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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 13, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
J Rudy Harford, Flemington, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Elcom Technologies Corporation, King of Prussia, US;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
333 171 ; 327331 ; 327332 ; 330134 ;
Abstract
An attenuator circuit having three cascaded attenuator stages which become active, one at a time, as an input signal strength increases. In the highest gain state, the three attenuator stages are active. As the input signal increases, the attenuator stages become inactive sequentially starting with the last stage.