Abstract: The present invention describes a communication system comprising a primary radio station (PS) and at least one secondary radio station (SS), intended to be in motion (MOT). The secondary radio station has at least one controllable structure (CS) for communicating with the primary radio station, and control means (CONT) for controlling the controllable structure depending on the movements of the secondary radio station. The control means of the controllable structure comprise magnetic field sensors (MFS) and gravitational field sensors (GFS) for providing measurements of the earth magnetic (H) and gravitational (G) fields, and computing means (COMP) for computing control information from these measurements. The computing means read the outputs of each sensor and make the calculations required to control the controllable structure at appropriate time intervals depending on the motion state of the secondary radio station.

Abstract: A keyboard having keys for inputting characters, wherein a key is arranged to produce a character in response to the press of the key once. The key (30) has a main contact (31) which is always activated when the key (30) is pressed. Also the key has at least one edge contact (32, 33), which is activated, in addition to the main contact (31), when the key (30) is pressed at the point or close to the point of the edge contact (32, 33). The activation of predetermined contacts correspond to the inputting of a predetermined character.

Abstract: A low cost wireless multi-band communications device automatically adapts itself to a signal received from a particular system. On the basis of a bandwidth determination of the received signal, a sampling bandwidth and/or sampling time is selected and/or derived for down mixing the received signals. Improved noise immunity is provided via a band limiting of the sampling means. An adaptive filter is coupled to the output of the sampling means and is adjusted in to obtain a satisfactory level of adjacent channel interference rejection.

Abstract: In a audio reproduction arrangement (2) such as a mobile phone terminal the decoded speech signal is compressed by compression means (14) in order to improve the understanding of the speech signal in the presence of strong background noise.

Abstract: A method and module for transferring energy, clock frequency and data information without using an electrically conducting connection between a portable module and host equipment. Energy is transferred as optical radiation from at least two distinct light sources with intensities alternating between the minimum and maximum values in such a way that when one intensity goes from minimum to maximum the other goes from maximum to minimum wherein total intensity of optical radiation received by the module and supply voltage formed therefrom is nearly constant. The clock frequency is formed by and detected as the cyclical alteration of light intensities. Data is transferred as a modulation of the clock frequency.

Abstract: A communication system has a primary radio station and a portable radio station. The primary radio station communicates with the portable radio station. The portable radio station is freely three-dimensionally orientable with respect to a fixed coordinate system. The portable radio station has a transceiver, a controllable antenna structure, and a beam directional controller for three-dimensionally controlling a beam radiated by the controllable antenna structure. The portable radio station further has a three-dimensional geometric sensor for three-dimensionally sensing a local magnetic field. The beam is controlled on the basis of the sensed local magnetic field.

Abstract: A communication system has a network and a number of terminals. The network and the terminals have multi-rate speech encoders and decoders. Two terminals may communicate with each other through two-way voice communication where voice paths of the two-way voice communication are acoustically coupled to each other. The two terminals may also communicate through at least one non-acoustically coupled path. If the two terminals communicate through at least one non-acoustically coupled path, multi-rate encoders and decoders assigned to the non-acoustically coupled path operate at a lower bit rate than in a situation in which the two terminals operate through two-way voice. Whether a communication between the two terminals is through at least one non-acoustically coupled path is established a priori or dynamically.

Abstract: A universal wireless communication system comprising at least two wireless subsystems is proposed which is operated at the edge of spectral efficiency while at the same time allowing wireless communication stations to operate such that optimal power saving is obtained under acceptable transmission conditions. A radio base station of one of the subsystems measures whether a wireless communication station of another one of the subsystems causes adjacent channel interference in a channel its own subsystem. If so, the radio base station commands the wireless communication station of the other substation to adjust its spectral transmission characteristic such that the transmit spectrum becomes narrower. If no interference is detected the wireless communication station of the other subsystem is allowed to broaden its spectrum so that a less complex transmit signal processing, such as filtering, can be applied and thus power saving is achieved.

