For Providing Frequency Separation Patents (Class 333/126)
  • Publication number: 20150028963
    Abstract: An electronic circuit includes: a switch including ports and selecting a port to be connected to an antenna from the ports; a first filter connected between a first port out of the ports and a first terminal; a second filter connected between a second port out of the ports and a second terminal and having a frequency band different from a frequency band of the first filter; and an impedance matching unit of which a first end is coupled to a third port out of the ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi EBIHARA, Hiroshi HARA
  • Patent number: 8941448
    Abstract: An M-way coupler having a first port, M second ports, M transmission line sections, M isolation resistors and a phase shifting network is disclosed, where M is an integer number greater than 1. The M transmission line sections couple the first port to the M second ports, respectively. Each of the M isolation resistors has a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminals of the M isolation resistors are coupled to the M second ports, respectively. The phase shifting network has M I/O terminals coupled to the second terminals of the M isolation resistors, respectively. The phase shifting network is arranged to provide a phase shift within a predetermined tolerance margin between arbitrary two I/O terminals of the M I/O terminals of the phase shifting network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Mediatek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Tiku Yu, Jing-Hong Conan Zhan
  • Patent number: 8937517
    Abstract: A splitter includes an input terminal, a first output terminal, a second output terminal, a first transmitting unit including a first microstrip coupled between the input terminal and a first node, a second microstrip coupled between the input terminal and a second node, and a first resistor coupled between the first node and the second node, and a second transmitting unit including a third microstrip coupled between the first node and the first output terminal, a fourth microstrip coupled between the second node and the second output terminal, and a second resistor coupled between the first output terminal and the second output terminal, wherein lengths of the first microstrip and the second microstrip are related to a first frequency, and lengths of the third microstrip and the fourth microstrip are related to a second frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Wistron NeWeb Corporation
    Inventors: Chen-Chia Huang, Chun-Feng Yang
  • Patent number: 8933764
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a hybrid transformer duplexer apparatus. The hybrid transformer duplexer apparatus includes an autotransformer having a first port, a second port and a tap coupled to a first antenna port. A step-down transformer has a primary winding with a first terminal coupled to the first port of the autotransformer and a second terminal coupled to the second port of the autotransformer, and a secondary winding having a third terminal coupled to a second antenna port and a fourth terminal coupled to a common node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Nadim Khlat, Marcus Granger-Jones
  • Patent number: 8929699
    Abstract: An Ortho Mode Transducer (OMT) comprising a main guide configured with a set of ports and at both ends for communicating a band of frequencies. The ports and are placed at a predetermined distance from each other to form a taper section. Branching waveguides are disposed around the main guide for extracting polarization signals from the main guide. Coupling apertures are disposed apart along the periphery of the main guide for coupling the branching waveguides to the main guide. The coupling apertures are aligned parallel to a longitudinal axis of the main guide and extended to the taper portion of the main guide, which enhances bandwidth performance without the need for additional extraneous impedance matching elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Indian Space Research Organisation
    Inventors: Bhushan Sharma Shashi, Jyoti Rajeev, Maheshbhai Pandya Jigar, Shankar Nair Jidesh, Sood Khagindra, Harshadrai Trivedi Yogesh
  • Patent number: 8928430
    Abstract: An impedance matching apparatus is provided. The impedance matching apparatus includes a signal separation unit, an impedance detection unit, and an impedance matching unit. The signal separation unit separates a transmission and reception signal, and selectively passes a desired frequency corresponding to the transmission and reception signal. The impedance detection unit includes a plurality of impedances, and detects first and second electric potentials between the impedances. The impedance matching unit compares the first and second electric potentials detected by the impedance detection unit, and changes a matching factor for one of the impedances included in the impedance detection unit to match the impedances according to the compared result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ju Young Song
  • Patent number: 8923783
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication device in which an antenna switch module is omitted. The wireless communication device includes a PA that amplifies a transmission signal, a transmission circuit that processes the amplified transmission signal, an antenna, and a control unit that alternately activates and deactivates the PA, the transmission circuit being configured to match an impedance between the transmission circuit and the antenna when the PA is activated, and to put an impedance as seen from the antenna toward the transmission circuit when the PA is deactivated in a high impedance state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuya Ashizuka
  • Publication number: 20140354370
    Abstract: A signal handler providing high linearity in a small size, applicable across wide operating frequencies and bandwidths, while also adapted to preferred integrated circuit (IC) and printed circuit board technologies. In one implementation, a signal handling apparatus includes an input impedance transformer for receiving an input signal and matching an internal apparatus impedance, a splitter for providing N split signals, a number of signal processing circuits for processing the N split signals, a combiner for combining the N split signals into a combined signal, and output impedance transformer for receiving the combined signal and for matching the internal apparatus impedance to an output impedance of the apparatus. The apparatus may provide filtering, duplexing and other radio frequency signal processing functions. A tunable duplexer may be implemented using a vector inductor and tunable capacitor array with frequency dependent impedance transformers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: Newlans, Inc.
