Communications receiver using multi-band transmit blocking filters

• US 9,929,769 B1
• Filed: 09/27/2017
• Issued: 03/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/20/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Original Assignee: Resonant Inc. (Murata Manufacturing Co Limited)
• Inventors: Guyette, Andy, Levesque, Chris
• Primary Examiner(s): Sandiford, Devan
• Application Number:
  US15/717,577
• Time in Patent Office: 181 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/401 for selecting or indicating operating mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/525 with means for reducing leakage of transmitter signal into the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/00 Baseband systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

Communications receivers and devices are disclosed. A communications receiver includes a low noise amplifier; a multi-band transmit blocking filter having a first port connected to an output of the low noise amplifier, and an RF analog-to-digital converter having an input connected to a second port of the multi-band transmit blocking filter. The multi-band transmit filter passes the receive frequencies of a group of two or more LTE bands, where a first receive frequency range of a first band in the group and a second receive frequency range of a second band in the group are disjoint and not subsets of a receive frequency range of a third band in the group, and stops the transmit frequencies of at least some bands in the group.

Claims

1. A communications receiver comprising:

a low noise amplifier;

a multi-band transmit blocking filter having a first port connected to an output of the low noise amplifier; and

an RF analog-to-digital converter having an input connected to a second port of the multi-band transmit blocking filter, wherein

the multi-band transmit filter is configured to

pass the receive frequencies of a group of two or more LTE (long term evolution) bands, where a first receive frequency range of a first band in the group and a second receive frequency range of a second band in the group are disjoint and not subsets of a receive frequency range of a third band in the group, and

stop the transmit frequencies of at least some bands in the group.

2. The communications receiver of claim 1, wherein the multi-band transmit blocking filter comprises:

a first dual-passband filter having a first passband, a second passband higher in frequency than the first passband, a first stopband lower in frequency than the first passband, and a second stopband between the first and second passbands.

3. The communications receiver of claim 2, wherein

the first dual-passband filter is configured to pass receive frequencies and stop transmit frequencies of LTE bands 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 26, and 67.

4. The communications receiver of claim 2, wherein

the first dual-passband filter is configured to pass the receive frequencies and stop the transmit frequencies of LTE bands 8, 20, 28A, 28B, and 68.

5. The communications receiver of claim 4, wherein the multi-band transmit blocking filter further comprises:

a second dual-passband filter configured to pass the receive frequencies and stop the transmit frequencies of LTE bands 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 26, and 67; and

a switch to select one of the first dual-passband filter and the second dual-passband filter.

6. The communications receiver of claim 2, wherein

the first dual-passband filter is configured to pass the receive frequencies and stop the transmit frequencies of LTE bands 1, 3, 4, 9, 10, 23, 65, and 66.

7. The communications receiver of claim 6, wherein the multi-band transmit blocking filter further comprises:

a single-passband filter configured to pass the receive frequencies and stop the transmit frequencies of LTE bands 2, 4, 10, 25, and 66; and

a switch to select one of the first dual-passband filter and the single-passband filter.

8. The communications receiver of claim 7, wherein the multi-band transmit blocking filter further comprises:

a second dual-passband filter configured to pass the receive frequencies and stop the transmit frequencies of LTE bands 7 and 30.

9. The communications receiver of claim 2, wherein

the first dual-passband filter is configured to pass the receive frequencies and stop the transmit frequencies of LTE band 7 and to pass the frequencies of LTE band 40 and the 2.4 GHz ISM (Industrial, Scientific, Medical) band.

10. The communications receiver of claim 9, wherein the multi-band transmit blocking filter further comprises:

a single-passband filter configured to pass the receive frequencies and stop the transmit frequencies of LTE band 30, to pass the frequencies of the 2.4 GHz ISM (Industrial, Scientific, Medical) band and LTE bands 38 and 41; and

a switch to select one of the first dual-passband filter and the single-passband filter.

11. The communications receiver of claim 2, wherein the first dual passband filter comprises:

a first surface acoustic wave (SAW) band-pass filter in parallel with a second SAW band-pass filter, wherein;

the first SAW band-pass filter defines the first passband, and

the second SAW band-pass filter defines the second passband.

