Output power control device

• US 5,832,373 A
• Filed: 12/03/1996
• Issued: 11/03/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Company Limited
• Inventors: Nakanishi, Eiichi, Onodera, Tetsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Vo, Nguyen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Aoki, Makoto
• Application Number:
  US08/750,268
• Time in Patent Office: 700 Days
• Field of Search: 455/69, 455/115, 455/126, 455/127, 455/522, 455/278, 455/279
• US Class Current: 455/126
• CPC Class Codes: H03G 3/3042 in modulators, frequency-changers, transmitters or power amplifiers transmission power control in bidirectional transmission systems H04W52/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/52 using AGC [Automatic Gain Control] circuits or amplifiers

Abstract

An output power control device is provided with an isolator, to which a transmission signal, that has been power amplified by a power amplifier, is input. The transmission signal is input via a transmission line connected to an output side of the power amplifier. The isolator only passes a progressive wave component of the transmission signal. The output power control device also includes a detection circuit for forming an actual output power detection signal by extracting part of an output power from a point of input of the isolator. Further, a reactance adjusting element connected to the point of input of the isolator cancels a parasitic reactance associated with the extracting section of the detection circuit.

Claims

1. An output power control device that switches transmission output power gradually or continuously, comprising:

a feedback control system for feedback controlling the output power;

an open control system for open controlling the output power;

control system switching means for causing the feedback control system to function when a target output power level is larger than a previously set fixed value, and for causing the open control system to function when a target output power level is smaller than a previously set fixed value; and

temperature compensation means for compensating for temperature variation at least when the open control system is functioning.

2. An output control device according to claim 1, wherein

the feedback control system comprises:

a detection circuit for detecting the output power;

an analog/digital converter for analog/digital converting a detection signal from the detection circuit;

a control section for forming feedback data based on detection data from the analog/digital converter;

a digital/analog converter for digital/analog converting control data from the control section; and

variable gain means for causing an output level to vary in response to a control signal from the digital/analog converter,

and the open control system comprises;

the control section;

the digital/analog converter; and

the variable gain means,

wherein said control system switching means comprises the control section.

3. An output control device according to claim 2, further comprising a second digital/analog converter for digital/analog converting second control data from the control section, and second variable gain means for causing an output level to vary in response to a second control signal from the second digital/analog converter, wherein

when the feedback control system is functioning, the control section is operable for providing control data to the digital/analog converter in response to the detection data,

while when the open control system is functioning, the control section is operable for supplying control data, fixedly determined according to the target output power, to the digital/analog converter, and for supplying second control data, fixedly determined according to the target output power, to the second digital/analog converter.

4. An output control device according to claim 2, further comprising orthogonal signal forming means for forming a Q baseband signal and an I baseband signal in response to transmission information, and an orthogonal modulator for orthogonally modulating a carrier wave in response to the I baseband signal and the Q baseband signal, wherein

when the feedback control system is functioning, the control section is operable for providing control data to the digital/analog converter in response to the detection data,

while when the open control system is functioning, the control section is operable for supplying control data, fixedly determined according to the target output power, to the digital analog converter, and for controlling the amplitude of the I baseband signal and the Q baseband signal from the orthogonal signal forming means to amplitudes fixedly determined according to the target output power.