Radio frequency control circuit of base station of mobile communications systems

• US 6,069,721 A
• Filed: 11/20/1997
• Issued: 05/30/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: LG Information & Communications Ltd. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Information & Communications Ltd. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Oh, Young Ju, Kim, Dae Weon
• Primary Examiner(s): NEGASH, KINFE MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US08/974,455
• Time in Patent Office: 922 Days
• Field of Search: 359/145-146, 359/167, 359/173, 455/403, 455/422
• US Class Current: 398/115
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/25753 Distribution optical network, e.g. between a base station and a plurality of remote units
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/25759 Details of the reception of RF signal or the optical conversion before the optical fibre
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/085 Access point devices with remote components

Abstract

The radio frequency control circuit of the base station of a mobile communications system is constructed in a manner that the transmitting coupler branching the transmission signal to the shadow region is connected between the transmitting side power amplifier and transmitting antenna, and the receiving coupler inserting the signal received from the shadow region is connected between the receiving side low noise amplifier and splitter, to cover the shadow region using a simplified circuit configuration without a separate hardware. Therefore, a signal is transmitted by the optical antenna to a shadow region located at a long distance through the optical cable, and the signal is transmitted by the dispersion antenna to a shadow region located at close range through the coaxial cable, to provide radiocommunication service to a mobile located in the shadow region without establishing a base station in the shadow region.

Claims

1. A radio frequency control circuit of a base station of a mobile communications system, comprising:

a transmitting coupler for branching a high-power carrier signal in transmission process, the transmitting coupler being connected between a transmitting side power amplifier and transmitting antenna;

a receiving coupler for inserting a receiving signal in reception process, the receiving coupler being connected between a receiving side splitter and low noise amplifier;

an optical antenna interface for performing mutual conversion between an electrical signal and optical signal in the transmission/reception process of carrier signal, the optical antenna interface being connected to the transmitting and receiving couplers;

an optical antenna section connected to the optical antenna interface in a radial manner, the optical antenna section including a plurality of optical antennas; and

a dispersion antenna section correspondingly connected to the optical antenna section, the dispersion antenna section including a plurality of dispersion antennas.

2. The circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the optical antenna interface and optical antenna section are connected to each other through an optical cable.

3. The circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the optical antenna section is located in a shadow region at close range, and dispersion antenna section is located in a shadow region in a long distance.

4. The circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the optical antenna section and dispersion antennas section are connected to each other through a coaxial cable.

5. The circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the dispersion antenna section amplifies the power of a radio frequency signal as much as line loss, and radiates it through a low power antenna.