    Inventors: Dev V. Gupta, Zhiguo Lai, Mehdi Si Moussa
  • Patent number: 8896393
    Abstract: A coupling interface couples a transceiver to one or more capacitive voltage dividers of a power transmission system. The coupling interface includes a first signal path including an adjustable inductance configured to form a resonance circuit with a capacitance associated with the one or more capacitive voltage dividers. The coupling interface may include a second signal path including an adjustable inductance configured to form a resonance circuit with the capacitance associated with the one or more capacitive voltage dividers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Riccardo Fiorelli, Antonio Cataliotti, Dario Di Cara, Giovanni Tine
  • Patent number: 8884717
    Abstract: The invention discloses a diplexer formed from the combination of a first filter and a second filter, wherein both the first filter and the second filter have at least one through-hole via inductor. The diplexer has an input terminal to receive an input signal. The first filter has a first terminal electrically connected to the input terminal and a second terminal to generate a first output signal; the second filter has a third terminal electrically connected to the input terminal and a fourth terminal to generate a second output signal. The diplexer has a first output terminal electrically connected to the second terminal of the first filter to output the first output signal and a second output terminal electrically connected to the fourth terminal of the second filter to output the second output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Cyntec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu-Lin Liao, Ian-Chun Cheng
  • Patent number: 8878627
    Abstract: A monolithic power splitter is used to split a pair of input differential signals into two pairs of output differential signals in the present invention. The monolithic power splitter has two input terminals to receive a pair of input differential signals, and it has two one-by-two power splitters integrated in one single chip to split a pair of input differential signals into two pairs of output differential signals with equal power. And, the monolithic power splitter has four output terminals to output two pairs of output differential signals. In one embodiment, the first one-by-two power splitter and the second one-by-two power splitter are made on the same surface of the substrate. In another embodiment, the first one-by-two power splitter and the second one-by-two power splitter are made on opposite surfaces of the substrate. The monolithic power splitter can be used as a power combiner based on the reciprocal property of the power splitter circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Cyntec Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shih-Hsien Tseng
  • Patent number: 8872600
    Abstract: The high frequency circuit module includes an RFIC configured to transmit and receive a high frequency signal, a power amplifier IC configured to amplify a transmission signal outputted from the RFIC, and a duplexers configured to separate the transmission signal outputted from the power amplifier IC and inputted to an antenna and a reception signal from the antenna and inputted to the RFIC from each other, in which at least one of the RFIC and power amplifier IC is embedded in the circuit substrate, and the duplexers are disposed between the RFIC and the power amplifier IC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Tomohiro Igarashi
  • Patent number: 8866564
    Abstract: The present invention is an orthomode transducer (OMT) device that allows for dual polarized dual frequency band antenna feed systems. The OMT device includes a waveguide structure having a first end and a second end such that the first end defines a port for receiving signals. The waveguide structure includes an outer wall defining a waveguide chamber therein and the outer wall includes a first cylindrical section proximate the first end. The waveguide structure also includes a second cylindrical section proximate the second end and a region therebetween. At least one longitudinal groove is introduced proximate the second end and extends towards the first end of the waveguide structure. The OMT device further includes at least one waveguide coupled to the outer wall of the waveguide chamber which is in signal communication with the waveguide chamber through an opening in the region of the outer wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: KVH Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas D. Monte
  • Patent number: 8854155
    Abstract: A duplexing system may be used with an electronic device. The duplexing system may include a duplexer connected with an antenna. The duplexing system may include a balancing network. The balancing network may be connected with the duplexer, have an adjustable network impedance, and include an active component. The balancing network may be configured to adjust the network impedance to match an antenna impedance of the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Mohyee Mikhemar, Hooman Darabi
