公开(公告)号：US06563444B2

公开(公告)日：2003-05-13

申请号：US09820801

申请日：2001-03-30

申请人： Weibiao Zhang ,  Marwan Hassoun

发明人： Weibiao Zhang ,  Marwan Hassoun

IPC分类号： H03M110

CPC分类号： H03M1/1061 ,  H03M1/747

摘要： In accordance with a preferred embodiment, a self-calibrated cell (and corresponding operation) is provided that receives a reference parameter (e.g., current, voltage, etc.) for storage in the cell and for supplying to a load. The individual cell is controlled to operate in different states or modes: either a redundant mode or a supplying mode. In the redundant mode, the reference parameter is stored in the current cell during a calibration phase or mode, and the stored reference parameter is dumped or otherwise transferred, preferably to ground, during a dumping state or mode. In the supplying mode, the current cell transfers or supplies the stored reference parameter to the load. The individual cell is controlled to operate in its dumping state both before the cell enters the calibration mode and also at the same time that the cell is switched from the calibration mode to the supplying mode. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, the individual cells may be employed in a cell array of a converter (e.g., digital-to-analog converter). All of the cells in the array may individually be placed in a redundant mode in succession, while the remaining cells are in a supplying mode.

公开(公告)号：US20160267769A1

公开(公告)日：2016-09-15

申请号：US14879088

申请日：2015-10-08

申请人： Shahriar Rokhsaz ,  Brian David Young ,  Marwan Hassoun

发明人： Shahriar Rokhsaz ,  Brian David Young ,  Marwan Hassoun

IPC分类号： G08B21/20 ,  E04D13/00 ,  G06K19/077 ,  H04B5/00 ,  G06K19/07

CPC分类号： H01Q9/0442 ,  A61B5/6808 ,  A61B5/7495 ,  A61F13/42 ,  A61F2013/424 ,  G01N27/048 ,  G01N27/225 ,  G06K19/0717 ,  G06K19/0775 ,  G08B21/20

摘要： Embodiments of the present invention provide a passive radio frequency identification (RFID) moisture sensor. This moisture sensor includes one or more antenna structures having a tail. The tail is operable to transport a disturbance such as, but not limited to fluid or moisture from a monitored location wherein the antenna has an impedance and varies with proximity to the disturbance. An integrated circuit couples to the antenna structure. This IC includes a power harvesting module operable to energize the integrated circuit, an impedance-matching engine coupled to the antenna, a memory module, and a wireless communication module. The impedance-matching engine may vary a reactive component to reduce a mismatch between the antenna impedance and the IC and produce an impedance value (sensor code) representative of the reactive component impedance. The memory module stores the impedance value (sensor code) until the wireless communication module communicates with an RFID reader and sends the impedance value/sensor code to the RFID reader. The RFID reader may then determine an environmental condition such as the presence of moisture or fluids at the tail of the RFID sensor. This sensor may deploy several antenna and/or tails sensitive to unique disturbances. These tails may be used to monitor different locations as well as different types of fluids. In one particular embodiment, the disturbance is a fluid or moisture within the gutter of a vehicle body.

摘要翻译： 本发明的实施例提供一种无源射频识别（RFID）水分传感器。 该湿度传感器包括具有尾部的一个或多个天线结构。 尾部可操作地传输干扰，例如但不限于来自监测位置的流体或湿气，其中天线具有阻抗并随着扰动的接近而变化。 集成电路耦合到天线结构。 该IC包括可操作以对集成电路通电的功率收集模块，耦合到天线的阻抗匹配引擎，存储器模块和无线通信模块。 阻抗匹配引擎可以改变电抗分量以减少天线阻抗和IC之间的失配，并产生代表无功分量阻抗的阻抗值（传感器代码）。 存储器模块存储阻抗值（传感器代码），直到无线通信模块与RFID读取器通信，并将阻抗值/传感器代码发送到RFID读取器。 然后，RFID读取器可以确定环境条件，例如在RFID传感器的尾部存在湿气或流体。 该传感器可以部署几个对独特干扰敏感的天线和/或尾部。 这些尾巴可用于监测不同位置以及不同类型的流体。 在一个具体实施例中，扰动是车体的沟槽内的流体或水分。

公开(公告)号：US20160159634A1

公开(公告)日：2016-06-09

申请号：US15045735

申请日：2016-02-17

申请人： Charles F. STUDOR ,  Raymond William HUDY ,  John S. CRAPARO ,  Marwan HASSOUN

发明人： Charles F. STUDOR ,  Raymond William HUDY ,  John S. CRAPARO ,  Marwan HASSOUN

IPC分类号： B67D1/08 ,  A47J31/52 ,  A47J31/40

CPC分类号： B67D1/0888 ,  A47J31/40 ,  A47J31/52 ,  A47J31/56 ,  B67D3/0003 ,  B67D3/0019 ,  B67D3/0022 ,  G06Q50/12 ,  G07F13/10

摘要： A method of operating an automated beverage generating system. The method comprises receiving one or more electrical signals representative of an order for a specified beverage. The method further comprises translating the order into one or more steps required to generate the specified beverage. The method still further comprises entering at least one of the required steps into a dynamic sequence corresponding to a module of the system configured to perform that particular step, the dynamic sequence representing an order in which one or more steps in the dynamic sequence will be performed by the module for one or more beverages to be generated by the system.

