Abstract: A high performance demodulator able to realize a further wide band property, low distortion characteristics, and low power consumption in comparison with a conventional multi-port demodulator and having a small fluctuation in characteristics with respect to temperature fluctuations and aging and comprising a five-port junction circuit 101 receiving a received signal Sr and a local signal Slo generated at a local signal generation circuit 102, generating three signals having a phase difference, detecting signal levels (amplitude components) of these signals to obtain three power detection signals (baseband signals) P1, P2, and P3; a first multiplier 103 for multiplying the power detection signal P1 output from a first power detector of the five-port junction circuit 101 by a coefficient A1 (=(?21/?11)2) for canceling square components of an interference signal and a local signal; a second multiplier 104 for multiplying the power detection signal P1 output from the first power detector by a coefficient A2 (=(?3

Abstract: A high performance demodulator able to realize a further wide band property, low distortion characteristic, and low power consumption in comparison with a conventional multi-port demodulator and having a small fluctuation in characteristics with respect to fluctuation in temperatures and aging including a first branch circuit 1001 for branching a reception signal to first to third three signals; a second branch circuit 1002 for branching a local signal to first and second two signals; a first phase shifter 1003 for shifting the phase of the first local signal from the second branch circuit 1002 by a shift amount &thgr;1; a second phase shifter 1004 for shifting the phase of the second local signal from the second branch circuit 1002 by a shift amount &thgr;2; a first coupler circuit 1005 for coupling the second reception signal from the first branch circuit 1001 and the local signal shifted in the phase by the shift amount &thgr;1 by the first phase shifter 1003; a second coupler circuit 1006 for coupling the

Abstract: The invention provides an antenna device, comprising a dielectric substrate board (10), dipole means (16) formed on said substrate board (10), and reflector means (48) having first and second reflective surfaces (50,52) which are aparallel to each other define a first angle between each other. A positional relationship between said substrate board (10) and said reflector means (48) is such that said substrate board (10) and a vertex of said first angle g(a) substantially lie in a same plane and said first and second reflective surfaces lie on opposite sides of said plane, a second angle defined between said substrate board (10) and said first reflective surface and a thirs angle defined between said substrate board (10) and said second reflective surface being different from zero each.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a circuitry for detecting the power of a RF signal (7) comprising a FET transistor (1) connected in parallel to two inputs (2, 2′) for supplying the RF signal and two outputs (13, 13′) for detecting the power of the RF signal (7). The circuitry has a resistor (9) having a resistance larger than the drain-source resistance of the FET transistor (1). This resistor (9) is connected between one of the outputs and the source (14) of the FET transistor (19. Further a capacitor (10) is connected between one of the input and the source of the FET transistor. The gate (8) of the FET transistor is connected to ground.

Abstract: The underlying invention generally relates to the field of five-port receivers, especially to a new topology for a five-port junction device (11) with three power sensors (PD1, PD2 and PD3) to be applied to the processing and direct down-conversion of broadband RF signals within an operation band-width between 1 and 7 GHz. Thereby, said receiver does not need any additional passive (resistive) network, which leads to a significant increase in the overall signal-to-noise (S/N) performance. Compared to receivers with a resistive five-port topology according to the state of the art, a non-optimized structure sensitivity enhancement (system gain) of 8-9 dB can be observed. Since a simpler technology is employed, a significant decrease in microchip size (of more than 50%) can be achieved.

Abstract: A two-port millimeter-wave demodulation device is particularly adapted for wireless 60 GHz transmission systems. The device for the downconversion and demodulation of a modulated RF signal does not comprise a mixing stage. The RF signal to be downconverted is supplied to a linear two-port device having a single power sensor connected to the output of the two-port device. The two-port device comprises a three-port junction having two inputs and one output connected to the power sensor. One input of the three-port junction is supplied to the RF signal and the other input of the three-port junction is supplied (without switching) with a further RF signal originating either from a local oscillator or with a signal derived from the RF signal to be downconverted. FIG.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for the I/Q demodulation of modulated RF signals. The I/Q demodulator (60) has a first input for the RF signal (61) to be demodulated and a second input for a RF signal (62) originating from a local oscillator (20). The demodulator (60) combines the two RF signals (61,62) to generate three output signals supplied to three power detectors. In a combination unit (70) the three power signals of the power detectors are merged in two signal branches wherein after passing an A/D converting (72) and digital processing unit (73) one signal is the I component and the other one is the Q component of the received modulated RF signal (61).

Abstract: A modulation identification device can be used for detecting the modulation type of a wirelessly transmitted and modulated RF signal without a-priori information on the kind of modulation used. The modulation identification device (1) comprises a n-port junction (17), n being an integer equal to or larger than three. The n-port junction (17) is supplied with the modulated RF signal (2) and a second RF signal (3) from a local oscillator. The n-port junction (17) outputs at least one third RF signal to at least one power detector (18). A signal processing unit (6) processes the power detected output of the n-port junction (17) to generate at least one flag (10) indicating the identified modulation type.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a circuitry for detecting the power of a RF signal (7) comprising a FET transistor (1) connected in parallel to two inputs (2, 2′) for supplying the RF signal and two outputs (13, 13′) for detecting the power of the RF signal (7). The circuitry has a resistor (9) having a resistance larger than the drain-source resistance of the FET transistor (1). This resistor (9) is connected between one of the outputs and the source (14) of the FET transistor (19. Further a capacitor (10) is connected between one of the input and the source of the FET transistor. The gate (8) of the FET transistor is connected to ground.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an I/Q demodulator (21) comprising a n-port structure (1,16) is provided, wherein n is an integer value of 4,5 or 6. The demodulator (21) is supplied at a first input (3) with a RF signal (2) which has to be demodulated. At a second input (5) it is supplied with a second RF signal (4). The n−2 output signals (6) are detected by power sensors (7). After low pass filtering (14) the output signals of the power sensors (7) are multiplexed by a multiplexing means (8).