High frequency oscillator using a diode for frequency switching and FM modulation

• US 4,660,002 A
• Filed: 03/14/1986
• Issued: 04/21/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Iijima, Kouta, Tanemura, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Grimm, Siegfried H.
• Application Number:
  US06/840,321
• Time in Patent Office: 403 Days
• Field of Search: 332/16 T, 332/30 V, 331/117 D, 331/177 V, 331/179, 331/107 SL, 455/42, 455/86, 455/87, 455/111, 455/113
• US Class Current: 332/130
• CPC Class Codes: H03B 2200/004 including a variable capacitance, e.g. a varicap, a varactor or a variable capacitance of a diode or transistor
• CPC Class Codes: H03B 2200/0048 including measures to switch the frequency band, e.g. by harmonic selection
• CPC Class Codes: H03B 2200/0056 including a diode used for switching
• CPC Class Codes: H03B 2201/0208 the means being an element with a variable capacitance, e.g. capacitance diode
• CPC Class Codes: H03B 5/1847 the active element in the amplifier being a semiconductor device
• CPC Class Codes: H03C 3/22 the element being a semiconductor diode, e.g. varicap diode

Abstract

A high frequency oscillator having an oscillation transistor connected to a resonant strip line unit consisting of a main strip line member and an auxiliary strip line member. The auxiliary strip line member is connected in parallel with or isolated from the main strip line member by a switch diode for switching the characteristic impedance of the strip line unit so as to generate a reception or transmission carrier wave output. A varactor diode connected to the strip line unit has its capacitance changed through an applied control voltage for channel switching. A modulating signal input terminal is directly connected to a portion of the auxiliary strip line member for modulating an FM transmission signal independently of the value of the control voltage applied to the varactor diode.

Claims

1. A high frequency oscillator comprising:

an oscillation transistor;

a resonant strip line unit connected at one end to said oscillation transistor, said strip line unit consisting of a main strip line member and an auxiliary strip line member, one terminal of said auxiliary strip line member being high-pass connected to one terminal of the main strip line member, and the other terminal of said auxiliary strip line member being connectable through a switch diode to said main strip line member to place said auxiliary strip line member in parallel with the main strip line member for switching the characteristic impedance of the strip line unit;

an output terminal connected to the other end of the strip line unit which is adapted to provide first-frequency and second-frequency output signals in accordance with switching of the switch diode to On and Off conditions, respectively;

a switchable voltage input terminal connected to said main strip line member for biasing said switch diode to the On or Off conditions in accordance with a switching voltage signal applied thereto;

a varactor diode having one terminal connected to a portion of said auxiliary strip line member and its other terminal connected to ground, said varactor diode being connected to a control voltage input terminal for changing the capacitance of said varactor diode for channel switching in accordance with a control voltage applied to said control voltage input terminal; and

a modulating signal input terminal directly connected to a portion of said auxiliary strip line member such that upon application of a modulating signal to the modulating signal input terminal during the Off condition of the switch diode, the second-frequency signal is subjected to FM modulation.