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US 5,781,077 AGranted
Reducing transformer interwinding capacitance
AssigneeBurr-Brown Corporation
InventorsJim Rodger Leitch, Andrew Notman
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Abstract
A transformer. According to one embodiment, the planar transformer has a first winding, a first conducting surface adjacent to the first winding, a second winding and a second conducting surface adjacent to the second winding. The first conducting surface is coupled to a first ground and the second conducting surface is coupled to a second ground.
Claims23
A transformer, comprising:
- (a) a first winding;
- (b) a first conducting surface adjacent to the first winding;
- (c) a second winding;
- and
- (d) a second conducting surface adjacent to the second winding;
- wherein the first conducting surface is coupled to a first ground and the second conducting surface is coupled to a second ground.
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A method, comprising the steps of:
- modulating an input signal to provide a modulated input signal;
- applying the modulated input signal to a first winding of a transformer, wherein:
- the transformer further comprises a first conducting surface adjacent to the first winding, a second winding, and a second conducting surface adjacent to the second winding;
- a modulated output signal is produced at the second winding;
- and
- the first conducting surface is coupled to a first ground and the second conducting surface is coupled to a second ground.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.