Transmitting/receiving filter device and communication device

• US 7,116,966 B2
• Filed: 08/13/2003
• Issued: 10/03/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Original Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Inventors: Hattori, Jun, Kubo, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Vuong, Quochien B.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lu, Zhiyu
• Application Number:
  US10/487,880
• Publication Number:
  US 20040242164A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,147 Days
• Field of Search: 455/73, 455303-308, 333/101, 333/104, 333/109, 333/117, 333/136
• US Class Current: 455/334
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/48 in circuits for connecting transmitter and receiver to a common transmission path, e.g. by energy of transmitter H04B1/46 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/52 Hybrid arrangements, i.e. arrangements for transition from single-path two-direction transmission to single-direction transmission on each of two paths or vice versa

Abstract

First and second transmission paths P1 and P2 are disposed between a first port #1 connected to an antenna ANT and a second port #2 connected to a transceiving circuit 10. The first transmission path P1 includes receiving filters Rx1, Rx2, and Rx2′, an amplification circuit LNA, and 90° hybrid circuits 12 and 14. The second transmission path P2 includes a transmitting filter Tx1. A received signal amplified by the amplification circuit LNA is transmitted to the port #2 via the 90° hybrid circuits 12 and 14, but is not transmitted to the second transmission path P2. A transmission signal is transmitted from the port #2 to the second transmission path P2. This prevents oscillation of the received signal due to positive feedback. A transceiving filter device that prevents degradation in the insertion loss, noise figure, and group delay characteristics in the transmission frequency band or the receiving frequency band and that prevents oscillation, and a communication apparatus using the transceiving filter device are provided.

Claims

1. A transceiving filter device comprising:

a first transmission path and a second transmission path between a first port for connection to an antenna and a second port for connection to a transceiving circuit,

the first transmission path including;

an amplification circuit that amplifies a received signal;

a receiving filter disposed at an input side of the amplification circuit that allows a receiving-frequency-band signal to pass and stops a transmission signal; and

a circuit having directivity disposed at an output side of the amplification circuit;

the second transmission path including a transmitting filter that allows the transmission signal to pass and that stops the receiving-frequency-band signal, and

wherein the circuit having directivity transmits the received signal amplified by the amplification circuit to the second port and transmits the transmission signal input from the second port to the second transmission path, the circuit having directivity including;

at least two 90°

hybrid circuits;

two band pass filters having similar characteristics to each other and that pass the receiving-frequency-band-signal and stop the transmission signal; and

a termination resistor that terminates a portion of the received signal amplified by the amplification circuit,

wherein output ports of the two band pass filters are connected in parallel to a first 90°

hybrid circuit of the at least two 90°

hybrid circuits, and input ports of the two band pass filters are connected in parallel to a second 90°

hybrid circuit of the at least two 90°

hybrid circuits.

2. The transceiving filter device according to claim 1, wherein the at least two 90°

hybrid circuits have a plurality of stages.

3. A communication apparatus comprising an antenna connected to the first port of the transceiving filter device according to claim 1, and a transceiving circuit connected to the second port of the transceiving filter device.

4. A communication apparatus comprising an antenna connected to the first port of the transceiving filter device according to claims 2, and a transceiving circuit connected to the second port of the transceiving filter device.