  • Patent number: 8847699
    Abstract: A circuit substrate on which a duplexer is mounted includes a substrate body. First, second and third external electrodes are provided on a first main surface of the substrate body. Fourth, fifth and sixth external electrodes are provided on a second main surface of the substrate body. First, second and third signal paths connect the first, second and third external electrodes to the fourth, fifth and sixth external electrodes, respectively. First and second ground conductors are embedded in the substrate body, and overlap with a mounting area so as to contain the mounting area where the duplexer is mounted, in a planar view seen from the z-axis direction. The first, second and third signal paths extend from the inside of the mounting area to the outside of the mounting area between the first main surface and the second ground conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Morio Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20140266501
    Abstract: Discloses are a transmission line having variable characteristic impedance and a combiner configured to combine a plurality of filter by use of the transmission line. The transmission line in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: a first filter junction being connected with a first RF filter and configured to obtain an output signal of the first RF filter; a second filter junction being connected with a second RF filter and configured to obtain an output signal of the second RF filter; a first variable impedance section in which a phase of the output signal of the first RF filter is matched with a preset phase; and a second variable impedance section in which a phase of the output signal of the second RF filter is matched with the preset phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Innerton, Inc.
    Inventor: Kwang-Myoung Heo
  • Patent number: 8830010
    Abstract: The high frequency circuit module includes an RFIC configured to transmit and receive a high frequency signal, a power amplifier IC configured to amplify a transmission signal outputted from the RFIC, and a duplexers configured to separate the transmission signal outputted from the power amplifier IC and inputted to an antenna and a reception signal from the antenna and inputted to the RFIC from each other, in which at least one of the RFIC and power amplifier IC is embedded in the circuit substrate, and the duplexers are disposed between the RFIC and the power amplifier IC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Tomohiro Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20140240058
    Abstract: A laminated waveguide diplexer includes a first laminated waveguide, a second laminated waveguide, and a coupling metal connecting the first and second laminated waveguides. The first laminated waveguide has a first upper conductor with a first slot, and the second laminated waveguide has a second upper conductor with a second slot. The coupling metal includes a first line crossing over the first slot and a second line crossing over the second slot. In addition, the laminated waveguide diplexer further includes a first via connecting the first upper conductor and the first line, and a second via connecting the second upper conductor and the second line. The first and second vias are adjacent to the first and second slots, respectively, such that the first and second lines are short stubs for respective radio frequency signals propagating thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: MICROELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Ting Yi HUANG, Chia Yu CHOU
  • Patent number: 8816794
    Abstract: A signal branching filter according to the invention is a signal branching filter connected to a network having at least four terminals. The signal branching filter includes a first line one end of which is connected to a first terminal of the network, a second line one end of which is connected to a second terminal of the network, a third line one end of which is connected to a third terminal of network, and a fourth line one end of which is connected to a fourth terminal of the network. The other end of the first line and the other end of the second line are connected to each other at a first node, and the other end of the third line and the other end of the fourth line are connected to each other at a second node. When a signal is received from the first node, a phase difference between a phase of a signal appearing on a second node side of the third line and a phase of a signal appearing on a second node side of the fourth line is almost 180°±360°*n is an integer equal to or larger than 0).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Motohiko Sako, Susumu Fukushima, Hidenori Kitamura, Yuta Yamamoto, Takuya Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8803634
