Val Garuts
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Valdis Egils Garuts (b. 1939 in Cesis, Latvia – ?) worked at Tektronix from 1964 to 1992. He was named Chief Engineer (later Fellow) in 1981, one of 10 staff holding this title at the time.
He contributed to the following instruments:
Products by Val Garuts
| Model | Class | Description | Designers | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3A9 | Plug-in | 1 MHz differential amplifier | Val Garuts | 1969 |
| 5030 | Oscilloscope | 1 MHz diff-input dual-beam scope | Val Garuts | 1969 |
| 5031 | Oscilloscope | 1 MHz diff-input dual-beam storage scope | Val Garuts | 1969 |
| 7A22 | Plug-in | 1 MHz differential amplifier | Val Garuts | 1969 |
| 7A19 | Plug-in | 600 MHz amplifier | Thor Hallen • Val Garuts | 1971 |
| 7B92 | Plug-in | 500 MHz dual timebase | Bill DeVey • Les Larson • Val Garuts • Bruce Hofer | 1971 |
| 7904 | Oscilloscope | 500 MHz non-storage mainframe | Val Garuts • Thor Hallen • John McCormick • Les Larson • Bill DeVey • Bill Peek • Hans Springer • Joe Burger • Joel Swanno • Ken Hawken | 1971 |
| R7903 | Oscilloscope | 500 MHz non-storage mainframe | Val Garuts • Thor Hallen • John McCormick • Les Larson • Bill DeVey • Bill Peek • Hans Springer • Joe Burger • Joel Swanno • Ken Hawken | 1974 |
| 7104 | Oscilloscope | 1 GHz mainframe with MCP CRT | Val Garuts • Gene Andrews • Hans Springer • John Addis • Wink Gross • Art Metz • Aris Silzars • Conrad Odenthal • Dave Morgan | 1978 |
| 7B10 | Plug-in | 1 GHz timebase | Art Metz • Bruce Hofer • Val Garuts | 1978 |
| 7B15 | Plug-in | 1 GHz delaying timebase | Art Metz • Bruce Hofer • Val Garuts | 1978 |
| 7A29 | Plug-in | 1 GHz amplifier | John Addis • Val Garuts | 1978 |
| 7854 | Oscilloscope | 400 MHz waveform-processing scope | Tom Rousseau • Les Larson • Jack Collins • Ellen Deleganes • Jim Schlegel • Gary Fladstol • Val Garuts • Tim Holte • Burt Johnson • Bruce Kingsland • Wes Kosta • Jim Tallman • Kirk Wimmer | 1980 |
| R7103 | Oscilloscope | 1 GHz non-storage mainframe | Val Garuts • Gene Andrews • Hans Springer • John Addis • Wink Gross • Art Metz • Aris Silzars • Conrad Odenthal • Dave Morgan | 1985 |
Components by Val Garuts
| Model | Class | Description | Designers | Used in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 155-0056-00 | Monolithic integrated circuit | sweep control | Val Garuts | 26G1 • 26G2 • 26G3 • 314 • 4701 • 5031 • R5031 • 5B10N • 5B12N • 5S14N • 7L5 • 7L12 • 7L13 • 7L14 • 7L18 • 7S14 • 5S14N • RG501 • Telequipment D63 • Telequipment DM63 |
Patents by Val Garuts
| Page | Office | Number | Title | Inventors | Company | Filing date | Grant date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patent US 3609407A | US | 3609407A | Automatic trigger level control circuit | Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1969-06-09 | 1971-09-28 |
| Patent US 3618130A | US | 3618130A | High efficiency regulated oscillator circuit having a substantially sinusoidal waveform | Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1969-07-28 | 1971-11-02 |
| Patent US 3733514A | US | 3733514A | Wide band amplifier having two separate high and low frequency paths for driving capacitive load with large amplitude signal | Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1971-03-19 | 1973-05-15 |
| Patent US RE29018E | US | RE29018E | Continuously variable resistance attenuator using lossy transmission line and having constant signal transit time | Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1975-06-09 | 1976-10-26 |
| Patent US 3984793A | US | 3984793A | High frequency attenuator | David Arthur Hannaford • Cornelis Teunis Veenendaal • Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1975-11-20 | 1976-10-05 |
| Patent US 4717837A | US | 4717837A | Sample and hold network | Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1986-07-18 | 1988-01-05 |
| Patent US 4720685A | US | 4720685A | FET transconductance amplifier with improved linearity and gain | Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1986-09-02 | 1988-01-19 |
| Patent US 4719447A | US | 4719447A | Analog-to-digital converter with push-pull input signal configuration | Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1987-02-09 | 1988-01-12 |
| Patent US 4912399A | US | 4912399A | Multiple lead probe for integrated circuits in wafer form | Hans J. Greub • Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1987-06-09 | 1990-03-27 |
| Patent US 4835488A | US | 4835488A | Wideband linearized emitter feedback amplifier | Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1988-01-13 | 1989-05-30 |
| Patent US 4916415A | US | 4916415A | Balanced, impedance matched, coupling device | Cliff Moulton • Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1989-01-17 | 1990-04-10 |
| Patent US 4950923A | US | 4950923A | Analog multiplier based sample and hold network | Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1989-07-28 | 1990-08-21 |
| Patent US 5121090A | US | 5121090A | Balun providing dual balanced outputs | Val Garuts • Cliff Moulton | Tektronix Inc | 1990-04-09 | 1992-06-09 |
| Patent US 5049837A | US | 5049837A | Push-pull transformer coupled RF amplifier with response to DC | Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1990-06-25 | 1991-09-17 |
| Patent US 5221895A | US | 5221895A | Probe with microstrip transmission lines | Bozidar Janko • Val Garuts • J. Lynn Saunders | Tektronix Inc | 1991-12-23 | 1993-06-22 |
| Patent US 5189313A | US | 5189313A | Variable transition time generator | Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1992-02-28 | 1993-02-23 |
Documents
- TekWeek March 7, 1986 interview with Chief Engineer Val Garuts
- Summary of Projects at Tek
- Technology Report Engineer Profile
- Measuring Conventional Oscilloscope Noise
- A Subnanosecond Realtime Oscilloscope, Tekscope Vol.3 No.4 July 1971
- Valdis E. Garuts patents