Motorola Corporation

Russell A Strobel

William J Scheid

Richard J Toth

Robert D Lloyd

Robert D Fennell

Dwight D Brooks

William B Benoist

Richard E Lunquist

Jawdat Rihani

A housing (202, 602) for an electronic device (700) comprises a battery compartment door (604) having a one-piece molded latch (100). The latch (100) comprises a slide member (102) coupled to a snap member (104) formed substantially in the shape of a U. The snap member (104) comprises a mounting end (106) forming the bottom of the U, and two snap arms (108) forming the two sides of the U. The snap member (104) is supported at a distance from the slide member (102), the distance being sufficient to clear walls of the housing (202). The latch (100) further comprises a header block (112) coupled to the slide member (102) between the two snap arms (108) for minimizing deflection of the two snap arms (108) towards the slide member (102) during assembly of the latch (100).

Battery compartment door and latch having longitudinal snaps

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A multi-channel transceiver uses a single high-stability crystal to generate a signal that is multiplied to a frequency near a desired transmitting and receiving frequency. The multiplied frequency is mixed with the output of an offset oscillator having a frequency selected so that the sum or difference of the two frequencies is a desired transmission frequency and the other of the sum or difference is an appropriate frequency for a local oscillator. The offset oscillator may use crystals of lower frequency stability than that of the single high-stability crystal.

Multi-channel transceiver using a single high-stability element

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Boca Raton, FL, United States of America

Russell A Strobel