    Abstract: In a branching device, an LPF includes a first inductor arranged such that some conductor layers from among conductor layers are wound in a clockwise direction, and a second inductor arranged such that a conductor layer from among the conductor layers is wound in an counterclockwise direction. In addition, an HPF includes a third inductor arranged such that conductor layers are wound in the same clockwise direction as the first inductor. Therefore, when a high-frequency signal passes through the LPF, a winding direction is reversed. In addition, when a high-frequency signal passes through the HPF, a winding direction is reversed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kunitoshi Hanaoka
  • Patent number: 8803635
    Abstract: A system of providing filter isolation may include a first filter configured to pass a first frequency range and a second filter configured to pass a second frequency range. The system may also include a circulator communicatively coupled to the first filter at a first port of the circulator and communicatively coupled to the second filter at a second port of the circulator. The circulator may be configured to receive a first signal at a third port of the circulator and direct the first signal from the third port to the first port and away from the second port. The circulator may also be configured to receive a second signal filtered by the second filter at the second port of the circulator and direct the second signal from the second port to the third port and away from the first port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Wilson Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher K. Ashworth, James W. Wilson
  • Patent number: 8786383
    Abstract: A wireless device having a CRLH structure incorporates a power combiner/divider and diplexer. In one embodiment, circuit parameters are selected to achieve impedance matching using a transmission line structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Hollinworth Fund L.L.C.
    Inventor: Alexandre Dupuy
  • Patent number: 8779872
    Abstract: A radio is provided for transmit-receive isolation and filtering (INTRIFWA) that are sealed and/or integrally built-in a housing of a transmitter, which can be used in microwave communication systems, including satellite based communications systems and terrestrial based microwave communication systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Jackson, Guo Chen, Larry Cronise, Peter Hou, Barre Lankford, Edmund Lott, Ross Thomson
  • Patent number: 8773220
    Abstract: Disclosed are a radio frequency (RF) front end module and a multi-band communication module using the RF front end module. The RF front end module may use a plurality of bandpass filters and at least one diplexer being connected to at least one of front ends or rear ends of two bandpass filters of the plurality of bandpass filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chul Soo Kim, Jun Chul Kim, Dong Su Kim, In Sang Song, Duck Hwan Kim, Yun Kwon Park, Jea Shik Shin
  • Patent number: 8774067
    Abstract: There are first and second antennas proximally disposed and configured to resonate within respective first and second frequency bands, which may overlap. An impedance stabilization circuitry is coupled to ground. There is a selective coupler (for example, diplexer, directional coupler, switch) interfacing the second antenna selectively with the impedance stabilization circuitry and with radio circuitry. The selective coupler comprises a first port coupled to the second antenna, a second port coupled to the impedance stabilization circuitry, and a third port configured to couple with radio circuitry that is configured to operate in the second frequency band. The selective coupler provides a predetermined impedance to signals within the first frequency band and a low insertion loss to signals within the second frequency band, thus providing a stable impedance for the first antenna's view of the second antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Seppo O. Rousu, Marko E. Leinonen, Juha P. Valtanen
  • Patent number: 8766744
    Abstract: In one aspect of the invention, a duplexer including a multilayer substrate with multiple stacked layers and a back surface with a rectangular shape is disclosed. An antenna terminal, a transmission terminal, a reception terminal, a ground terminal, and a conductor are provided in various positions on the multilayer substrate for improved performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masafumi Iwaki, Motoaki Hara, Tokihiro Nishihara
  • Patent number: 8760241
    Abstract: According to some embodiments described herein, a system of providing filter isolation may include a first filter configured to pass a first frequency range and a second filter configured to pass a second frequency range. The system may also include a signal splitter/combiner communicatively coupled to the first filter at a first port of the signal splitter/combiner and communicatively coupled to the second filter at a second port of the signal splitter/combiner. The signal splitter/combiner may be configured to receive a first signal filtered by the first filter at the first port of the signal splitter/combiner. The signal splitter/combiner may also be configured to direct the first signal from the first port to a third port of the signal splitter/combiner and away from the second port such that the signal splitter/combiner directs the first signal away from the second filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Wilson Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher K. Ashworth, James W. Wilson
