Transmitter-receiver for a radio communication apparatus

• US 5,802,447 A
• Filed: 02/02/1996
• Issued: 09/01/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Miyazaki, Kazuto
• Primary Examiner(s): VO, NGUYEN THANH
• Application Number:
  US08/594,640
• Time in Patent Office: 942 Days
• Field of Search: 455/73, 455/76, 455/84, 455/85, 455/86, 455/83, 370/276, 370/280, 370/277, 370/278, 370/294
• US Class Current: 455/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/405 with multiple discrete channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/54 using the same frequency for two directions of communication H04B1/44 takes precedence

Abstract

A radio signal received by an antenna is supplied to a SAW bandpass filter, and a signal of a carrier frequency band is extracted and supplied to a first mixer. On the basis of a first receiving local signal supplied from a local signal generator, the first mixer generates a signal of an intermediate frequency band and supplies the signal to a second mixer. The second mixer demodulates a baseband signal from the intermediate-frequency signal by using a second local signal as an output from a TCXO circuit which generates a reference signal to the local signal generator. The baseband transmitting signal is supplied to a quadrature modulator where a transmitting local signal (carrier-band signal) supplied from the local signal generator is modulated by the baseband transmitting signal. The carrier-band modulated signal is supplied to the antenna via a high-power amplifier and transmitted from the antenna as a radio signal.

Claims

1. A transmitter-receiver for a radio communication apparatus, comprising:

a receiver amplifier for amplifying a received signal;

a filter device comprising a surface acoustic wave filter for extracting a signal of a carrier frequency band from an output of said receiver amplifier;

a frequency convertor for converting the carrier frequency band signal extracted by said filter device into a signal of a desired frequency by using a receiving local signal;

a modulator for modulating a transmitting local signal of the carrier frequency band by using transmitting data;

a transmitter amplifier for amplifying an output of said modulator; and

a local signal generator for time-divisionally, selectively generating the receiving local signal and the transmitting local signal,

and wherein;

said frequency convertor comprises a first frequency convertor for converting the carrier frequency band signal extracted by said filter device into an intermediate-frequency signal by using a first receiving local signal, and a second frequency convertor for converting the intermediate-frequency signal into the desired-frequency signal by using a second receiving local signal,

said local signal generator comprises a first local signal generator for supplying the first receiving local signal to said first frequency convertor, and the transmitting local signal to said modulator and a second local signal generator for supplying the second receiving local signal to said second frequency convertor,

said first local signal generator comprises a voltage-controlled oscillation circuit and a PLL circuit which is supplied with an output from said second local signal generator and an output from said voltage-controlled oscillation circuit, and

said second local signal generator comprises an oscillation circuit with a fixed oscillation frequency and a multiplication circuit for increasing an output frequency of said oscillation circuit by an integer value, an output from said multiplication circuit being the second receiving local signal.

2. A transmitter-receiver according to claim 1, wherein said first local signal generator further comprises a low-pass filter connected to an output terminal of said voltage-controlled oscillation circuit to remove a harmonic component of an oscillation frequency of said voltage-controlled oscillation circuit.

3. A transmitter-receiver according to claim 1, wherein said surface acoustic wave filter comprises a surface acoustic wave bandpass filter having an image frequency band which is 95% of the carrier frequency.

4. A transmitter-receiver according to claim 1, wherein said transmitter-receiver is applied to a time division multiple access(TDMA)-time division duplex(TDD) radio communication apparatus.

5. A transmitter-receiver according to claim 1, further comprising:

a first switching device for selectively connecting one terminal end of said filter device to one of said receiver amplifier and said transmitter amplifier;

a second switching device for selectively connecting another terminal end of said filter device to one of said frequency converter and said modulator; and

a controller for switching maid first switching device and said second switching device such that an output of said receiver amplifier is supplied to said frequency converter through said filter device during a receiving mode, and an output of said modulator is supplied to said transmitter amplifier through said filter device during a transmitting mode.