Digital radio communication apparatus

• US 5,307,378 A
• Filed: 05/29/1992
• Issued: 04/26/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Norimatsu, Hidehiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): TSE, YOUNG TOI
• Application Number:
  US07/890,229
• Time in Patent Office: 697 Days
• Field of Search: 375/7, 375/39, 375/53, 375/85, 455/84, 455/86, 455/87, 329/306, 332/100, 332/103
• US Class Current: 375/261
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/30 for homodyne or synchrodyne receivers demodulator circuits H03D1/22
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/405 with multiple discrete channels

Abstract

A digital radio communication apparatus includes a reception system and a transmission system. The reception system includes a first frequency converter and a quadrature demodulator. The first frequency converter frequency-converts a reception signal and outputs the converted signal as a first IF signal. The quadrature demodulator performs quadrature demodulation of the first IF signal. The transmission system includes a quadrature modulator and a second frequency converter. The quadrature modulator performs quadrature modulation of a transmission signal and outputs the modulated signal as a second IF signal. The second frequency converter frequency-converts the second IF signal and transmits the converted signal. The frequency difference between the first and second IF signals is set to coincide with the frequency interval between a transmission frequency and a reception frequency. The frequency of one of the first and second IF signals is set to be an integer multiple of the frequency of the other IF signal.

Claims

1. A digital radio communication apparatus comprising:

a reception system including a first frequency converter for frequency-converting a reception signal having a predetermined reception frequency and outputting the converted signal as a first IF signal, and a quadrature demodulator for performing quadrature demodulation of the first IF signal; and

a transmission system including a quadrature modulator for performing quadrature modulation of a transmission signal having a predetermined transmission frequency and outputting the modulated signal as second IF signal, and a second frequency converter for frequency-converting the second IF signal and transmitting the converted signal,

wherein a frequency difference between the first and second IF signals is set to coincide with a frequency interval between the predetermined transmission frequency and the predetermined reception frequency, and frequency of one of the first and second IF signals is set to be an integer multiple of a frequency of the other IF signal.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a first local oscillator for outputting a first local oscillation signal to said first and second frequency converts to frequency-convert the reception signal and the transmission signal, a second local oscillator for outputting a second local oscillation signal to one of said quadrature demodulator and said quadrature modulator to perform the quadrature modulation/demodulation, and a frequency divider for frequency-dividing the second local oscillation signal and outputting the divided outputs to the other of said quadrature demodulator and said quadrature modulator to perform the quadrature modulation/demodulation.

3. An apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a control means for controlling said first local oscillator to switch frequencies of the first local oscillation signal in accordance with reception and transmission bands in which the predetermined reception and predetermined transmission frequencies are respectively changeable, and wherein a frequency switching range of the first local oscillation signal is set on the basis of the reception and transmission bands and the first and second IF signals.

4. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the divider ratio of said frequency divider is the inverse of said integer multiple.