  • Patent number: 8736399
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a first filter, a second filter, a third filter, and a fourth filter. The first filter may comprise a low pass filter having a first bandwidth and configured to present a first output signal in response to an input signal received at an input port of the apparatus. The second filter may comprise a high pass filter having a second bandwidth and configured to present a second output signal in response to the input signal received at the input port of the apparatus. The third filter may comprise a low pass filter having a third bandwidth and configured to present a third output signal in response to the second output signal. The fourth filter may comprise a high pass filter having a fourth bandwidth and configured to present a fourth output signal in response to the second output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Piotr M. Solski, Stephen P. Jones, David A. Hayes
  • Patent number: 8736398
    Abstract: Disclosed is a diplexed transmit (TX) filter and RF switch for suppressing third order intermodulation (IM3) products. Included are first and second duplexers each having a receive (RX) port, a TX port, and an RX/TX port. Also included are first and second power splitter/combiners each having first, second, and third terminals. Further included are first, second, and third phase shift networks. The first power splitter/combiner's first terminal is coupled to the first duplexer's TX port and a first switch segment is coupled between the first duplexer's RX/TX port and the first terminal of the second coupler. The first phase shift network is coupled to the second duplexer's TX port and a second switch segment in series with the second phase shift network is coupled between the second duplexer's RX/TX port and second coupler's second terminal. The third phase shift network is coupled to the second duplexer's RX terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua J. Caron, Nadim Khlat
  • Patent number: 8729980
    Abstract: A CRLH resonator-based band-pass filter includes at least two CRLH resonators. The resonators are connected by capacitive coupling. The resonators includes a microstrip line having input and output ports. The microstrip line includes a first interdigital line serial-connected to the input port, a second interdigital line serial-connected to the output port, a connection line connecting the first and second interdigital lines, and an inductor line parallel-connected to the connection line and provided with a grounded end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Dong-Ho Kim, Jae-Ick Choi, Sungtek Kahng, Geonho Jang
  • Patent number: 8723620
    Abstract: An antenna sharer with both low loss and sharp attenuation characteristic in a wide band is achieved. Antennal sharer 1 of the present invention includes first filter 3 for passing a signal in the first frequency band, and second filter 4 for passing a signal in the second frequency band higher than the first frequency band. First filter 3 includes a ladder filter that includes first series resonator 6 and second series resonator 7 with an antiresonant frequency point higher than antiresonant frequency of first series resonator. Electromechanical coupling coefficient of first series resonator 6 is smaller than electromechanical coupling coefficient of second series resonator 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunori Nishimura, Toru Jibu, Tetsuya Tsurunari
  • Patent number: 8723619
    Abstract: A filter arrangement for filtering a radio transmit signal and radio receive signal, comprising a first duplex filter and a second duplex filter, a signal divider for splitting a transmit input signal into a first transmitter signal portion and a second transmitter signal portion, the first transmitter signal portion being passed to the a transmit port of the first duplex-filter, and a second signal portion being passed to the second transmitter port of the second duplex filter. The filter arrangement further comprising a signal combiner/divider for combining a first filtered transmit portion signal and a second filtered transmit portion signal into a single filtered transmit signal. The filter arrangement further comprising a signal combiner for combining a first filtered receive signal portion and a second filtered receive signal portion into a single filtered receive signal, which is provided at a third output of the signal combiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Kathrein-Werke KG
    Inventor: Holger Weiβ
  • Publication number: 20140104014