摘要翻译： 一种操作自动饮料生成系统的方法。 该方法包括接收一个或多个代表指定饮料的订单的电信号。 该方法还包括将该顺序转换成生成指定饮料所需的一个或多个步骤。 该方法还包括将所需步骤中的至少一个输入到与被配置为执行该特定步骤的系统的模块相对应的动态序列中，动态序列表示将执行动态序列中的一个或多个步骤的顺序 该模块用于由系统产生的一种或多种饮料。

公开(公告)号：US20070132490A1

公开(公告)日：2007-06-14

申请号：US11299974

申请日：2005-12-12

申请人： Moises Robinson ,  Marwan Hassoun ,  Earl Swartzlander

发明人： Moises Robinson ,  Marwan Hassoun ,  Earl Swartzlander

IPC分类号： H03L7/06

CPC分类号： H03L7/0893 ,  H03H11/483 ,  H03L7/093

摘要： A method and apparatus for capacitance multiplication using two charge pumps. A first charge pump (206) provides a current signal (1216) that is first conducted by a resistor (310) of an RC network and then split into three current paths prior to being conducted by a capacitor of the RC network. A first current path provides current to the capacitor (306) of the RC network from node (320). A second current path multiplies the current conducted by capacitor (306) by a first current multiplication factor. A third current path provides current to a second charge pump, which multiplies the current from the first charge pump by a second current multiplication factor that has a fractional value with an inverse magnitude sign relative to the first current multiplication factor. The combination of the second and third current paths effectively multiplies the capacitance magnitude of capacitor (306).

摘要翻译： 一种使用两个电荷泵进行电容倍增的方法和装置。 第一电荷泵（206）提供首先由RC网络的电阻器（310）传导的电流信号（1216），然后在被RC网络的电容器传导之前被分成三个电流路径。 第一电流路径从节点（320）向RC网络的电容器（306）提供电流。 第二电流路径将由电容器（306）传导的电流乘以第一电流倍增因子。 第三电流路径向第二电荷泵提供电流，该第二电荷泵将来自第一电荷泵的电流乘以具有相对于第一当前倍增因子具有相反幅度符号的分数值的第二电流倍增因子。 第二和第三电流路径的组合有效地乘以电容器的电容量（306）。

公开(公告)号：US08488438B2

公开(公告)日：2013-07-16

申请号：US13025942

申请日：2011-02-11

申请人： James M. Little ,  Marwan Hassoun ,  David Tetzlaff ,  Chang-Chi Liu

发明人： James M. Little ,  Marwan Hassoun ,  David Tetzlaff ,  Chang-Chi Liu

IPC分类号： H04J1/12 ,  H04L12/16

CPC分类号： H04L47/6245 ,  G06F1/10 ,  H03L7/00 ,  H04B3/32 ,  H04J3/0697 ,  H04L25/0278 ,  H04L43/16 ,  H04L47/25 ,  H04L47/521 ,  H04L47/6215 ,  H04L47/722

摘要： Combined echo and crosstalk cancellation is provided. Frequency domain adaptive filters are used to remove or reduce the effects of echo and crosstalk for a multi-channel and full-duplex communications system. Data from each transmit channel is buffered and converted to the frequency domain. The frequency domain data is multiplied by crosstalk coefficients to obtain a frequency domain correction signal for each channel. Adaptation of the crosstalk coefficients is based on correlations between the error signals and the data from each of the transmit channels. A single frequency domain transform engine, such as a Fast Fourier Transform engine, is employed for all calculations to save power and area.

