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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2014
Applicant:

The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd., Marin, CH;

Inventors:

Arnaud Casagrande, Bole, CH;

Carlos Velasquez, Neuchatel, CH;

Emil Zellweger, Lommiswil, CH;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 17/00 (2015.01); H04B 1/10 (2006.01); H04B 15/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/1027 (2013.01); H04B 15/06 (2013.01); H04B 17/0062 (2013.01); H04B 2001/1054 (2013.01);
Abstract

The signal receiver has means to suppress at least one higher harmonic component from a MEMS or crystal oscillator having a reference resonator in filtered intermediate signals of a signal receiver. The signal receiver comprises an antenna for receiving electromagnetic signals, a low noise amplifier for amplifying signals received by the antenna, one MEMS or crystal oscillator comprising a reference resonator to generate an oscillating signal with a predefined duty-cycle, a mixer for mixing the amplified and received signals with the oscillating signal to generate intermediate signals, a band-pass filter to filter the intermediate signals, and a duty-cycle controller coupled to the MEMS or crystal oscillator and coupled to the output of the band-pass filter to analyze the spectrum of the filtered intermediate signals and to modify the duty-cycle of the oscillating signal in response to the spectrum analysis of the filtered intermediate signals.


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