    Abstract: A waveguide-configuration adapter is provided. The waveguide-configuration adapter includes a horizontal waveguide and a vertical waveguide. The horizontal waveguide includes a first-interface port spanning a first X-Y plane and a first-coupling port spanning a Y-Z plane with a first-coupling-port width parallel to the y axis. The vertical waveguide includes a second-interface port spanning a second X-Y plane and a second-coupling port spanning a third X-Y plane with a second-coupling-port width parallel to the x axis. When an E-field is input at the first/second coupling port in the plane of the first/second coupling port, respectively, and oriented perpendicular to the first/second coupling-port width, respectively, the E-field is output from the second/first coupling port, respectively, in the plane of second/first coupling port, respectively, and oriented perpendicular to the second/first coupling-port width, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: John C. Hoover, Shawn David Rogers, John L. Beafore
  • Patent number: 8674786
    Abstract: A large scale integrated (LSI) circuit includes a first terminal, a second terminal, a transmitting circuit coupled to the first terminal and the second terminal, and a receiving circuit coupled to the first terminal and the second terminal. The first and second terminals are coupled to an external portion of the large scale integrated circuit. The external portion includes a first branching circuit, a second branching circuit coupled to the first branching circuit, and first and second antennas coupled to the second branching circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yasufumi Sasaki, Takuji Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20140049337
    Abstract: The invention relates to an amplifier module, comprising at least one amplifier (PA), an antenna port (ANT), a transmission port (TX), a reception port (RX), and a circuit arrangement having at least three 90 DEG hybrids (HYB1, HYB2, HBY3), which each divide a respective input signal into two output signals, wherein the two output signals have a relative phase shift of 90 DEG from each other, wherein the antenna port (ANT), the transmission port (TX), and the reception port (RX) are each connected to at least one 90 DEG hybrid (HYB1, HYB2, HBY3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: EPCOS AG
    Inventor: Edgar Schmidhammer
  • Publication number: 20140043111
    Abstract: A high frequency power amplifier includes an amplification element amplifying a high frequency signal; a duplexer to which an output signal of the amplification element is inputted, the duplexer allowing a signal of a certain frequency band to pass and attenuating signals of other frequency bands; a matching circuit connected between the amplification element and the duplexer; an external terminal connected to the matching circuit; and a passive element connected between the external terminal and a grounding point. The amplification element, the matching circuit, and the duplexer are integrally mounted on a single substrate. The passive element is located outside the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Asada
  • Patent number: 8600335
    Abstract: A receiver comprising: an antenna for receiving signals in a plurality of frequency bands; an integrated circuit including a plurality of amplifiers, wherein each of the plurality of amplifiers is configured to amplify signals in one of the plurality of frequency bands; and a plurality of selectable receive paths, each of the plurality of selectable receive paths connecting an output of the antenna to an input of one of the plurality of amplifiers and including a resonant circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Cambridge Silicon Radio Ltd.
    Inventor: Konstantinos Manetakis
  • Patent number: 8558641
    Abstract: In a high-frequency module, a duplexer element and a matching element are mounted on a surface of a multilayer substrate. On a layer close to the surface, an individual-terminal-side wiring electrode connected to an individual terminal of the duplexer element is provided. On two layers below the layer close to the surface, first and second ground electrodes are respectively provided. On a layer below the layers on which the first and second ground electrodes are provided, a common-terminal-side wiring electrode connected to the common terminal of the duplexer element and one end of the matching element is provided. On a layer close to a bottom surface of the multilayer substrate, a third ground electrode connected to the other end of the matching element is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisanori Murase, Takanori Uejima
  • Patent number: 8542081
    Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a dual-band four-port orthomode transducer (OMT) is molded or cast. The OMT may be external to a transceiver housing or included as an integrated portion of the transceiver housing or a drop-in module. In an exemplary embodiment, a four-port OMT is formed from two pieces, the two pieces having a joint adjacent to or aligned to the axis of the common port. In an exemplary embodiment, the OMT is substantially planar and formed of a split-block embodiment. The two OMT pieces are joined and held together with a plurality of discrete fasteners. Furthermore, the OMT is configured to switch polarizations. The polarization switching is initiated using a remote signal and can facilitate load balancing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: ViaSat, Inc.
