter output signal (123) generated by an RF signal amplifier (103) includes a through-path transmission line (201) and a coupled-path transmission line (202) electromagnetically coupled thereto by multiple serpentine-like portions (such as portions 641, 642, 643 and 644 in Fig. 6), which are disposed on opposite sides of the through-path transmission line (201) for enhancing coupling sensitivity and eliminating degradation in the amount of coupling due to variations in the transmission line plating registration. Offset portions (641, 643) on one side of the through-path transmission line (201) provide substantially the same amount of coupling as the offset portions (642, 643) on the other side of the through-path transmission line (201). The transmission line coupler (115) is embedded in the output match of the final amplifier (103) and includes complex impedances (212 and 210, 222) at each port of the coupled-path transmission line (202) for substantially eliminating undesired reflections. The coupled port of the coupled-path transmission line (202) is coupled by an inductor (211) to a hot-carrier diode (206) for enhancing the detection sensitivity thereof.
Abstract:
A gradient directional microphone system (100) and method therefor includes three microphones (101, 103, 105) and a processor (107). Each of the three microphones (101, 103, 105) have substantially the same gradient order (135, 137, 139) and frequency response. Each microphone produces an electrical signal (109, 111, 113) that is responsive to sound pressure (119, 121, 123) at each microphone (101, 103, 105). The processor (107) is coupled to receive the electrical signal (109, 111, 113) from each microphone (101, 103, 105), and operative to produce an output signal (131) for the gradient directional microphone system (100) having a gradient order (141) at least two gradient orders higher than the gradient order (135, 137, 139) of each of the three microphones (101, 103, 105). Using the present invention, the size and complexity of the gradient directional microphone system (100) is substantially reduced over that of the prior art.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method of reducing a peak envelope power of a linear power amplifier (10) amplifying a plurality of channels is provided. The method includes the steps of measuring (104) the peak envelope power of the linear power amplifier, measuring a channel activity level (101) of each channel of the plurality of channels, and, when the peak envelope power exceeds a first threshold, changing (103, 106) at least one parameter of a channel of the plurality of channels having a channel activity level exceeding a second threshold to reduce the peak envelope power.
Abstract:
A radio device, such as a personal computer with a radio modem (1) or a cordless telephone (10) arranged to operate on first and second radio communications systems (3, 4, 14, 15). The device has registration means (37) for registering on the first and second systems respectively for transmission or receipt of traffic on that system and user actuation means (6, 7, 20) for initiating an operation of the device, wherein the operation initiated is dependant on the system on which the device is registered.
Abstract:
A paging terminal (110) comprises transmitter controller means (226), receiving controller means (252), and an assignment means (256). The paging terminal (110) is for locating a portable communication unit (108). The transmitter controller means (226) is coupled to one or more transmitters (104) for transmitting an information signal which comprises a predetermined color code word which identifies a subset of a plurality of communication cells (500) for which radio coverage does not overlap. The receiving controller means (252) is coupled to fixed receivers (103) for receiving an acknowledge back signal from the portable communication unit (108) comprising a reported color code value determined from the predetermined color code word transmitted in the first information signal. The assignment means is coupled to the receiving controller means (252) for identifying the one of the fixed receivers (103) and determining a cell location of the portable communication unit (108) from the reported color code value and the identification of the one of the fixed receivers (103).
Abstract:
In an adaptive CDMA receiver (20), a Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DS-SS) received signal and a reference signal are equalized by minimizing the error between them. The received signal includes a desired DS-SS communication signal comprising binary bits coded with spreading chip sequences. The received signal is sampled at a chip rate to produce sampled received signals which are correlated with each other. The received samples are partially de-correlated by employing an orthogonal transformation algorithm to provide de-correlated subspace elements and correlated subspace elements. The adaptive equalization process is based on de-correlated and correlated subspace elements. Tap coefficients of a despreading equalizer (400) are updated for the de-correlated and correlated elements individually and collectively, respectively. This selective updating of tap coefficients provides for fast convergence and minimum error.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus is provided for combining a plurality of signals in a digital pipelined signal adder. The method includes the steps of receiving (100) an upstream primary signal in a combiner and error checking (101) the primary signal in the combiner. When the primary signal passes error checking the primary signal is selected (103) and when the primary signal fails error checking a redundant signal is selected (102). The method further includes adding (104) the selected signal and a local input of the plurality of signals within the combiner to produce a downstream primary signal.
Abstract:
A method provides delays during memory dialing by automatically inserting pause characters within the dialing sequence based upon the user's entry of the dialing sequence. The method establishes a time-out period (64) when storing dialing sequences, and adds a pause character (66) to the dialing sequence if the time-out has expired. The method also determines whether any digit keys have been selected (68) to be stored in the sequence. Finally, the method monitors the tip and ring line of a standard telephone line to detect a far end ringing signal (76) and insert a special pause character (78). The special pause character will provide a delay until a far end pickup is detected during automatic dialing. Also, a circuit includes a keypad (20) for selecting digits to be stored; a control circuit (18) for detecting a delay between the selection of digits and generating a first pause signal in response; and a digital signal processor (30) for detecting a far end ringing signal to generate a second pause signal; and a memory device (26) for storing said digits and pause signals.