Patents by Inventor Timo Ahonpaa

Timo Ahonpaa has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7346323
    Abstract: A connection unit comprising a feeder port for connecting the connection unit to an antenna feeder, a first relay port for connecting the connection unit to a receiving and transmitting port of a first base station, and a second relay port for connecting the connection unit to a diversity receiver port of a second base, wherein the connection unit comprises a directional coupler for separating signals where a signal in the feeder port is divided into a first output signal in the first relay port of the first base station and a second output signal in the diversity receiver port of a second base station. A signal in the first relay port is, however, passed undivided to the feeder port. Diversity may be selectively provided in the receiving direction, but substantially no additional loss is introduced to the main transmission direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Timo Ahonpää
  • Patent number: 7340280
    Abstract: A base station and a method of configuring a base station are provided in a cellular telecommunication system, wherein the base station comprises an electrically tunable duplex filter with a tuning range covering at least two parallel sub-bands used in the telecommunication system. The electrically tunable duplex filter is tunable on site to a sub-band allocated to the base station, thus enabling an increased flexibility in selecting a fixed frequency band to be used in the lower frequency stages in the transceiver and the base band parts of the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Kari Niemelä, Timo Ahonpää, Jari Junell, Niko Kiukkonen
  • Publication number: 20060229049
    Abstract: A connection unit comprising a feeder port for connecting the connection unit to an antenna feeder, a first relay port for connecting the connection unit to a receiving and transmitting port of a first base station, and a second relay port for connecting the connection unit to a diversity receiver port of a second base, wherein the connection unit comprises a directional coupler for separating signals where a signal in the feeder port is divided into a first output signal in the first relay port of the first base station and a second output signal in the diversity receiver port of a second base station. A signal in the first relay port is, however, passed undivided to the feeder port. Diversity may be selectively provided in the receiving direction, but substantially no additional loss is introduced to the main transmission direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventor: Timo Ahonpaa
  • Publication number: 20050192055
    Abstract: A base station and a method of configuring a base station are provided in a cellular telecommunication system, wherein the base station comprises an electrically tunable duplex filter with a tuning range covering at least two parallel sub-bands used in the telecommunication system. The electrically tunable duplex filter is tunable on site to a sub-band allocated to the base station, thus enabling an increased flexibility in selecting a fixed frequency band to be used in the lower frequency stages in the transceiver and the base band parts of the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Inventors: Kari Niemela, Timo Ahonpaa
  • Patent number: 6140888
    Abstract: The invention relates to a summing member comprising in-connectors for receiving and combining different RF signals and an out-connector for supplying the combined signals further, at least one of the connectors being coaxial and comprising an elongated rod-like inner conductor, and an outer conductor surrounding the rod-like inner conductor. To provide an adjustable summing point, said at least one connector comprises a moveable part of low-loss dielectric material or ferrimagnetic material, the part surrounding at least the inner conductor and being moveable lengthwise of the inner conductor so as to adjust the phase angle of a wave reflecting from the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Nokia Telecommunications Oy
    Inventors: Veli-Matti Sarkka, Timo Ahonpaa
  • Patent number: 6005453
    Abstract: A method of tuning a summing network of a base station and a band-pass filter provided in such base station. Tuning is performed by arranging a moveable part made of a low-loss dielectric material or ferrimagnetic material in a space between an inner conductor and a tubular conductor in a coaxial cable, the width of the cross-section of the moveable part being different from its length, and tuning the summing network by adjusting the phase angle reflecting from the connector by turning the moveable part about an axle which intersects the cross-section substantially perpendicularly, whereby the distance between the moveable part and the inner conductor and/or between the moveable part and the outer conductor changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: Nokia Telecommunications Oy
    Inventors: Veli-Matti Sarkka, Timo Ahonpaa
  • Patent number: 5831490
    Abstract: A base station summing network having at least two transmitter branches made turnable by providing filters in the branches with adjusters, so that each branch can be separately adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Nokia Telecommunications Oy
    Inventors: Veli-Matti Sarkka, Timo Ahonpaa