Abstract: A Doherty amplifier includes: a carrier amplifier that amplifies a first signal; a peak amplifier that amplifies a second signal; and a synthesis circuit that synthesizes the first signal amplified by the carrier amplifier and the second signal amplified by the peak amplifier, and the synthesis circuit includes a bandpass filter circuit that includes parasitic capacitances at respective output sides of the carrier amplifier and the peak amplifier as capacitors.

Abstract: A Doherty amplifier includes: a first filter circuit to output a first input signal obtained by attenuating an input signal lying in a first frequency band, and to output a second input signal obtained by allowing passage of an input signal lying in a second frequency band; a second filter circuit to output a third input signal obtained by attenuating an input signal lying in the first frequency band, and to output a fourth input signal obtained by attenuating an input signal lying in the second frequency band; a first amplifier to operate as an auxiliary amplifier when receiving the first input signal, and to operate as a main amplifier when receiving the second input signal; and a second amplifier tip operate as the main amplifier when receiving the third input signal, and to operate as the auxiliary amplifier when receiving the fourth input signal.

Abstract: A digital-to-analog converter includes a plurality of 1-bit elements each of which outputs a current corresponding to a value indicated by a digital signal when the digital signal is input; and a capacitive load connected to the plurality of 1-bit elements, the digital-to-analog converter being configured to generate an analog voltage waveform via the capacitive load that receives currents output from the plurality of 1-bit elements, wherein each of the 1-bit elements includes a switching circuit to change a bias of a voltage in each of the 1-bit elements according to a value indicated by an input digital signal, and to switch connection and non-connection with a power supply according to a change in the bias.

Abstract: A power supply modulation device includes a unit detecting, from a first digital signal, a first amplitude being the amplitude of a first analog signal provided to a first amplifier and detecting, from a second digital signal, a second amplitude being the amplitude of a second analog signal provided to a second amplifier; a unit that calculates a time differential value of a ratio of the first amplitude to a sum of the first amplitude and the second amplitude, and determines, on the basis of the time differential value, whether or not output impedance of a combining circuit that combines together the first analog signal amplified and the second analog signal changes along with a change in power of the combined signal; and a unit that controls a power supply voltage supplied to each of the first amplifier and the second amplifier, on the basis of the determination.

Abstract: An amplifier circuit is configured in such a way that the amplifier circuit includes: a first amplifier to amplify a signal to be amplified; an output matching circuit through which the signal amplified by the first amplifier propagates; and a second amplifier to amplify the signal which has propagated through the output matching circuit, and the output matching circuit is a lumped constant circuit including multiple lumped constant elements, and, by using the multiple lumped constant elements, transforms the impedance seen on the second amplifier side from the first amplifier when the output power of the second amplifier is lower than saturation electric power, to impedance higher than impedance seen on the second amplifier side from the first amplifier when the output power of the second amplifier is equal to the saturation electric power.

Abstract: A Doherty amplifier includes: a first amplifier to amplify a first signal as an auxiliary amplifier in a case where a frequency of each of the first signal and a second signal is a first frequency, and amplify the first signal as a main amplifier in a case where the frequency of each of the first signal and the second signal is a second frequency; a second amplifier to amplify the second signal as a main amplifier in a case where the frequency of each of the first signal and the second signal is the first frequency, and amplify the second signal as an auxiliary amplifier in a case where the frequency of each of the first signal and the second signal is the second frequency; and a combiner to synthesize the first signal amplified by the first amplifier and the second signal amplified by the second amplifier.

Abstract: A power supply modulator includes: a first switching element in which a first voltage is applied to the first terminal and the second terminal is connected to an output terminal; a second switching element in which the third terminal is connected to the output terminal and the second terminal, and a second voltage is applied to the fourth terminal; a first driver circuit in which the first voltage is applied to the fifth terminal and the sixth terminal is grounded, to control opening and closing of the first switching element by a change in a resistance value between the fifth and sixth terminals; and a second driver circuit in which the seventh terminal is grounded and the second voltage is applied to the eighth terminal, to control opening and closing of the second switching element by a change in a resistance value between the seventh and eighth terminals.

Abstract: A Doherty amplifier is configured in such a manner that: the ratio Z3/Z2 of a characteristic impedance Z3 of a second transmission line to a characteristic impedance Z2 of a first transmission line is a power division ratio P2/P3 of a signal to be amplified between a carrier amplifier and a peak amplifier when both of the carrier amplifier and the peak amplifier are saturated; and a resistance value Riso of a resistor is a value obtained by multiplying, by a proportionality coefficient w which is equal to or greater than 0 but less than 1, the sum of the input impedance Zcin0 of the carrier amplifier when the carrier amplifier reaches saturation and the input impedance Zpin0 of the peak amplifier when the peak amplifier reaches saturation.

