MULTIMODE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS

• US 20090054008A1
• Filed: 01/27/2006
• Published: 02/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Satou, Mitsuru
• Granted Patent: US 7,734,311 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/78
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/406 with more than one transmission mode, e.g. analog and digital modes

Abstract

In a multimode communication apparatus that uses a plurality of wireless communication modes, interference between communications under different wireless communication modes is suppressed, a good transmission/reception state in each of the wireless communication modes is ensured. A multimode communication apparatus (100) includes transmitter sections (33), (43) and receiver sections (32), (42) and a plurality of communication units (70), (80) each being compatible with the wireless communication modes independently of one another. The communication unit (70) includes a variable channel band elimination filter (34) for suppressing, among transmission signals from its own transmitter section (33), a band corresponding to a frequency band of a reception channel that is being received by the receiver section (42) of the other communication unit (80). The variable channel band elimination filter (34) is capable of varying the band that is to be suppressed, in response to a change of the frequency band of the reception channel.

Claims

1. A multimode communication apparatus compatible with a plurality of wireless communication modes, comprising:

a plurality of communication units which are compatible with the wireless communication modes independently of one another, and each of which includes a transmitter section and a receiver section,

wherein at least one of the communication units includes a variable channel band elimination filter which suppresses, in a transmission signal from its own transmitter section, a band corresponding to a frequency band of a reception channel received by a receiver section of another communication unit; and

wherein the variable channel band elimination filter is capable of varying the band to be suppressed in response to a change of the frequency band of the reception channel.

2. The multimode communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of communication units includes a first communication unit and a second communication unit;

wherein the first communication unit includes the variable channel band elimination filter; and

wherein the second communication unit includes a frequency setting section which sets the frequency band of the reception channel and a frequency-voltage converter section which converts the frequency band set by the frequency setting section into a voltage and supplies the voltage to the variable channel band elimination filter.

3. The multimode communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the first communication unit includes a selector switch which detects the voltage from the frequency-voltage converter section, the selector switch connected between the transmitter section and the variable channel band elimination filter;

and

wherein the selector switch selects a first path for supplying a transmission signal from the transmitter section to the variable channel band elimination filter or a second path for not supplying the transmission signal from the transmitter section to the variable channel band elimination filter based on the voltage.

4. The multimode communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein each of the first communication unit and the second communication unit includes all the mentioned elements, and the first communication unit and the second communication unit have configurations equivalent to each other.

5. The multimode communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the variable channel band elimination filter includes a notch filter.