RF connector for connecting a mobile radiotelephone to a rack

• US 5,057,847 A
• Filed: 05/22/1990
• Issued: 10/15/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones UK Limited (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones UK Limited (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Vaisanen, Risto
• Primary Examiner(s): GENSLER, PAUL L
• Application Number:
  US07/526,825
• Time in Patent Office: 511 Days
• Field of Search: 333/24 C, 333/26, 333/260, 343/702, 343/711, 343/713, 343/859, 343/860, 343/906, 379/58, 379/59, 455/89, 455/90
• US Class Current: 343/702
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/1285 with capacitive feeding through the windscreen
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 7/38 Impedance-matching networks

Abstract

An RF connector for connecting a radiotelephone (1) to an external antenna, whereby the telephone and a corresponding device rack (2) are connected to the external antenna by two pairs of matching metal plates (1a, 2a, 1b, 2b) that provide a capacitive two-wire connector-interface. In order to avoid too large a size and too high an attenuation, a coil (3a, 3b) is connected in series with the pair of plates (1a, 2a; 1b, 2b) constituting each capacitor. The coil and capacitor are dimensioned so that they form a resonant circuit with an attenuation of nearly 0 at the desired transmission frequency. A first balancing transformer (4) before the resonant circuit transforms the signal into a balanced signal, and a second balancing transformer (5) after the resonant circuit transforms the signal back to an unbalanced signal to be transmitted further on a coaxial cable.

Claims

1. An RF connector for connecting a mobile device to a corresponding device rack for releasably receiving the mobile device, comprising:

an external antenna connected to the rack;

a first pair of metal plates on the mobile device;

the corresponding device rack having a second pair or metal plates;

said first and second pairs of metal plates forming a capacitative two-wire connector-interface when the mobile device is received in the rack, each connector-interface including a capacitor formed from one of said first pair of metal plates and one of said second pair of metal plates;

said capacitor having a coil in serial connection therewith, each said coil and capacitor connection forming a resonant circuit at a desired transmission frequency;

a first balancing transformer in said mobile device for transforming an unbalanced signal received from an input cable into a balanced signal and for sending said balanced signal to an input of said resonant circuit; and

a second balancing transformer in said rack for receiving said balanced signal from an output of said resonant circuit and transforming said balanced signal into an unbalanced signal and for sending said unbalanced signal to an output cable.

2. The RF connector of claim 1, characterized in that the first and second pairs of plates comprise four metal plates of the same size.

3. The RF connector of claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the impedance values of the first and second balancing transformers are 50 ohm/200 ohm for said first balancing transformer at said input and 200 ohm/50 ohm for said second balancing transformer at said output of the resonant circuit.

4. The RF connector of claim 1, characterized in that the first pair of metal plates are located under a plastic casing of the device.

5. The RF connector of claim 1, characterized in that the first and second balancing transformers each comprise a short piece of coaxial cable measuring a half wave in length.