Abstract: A Doherty amplifier includes: a transistor for a carrier amplifier; a transistor for a peak amplifier; a transmission line connected between an output terminal of the transistor for the carrier amplifier and an output terminal of the transistor for the peak amplifier; a stub that is connected in parallel to the output terminal of the transistor for the peak amplifier and that is capacitive and inductive in a working frequency band; and an output matching circuit connected to the output terminal of the transistor for the peak amplifier, the transmission line, and an output load, the output matching circuit to transform an impedance of the output load into an impedance lower than the impedance of the output load.

Abstract: A Doherty amplifier is configured to include a first transistor that amplifies a first signal and outputs the amplified first signal, a second transistor that amplifies a second signal and outputs the amplified second signal, and a combining circuit that combines the amplified first signal output from the first transistor and the amplified second signal output from the second transistor and outputs a combined signal of the amplified first signal and the amplified second signal, in which a signal mode in which the first signal amplified by the first transistor and the second signal amplified by the second transistor are combined in phase and a signal mode in which the first signal amplified by the first transistor and the second signal amplified by the second transistor are combined out of phase are switched in accordance with a frequency, and an operation mode is switched to a Doherty operation mode or an outphasing operation mode depending on the switched signal mode.

Abstract: This Doherty amplifier includes: a carrier amplifier for amplifying a first signal and outputting the amplified first signal; a peaking amplifier for amplifying a second signal and outputting the amplified second signal, the peaking amplifier having a non-linear output capacitance; a first output circuit for transmitting the first signal output from the carrier amplifier; a second output circuit for functioning as a virtual short stub when the peaking amplifier does not perform an amplification operation, and transmitting the second signal output from the peaking amplifier; and a combining circuit for combining the first signal transmitted by the first output circuit and the second signal transmitted by the second output circuit and outputting a combined signal of the first signal and the second signal, wherein, when the peaking amplifier performs the amplification operation, the second output circuit transforms an impedance seen by looking into the combining circuit from the peaking amplifier into an impedan

Abstract: Included is a compensation circuit having one end connected to another end of a first output circuit and another end of a second output circuit and another end grounded, the compensation circuit having an electrical length of 90 degrees at a first operation frequency and an electrical length of 45 degrees at a second operation frequency which is half of the first operation frequency.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an envelope detecting unit for detecting an envelope of a signal to be amplified, and a variable power supply applies, to an output terminal of a carrier amplifier, a voltage increased with increase in the envelope detected by the envelope detecting unit. As a result, highly efficient operation can be implemented without including a phase shifter including a quarter wavelength line or the like.

Abstract: A conventional Doherty amplifier requires a load modulation line having an electrical length of 90 degrees, a frequency compensation line having an electrical length of an integral (n) multiple of 180 degrees, and an input phase adjustment line having an electrical length corresponding to a difference (180°×n?90°) between the electrical length of the load modulation line and the electrical length of the frequency compensation line. Thus, the conventional Doherty amplifier has a problem of an increase in circuit size.

Abstract: Included is a compensation circuit (9) having one end connected to another end of a first output circuit (7) and another end of a second output circuit (8) and another end grounded, the compensation circuit having an electrical length of 90 degrees at a first operation frequency and an electrical length of 45 degrees at a second operation frequency which is half of the first operation frequency.

Abstract: In a case where the power of a signal to be amplified is greater than or equal to a threshold value, a signal distributor (2) outputs one of signals to a carrier amplifier (6), outputs another signal, a phase of which is 90 degrees behind that of the one of the signals, to a peak amplifier (8), and adjusts a phase shift amount of a signal shifted by a phase shifter (7) depending on the frequency of the signal to be amplified. In a case where the power of the signal to be amplified is less than the threshold value, the signal distributor (2) outputs the one of the signals to the carrier amplifier (6) without outputting the other signal to the peak amplifier (8).

Abstract: A multi-room type air-conditioner includes one outdoor apparatus and two or more indoor apparatuses which are respectively connected to the outdoor apparatus through respective electric expansion valves. The number of the indoor apparatuses to be connected is detected by a connection number detecting device, the closing degrees of the electric expansion valves are determined by the ratio of the loads of the respective indoor apparatuses and the frequency of the compressor is determined by a predetermined algorithmic expression of a relation between the loads of the respective indoor apparatuses which includes the rated capacities of the respective indoor apparatuses. Thereby, the air-conditioning operations for heating and cooling desired areas are optimally performed.