Duplexer

• US 9,571,133 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2013
• Issued: 02/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Snaptrack Incorporated (Qualcomm, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Epcos AG (TDK Corporation)
• Inventors: Schmidhammer, Edgar, Ellae, Juha
• Primary Examiner(s): MEW, KEVIN D
• Application Number:
  US14/424,975
• Publication Number:
  US 20150222300A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,296 Days
• 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 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/14 Two-way operation using the same type of signal, i.e. duplex

Abstract

A duplexer having good insulation, small geometric dimensions and good decoupling of the transmit signal path from an antenna which may have poor matching is specified. To that end, the duplexer comprises two transmit filters, a receive filter and two 90° hybrids.

Claims

1. A duplexer comprising:

an antenna terminal;

a transmit terminal;

a receive terminal;

a first and second transmit filter;

a receive filter;

a first 90°

hybrid having a first, second, third and fourth terminal, the antenna terminal being interconnected with the first terminal of the first hybrid, the receive filter being interconnected between the third terminal of the first hybrid and the receive terminal; and

a second 90°

hybrid having a first, second, third and fourth terminal, the first transmit filter being interconnected between the fourth terminal of the first hybrid and the second terminal of the second hybrid, the second transmit filter being interconnected between the second terminal of the first hybrid and the fourth terminal of the second hybrid, and the transmit terminal being interconnected with the first terminal of the second hybrid,

wherein receive signals

are conveyed from the second and fourth terminals of the first hybrid to the first and second transmit filters,

are reflected by the first and second transmit filters, and

are conveyed to the receive filter via the third terminal of the first hybrid.

2. The duplexer of claim 1, wherein the first terminals of the first and second hybrids are input terminals and, between output signals of the second and fourth terminal of the first and second hybrids, a phase difference of about 90°

is present.

3. The duplexer of claim 1, further comprising:

an impedance element which interconnects the third terminal of the second hybrid with ground.

4. The duplexer of claim 1, wherein each of the first and second hybrids outputs an RF power present at the respective first terminal in equal parts at the respective second and fourth terminals.

5. The duplexer of claim 1, wherein the first and second hybrids have the same configuration and/or the first and second transmit filters have the same configuration.

6. The duplexer of claim 1, wherein transmit signals at the third terminal of the first hybrid cancel one another.

7. The duplexer of claim 1, wherein a standing wave ratio on a transmit path is subject to lower fluctuations in a transmit frequency band than on a receive path in a receive frequency band.

8. The duplexer of claim 1, wherein transmit power is controlled by an envelope of a transmit signal in a control loop.

9. The duplexer of claim 1, further comprising:

a first power amplifier;

an in phase power amplifier;

a quadrature power amplifier;

a third and a fourth hybrid, each having a first, second, third and fourth terminal; and

a switch arrangement,

wherein the in phase power amplifier and the quadrature power amplifier are interconnected on parallel signal paths between the second and fourth terminals of the third and fourth hybrids, and the switch arrangement interconnects the second terminals of the third and fourth hybrids either in each case with ground or with one another.

10. The duplexer of claim 1, wherein the center frequency of the second hybrid is moved towards the center frequency of a transmit frequency band.

11. The duplexer of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first or second hybrids comprises coupled transformers.