Radio device and method for manufacturing the radio device

• US 9,414,437 B2
• Filed: 03/28/2011
• Issued: 08/09/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Original Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Inventors: Sun, Xuejun
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Tuan A
• Application Number:
  US14/008,514
• Publication Number:
  US 20140024413A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,961 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/036 Cooling arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/08 Constructional details, e.g. cabinet
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/086 Portable receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3816 Mechanical arrangements for accommodating identification devices, e.g. cards or chips; with connectors for programming identification devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/74 for increasing reliability, e.g. using redundant or spare channels or apparatus replacing by standby devices for amplifiers H03F1/52, H03F1/542
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2001/3894 Waterproofing of transmission device
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/085 Access point devices with remote components

Abstract

The present invention relates to a radio device including a first mother unit for providing fundamental functions for the radio device, a first receiving unit for receiving signals and a first transmitting unit for transmitting signals. Each of the first mother unit, the first receiving unit and the first transmitting unit is a modularly designed unit such that it can be replaced with a corresponding second mother unit, second receiving unit or second transmitting unit. The radio device according to the present invention has the beneficial effect of facilitating scalability and being capable of reducing the maintenance costs.

Claims

1. A radio device comprising:

a first mother unit for providing fundamental functions for the radio device, wherein the first mother unit includes a fiber interface to connect with a main unit of a base station in a mobile communication system through a fiber, and wherein the base station includes the main unit and the radio device;

a first receiving unit for receiving signals; and

a first transmitting unit for transmitting signals,

wherein each of the first mother unit, the first receiving unit and the first transmitting unit is a modularly designed unit such that it can be replaced with a corresponding second mother unit, second receiving unit or second transmitting unit, and wherein each of the first mother unit, the first receiving unit and the first transmitting unit is outdoor environmental protected.

2. The radio device according to claim 1, wherein the radio device is a remote radio unit.

3. The radio device according to claim 1, wherein each of the modularly designed units comprises one heat sink structure capable of being replaced together with the modularly designed unit.

4. The radio device according to claim 1, wherein function parameters of the corresponding second mother unit, second receiving unit or second transmitting unit are the same as or partially different from or completely different from function parameters of the first mother unit, the first receiving unit or the first transmitting unit.

5. A base station, in a mobile communication system, comprising:

a main unit; and

a radio device, the radio device including;

a first mother unit for providing fundamental functions for the radio device, wherein the first mother unit includes a fiber interface to connect with the main unit through a fiber;

a first receiving unit for receiving signals; and

a first transmitting unit for transmitting signals,

wherein each of the first mother unit, the first receiving unit and the first transmitting unit is a modularly designed unit such that it can be replaced with a corresponding second mother unit, second receiving unit or second transmitting unit, and wherein each of the first mother unit, the first receiving unit and the first transmitting unit is outdoor environmental protected.

6. A method for manufacturing a radio device, the method comprising the steps of:

modularly designing each of a first mother unit, a first receiving unit and a first transmitting unit such that it can be replaced independently, wherein the first mother unit provides fundamental functions for the radio device, and wherein the first mother unit includes a fiber interface to connect with a main unit of a base station in a mobile communication system through a fiber, and wherein the base station includes the main unit and the radio device, the first receiving unit receives signal, and the first transmitting unit transmits signal; and

assembling the first mother unit, the first receiving unit and the first transmitting unit together to form the radio device, wherein each of the first mother unit, the first receiving unit and the first transmitting unit is outdoor environmental protected.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the radio device is a remote radio unit.

8. The method for manufacturing the radio device according to claim 6, wherein each of the modularly designed units comprises one heat sink structure capable of being replaced together with the modularly designed unit.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the one heat sink structure containing cooling fins to speed up cooling.

10. The method according to claim 6, further comprising the step of:

replacing one of the first mother unit, the first receiving unit, and the first transmitting unit with a corresponding second mother unit, second receiving unit or second transmitting unit.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein function parameters of the corresponding second mother unit, second receiving unit or second transmitting unit are the same as function parameters of the first mother unit, the first receiving unit or the first transmitting unit.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein function parameters of the corresponding second mother unit, second receiving unit or second transmitting unit are partially different from function parameters of the first mother unit, the first receiving unit or the first transmitting unit.

13. The method according to claim 10, wherein function parameters of the corresponding second mother unit, second receiving unit or second transmitting unit are completely different from function parameters of the first mother unit, the first receiving unit or the first transmitting unit.

14. The method according to claim 6, wherein the first transmitting unit has output power of one of 30, 60, and 120 Watts.

15. The method according to claim 6, wherein the first transmitting unit has at least one of a power amplifier and a filter element.

16. The method according to claim 6, wherein the first receiving unit has at least one of a low noise amplifier (LNA), a receiving intermediate frequency element.

17. The method according to claim 6, wherein the first mother unit has at least one of an interface, a digital circuit, and a power controller.