Wireless microphone use UHF band carrier FM transmitter

• US 6,246,864 B1
• Filed: 09/23/1998
• Issued: 06/12/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Circuit Design, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Circuit Design, Inc.
• Inventors: Koike, Yukinaga
• Primary Examiner(s): Kuntz, Curtis
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ramakrishnaiah, Melur
• Application Number:
  US09/159,393
• Time in Patent Office: 993 Days
• Field of Search: 455/110, 455/113, 455/112, 455/118, 381/14, 381/26, 381/91, 381/122
• US Class Current: 455/110
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/034 Portable transmitters

Abstract

A wireless microphone use UHF band carrier FM transmitter adopting a PLL system, which has a voltage controlled crystal oscillation type modulator (VCXO) for performing FM modulation on an oscillation frequency of a crystal oscillation circuit by an input of a modulation signal AF of an acoustic signal and which uses an FM modulated signal f_r obtained from the VCXO as a reference signal V_r to be input to an analog phase comparator (PC) of a PLL circuit 60. The PC performs a phase comparison operation at a high speed (10 MHz or more), therefore a cutoff frequency of a loop filter (62) may be a high band frequency of about 100 KHz to 1 MHz so that the cutoff frequency considerably higher than the highest audible frequency 20 KHz can be selected. The filter output moves at an inaudible frequency and therefore there is no audible noise generated even due to vibration, feedback, etc. It is also possible to make the charge pump circuit and other steps for shielding against interference and steps for giving resistance to vibration superfluous without adopting the loop filter switching system, therefore a reduction of size and a lowering of cost can be realized.

Claims

1. A wireless microphone use UHF band carrier FM transmitter adopting a PLL circuit that includes an analog phase comparator, and a loop filter connected to the output of said phase comparator, said transmitter comprising:

a crystal oscillation circuit for generating an oscillation signal; and

a voltage controlled crystal oscillation type modulation circuit having an input for receiving a modulation signal with a frequency of an acoustic signal, for FM modulating said oscillation signal generated by said crystal oscillation circuit by said modulation signal to generate an FM modulated signal;

said analog phase comparator having a reference input for receiving a reference signal, said reference signal being said FM modulated signal obtained from the voltage controlled crystal oscillation type modulator;

said loop filter having a high band side cutoff frequency that is equal to or greater than °

KHz.

2. A wireless microphone use UHF band carrier FM transmitter as set forth in claim 1, wherein the high band side cutoff frequency of the loop filter is in a range from 100 kHz to 1 MHz.

3. A wireless microphone use UHF band carrier FM transmitter as set forth in claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the voltage controlled crystal oscillation type modulation circuit has a channel switching circuit able to change the oscillation frequency by setting a DC bias voltage of the crystal oscillation circuit higher or lower.

4. A wireless microphone use UHF band carrier FM transmitter as set forth in claim 3, wherein the channel switching circuit comprises a plurality of variable resistors for dividing a DC voltage of the power supply;

and a multipoint switch for switching and supplying each of the divided DC voltages as the DC bias voltage.

5. A wireless microphone use UHF band carrier FM transmitter as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a reference frequency divider for dividing the frequency of the FM modulated signal output from the voltage controlled crystal oscillation type modulation circuit and wherein the frequency divided output is utilized as the reference signal.