H03L 7/183
A time difference being used for locking the loop, the counter counting
Official title: a time difference being used for locking the loop, the counter counting between fixed numbers or the frequency divider dividing by a fixed number {(H03L7/1806 takes precedence)}
H03L7/183 (A time difference being used for locking the loop, the counter counting) appears on 1,627 US grants and 917 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H03L- Granted patents
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Filings by year
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| 1976 | 11 | 0 |
| 1977 | 12 | 0 |
| 1978 | 12 | 0 |
| 1979 | 21 | 0 |
| 1980 | 8 | 0 |
| 1981 | 11 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 38 | 12 |
| 2002 | 42 | 48 |
| 2003 | 45 | 52 |
| 2004 | 33 | 37 |
| 2005 | 54 | 43 |
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| 2019 | 49 | 48 |
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| 2022 | 46 | 43 |
| 2023 | 26 | 23 |
| 2024 | 39 | 35 |
| 2025 | 28 | 14 |
| 2026 | 17 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H03L 7/187Using means for coarse tuning the voltage controlled oscillator of the loop328
- H03L 7/193The frequency divider/counter comprising a commutable pre-divider278
- H03L 7/185Using a mixer in the loop202
- H03L 7/191Using at least two different signals from the frequency divider or the137
- H03L 7/195In which the counter of the loop counts between two different non22
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