公开(公告)号：US07920461B2

公开(公告)日：2011-04-05

申请号：US12286063

申请日：2008-09-25

申请人： James M. Little ,  Marwan Hassoun ,  David Tetzlaff ,  Chang-Chi Liu

发明人： James M. Little ,  Marwan Hassoun ,  David Tetzlaff ,  Chang-Chi Liu

IPC分类号： H04J1/12 ,  H04L12/16

CPC分类号： H04L47/6245 ,  G06F1/10 ,  H03L7/00 ,  H04B3/32 ,  H04J3/0697 ,  H04L25/0278 ,  H04L43/16 ,  H04L47/25 ,  H04L47/521 ,  H04L47/6215 ,  H04L47/722

摘要： Combined echo and crosstalk cancellation is provided. Frequency domain adaptive filters are used to remove or reduce the effects of echo and crosstalk for a multi-channel and full-duplex communications system. Data from each transmit channel is buffered and converted to the frequency domain. The frequency domain data is multiplied by crosstalk coefficients to obtain a frequency domain correction signal for each channel. Adaptation of the crosstalk coefficients is based on correlations between the error signals and the data from each of the transmit channels. A single frequency domain transform engine, such as a Fast Fourier Transform engine, is employed for all calculations to save power and area.

摘要翻译： 提供了组合回波和串扰消除。 频域自适应滤波器用于消除或减少多通道和全双工通信系统的回波和串扰的影响。 来自每个发射信道的数据被缓冲并转换到频域。 频域数据乘以串扰系数，以获得每个通道的频域校正信号。 串扰系数的适应基于误差信号与来自每个发射信道的数据之间的相关性。 采用单频域变换引擎，如快速傅里叶变换引擎，用于所有计算，以节省功率和面积。

公开(公告)号：US20110141875A1

公开(公告)日：2011-06-16

申请号：US13025942

申请日：2011-02-11

申请人： James M. Little ,  Marwan Hassoun ,  David Tetzlaff ,  Chang-Chi Liu

发明人： James M. Little ,  Marwan Hassoun ,  David Tetzlaff ,  Chang-Chi Liu

IPC分类号： H04J4/00

CPC分类号： H04L47/6245 ,  G06F1/10 ,  H03L7/00 ,  H04B3/32 ,  H04J3/0697 ,  H04L25/0278 ,  H04L43/16 ,  H04L47/25 ,  H04L47/521 ,  H04L47/6215 ,  H04L47/722

摘要： Combined echo and crosstalk cancellation is provided. Frequency domain adaptive filters are used to remove or reduce the effects of echo and crosstalk for a multi-channel and full-duplex communications system. Data from each transmit channel is buffered and converted to the frequency domain. The frequency domain data is multiplied by crosstalk coefficients to obtain a frequency domain correction signal for each channel. Adaptation of the crosstalk coefficients is based on correlations between the error signals and the data from each of the transmit channels. A single frequency domain transform engine, such as a Fast Fourier Transform engine, is employed for all calculations to save power and area.

摘要翻译： 提供了组合回波和串扰消除。 频域自适应滤波器用于消除或减少多通道和全双工通信系统的回波和串扰的影响。 来自每个发射信道的数据被缓冲并转换到频域。 频域数据乘以串扰系数，以获得每个通道的频域校正信号。 串扰系数的适应基于误差信号与来自每个发射信道的数据之间的相关性。 采用单频域变换引擎，如快速傅里叶变换引擎，用于所有计算，以节省功率和面积。

公开(公告)号：US20090196161A1

公开(公告)日：2009-08-06

申请号：US12286063

申请日：2008-09-25

申请人： James M. Little ,  Marwan Hassoun ,  David Tetzlaff ,  Chang-Chi Liu

发明人： James M. Little ,  Marwan Hassoun ,  David Tetzlaff ,  Chang-Chi Liu

IPC分类号： H04J3/10

CPC分类号： H04L47/6245 ,  G06F1/10 ,  H03L7/00 ,  H04B3/32 ,  H04J3/0697 ,  H04L25/0278 ,  H04L43/16 ,  H04L47/25 ,  H04L47/521 ,  H04L47/6215 ,  H04L47/722

摘要： Combined echo and crosstalk cancellation is provided. Frequency domain adaptive filters are used to remove or reduce the effects of echo and crosstalk for a multi-channel and full-duplex communications system. Data from each transmit channel is buffered and converted to the frequency domain. The frequency domain data is multiplied by crosstalk coefficients to obtain a frequency domain correction signal for each channel. Adaptation of the crosstalk coefficients is based on correlations between the error signals and the data from each of the transmit channels. A single frequency domain transform engine, such as a Fast Fourier Transform engine, is employed for all calculations to save power and area.

摘要翻译： 提供了组合回波和串扰消除。 频域自适应滤波器用于消除或减少多通道和全双工通信系统的回波和串扰的影响。 来自每个发射信道的数据被缓冲并转换到频域。 频域数据乘以串扰系数，以获得每个通道的频域校正信号。 串扰系数的适应基于误差信号与来自每个发射信道的数据之间的相关性。 采用单频域变换引擎，如快速傅里叶变换引擎，用于所有计算，以节省功率和面积。