Multi-band-high-frequency circuit, multi-band high-frequency circuit component and multi-band communication apparatus using same

• US 8,131,226 B1
• Filed: 12/06/2005
• Issued: 03/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Metals (Thailand) Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Metals (Thailand) Ltd.
• Inventors: Kemmochi, Shigeru, Hagiwara, Kazuhiro, Fukamachi, Keisuke, Yamashita, Takahiro, Watanabe, Mitsuhiro, Uchida, Masayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Tuan A
• Application Number:
  US11/721,496
• Time in Patent Office: 2,282 Days
• Field of Search: 455 78- 83, 455280-282, 455284-293, 455/121, 455123-124, 455/296, 455338-339, 455/552.1, 455/553.1, 333/25, 333/262, 333/204, 333/185, 333100-106
• US Class Current: 455/83
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/006 using switches for selecting the desired band H04B1/0057 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/12 Neutralising, balancing, or compensation arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3805 with built-in auxiliary receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/406 with more than one transmission mode, e.g. analog and digital modes
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/44 Transmit/receive switching

Abstract

A high-frequency circuit comprising a high-frequency switch circuit for switching the three-way connection of an antenna to a transmitting circuit for the first communications system, a receiving circuit for a first communications system, and a transmitting/receiving circuit for a second communications system; a first bandpass filter disposed between the antenna and the high-frequency switch circuit; and a balanced-unbalanced conversion circuit disposed between the receiving circuit of the first communications system and the high-frequency switch circuit.

Claims

1. A high-frequency circuit disposed between an antenna which transmits and receives in at least two different first and second communications systems and transmitting/receiving circuits for the at least two different communications systems, comprising:

a high-frequency switch circuit comprising a first terminal, a second terminal, a third terminal, and a fourth terminal for switching a three-way connection of said antenna to a transmitting circuit of the first communications system via the third terminal, a receiving circuit of the first communications system via the second terminal, and a transmitting/receiving circuit of the second communications system via the first terminal;

a first bandpass filter that is coupled to the antenna and the fourth terminal and suppresses signal components with frequencies higher and lower than frequency bands of said first and second communications systems,

wherein the first bandpass filter is an only bandpass filter disposed in a first path between said antenna and said receiving circuit of the first communications system, and in a second path between said antenna and said transmitting/receiving circuit of the second communications system, and

other bandpass filters are not disposed in the first and second paths; and

a first balanced-unbalanced conversion circuit which is coupled to the receiving circuit of said first communications system and the second terminal of said high-frequency switch circuit.

2. The high-frequency circuit according to claim 1, comprising a second balanced-unbalanced conversion circuit between said transmitting/receiving circuit for the second communications system and said high-frequency switch circuit.

3. The high-frequency circuit according to claim 1, comprising a high-frequency power amplifier circuit between the transmitting circuit for said first communications system and said high-frequency switch circuit.

4. The high-frequency circuit according to claim 3, comprising a second bandpass filter between said high-frequency power amplifier circuit and the transmitting circuit for said first communications system.

5. The high-frequency circuit according to claim 3, comprising a third balanced-unbalanced conversion circuit between the transmitting circuit for said first communications system and said high-frequency power amplifier circuit.

6. A high-frequency circuit device having the high-frequency circuit recited in claim 1, which comprises a laminate of dielectric ceramics and electrode patterns, and at least one semiconductor element mounted on said laminate;

(a) said electrode patterns constituting at least part of inductance elements and/or capacitance elements, which mainly constitute (1) at least one of said first bandpass filter and said first balanced-unbalanced conversion circuit, (2) at least one of said first bandpass filter and said splitter or coupler circuit, or (3) at least one of said first bandpass filter, said first balanced-unbalanced conversion circuit and said splitter or coupler circuit, and (b) said semiconductor elements constituting (1) said high-frequency switch circuit, or (2) said high-frequency switch circuit and/or said high-frequency power amplifier circuit.

7. A communications apparatus comprising the high-frequency circuit recited in claim 1.