Communication apparatus

• US 9,184,789 B2
• Filed: 07/27/2012
• Issued: 11/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Nakasha, Yasuhiro, Hayashi, Hiroki, Itoh, Takumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Fan, Chieh M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hassan, Sarah
• Application Number:
  US13/559,883
• Publication Number:
  US 20130034131A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,201 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7174 Pulse generation in general H04L25/03834
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/719 Interference-related aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/25137 using pulse shaping at the transmitter, e.g. pre-chirping or dispersion supported transmission [DST]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03834 using pulse shaping
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/4904 using self-synchronising codes, e.g. split-phase codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/4915 using pattern inversion or substitution H04L25/4908 takes precedence

Abstract

A communication apparatus includes: a pulse generation unit configured to alternately generate a positive pulse and a negative pulse indicating presence or absence of a pulse in accordance with a value of a data signal; a band-pass filter configured to filter the pulse generated by the pulse generator; and a transmission amplifier configured to amplify a signal filtered by the band-pass filter, and to output the signal as a transmission signal.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus comprising:

a pulse generation unit configured to alternately generate a positive pulse and a negative pulse indicating presence of a data pulse in accordance with a logical value of a data signal, and generate a constant voltage signal, which have a certain constant voltage, indicating absence of the data pulse in accordance with a logical value of the data signal, wherein the positive pulse and the negative pulse generated by the pulse generation unit have a power spectrum density with notches arisen at frequencies equal to integer multiples of communication speed;

a band-pass filter configured to filter the positive pulse or the negative pulse generated by the pulse generation unit; and

a transmission amplifier configured to amplify a signal filtered by the band-pass filter, and to output the amplified signal as a transmission signal;

wherein the pulse generation unit includes a pulse generator configured to shorten a pulse width of a return-to-zero signal, and to alternately generate the positive pulse and the negative pulse;

wherein the pulse generation unit includes a trigger flip-flop configured to invert an output signal for each one cycle of the return-to-zero signal, and the pulse generator receives the output signal of the trigger flip-flop and the return-to-zero signal.

2. The communication apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the pulse generation unit includes a nonreturn-to-zero/return-to-zero conversion unit configured to convert the data signal from a nonreturn-to-zero signal to a return-to-zero signal.

5. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a first antenna for radio-transmitting the transmission signal amplified by the transmission amplifier.

6. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a reception amplifier configured to amplify a reception signal, and

a wave detector configured to detect the reception signal amplified by the reception amplifier.

7. The communication apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising

a second antenna for radio receiving the reception signal,

wherein the reception amplifier amplifies the reception signal radio-received by the second antenna.

3. A communication apparatus comprising:

a pulse generation unit configured to alternately generate a positive pulse and a negative pulse indicating presence or absence of a data pulse in accordance with a logical value of a data signal,

wherein the positive pulse and the negative pulse generated by the pulse generation unit have a power spectrum density with notches arisen at frequencies equal to integer multiples of communication speed;

a band-pass filter configured to filter the positive pulse or the negative pulse generated by the pulse generation unit; and

a transmission amplifier configured to amplify a signal filtered by the band-pass filter, and to output the amplified signal as a transmission signal,

wherein the pulse generation unit includes

a nonreturn-to-zero/return-to-zero conversion unit configured to convert the data signal from a nonreturn-to-zero signal to a return-to-zero signal, and

a pulse generator configured to shorten a pulse width of the return-to-zero signal, and to alternately generate the positive pulse and the negative pulse;

wherein the pulse generation unit includes a trigger flip-flop configured to invert an output signal for each one cycle of the return-to-zero signal, and the pulse generator receives the output signal of the trigger flip-flop and the return-to-zero signal.

4. A communication apparatus comprising:

a pulse generation unit configured to alternately generate a positive pulse and a negative pulse indicating presence or absence of a data pulse in accordance with a logical value of a data signal,

wherein the positive pulse and the negative pulse generated by the pulse generation unit have a power spectrum density with notches at frequencies equal to integer multiples of communication speed;

a band-pass filter configured to filter the positive pulse or the negative pulse generated by the pulse generation unit; and

a transmission amplifier configured to amplify a signal filtered by the band-pass filter, and to output the amplified signal as a transmission signal,

wherein a transmission speed of the data signal is one of integer divisions of a difference between an upper-limit pass frequency and a lower-limit pass frequency of the band-pass filter;

wherein the pulse generation unit includes a pulse generator configured to shorten a pulse width of a return-to-zero signal, and to alternately generate the positive pulse and the negative pulse;

wherein the pulse generation unit includes a trigger flip-flop configured to invert an output signal for each one cycle of the return-to-zero signal, and the pulse generator receives the output signal of the trigger flip-flop and the return-to-zero signal.

