Radio frequency coupler circuitry

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10128874-B2
Application number	US-201615250094-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 29, 2016
Priority date	Aug 28, 2015
Publication date	Nov 13, 2018
Grant date	Nov 13, 2018

Abstract

RF coupling circuitry includes a first coupled signal output node, a second coupled signal output node, an RF coupler, RF filtering circuitry, and attenuator circuitry. The RF coupler is configured to couple RF signals from an RF transmission line to provide coupled RF signals. The RF filtering circuitry is coupled to the RF coupler and configured to separate RF signals within a first RF frequency band in the coupled RF signals from RF signals within a second RF frequency band in the coupled RF signals. The attenuator circuitry is coupled between the RF filtering circuitry, the first coupled signal output node, and the second coupled signal output node. The attenuator circuitry is configured to attenuate the RF signals within the first RF frequency band and the RF signals within the second RF frequency band.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. Radio frequency (RF) coupler circuitry comprising:
a first coupled signal output node and a second coupled signal output node;
an RF coupler configured to couple RF signals from an RF transmission line to provide coupled RF signals;
RF filtering circuitry coupled to the RF coupler and configured to separate the coupled RF signals into RF feedback signals within a first RF frequency band and into RF feedback signals within a second RF frequency band; and
attenuator circuitry coupled between the RF filtering circuitry, the first coupled signal output node, and the second coupled signal output node and configured to:
attenuate the RF feedback signals within the first RF frequency band and provide the RF feedback signals within the first RF frequency band to the first coupled signal output node; and
attenuate the RF feedback signals within the second RF frequency band and provide the RF feedback signals within the second RF frequency band to the second coupled signal output node.

2. The RF coupler circuitry of claim 1 wherein the RF filtering circuitry is a diplexer.

3. The RF coupler circuitry of claim 2 wherein the diplexer comprises a common node coupled to the RF coupler, a first diplexer output node coupled to the attenuator circuitry, and a second diplexer output node coupled to the attenuator circuitry, and the diplexer is configured to receive the coupled RF signals at the common node and separate the RF feedback signals within the first RF frequency band from the RF feedback signals within the second RF frequency band, providing the RF feedback signals within the first RF frequency band to the first diplexer output node and the RF feedback signals within the second RF frequency band to the second diplexer output node.

4. The RF coupler circuitry of claim 3 wherein the attenuator circuitry comprises a first adjustable attenuator coupled between the first diplexer output node and the first coupled signal output node and a second adjustable attenuator coupled between the second diplexer output node and the second coupled signal output node.

5. The RF coupler circuitry of claim 1 further comprising a power splitter coupled between the RF coupler and the RF filtering circuitry, the power splitter comprising a power splitter input node, a first split power node, and a second split power node and configured to receive the coupled RF signals at the power splitter input node and split the coupled RF signals between the first split power node and the second split power node.

6. The RF coupler circuitry of claim 5 wherein the power splitter is a resistive divider.

7. The RF coupler circuitry of claim 5 wherein the RF filtering circuitry comprises:
a first bandpass filter coupled between the first split power node and the attenuator circuitry and configured to pass the RF feedback signals within the first RF frequency band between the first split power node and the attenuator circuitry while attenuating signals outside the first RF frequency band; and
a second bandpass filter coupled between the second split power node and the attenuator circuitry and configured to pass the RF feedback signals within the second RF frequency band between the second split power node and the attenuator circuitry while attenuating signals outside the second RF frequency band.

8. The RF coupler circuitry of claim 7 wherein the attenuator circuitry comprises a first adjustable attenuator coupled between the first bandpass filter and the first coupled signal output node and a second adjustable attenuator coupled between the second bandpass filter and the second coupled signal output node.

9. The RF coupler circuitry of claim 5 wherein the RF filtering circuitry comprises:
a first notch filter coupled between the first split power node and the attenuator circuitry and configured to attenuate the RF feedback signals within the second RF frequency band while passing signals outside the second RF frequency band between the first split power node and the attenuator circuitry; and
a second notch filter coupled between the second split power node and the attenuator circuitry and configured to attenuate the RF feedback signals within the first RF frequency band while passing signals outside the first RF frequency band between the second split power node and the attenuator circuitry.

10. The RF coupler circuitry of claim 9 wherein the attenuator circuitry comprises a first adjustable attenuator coupled between the first notch filter and the first coupled signal output node and a second adjustable attenuator coupled between the second notch filter and the second coupled signal output node.

11. Radio frequency (RF) front end circuitry comprising:
an antenna;
transceiver circuitry;
an RF transmission line coupled between the antenna and the transceiver circuitry;
RF coupler circuitry comprising:
a first coupled signal output node and a second coupled signal output node;
an RF coupler configured to couple RF signals from the RF transmission line to provide coupled RF signals;
RF filtering circuitry coupled to the RF coupler and configured to separate the coupled RF signals into RF feedback signals within a first RF frequency band and into RF feedback signals within a second RF frequency band; and
attenuator circuitry coupled between the RF filtering circuitry, the first coupled signal output node, and the second coupled signal output node and configured to:
attenuate the RF feedback signals within the first RF frequency band and provide the RF feedback signals within the first RF frequency band to the first coupled signal output node; and
attenuate the RF feedback signals within the second RF frequency band and provide the RF feedback signals within the second RF frequency band to the second coupled signal output node;
wherein the RF feedback signals within the first RF frequency band are used as feedback signals to adjust a transmit power of one or more RF transmit signals provided by the transceiver circuitry.

12. The RF front end circuitry of claim 11 wherein the RF filtering circuitry is a diplexer.

13. The RF front end circuitry of claim 12 wherein the diplexer comprises a common node coupled to the RF coupler, a first diplexer output node coupled to the attenuator circuitry, and a second diplexer output node coupled to the attenuator circuitry, and the diplexer is configured to receive the coupled RF signals at the common node and separate the RF feedback signals within the first RF frequency band from the RF feedback signals within the second RF frequency band, providing the RF feedback signals within the first RF frequency band to the first diplexer output node and the RF feedback signals within the second RF frequency band to the second diplexer output node.

14. The RF front end circuitry of claim 13 wherein the attenuator circuitry comprises a first adjustable attenuator coupled between the first diplexer output node and the first coupled signal output node and a second adjustable attenuator coupled between the second diplexer output node and the second coupled signal output node.

15. The RF front end circuitry of claim 11 further comprising a power splitter coupled between the RF coupler and the RF filtering circuitry, the power splitter comprising a power splitter input node, a first split power node, and a second split power node and configured to receive the coupled RF signals at the power splitter input node and split the coupled RF signals between the first split power node and the second split power node.

16. The RF front end circuitry of claim 15 wherein the power spl

Assignees

• Qorvo Us Inc

Inventors

• Khlat Nadim
• Granger-Jones Marcus

Classifications

• H04B1/0475 Primary

  with means for limiting noise, interference or distortion (H04B1/0483 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04B2001/0441

  with linearisation using feed-forward · CPC title

• H01P5/18

  consisting of two coupled guides, e.g. directional couplers · CPC title