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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:
May. 22, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/44 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/44 ;
Abstract
A television signal receiving tuner comprising: an input terminal for admitting VHF and UHF band television signals; a correcting circuit connected to the input terminal and having inductors to correct an effective length of an antenna; a branching filter for branching the signals from the correcting circuit into VHF band television signals and UHF band television signals to be output separately; a VHF tuner unit for receiving the VHF television signals from the branching filter; and a UHF tuner unit for receiving the UHF television signals from the branching filter; wherein values of the inductors are made variable