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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:
Nov. 12, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 25, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas R Apel, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Charles E Page, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
333 25 ; 333 32 ;
Abstract
A balun, which does not use magnetic coupling and is easily integrated in MMICs, is formed of lumped parameter inductive and capacitive circuit elements. In one embodiment, a termination circuit is utilized to prevent reflections of common mode signals.