Transmitting apparatus

• US 6,999,736 B2
• Filed: 01/08/2002
• Issued: 02/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Nitta, Hitoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Duc M.
• Application Number:
  US10/038,683
• Publication Number:
  US 20020142740A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,498 Days
• Field of Search: 455/127.1, 455/127.5, 455/127.6, 455/127.7, 455/571, 455/572, 455/574, 455/115.1, 455/67.11, 455/423, 455/343.1, 455/343.5, 455/117, 327/50, 327/56, 327/77, 323/299, 323/301, 323/282, 323/284, 323/234
• US Class Current: 455/117
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/04 Circuits

Abstract

A DC voltage input through an input terminal is applied through an inductor, to a power supply circuit unit and an input voltage detecting circuit. The input voltage detecting circuit detects the input DC voltage and when it is detected that the input voltage value may possibly cause malfunction, a control circuit turns off a switch circuit based on the detection output, whereby power supply from the power supply circuit to a transmission circuit is stopped, and malfunction of the transmission circuit is prevented.

Claims

1. A transmitting apparatus, comprising:

a transmission circuit receiving an intermediate frequency signal superposed on a DC voltage, converting the intermediate frequency signal to a microwave signal and outputting;

a power supply circuit receiving said DC voltage as an input and supplying power to said transmission circuit;

an input voltage detecting circuit detecting said input DC voltage;

a switch circuit turning on/off the power supplied from said power supply circuit to said transmission circuit; and

a control circuit controlling said switch circuit to be turned off based on a detection output from said input voltage detecting circuit when said DC voltage has such a value that the power supplied from said power supply circuit to said transmission circuit causes abnormal operation of said transmission circuit.

2. The transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said input voltage detecting circuit includes

a reference voltage generating circuit generating a reference voltage, and

a comparing circuit comparing the reference voltage generated from said reference voltage generating circuit with said input DC voltage and outputting a result to said control circuit;

and

said control circuit turns on said switch circuit when said input DC voltage is the same or higher than said reference voltage, and turns off said switch circuit when said input DC voltage is lower than said reference voltage.

3. The transmitting apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

said comparing circuit is implemented by a Schmidt trigger circuit.

4. The transmitting apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

said control circuit includes a timer circuit counting time of duration of a state where said input DC voltage is lower than said reference voltage, and

said control circuit turns off said switch circuit when said timer circuit counts that duration of the state where said input DC voltage is lower than said reference voltage continued for a prescribed time period.

5. The transmitting apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

said power supply circuit is implemented by a switching regulator including said switch circuit.

6. The transmitting apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising

an alarm circuit notifying turning off of said switch circuit.