8. A communication apparatus comprising:

a pulse generation unit configured to alternately generate a positive pulse and a negative pulse indicating presence of a data pulse in accordance with a logical value of a data signal, and generate a constant voltage signal, which have a certain constant voltage, indicating absence of the data pulse in accordance with a logical value of the data signal, wherein the positive pulse and the negative pulse generated by the pulse generation unit have a power spectrum density with notches arisen at frequencies equal to integer multiples of communication speed;

a band-pass filter configured to filter the positive pulse or the negative pulse generated by the pulse generation unit; and

a transmission amplifier configured to amplify a signal filtered by the band-pass filter, and to output the amplified signal as a transmission signal,

wherein, in a signal output from the band-pass filter, bright line spectra having frequencies equal to the integer multiples of the communication speed are removed,

wherein the communication speed of the data signal is set to integer divisions of a difference between upper-limit pass frequency of the bandpass filter and lower-limit pass frequency of the band-pass filter;

wherein the pulse generation unit includes a pulse generator configured to shorten a pulse width of a return-to-zero signal, and to alternately generate the positive pulse and the negative pulse;

wherein the pulse generation unit includes a trigger flip-flop configured to invert an output signal for each one cycle of the return-to-zero signal, and the pulse generator receives the output signal of the trigger flip-flop and the return-to-zero signal.

9. A communication apparatus comprising:

a pulse generation unit configured to alternately generate a positive pulse and a negative pulse indicating presence or absence of a data pulse in accordance with a logical value of a data signal,

wherein the positive pulse and the negative pulse generated by the pulse generation unit have a power spectrum density with notches arisen at frequencies equal to integer multiples of communication speed;

a band-pass filter configured to filter the positive pulse or the negative pulse generated by the pulse generation unit; and

a transmission amplifier configured to amplify a signal filtered by the band-pass filter, and to output the amplified signal as a transmission signal,

wherein the pulse generation unit includes a nonreturn-to-zero/return-to-zero conversion unit configured to convert the data signal from a nonreturn-to-zero signal to a return-to-zero signal, and

a pulse generator configured to shorten a pulse width of the return-to-zero signal, and to alternately generate the positive pulse and the negative pulse,

wherein, in a signal output from the band-pass filter, bright line spectra having frequencies equal to the integer multiples of the communication speed are removed,

wherein the communication speed of the data signal is set to integer divisions of a difference between upper-limit pass frequency of the bandpass filter and lower-limit pass frequency of the band-pass filter;

wherein the pulse generation unit includes a trigger flip-flop configured to invert an output signal for each one cycle of the return-to-zero signal, and the pulse generator receives the output signal of the trigger flip-flop and the return-to-zero signal.

10. A communication apparatus comprising:

a pulse generation unit configured to alternately generate a positive pulse and a negative pulse indicating presence or absence of a data pulse in accordance with a logical value of a data signal,

wherein the positive pulse and the negative pulse generated by the pulse generation unit have a power spectrum density with notches at frequencies equal to integer multiples of communication speed;

a band-pass filter configured to filter the positive pulse or the negative pulse generated by the pulse generation unit; and

a transmission amplifier configured to amplify a signal filtered by the band-pass filter, and to output the amplified signal as a transmission signal,

wherein a transmission speed of the data signal is one of integer divisions of a difference between an upper-limit pass frequency and a lower-limit pass frequency of the band-pass filter,

wherein, in a signal output from the band-pass filter, bright line spectra having frequencies equal to the integer multiples of the communication speed are removed;

wherein the pulse generation unit includes a pulse generator configured to shorten a pulse width of a return-to-zero signal, and to alternately generate the positive pulse and the negative pulse;

wherein the pulse generation unit includes a trigger flip-flop configured to invert an output signal for each one cycle of the return-to-zero signal, and the pulse generator receives the output signal of the trigger flip-flop and the return-to-zero signal.