Mobile telephone transmitter with internal auxiliary matching circuit

• US 6,081,694 A
• Filed: 10/19/1998
• Issued: 06/27/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Matsuura, Toru, Ishida, Kaoru, Kosugi, Hiroaki, Morinaga, Youichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Tsang, Fan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jackson, Blane J.
• Application Number:
  US09/174,537
• Time in Patent Office: 617 Days
• Field of Search: 455/78, 455/93, 455/126, 455/127, 455/107, 455/103, 455/553, 455/552, 455/114, 330/277, 330/51, 330/302, 330/306
• US Class Current: 455/78
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 1/56 Modifications of input or output impedances, not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 2200/111 the amplifier being a dual or triple band amplifier, e.g. 900 and 1800 MHz, e.g. switched or not switched, simultaneously or not
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 2200/387 A circuit being added at the output of an amplifier to adapt the output impedance of the amplifier
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 3/193 with field-effect devices H03F3/195 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 3/245 with semiconductor devices only
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/006 using switches for selecting the desired band H04B1/0057 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0458 Arrangements for matching and coupling between power amplifier and antenna or between amplifying stages matching circuits in general H03H

Abstract

Disclosed is a transmitter for switching and transmitting signals of plural frequency bands. For example, the signals of two frequency bands are switched and transmitted. For the transmission in a first frequency band, of transistors 104, 105 are turned off, whereby a power amplifying transistor 102 is matched by an input wide band matching circuit 101 and an output main matching circuit 103, so that the high efficiency linear amplification is accomplished. For the transmission in a second frequency band, the transistor 104 is turned on while the transistor 105 is turned off, whereby the power amplifying transistor 102 is matched by a capacitance 108 as well as the input wide band matching circuit 101 and the output main matching circuit 103, so that the high efficiency linear amplification is accomplished. An external switch for switching the matching circuits is thus unnecessary.

Claims

1. A transmitter comprising:

a power amplifying transistor for amplifying a transmitted signal;

an input wide band matching circuit, connected to an input side of said power amplifying transistor, for matching a plurality of frequency bands;

an output main matching circuit, connected to an output side of said power amplifying transistor, for matching said output side to one frequency band of said plurality of frequency bands;

an antenna;

an antenna switch for switching on/off a connection between the output side of said output main matching circuit and said antenna;

a plurality of in-series transistors, connected to the output side of said output main matching circuit, for grounding the output side of said output main matching circuit when the signal is not transmitted; and

an auxiliary matching circuit connected between the in-series connection of said plurality of transistors and ground,

wherein said plurality of transistors can be on-off controlled, and when one frequency band other than said one frequency band of said plurality of frequency bands is used, the output side of said power amplifying transistor is matched to the one used frequency band by connecting a predetermined auxiliary matching circuit in all or a part of said auxiliary matching circuit to the output side of said output main matching circuit, under the on-off control in accordance with the used frequency band.

2. A transmitter according to claim 1, wherein a harmonic termination function is also added to said auxiliary matching circuit.

3. A transmitter according to claim 1, wherein a filter function is also added to said auxiliary matching circuit.

4. A transmitter according to claim 1, wherein said

power amplifying transistor,

said input wide band matching circuit, said output main matching circuit, said antenna switch, said plurality of transistors and said auxiliary matching circuit are constituted on the same semiconductor chip.

5. A transmitter according to claim 2, wherein said power amplifying transistor, said input wide band matching circuit, said output main matching circuit, said antenna switch, said plurality of transistors and said auxiliary matching circuit are constituted on the same semiconductor chip.

6. A transmitter according to claim 3, wherein said power amplifying transistor, said input wide band matching circuit, said output main matching circuit, said antenna switch, said plurality of transistors an d said auxiliary matching circuit are constituted on the same semiconductor chip.

7. A transmitter according to claim 1, wherein said power amplifying transistor, said input wide band matching circuit, said output main matching circuit, said antenna switch and said plurality of transistors are constituted on the same semiconductor chip.

8. A transmitter according to claim 2, wherein said power amplifying transistor, said input wide band matching circuit, said output main matching circuit, said antenna switch and said plurality of transistors are constituted on the same semiconductor chip.

9. A transmitter according to claim 3, wherein said power amplifying transistor, said input wide band matching circuit, said output main matching circuit, said antenna switch and said plurality of transistors are constituted on the same semiconductor chip.

10. A transmitter according to claim 1, wherein said power amplifying transistor, said input wide band matching circuit, said antenna switch and said plurality of transistors are constituted on the same semiconductor chip.

11. A transmitter according to claim 2, wherein said power amplifying transistor, said input wide band matching circuit, said antenna switch and said plurality of transistors are constituted on the same semiconductor chip.

12. A transmitter according to claim 3, wherein said power amplifying transistor, said input wide band matching circuit, said antenna switch and said plurality of transistors are constituted on the same semiconductor chip.

13. A transmitter according to claim 1, wherein said power amplifying transistor and said input wide band matching circuit are constituted on a first semiconductor chip, and said antenna switch and said plurality of transistors are constituted on a second semiconductor chip.

14. A transmitter according to claim 2, wherein said power amplifying transistor and said input wide band matching circuit are constituted on a first semiconductor chip, and said antenna switch and said plurality of transistors are constituted on a second semiconductor chip.

15. A transmitter according to claim 3, wherein said power amplifying transistor and said input wide band matching circuit are constituted on a first semiconductor chip, and said antenna switch and said plurality of transistors are constituted on a second semiconductor chip.

16. A mobile telephone comprising the transmitter according to claim 1.

17. A transmitter according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of transistors can be on-off controlled separately.