Wireless circuit

• US 9,203,531 B1
• Filed: 09/26/2013
• Issued: 12/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kashiwagi, Hiroki, Ikehata, Kazuhiko, Shinmei, Hideaki, Shitara, Shoichi, Tokuda, Masamori
• Primary Examiner(s): Puente, Eva
• Application Number:
  US14/432,524
• Publication Number:
  US 20150326325A1
• Time in Patent Office: 796 Days
• Field of Search: 375/297, 375/296, 375/260, 455/73, 455/553.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0475 with means for limiting noise, interference or distortion H04B1/0483 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/101 for measurement of specific parameters of the transmitter or components thereof

Abstract

A wireless circuit (100) which is capable of simultaneously outputting a plurality of transmission signals, including: a transmission signal selection circuit (31) which selectively outputs a detecting object signal out of a plurality of transmission signals; and a detection circuit (33) which detects a power of the detecting object signal thus outputted. This enables to provide, by use of a compact configuration, a technique for individually detecting transmission signals which are simultaneously generated by a respective plurality of transmission circuits.

Claims

1. A wireless circuit which is capable of simultaneously outputting a plurality of transmission signals, comprising:

a determination section which determines, out of a plurality of transmission signals that are simultaneously outputted by the wireless circuit, a detecting object signal whose transmission power is to be detected;

a selection section to which the plurality of transmission signals are supplied and which selectively outputs the detecting object signal determined by the determination section; and

a detection section which detects a power of the detecting object signal which has been outputted by the selection section,

the plurality of transmission signals are supplied to the selection section while being coupled to each other;

the selection section including a cancellation signal generating section that generates, from the plurality of transmission signals, a cancellation signal which cancels each of the plurality of transmission signals,

the selection section selectively outputting the detecting object signal, by adding, to the plurality of transmission signals which have been supplied to the selection section while being coupled to each other, the cancellation signal which (i) has been generated by the cancellation signal generating section and (ii) cancels a transmission signal which differs from the detecting object signal.

2. A wireless circuit as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

a plurality of transmission signal generating sections which generate the respective plurality of transmission signals; and

a plurality of amplification sections which amplify the plurality of transmission signals generated by the respective plurality of transmission signal generating sections,

the plurality of transmission signals, which have been amplified by the respective plurality of amplification sections, being supplied to the selection section.

3. The wireless circuit as set forth in claim 2, wherein

the cancellation signal generating section generates, from the plurality of transmission signals which have not been amplified by the respective plurality of amplification sections, a cancellation signal which cancels each of the plurality of transmission signals.

4. The wireless circuit as set forth in claim 3, wherein the cancellation signal generating section includes a phase shifter and at least one of an amplifier and an attenuator.

5. The wireless circuit as set forth in claim 1, wherein the determination section switches the detecting object signal so that transmission powers of the respective plurality of transmission signals are detected.