Antenna receiver in which carrier-to-noise ratio of demodulation signal is improved

• US 6,925,294 B2
• Filed: 07/02/2002
• Issued: 08/02/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ohtaki, Yukio
• Primary Examiner(s): Vuong, Quochien B.
• Application Number:
  US10/188,707
• Publication Number:
  US 20030008630A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,127 Days
• Field of Search: 455/255, 455/259, 455/260, 455/272, 455/273, 455/275, 455/276.1, 455/313, 455/315, 455/318, 455/323, 455/334, 375/316, 375/324, 375/327, 375/344, 375/354
• US Class Current: 455/323
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/084 Equal gain combining, only phase adjustments antenna beam scanning or forming by phase or amplitude control H01Q3/26, e.g. phased arrays

Abstract

An antenna receiver includes a plurality of mixers for frequency-converting signals received by a plurality of antennas into intermediate-frequency signals; a plurality of local oscillators, which correspond to the plurality of mixers and which supply local oscillation signals having the same frequency to the mixers; a plurality of PLL circuits, which correspond to the plurality of local oscillators and which set the frequency of the local oscillation signals; and an adder for adding the intermediate-frequency signals output from the mixers. The phases of reference signals supplied to the PLL circuits can be changed independently from each other.

Claims

1. An antenna receiver comprising:

a plurality of mixers that frequency-converts signals received by a plurality of antennas into intermediate-frequency signals;

a plurality of local oscillators, which correspond to the plurality of mixers and which supply local oscillation signals having the same frequency to the mixers;

a plurality of PLL circuits, which correspond to the plurality of local oscillators and which set the frequency of the local oscillation signals; and

an adder that adds the intermediate-frequency signals output from the mixers,

wherein phases of reference signals supplied to the PLL circuits are independently changeable from each other.

2. The antenna receiver according to claim 1, further comprising:

a reference signal source that generates the reference signals; and

a plurality of phase shifters provided between the reference signal source and the PLL circuits,

wherein the phases at the reference signals are changeable by the phase shifters.

3. The antenna receiver according to claim 1, further comprising a plurality of digital synthesizers that generate the reference signals which are supplied to the PLL circuits, wherein phase data to be input to each of the digital synthesizers are individually changeable.