Antenna duplexer circuit with a phase shifter on the receive side

• US 6,472,952 B1
• Filed: 09/05/2000
• Issued: 10/29/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yahata, Kazuhiro, Sakai, Yukio, Tsuneoka, Michiaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Bettendorf, Justin P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cathey, Damian E.
• Application Number:
  US09/600,071
• Time in Patent Office: 784 Days
• Field of Search: 333/126, 333/132, 333/129, 333/134
• US Class Current: 333/126
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/18 Input circuits, e.g. for coupling to an antenna or a transmission line coupling networks between antennas or lines and receivers independent of the nature of the receiver H03H
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/50 using different frequencies for the two directions of communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/525 with means for reducing leakage of transmitter signal into the receiver

Abstract

A high frequency wireless circuit apparatus is formed by connecting a phase shifter between an antenna duplexer and a low noise amplifier, so that the impedance of the receiving terminal of the antenna duplexer at a transmission frequency and the input impedance of the low noise amplifier may not be matched in complex conjugates of each other. Therefore it prevents the transmission output passing through the receiving terminal of the antenna duplexer and the interference signal entered through the antenna from making the cross modulation in the low noise amplifier. Thus it improves the reception sensitivity and immunity to interference signals of the high frequency wireless circuit apparatus at the same time.

Claims

1. A high frequency wireless circuit apparatus for transmitting and receiving through an antenna duplexer, comprising:

an antenna connected to an antenna terminal of said antenna duplexer;

an isolator connected between a transmitting terminal of said antenna duplexer and an output terminal of a power amplifier; and

a phase shifter disposed between a receiving terminal of said antenna duplexer and an input terminal of a low noise amplifier, wherein a switch, said antenna duplexer, said isolator and said power amplifier are formed on one side of a double-sided multi-layer substrate, and said phase shifter and said low noise amplifier are formed at the other side of said double-sided multi-layer substrate.

2. The high frequency wireless circuit apparatus of claim 1, wherein said phase shifter shifts an impedance of the receiving terminal of said antenna duplexer at a transmission frequency by at least ±

45 degrees or more from a point at which the impedance matches with an input impedance of the low noise amplifier in complex conjugates of each other.

3. The high frequency wireless circuit apparatus of claim 1, wherein said phase shifter is composed of a transmission line.

4. The high frequency wireless circuit apparatus of claim 1, wherein said phase shifter is composed of a band pass filter.