12. The communications receiver of claim 11, wherein

relative phases transfer functions of the first and second SAW band-pass filters in at least one of the first and second stop bands are controlled such that an insertion loss of the first dual passband filter is greater than insertion losses of both the first and second SAW band-pass filters in isolation for at least one frequency in the at least one of the first and second stop bands.

13. A communications device, comprising:

a low bands receiver configured to receive one or more LTE (long term evolution) bands between 700 MHz and 1 GHz, the low bands receiver comprising;

a low bands low noise amplifier,

a low bands transmit blocking filter having a first port connected to an output of the low bands low noise amplifier, and

a low bands RF analog-to-digital converter having an input connected to a second port of the low bands transmit blocking filter; and

a mid bands receiver configured to receive one or more LTE (long term evolution) bands between 1.7 GHz and 2.2 GHz, the mid bands receiver comprising;

a mid bands low noise amplifier,

a mid bands transmit blocking filter having a first port connected to an output of the mid bands low noise amplifier, and

a mid bands RF analog-to-digital converter having an input connected to a second port of the mid bands transmit blocking filter.

14. The communications device of claim 13, wherein the low bands transmit blocking filter is configured to:

pass the receive frequencies of a first group of two or more LTE bands, where a first receive frequency range of a first band in the first group and a second receive frequency range of a second band in the first group are disjoint and not subsets of a receive frequency range of a third band in the first group, and

stop the transmit frequencies of at least some bands in the first group.

15. The communications device of claim 14, wherein the low bands transmit blocking filter comprises:

a first dual-passband filter configured to pass receive frequencies and stop transmit frequencies of LTE bands 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 26, and 67.

16. The communications device of claim 14, wherein the low bands transmit blocking filter comprises:

a first dual-passband filter configured to pass the receive frequencies and stop the transmit frequencies of LTE bands 8, 20, 28A, 28B, and 68.

17. The communications device of claim 16, wherein the low bands transmit blocking filter further comprises:

a second dual-passband filter configured to pass the receive frequencies and stop the transmit frequencies of LTE bands 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 26, and 67; and

a switch to select one of the first dual-passband filter and the second dual-passband filter.

18. The communications device of claim 13, wherein the mid bands transmit blocking filter is configured to:

pass the receive frequencies of a second group of two or more LTE bands, where a first receive frequency range of a first band in the second group and a second receive frequency range of a second band in the second group are disjoint and not subsets of a receive frequency range of a third band in the second group, and

stop the transmit frequencies of at least some bands in the second group.

19. The communications device of claim 18, wherein the mid bands transmit blocking filter comprises:

a third dual-passband filter configured to pass the receive frequencies and stop the transmit frequencies of LTE bands 1, 3, 4, 9, 10, 23, 65, and 66.

20. The communications device of claim 19, wherein the mid bands transmit blocking filter further comprises:

a first single-passband filter configured to pass the receive frequencies and stop the transmit frequencies of LTE bands 2, 4, 10, 25, and 66; and

a switch to select one of the third dual-passband filter and the first single-passband filter.

21. The communications device of claim 20, wherein the mid bands transmit blocking filter further comprises:

a fourth dual-passband filter configured to pass the receive frequencies and stop the transmit frequencies of LTE bands 7 and 30.

22. The communications device of claim 13, further comprising:

a high bands receiver configured to receive one or more bands between 2.3 GHz and 2.7 GHz, the high bands receiver comprising;

a high bands low noise amplifier,

a high bands transmit blocking filter having a first port connected to an output of the high bands low noise amplifier, and

a high bands RF analog-to-digital converter having an input connected to a second port of the high bands transmit blocking filter.

23. The communications device of claim 22, wherein the high bands transmit blocking filter comprises:

a fifth dual-passband filter configured to pass the receive frequencies and stop the transmit frequencies of LTE band 7 and to pass the frequencies of LTE band 40 and the 2.4 GHz ISM (Industrial, Scientific, Medical) band.

24. The communications device of claim 23, wherein the high bands transmit blocking filter further comprises:

a second single-passband filter configured to pass the receive frequencies and stop the transmit frequencies of LTE band 30, to pass the frequencies of the 2.4 GHz ISM band and LTE bands 38 and 41; and

a switch to select one of the fifth dual-passband filter and the second single-passband filter.