Multiple-band mobile transceiver having a smaller number of local oscillators

• US 5,966,666 A
• Filed: 02/06/1997
• Issued: 10/12/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamaguchi, Seiichi, Kosugi, Hiroaki, Sasaki, Fujio
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisenzopf, Reinhard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Armstrong, Darnell R.
• Application Number:
  US08/796,906
• Time in Patent Office: 978 Days
• Field of Search: 455/77, 455/76, 455/78, 455/83, 455/552, 455/553, 455/575, 455/112, 455/86, 455/85, 455/87
• US Class Current: 455/552.1
• CPC Class Codes: H03D 7/163 the local oscillations of at least two of the frequency changers being derived from a single oscillator
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/403 using the same oscillator for generating both the transmitter frequency and the receiver local oscillator frequency
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/406 with more than one transmission mode, e.g. analog and digital modes

Abstract

A frequency synthesizer consists of a voltage-controlled oscillator and a frequency division and distribution section. The frequency division and distribution section, which splits an oscillation signal of the voltage-controlled oscillator into a transmission modulation local oscillation signal and a reception second local oscillation signal while frequency-dividing the oscillation signal of the voltage-controlled oscillator, includes two pairs of frequency dividers and two switches. The frequency division numbers of the two pairs of frequency dividers are so set as to accommodate all the combinations of mobile communications systems and the transmission modulation local oscillation signal/reception second local oscillation signal. The two switches are switched in accordance with a mobile communications system for which a mobile transceiver is operating. The two local oscillation signals are input to a quadrature modulator and a quadrature demodulator, respectively.

Claims

1. A mobile transceiver which operates in a plurality of radio frequency bands for each of transmission and reception by switching among different radio frequency bands used by a plurality of mobile communications systems, the mobile transceiver comprising:

a single voltage-controlled oscillator for producing an oscillation signal having a selected one of frequencies that correspond to the plurality of mobile communications systems; and

a frequency division and distribution section which receives an output oscillation signal of the voltage-controlled oscillator, said frequency division and distribution section splitting the oscillation signal of the voltage-controlled oscillator into a transmission-side local oscillation signal and a reception-side local oscillation signal while frequency dividing the oscillation signal of the voltage-controlled oscillator, the frequency division and distribution section comprising;

at least one frequency divider for providing division numbers for accommodating all combinations of the plurality of mobile communications systems and the transmission-side local oscillation signal and the reception side local oscillation signal; and

at least one switch that is switched in accordance with a selected one of the plurality of mobile communications systems.

2. The mobile transceiver according to claim 1, wherein the at least one frequency divider provides division numbers corresponding to the plurality of mobile communications systems and/or the transmission-side local oscillation signal and the reception-side local oscillation signal.

3. The mobile transceiver according to claim 1, wherein the at least one frequency divider is a single frequency divider having a division number that is switched for the plurality of mobile communications systems, and is further switched for the transmission-side local oscillation signal and the reception-side local oscillation signal in a time-divisional manner.

4. A mobile transceiver which operates in a plurality of radio frequency bands for each of transmission and reception by switching among different radio frequency bands used by a plurality of mobile communications systems, the mobile transceiver comprising:

a single voltage-controlled oscillator for producing an oscillation signal having a selected one of frequencies that correspond to the plurality of mobile communications systems; and

a frequency division and distribution section comprising;

a first group of frequency dividers connected to an output of the voltage-controlled oscillator and having division numbers that are predetermined for the plurality of mobile communications systems;

a first switch for switching among output signals of the frequency dividers of the first group in accordance with a selected one of the plurality of mobile communications systems;

a second group of frequency dividers connected to the first switch and having division numbers that are predetermined in accordance with combinations of the plurality of mobile communications systems and the transmission-side local oscillation signal and the reception-side local oscillation signal; and

a second switch for distributing, in accordance with the selected mobile communications system, output signals of the second group of frequency dividers so that said output signals of said second group of frequency dividers serve as a transmission-side local oscillation signal and a reception-side local oscillation signal.

5. A mobile transceiver which operates in a plurality of radio frequency bands for each of transmission and reception by switching among different radio frequency bands used by a plurality of mobile communications systems, the mobile transceiver comprising:

a single voltage-controlled oscillator for producing an oscillation signal having a selected one of frequencies that correspond to the plurality of mobile communications systems; and

a frequency division and distribution section comprising;

frequency dividers connected to an output of the voltage-controlled oscillator and provided in a number equal to the number of all combinations of the plurality of mobile communications systems and the transmission-side local oscillation signal and the reception-side local oscillation signal, the frequency dividers having division numbers that are predetermined for the respective combinations; and

at least one switch for selecting and distributing part of output signals of the frequency dividers for selected combinations of the plurality of mobile communications systems and a transmission-side local oscillation signal and a reception-side local oscillation signal.