RADIO FREQUENCY FRONT-END TRANSMISSION METHOD AND TRANSMISSION MODULE, CHIP, AND COMMUNICATIONS TERMINAL

• US 20190222238A1
• Filed: 06/23/2017
• Published: 07/18/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Vanchip (Tianjin) Technology Co.,Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Vanchip (Tianjin) Technology Co.,Ltd.
• Inventors: BAI, Yunfang
• Application Number:
  US16/313,120
• Publication Number:
  US 20190222238A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/006 using switches for selecting the desired band H04B1/0057 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0067 with one or more circuit blocks in common for different bands
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/04 Circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0458 Arrangements for matching and coupling between power amplifier and antenna or between amplifying stages matching circuits in general H03H
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/44 Transmit/receive switching
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/08 at the receiving station

Abstract

Disclosed in the present invention are a radio frequency front-end transmission method and transmission module, a chip, and a communications terminal. In the radio frequency front-end transmission method, an output matching circuit of at least one transmission channel is connected to a switch unit, and is connected to a radio frequency transmission path by using the switch unit; an output matching circuit of another at least one transmission channel is directly connected to the radio frequency transmission path. By means of the present invention, a matched transmission channel can be selected according to different frequency bands in different modes, and a control unit controls on and off of a corresponding amplification unit and the switch unit, to implement output of radio frequency signals of different frequency bands in different modes.

Claims

1. A radio frequency front-end transmission method, applied to a radio frequency front-end transmission module comprising a switch unit and at least two transmission channels, and comprising:

connecting an output matching circuit of at least one transmission channel to the switch unit, and connecting the output matching circuit to a radio frequency transmission path by using the switch unit, and

directly connecting an output matching circuit of another at least one transmission channel to the radio frequency transmission path.

2. A radio frequency front-end transmission module, comprising a switch unit and at least two transmission channels, wherein

an output matching circuit of at least one transmission channel is connected to the switch unit, and is connected to a radio frequency transmission path by using the switch unit;

and an output matching circuit of another at least one transmission channel is directly connected to the radio frequency transmission path.

3. The radio frequency front-end transmission module according to claim 2, further comprising a control unit, wherein

the switch unit and amplification units in the transmission channels are controlled by the control unit.

4. The radio frequency front-end transmission module according to claim 3, wherein

the control unit controls, according to different requirements of inputting a radio frequency signal, a transmission channel matching the radio frequency signal to be in an on state, and controls all of remaining transmission channels to be in an off state.

5. The radio frequency front-end transmission module according to claim 2, wherein

the at least one transmission channel is used for broadband communication, and the another at least one transmission channel is used for narrowband communication.

6. The radio frequency front-end transmission module according to claim 5, wherein

the transmission channel used for broadband communication comprises a first amplification unit, a first output matching circuit, and a first switch unit, and an output end of the amplification unit is connected to the first switch unit by using the first output matching circuit.

7. The radio frequency front-end transmission module according to claim 6, wherein

the first switch unit comprises at least one common end, and one common end is connected to the first output matching circuit.

8. The radio frequency front-end transmission module according to claim 6, wherein

an output end of the first switch unit is connected to a plurality of corresponding radio frequency transmission paths.

9. The radio frequency front-end transmission module according to claim 6, wherein

an output end of the first switch unit is connected to a plurality of corresponding radio frequency receiving paths.

10. The radio frequency front-end transmission module according to claim 5, wherein

the transmission channel used for narrowband communication comprises a second amplification unit and a second output matching circuit, and an output end of the second amplification unit is connected to the second output matching circuit.

11. The radio frequency front-end transmission module according to claim 3, wherein

the control unit is connected to an amplification unit in each transmission channel, and controls the amplification unit to be in an on or off state.

12. The radio frequency front-end transmission module according to claim 11, wherein

an input end of the amplification unit in the transmission channel is connected to a same input matching circuit or a plurality of corresponding input matching circuits.

13. The radio frequency front-end transmission module according to claim 12, wherein

the same input matching circuit is connected to a second switch unit or at least one radio frequency signal input end.

14. The radio frequency front-end transmission module according to claim 13, wherein

an input end of the second switch unit is connected to a plurality of corresponding radio frequency signal input ends.

15. The radio frequency front-end transmission module according to claim 6, wherein

the control unit is connected to the first switch unit and the second switch unit, the first switch unit and the second switch unit are controlled by using the control unit to be in the on or off state, the control unit controls the first switch unit to select a corresponding radio frequency transmission path to transmit a radio frequency signal, and the control unit further controls the second switch unit to select a corresponding radio frequency signal input end to receive the radio frequency signal.

16. The radio frequency front-end transmission module according to claim 2, wherein

the amplification unit consists of one or more stages of amplification circuits, and two neighboring stages of amplification circuits are connected by using an inter-stage matching circuit.

17. An integrated circuit chip, comprising the radio frequency front-end transmission module according to claim 2.

18. (canceled)