Abstract: Known is a radio communication device such as a GSM handset with receive-transmit antenna switching means such as a duplexer or a transmit receive switch. In GSM handsets it is highly desirable to save battery power as much as possible. To this end in the receive and transmit paths, the power supplied to components is switched off when functioning of such components is presently not needed. Proposed is a radio communication device in which the receive-transmit switch is a couple of electromechanical switches, preferably ultra-miniature Reed relays, of which the actuating coils are connected in series with at least one DC-supplied circuit of the receive path or transmit path.

Abstract: The invention discloses a flat elementary electrochemical cell including first and second electrode foils between which there are two layers of permeable separator material for an electrolyte under pressure. According to the invention, this cell includes a non-conductive fastening system of the electrode foil and layer(s) of separator material for pressing them together. The invention also discloses a precursor element for realizing one or various such cells and a flat accumulator element including at least one such cell.

Abstract: In the method and circuit for creating a modulated signal, one input signal of a phase comparator (509) of a phase-locked frequency synthesizer is an offset frequency (f.sub.2), which is created from an adjustable oscillator's (511) output signal (f.sub.TX) by mixing it with a mixer frequency (f.sub.1) and filtering the obtained result in a low pass filter (508). The other input signal is a fixed reference frequency (f.sub.r). The adjustable oscillator (511) is controlled with a control signal (V.sub.CMOD), which contains a component resulting from the phase difference of said input signals (f.sub.r, f.sub.2). Modulation is created in the output signal (f.sub.TX) of the loop by adding a frequency or phase change to at least one of the input signals (f.sub.r, f.sub.2) or their derivatives, advantageously with pulse delay technology.

Abstract: The invention relates to a circuit arrangement for generating two signals having a phase difference of approximately 90 degrees. The invention is preferably applied in the demodulator of a radio receiver. In order to shift the phase of a signal one idea of the invention is to use a distributed resistance/capacitance circuit or a distributed RC circuit (Z.sub.10, Z.sub.20) in connection with a signal amplifying means (A.sub.1, A.sub.2). The operation of the circuit is not frequency dependent and a circuit adjustment is not necessarily required in order to calibrate the phase difference, because the distributed RC circuit can provide an substantially constant phase shift of .+-.45 degrees over a wide frequency range. The whole circuit can be integrated into one component, because a distributed RC circuit is easily made on the same integrated circuit substrate as the amplifying means, and thus the circuits can be made into a small size and at low manufacturing costs.

Abstract: A charge transfer from signal voltage (U.sub.S) to integrating capacitance (C.sub.O) is accomplished by means of charge transfer capacitance (C.sub.i), an active element (T) and controllable switches (S.sub.61, S.sub.62, S.sub.63, S.sub.64). The operation of the circuit is additionally based on the fact that the charge transfer to the charge transfer capacitance (C.sub.i) is terminated when the transistor (T) is in a current-carrying state and that current flow is ensured by a constant-current element set. These features are combined preferably in such a way that the breaking current of charge transfer is equally great as previously said current of the constant-current element.

Abstract: The object of the invention is a field-effect transistor comprising a drain (D) and a source (S) and a gate (G) with a determined width (W) and length (L), equipped with means (G1-G2) for generating a voltage distribution on the gate in direction of its width. The gate comprises a first end in direction of its width and a second end essentially opposite to the first end, and that a first gate contact (G1) is arranged at the first end for providing a first voltage (V.sub.G1) to the first end, and a second gate contact (G2) is arranged at the second end for providing a second voltage (V.sub.G2) to the second end, for generating a voltage distribution on the gate in direction of its width with the help of a difference voltage (V.sub.G1 -V.sub.G2) between the first (G1) and the second (G2) gate contact. On the basis of the first (V.sub.G1) and second (V.sub.

