Radio transmitter-receiver system for increasing or decreasing communication channels

• US 4,965,852 A
• Filed: 11/25/1987
• Issued: 10/23/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Sasaki, Susumu
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Assistant Examiner(s): Smith, Ralph
• Application Number:
  US07/125,233
• Time in Patent Office: 1,063 Days
• Field of Search: 455/8, 455/101, 455/120, 455/103, 455/49, 455/52, 455/63, 455/78, 455/82, 370/13, 370/16, 370/38, 370/69.1, 370/120
• US Class Current: 455/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/74 for increasing reliability, e.g. using redundant or spare channels or apparatus replacing by standby devices for amplifiers H03F1/52, H03F1/542

Abstract

The radio transmitter-receiver system for increasing or decreasing communication channels comprises radio transmitter-receivers each including a separated intermediate frequency portion for modulation and demodulation and a separated microwave portion, and having a multiplexer and a divider therebetween. Local oscillators in the intermediate frequency portion have a variable frequency function and the operating frequency of the intermediate frequency portion can be easily changed. The intermediate frequency portions are connected to the microwave portions through the multiplexer or the divider and the frequency of the microwave to be communicated is easily changed. Thus, an increase or decrease of the communication channels is possible at a low cost.

Claims

1. A radio transmitter-receiver apparatus for increasing or decreasing communication channels between node stations of a communication network, said apparatus comprising:

a plurality of antenna means for receiving input RF signals and for transmitting output RF signals;

a plurality of transmitter-receiver means including RF portions and IF portions, said RF portions receiving the input RF signals from one of said antenna means and supplying the output RF signals to one of said antenna means, intermediate frequency output signals from said IF portions supplied to said RF portions and converted to the output RF signals, the input RF signals converted to intermediate frequency input signals and supplied to said IF portions, baseband input signals converted to the intermediate frequency output signals and supplied to said RF portions, the intermediate frequency input signal from said RF portions converted at said IF portions to baseband output signals, each of said IF portions being provided with a local oscillator generating a variable frequency;

IF multiplexer means, provided between said RF portions and said IF portions of said plurality of transmitter-receiver means, for receiving the intermediate frequency output signals from a plurality of said IF portions and supply multiplexed signals to said RF portions;

IF divider means for receiving the intermediate frequency input signals from said RF portions and supplying division signals to the plurality of said IF portions; and

a plurality of communication lines, each having a different frequency, provided between said plurality of antenna means forming the communication network.

2. The apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein when a communication line failure occurs, at least one of said IF portions affected by the communication line failure changes the variable frequency of the local oscillator provided therein , the intermediate frequency output signal of the at least one of said IF portions is supplied of said IF multiplexer means belonging to another communication line, the intermediate frequency input signal is supplied to said IF divider means belonging to the another communication line, and the communication line failing is by-passed.

3. The apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein at least one transmitter-receiver means is a standby apparatus.

4. The apparatus as set forth in claim 1,

wherein said transmitter-receiver means includes a transmitter section and a receiver section,

wherein said RF portions and said IF portions are provided within the transmitter section and the receiver section, and said IF multiplexer means comprises an IF multiplexer provided in the transmitter section between each of said RF portions and said IF portions, and said IF divider means comprises an IF divider provided in the receiver section between each of said RF portions and said IF portions,

wherein each of said RF portions within the transmitter section comprises:

a first RF oscillator, and

first RF mixer means for mixing outputs of said IF multiplexer and said first RF oscillator,

wherein said IF portions within the transmitter section comprises;

a first variable oscillator as the local oscillator,

modulator means for receiving a baseband input signal, and

first IF mixer means for mixing outputs of the modulator means and the first variable oscillator,

wherein said RF portions within the receiver section comprises;

a second RF oscillator, and

second RF mixer means for mixing the RF input and an output of said second RF oscillator, and

wherein said IF portions within the receiver section comprises;

a second variable oscillator as the local oscillator,

second IF mixer means for mixing a divisional signal from said IF divider and an output of the second variable oscillator, and

demodulator means for receiving an output of the second IF mixer means and for outputting the baseband output signal.

5. The apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein when a communication line failure occurs, the intermediate frequency output signal of an associated IF portion is connected to said IF multiplexer means and said IF divider means belonging to another communication line, and a filed communication line is by-passed using the same frequency as the failed communication line.

6. The apparatus as set forth in claim 2, wherein at least one transmitter-receiver means is a standby apparatus.

7. A radio transmitter-receiver apparatus for increasing or decreasing communication channels comprising:

(a) a plurality of transmitter-receiver stations; and

(b) a plurality of communication lines, each having a different frequency band, provided between said transmitter-receiver stations,

each of said transmitter-receiver stations including

(i) antenna means for receiving input radio frequency signals and transmitting output radio frequency signals, and

(ii) a plurality of transmitter-receivers, comprising

(1) radio frequency receiving means for receiving received radio frequency signals from the antenna means and converting the received radio frequency signals to first intermediate frequency signals,

(2) first intermediate frequency means for receiving the first intermediate frequency signals from aid radio frequency receiving means and providing baseband outputs,

(3) second intermediate frequency means for receiving baseband inputs, converting the baseband inputs to second intermediate frequency signals and outputting the second intermediate frequency signals,

(4) radio frequency transmitting means for receiving the second intermediate frequency signals from the second intermediate frequency means, converting the second intermediate frequency signals to transmission radio frequency signals, and outputting the transmission radio frequency signals to the antenna means,

(5) intermediate frequency multiplexer means, provided between the second intermediate frequency means and the radio frequency transmitting means, for receiving the second intermediate frequency signals from the second intermediate frequency means and supplying the second intermediate frequency signals in a single output to the radio frequency transmitting means, and

(6) intermediate frequency divider means provided between the radio frequency receiving means and the first intermediate frequency means, for receiving the first intermediate frequency signals from the radio frequency receiving means and dividing and outputting the first intermediate frequency signals among the first intermediate frequency means.

8. A radio transmitter receiver apparatus for increasing or decreasing communication channels as set forth in claim 7, wherein each of said first and second intermediate frequency means includes a local variable frequency oscillator, the local variable frequency oscillators change the frequency of the baseband outputs and second intermediate frequency signals of the first and the second intermediate frequency means, respectively, when one of said communication lines fails, for bypassing the one of said communication lines.

9. The apparatus as set forth in claim 7, wherein at least one of said transmitter-receivers in each of said transmitter-receiver stations is a standby transmitter-receiver.

10. The apparatus as set forth in claim 7, wherein when one of said communication lines fails, the failed communication line is bypassed using a frequency band of the failed communication line by connecting the first and second intermediate frequency means of an associated receiver-transmitter to the intermediate frequency multiplexer means and the intermediate frequency divider means of a different one of said receiver-transmitters associated with an operational communication line.