    Inventors: Sharad Vinodrai Parekh, Kevin Mark Skinner, Donald Lawson Runyon, David Mark Kokotoff
  • Publication number: 20130241670
    Abstract: A power distributing duplexer system is provided. In some aspects, the system includes a duplexer configured to couple an antenna to a transmitter and a receiver. The system also includes a balancing network coupled to the duplexer. The balancing network includes a network impedance. The balancing network is configured to adjust the network impedance to match an antenna impedance of the antenna. The balancing network includes a plurality of balancing network modules coupled to the duplexer. Each of the plurality of balancing network modules is configured to receive a portion of an output voltage from the duplexer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Mohyee MIKHEMAR, Hooman Darabi
  • Publication number: 20130241669
    Abstract: A duplexing system may be used with an electronic device. The duplexing system may include a duplexer connected with an antenna. The duplexing system may include a balancing network. The balancing network may be connected with the duplexer, have an adjustable network impedance, and include an active component. The balancing network may be configured to adjust the network impedance to match an antenna impedance of the antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Mohyee Mikhemar, Hooman Darabi
  • Patent number: 8536957
    Abstract: Provided is a high-frequency circuit module that has high mounting density. In a high-frequency circuit module 100, an RFIC 160 that performs transmission and reception processes for high-frequency signals, a power amplifier IC 155 that amplifies a transmission signal from the RFIC, and a duplexer 110 that separates a transmission signal outputted from the power amplifier IC 155 to an antenna and a reception signal that is inputted from the antenna to the RFIC 160 are formed on the top surface thereof. The duplexer 110 is disposed between the RFIC 160 and the power amplifier IC 155.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Tomohiro Igarashi
  • Patent number: 8525616
    Abstract: An antenna feed network includes a septum polarizer including a waveguide defining a cavity, wherein a septum is disposed in the cavity to divide the cavity to form a first port and as second port, a diplexer in signal communication with at least one of the first port and the second port of the septum polarizer to route a signal based upon a frequency, and a wave coupler/splitter in signal communication with the diplexer to send and receive signals therebetween, the wave coupler/splitter including a first signal path and a second signal path, wherein the wave coupler/splitter controls a phase shift of a signal transmitted through at least one of the first signal path and the second signal path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Robert K. Shaw, Jonathan P. MacGahan, Sulinder S. Dhanjal, Erik Lier, Bernard F. Lindinger, James W. Matthews, Kanti N. Patel
  • Publication number: 20130207742
    Abstract: The present invention is an orthomode transducer (OMT) device that allows for dual polarized dual frequency band antenna feed systems. The OMT device includes a waveguide structure having a first end and a second end such that the first end defines a port for receiving signals. The waveguide structure includes an outer wall defining a waveguide chamber therein and the outer wall includes a first cylindrical section proximate the first end. The waveguide structure also includes a second cylindrical section proximate the second end and a region therebetween. At least one longitudinal groove is introduced proximate the second end and extends towards the first end of the waveguide structure. The OMT device further includes at least one waveguide coupled to the outer wall of the waveguide chamber which is in signal communication with the waveguide chamber through an opening in the region of the outer wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventor: Thomas D. Monte
  • Patent number: 8508312
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multiband transmit-receive coupler-separator with a very wide band of the OMT (“OrthoMode Transducer”) type for microwave-frequency telecommunications antennae. This coupler comprises a port for propagating all of the frequencies, a body and a port for propagating high-frequency bands, these three portions being coaxial, and wide-band coupling slots for propagating the low-frequency bands made in the body and each associated with a waveguide, and it is characterized in that its body joining the two ports has a shape of revolution the profile of which changes according to a multipolynomial law, constantly decreasing from the port with the largest cross section to the port with the smallest cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Paddy Perottino, Philippe Lepeltier
  • Patent number: 8487714