Abstract: The invention relates to a transceiver for generating complex I/Q-signals on a transmission frequency (f.sub.TX) and for receiving them on a reception frequency (f.sub.RX). The device comprises a first frequency synthesizer (41) for forming a first mixer signal (f.sub.LI) for the mixer (42) of the first branch that mixes the I-component of the received signal into a lower-frequency I-signal, and a second frequency synthesizer (411, 49, 46) for forming a second mixer signal (f.sub.LQ) for the mixer (421) of the second branch that mixes the Q-component of the received signal into a lower-frequency Q-signal. The device further comprises control means (45) first for directing the phase of the first (f.sub.LI) and the second (f.sub.LQ) mixer signals into the same phase in the mixing effects thereof and, thereafter, into a 90 degree mutual phase shift in the mixing effects thereof when receiving signals for bringing the lower-frequency I- and Q-signals into a 90 degree mutual phase shift.

Abstract: A base station, subscriber terminal, and data transmission method in a CDMA cellular radio network having in each cell at least one base station which communicates on a specified traffic channel with the terminal equipments (Mobile Station) located within its area, the signal of the users being divided in the method into bursts in the time domain. To achieve high traffic capacity together with high-quality connections, the base station monitors the load state of the traffic channel in the data transmission method of the invention and transmits information about the load state of the traffic channel to the terminal equipments. In the method, the number of the bursts transmitted between the terminal equipments and the base stations per time unit is controlled on the basis of the delay state of the bursts and the load state information computed at the base station.

Abstract: A frequency difference signal of a modulated signal (f.sub.1) and an unmodulated signal (f.sub.2) is produced maintaining the information of the frequency or phase modulation. According to the method, the time-related order of entry of the front edges of the pulses of the modulated and the unmodulated signal is controlled and the edge of the frequency difference signal in question at any moment is formed timewise at the same point as the edge of such modulated signal at which the time-related order of arrival of the modulating signal and the unmodulated signal has changed. Hereby, the frequency or phase shift of the modulated signal can be detected as an equivalent change in the frequency difference signal, and the modulation of the frequency difference signal is detected on the basis of the location of the pulse edge of the frequency difference signal.

Abstract: The present invention relats to a method for processing a signal, and a signal processing circuit according to the method, in which circuit one or two transistors (T1, T2) switched according to the switches are used as the active member of the entire circuit, the charge passing through said transistors being controlled, in addition to the switches, by the transferrable charge itself so that on concluded transfer of charge, all current flow in the circuit stops by itself. By means of the present invention, the signal processing is, irrespective of the polarity of the signal (positive or negative) and of the threshold voltages (Uth1, Uth2) of the transistors, linear because the signal voltage (U.sub.s) is produced, as taught by the invention, relative to a reference voltage (U.sub.Ref) of predetermined magnitude in that a sum of the signal voltage (U.sub.s) and said reference voltage (U.sub.Ref) is produced and the polarity of said sum is every time the same as the polarity of the reference voltage (U.sub.

Abstract: An integrating circuit is formed in the present invention, of which the active element is a pair of bipolar transistors (T5/T6) or a CMOS transistor (T8) which with the aid of switches (s81 to s88) controls the storing of a sample charge from the signal voltage (Us) in a sampling capacitor (Ci) and the discharging of the sample into an integrating capacitor (Co). The circuit only consumes current while charges are being transferred.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method, in which a phase modulated or frequency modulated signal can be directly generated with a PLL frequency synthesizer. With an interpolating synthesizer it is possible to create a very dense output frequency (f.sub.x) raster, so that the pulses received in the phase comparator (63) both from the reference signal (f.sub.o) branch and from the voltage controlled oscillator VCO (65) are lengthened in lengthening means (62, 69; 67, 68; k.sub.1, L+.DELTA.L; k.sub.2, L) by a desired amount. The numbers k.sub.1 and k.sub.2 are proportional to the amount of lengthening. When these integers now further are changed proportionally to the modulating signal, the change of the integers causes a change of the time difference of the pulses received by the phase comparator (63). This change of the time difference further causes a change in the output signal (f.sub.x) of the voltage controlled oscillator.