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Antenna duplexer and wireless terminal using the same

a wireless terminal and duplexing technology, applied in the field of duplexing, can solve the problems of increasing difficulty in operation of such devices, and achieve the effect of reducing the size and the number of switches

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-02-08
HITACHI MEDIA ELECTORONICS CO LTD
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"The present invention aims to solve the problem of the exponential increase in the number of switches needed for multiband operation in wireless terminals. The invention provides a technology that can equivalently provide the band selection function to switches and filters on the receiver system, reducing the number of switches required. The invention also proposes a new synthesis method of output signals from two receive filters to solve the problem of the increase in the number of pins resulting from the combination of an IC for DC demodulation system or an IC for low-intermediate frequency (low-IF) demodulation system. The invention further proposes an antenna duplexer that can achieve the high-performance multiband operation with a compact circuit configuration. The technical effects of the invention include reducing the number of switches required, simplifying the circuit configuration, and improving the performance of wireless terminals in the future."

Problems solved by technology

Incidentally, in the above-described wireless terminal in the TDMA system, with the increase of the demand for the multiband terminal, for example, from the dual-band terminal of the 900 MHz EGSM and the 1.8 GHz DCS to the triple-band terminal obtained by adding the 1.9 GHz PCS and to the quad-band terminal obtained by further adding the 850 MHz GSM, the operation thereof has become more and more difficult.

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[0042]FIG. 2 shows an example of the first embodiment of the present invention. An example of the RF circuit for antenna duplexer assumed to be used for the quad-band terminal is shown in FIG. 2. By the adoption of this RF circuit, it becomes possible to pair the transmitting and receiving frequencies of each system and to handle the bands corresponding to four systems of the respective frequencies of EGSM, DCS, PCS and GSM 850 with a single antenna.

[0043] First, the configuration of the wireless terminal will be described in brief with using the quad-band terminal as an example. FIG. 10 is a simplified block diagram showing the wireless terminal. Since it handles the RF signals of both 824 to 960 MHz band and 1.71 to 1.99 GHz band, the circuit is generally large and complicated. Various types of new circuit systems have been proposed for the size reduction of the terminal. In the OPLL (Offset Phase Lock Loop) modulation method adopted in the transmitter system, the modulation is d...

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[0057] Subsequently, FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 shown an example of the 15 second embodiment of the present invention. This configuration is common to the RF circuit for multiband switch-type antenna duplexer such as dual band, triple band and quad band and more. In general, the number of RF-IC pins is increased with the development of the multiband operation, and it is expected that the problem of the number of pins will become severer in the future. An object of the configuration of this proposal is to solve the problem.

[0058] The RF circuit with the configuration of this embodiment is effective for the system in which fT(1)2) is satisfied and fR(1) partially overlaps fT(2) when the transmitting and receiving frequency bands of the first system are denoted as fT(1) and fR(1) and the transmitting and receiving frequency bands of the second system are denoted as fT(2) and fR(2).

[0059] In FIG. 3, the first system is, for example, the GSM 850 and the second system is, for example, the EGSM. ...

third embodiment

[0066] Subsequently, FIG. 5 to FIG. 7 show an example of the third embodiment of the present invention. In the circuit in FIG. 5, a balun circuit 30 is introduced between the third parallel connection point 5 and the common terminal for reception in the circuit of FIG. 3 or FIG. 4 (example of using the circuit of FIG. 3 is shown in FIG. 5), so that the common output terminal for reception is changed to the differential output terminal. By doing so, since not only the number of receiving terminals but also the number of balun circuits can be reduced, the simplification of the entire circuit and the cost reduction can be achieved. FIG. 6 shows a concrete example of an embodiment including the balun circuit of FIG. 5. More specifically, the balun circuit is formed of the circuit composed of the serial arm inductance and the parallel arm capacitance from the side of the parallel connection point 5 between the third parallel connection point 5 and one of the differential output terminals...

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Abstract

A technology which can realize a high-performance multiband operation in a compact circuit configuration and is advantageous for a wireless terminal of GSM system for which the further increase of the demands is expected in the future is provided. Provided is a multiband switch type antenna duplexer adopted in a mobile phone used in TDMA system such as the GSM system, in which the signals of respectively different first to fourth frequency bands (GSM 850, EGSM, DCS, PCS) share a single antenna, wherein switching elements such as receive filters and diodes are combined in various ways to perform the high-performance band switch with the minimum number of switching elements. The circuit of this antenna duplexer can realize not only the size reduction of the multiband switch antenna duplexer but also the size reduction and performance improvement of the wireless terminal itself.

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TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention relates to an antenna duplexer (a radio frequency (abbreviated as RF, hereinafter) circuit for antenna duplexer) which makes it possible to achieve the multiband wireless terminal suitable for a mobile phone or the like in the TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) system such as the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) mobile phone. More particularly, it relates to a technology effectively applied to the case where the antenna duplexer (RF circuit for antenna duplexer) is adopted to realize a compact and high-performance terminal. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] Conventionally, when realizing the multiband operation in a wireless terminal in the TDMA system, an antenna switch module in which a plurality of switches for selecting the transmitting and receiving frequency signals corresponding to each band are provided right behind the antenna has been used. For example, as shown in FIG. 1, the demand from the dua...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): H03H9/00
CPCH03H9/706H04B1/52H03H9/725
Inventor HIKITA, MITSUTAKASHIBAGAKI, NOBUHIKOMATSUDA, SHIGEKIMATSUURA, NAOKIYOKOYAMA, KAZUYUKI
Owner HITACHI MEDIA ELECTORONICS CO LTD