    Abstract: A duplexer module prevents a transmission signal and a reception signal in the same band from interfering with each other. The duplexer module includes a transmission line, a reception line, and an antenna common line. In addition, the duplexer module includes a plurality of mounting electrodes arranged along the four sides of an outer edge of a mounting surface of a multilayer substrate. The fourth mounting electrode defining a monitoring port is disposed on a side different from a side on which each of the first mounting electrode defining a transmission port, the second mounting electrode defining a reception port, and the third mounting electrode defining an antenna port is disposed. The fourth mounting electrode defining the monitoring port is a mounting electrode used to output a signal of the monitoring line through which a portion of electrical power is transmitted from the transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Furutani, Daisuke Yoshida, Yuji Takematsu
  • Publication number: 20130176084
    Abstract: A six-port circuit (100) with two input ports and four output ports, comprising a balun (110) for converting signals at one input port into first (112) and second (113) balanced signals, and a filter (105), with first and second input ports and four output ports as the four output ports of the circuit. The six-port circuit also comprises a splitter (120) for splitting second input signals at the other input port into first (121) and second (122) parts. The input ports (V?in1, V?in2) of the filter (105) are connected so that one of the balanced signals (112) and one of the parts (121) of the second input signals are connected to one of the filter's input ports (V?in1), and the other of the balanced signals (113) and the other (122) of the parts of the second input signals are connected to the other of the filter's input ports (V?in2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (PUBL)
    Inventor: Mingquan Bao
  • Publication number: 20130169378
    Abstract: An apparatus includes: a first apparatus port receiving a first signal having a first frequency; a second apparatus port outputting the first signal having the first frequency; a first passive device connected between the first and second apparatus ports; a second passive device connected between the first and second apparatus ports; a plurality of phase shifters each providing a corresponding phase shift, wherein at least one of the phase shifters provides its phase shift in a first signal path between the first and second apparatus ports through the first passive device, and wherein at least another phase shifter provides its phase shift in a second signal path between the first and second apparatus ports through the second passive device. The phase shifts are selected to cancel an upper or lower intermodulation product between the first signal and a second signal having a second frequency received at the second apparatus port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Avago Technologies Wireless IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Won Kyu Kim, David A. Feld, Paul Bradley
  • Patent number: 8461939
    Abstract: A waveguide orthomode transducer includes a waveguide including a first waveguide portion and a second waveguide portion placed along a transmission direction of radio signals, the size of an aperture of the second waveguide portion smaller than the size of an aperture of the first waveguide portion, a first probe disposed at a first position, a second probe disposed at a second position, a third probe disposed at a third position, and a fourth probe disposed at a fourth position, wherein at least two of the first position, the second position, the third position, and the fourth position are located in the same plane perpendicular to the transmission direction of the radio signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Wistron NeWeb Corporation
    Inventors: I-Ching Lan, Chung-Min Lai, Chang-Hsiu Huang
  • Patent number: 8432237
    Abstract: An output circuit with integrated impedance matching, power combining, and filtering and suitable for use with power amplifiers and other circuits is described. In an exemplary design, an apparatus may include first and second circuits (e.g., power amplifiers) and an output circuit. The first circuit may provide a first single-ended signal and may have a first output impedance. The second circuit may provide a second single-ended signal and may have a second output impedance. The output circuit may include (i) first and second matching circuits that perform output impedance matching and filtering for the first and second circuits, (ii) a combiner (e.g., a summing node) that combines the first and second single-ended signals to obtain a combined single-ended signal, (iii) a third matching circuit that performs impedance matching and filtering for the combined single-ended signal, and (iv) switches to route the single-ended signals to different outputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: Guy Klemens, Nathan M Pletcher, Babak Nejati, Norman L Frederick, Thomas A Myers