Method for producing transmission frequency

• US 6,647,247 B2
• Filed: 12/04/1995
• Issued: 11/11/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hanger Solutions, LLC (IP Investments Group LLC)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones UK Limited (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Vuolteenaho, Merja
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Lee
• Application Number:
  US08/566,728
• Publication Number:
  US 20020037704A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,899 Days
• Field of Search: 455/23, 455/71, 455/76, 455/112, 455/260, 455/118, 455/113, 455/85, 455/86, 455/87, 455/84, 332/128, 332/103, 370/281
• US Class Current: 455/76
• CPC Class Codes: H03J 7/285 the counter or frequency divider being used in a phase locked loop
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/408 the transmitter oscillator frequency being identical to the receiver local oscillator frequency

Abstract

The output frequency of a frequency synthesizer (21) according to the present invention is a multiple of a transmission frequency and said output frequency is divided before modulation to produce the transmission frequency (fTX). In an advantageous embodiment, the frequency synthesizer produces a frequency that is twice the transmission frequency, which is divided by a divide-by-2 divider to produce 90°-phase-shifted transmission frequency components required by a transmission frequency quadrature modulator. A simple, disturbance-tolerant transmitter construction is achieved by means of the present invention.

Claims

1. A method for producing a transmission frequency and reception local frequency for a radio telephone by means of one frequency synthesizer, in which method modulation is implemented at said transmission frequency and a received signal is mixed down with a local frequency, said method comprising:

producing for a given radio telephone system an output frequency of the frequency synthesizer, dividing said output frequency by a divisor substantially equal to number N for producing said transmission frequency, and dividing said output frequency by a divisor substantially equal to the same number N for producing said reception local frequency.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein frequency components separated by 90 degrees phase shift and required by quadrature modulation are obtained from the result of a division by N, and N is a 2ⁿ multiple and n is a whole number.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the output frequency (f₁) of the frequency synthesizer is twice the transmission frequency (F_TX) and said output frequency (f₁) is divided by 2 for modulation.

4. A circuit for producing a transmission frequency and reception local frequency for a radio telephone by means of one frequency synthesizer, the radiotelephone having at least one modulator for implementing modulation for transmission on the transmission frequency, and at least one mixer for mixing down a reception signal with the local frequency, said circuit comprising:

at least one divider connected between the frequency synthesizer and the modulator for producing the transmission frequency;

at least one divider connected between the frequency synthesizer and the mixer for producing the local frequency, wherein

for a given radio telephone system the combined division ratio of the said divider(s) is the same number 1/N for producing said transmission frequency and for producing said local frequency.

5. The circuit according to claim 4, wherein said dividers comprise the same divider.

6. A method for producing a transmission frequency and a local frequency for a receiver by means of one frequency synthesizer, in which method modulation is implemented at said transmission frequency and a received signal is mixed down with the local frequency, the method comprising:

synthesizing a frequency;

dividing the frequency by a factor for producing the transmission frequency for modulation; and

dividing the frequency by said same factor for producing the local frequency for mixing down a received signal.