The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 1976
Filed:
Sep. 17, 1974
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masakatsu Toyoshima, Tokyo, JA;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JA;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
325348 ; 325478 ; 329124 ;
Abstract
A noise-squelching circuit in which a phase-locked loop supplies an identifiable output signal that distinguishes between those times when the voltage-controlled oscillator in the loop is locked onto an incoming carrier, and those times when it is not. This identifiable signal controls a muting circuit to allow the information modulated onto the incoming carrier to pass through the muting circuit to an output terminal only when the loop is locked to an incoming signal but not when the loop is not locked onto a carrier.