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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. 03, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 12, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Bert C Henderson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Clifford A Mohwinkel, San Jose, CA (US);
Mark V Faulkner, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Assignee:
Endgate Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
455327 ; 455330 ; 327355 ;
Abstract
Mixers assemblies including mixer cells, baluns, quadrature mixers and image reject mixers, etc. The mixer cell may contain CPW strip RF input and slot line strip LO input. LO signal return is provided through a flip-chip mounted to a mixer contact area and the CPW RF input is preferably coupled to the contact area through a distributed or flip-chip mounted capacitor. The use of two mixer cells in novel embodiments of quadrature and image reject mixers is disclosed. CPW to slot line power dividing baluns for use within and without such mixers are also disclosed.