Patents Assigned to Continentral Electronics Corporation
  • Patent number: 6032028
    Abstract: An FM transmitter includes I and Q channels, each deriving a baseband sinusoidal wave having a frequency determined by speech and/or music broadcast information amplitude and nominally having the same maximum amplitude. Each wave drives a different balanced mixer, each responsive to orthogonally phased carrier waves. Outputs of the mixers are added to derive a frequency modulated output wave. The channels, mixers, and circuitry associated with them tend to introduce unwanted components in the output wave. Offset, peak amplitude, phase and relative delay of the added mixed outputs are such that the unwanted components are substantially eliminated from the output wave. The sinusoidal waves are derived by DACs responsive to signals derived by a digital processor having a memory storing amplitude vs. phase position values and slope vs. phase position values that are combined in response to samples of the broadcast information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Continentral Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel L. Dickey, David L. Hershberger