Repeater

• US 6,888,881 B1
• Filed: 06/20/2000
• Issued: 05/03/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Nagano, Junichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Ghebretinsae, Temesghen
• Application Number:
  US10/049,906
• Time in Patent Office: 1,778 Days
• Field of Search: 375/211, 375/214, 455/7, 455/13.3, 455/23, 370/315, 370/274, 379/338
• US Class Current: 375/211
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/15535 Control of relay amplifier gain amplifier gain control in general H03G3/00; gain control reducing self - or loop interference H04B7/15578

Abstract

A relay station is composed of a main reception antenna 1 for receiving both a radio wave of a parent station and a go-around radio wave of a relay station, a subsidiary reception antenna 2 for receiving the go-around radio wave of the relay station, a changeable attenuator 3 and a phase shifting unit 4 for changing an amplitude and phase of a signal received in the subsidiary reception antenna 2, a composite signal producing unit 5 for producing a composite signal from a signal received in the main reception antenna 1 and the signal sent from the phase shifting unit 4, an electric power detecting unit 9 for obtaining a composite electric power from a composite voltage extracted in a directivity coupling unit 8, and a microcomputer 10 for controlling a change of amplitude in the changeable attenuator 3 and a change of phase in the phase shifting unit 4 so as to minimize an average value of the composite electric power obtained in the electric power detecting unit 9.

Claims

1. A relay device, in which a radio wave of a parent station is received and amplified and a transmission radio wave having the same frequency as that of the radio wave of the parent station is transmitted, comprising:

a main reception antenna for receiving both the radio wave of the parent station and a go-around radio wave of a relay station;

a subsidiary reception antenna for receiving the go-around radio wave of the relay station;

a changeable attenuator for changing an amplitude of a signal of the go-around radio wave received by the subsidiary reception antenna;

a phase shifter for changing a phase of the signal of the go-around radio wave received by the subsidiary reception antenna;

a composite signal producer for producing a composite signal from a signal of the radio wave of the parent station received by the main reception antenna, the signal of the go-around radio wave of the relay station and the signal of which the amplitude is changed by the changeable attenuator and the phase is changed by the phase shifter;

a directivity coupler for extracting a composite voltage of the composite signal output from the composite signal producer;

an electric power detector for obtaining a composite electric power from the composite voltage extracted by the directivity coupler; and

a microcomputer for controlling both a change of the amplitude performed by the changeable attenuator and a change of the phase performed by the phase shifter so as to minimize an average value of the composite electric power obtained by the electric power detector.

2. A relay device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an output controller for controlling an output of the transmission radio wave transmitted from the relay station according to an instruction of the microcomputer when the supply of an electric power is started.

3. A relay device according to claim 1, wherein an initial operation point of the changeable attenuator and an initial operation point of the phase shifter are automatically detected by the microcomputer by obtaining a minimum value of the composite electric power obtained by the electric power detector.

4. A relay device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an output controller for controlling an output of the transmission radio wave transmitted from the relay station according to an instruction of the microcomputer when an initial operation point of the changeable attenuator and an initial operation point of the phase shifter are automatically detected by the microcomputer.