Radio frequency system based on millimeter wave communication, method for adjusting transmit power, and terminal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11304134-B2
Application number	US-202017038798-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 30, 2020
Priority date	Mar 30, 2018
Publication date	Apr 12, 2022
Grant date	Apr 12, 2022

Abstract

A radio frequency system based on millimeter wave communication, a method for adjusting transmit power, and a terminal are provided. The radio frequency system includes a Doherty power amplification unit, an antenna array, and a micro control unit MCU, where an output end of the Doherty power amplification unit is connected to an input end of the antenna array, a control end of the Doherty power amplification unit and a control end of the antenna array are both connected to the MCU, and the MCU controls a radiation direction of an antenna in the antenna array; and the Doherty power amplification unit includes two power amplifiers, saturation power of the two power amplifiers is equal, a switch controller is connected in series to one of the two power amplifiers, and the MCU controls transmit power of the Doherty power amplification unit by controlling opening and closing of the switch controller.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A radio frequency system based on millimeter wave communication, wherein the radio frequency system comprises a Doherty power amplification unit, an antenna array, and a micro control unit MCU, wherein
an output end of the Doherty power amplification unit is connected to an input end of the antenna array, a control end of the Doherty power amplification unit and a control end of the antenna array are both connected to the MCU, and the MCU controls a radiation direction of an antenna in the antenna array; and
the Doherty power amplification unit comprises two power amplifiers, saturation power of the two power amplifiers is equal, a switch controller is connected in series to one of the two power amplifiers, and the MCU is configured to control array gains of the antenna array, and controls, in a case that the array gains of the antenna array increase, controls transmit power of the Doherty power amplification unit by controlling opening and closing of the switch controller.

2. The radio frequency system according to claim 1 , wherein an input end of the Doherty power amplification unit is connected to a one-to-two power splitter, and the one-to-two power splitter is connected to each power amplifier.

3. The radio frequency system according to claim 2 , wherein the two power amplifiers comprise a primary amplifier and a peak amplifier, wherein the peak amplifier is connected in series to the switch controller, and the primary amplifier is connected in parallel with the peak amplifier.

4. The radio frequency system according to claim 3 , wherein the radio frequency system further comprises a plurality of ¼ wavelength impedance lines, a first ¼ wavelength impedance line is disposed at an output end of the primary amplifier, a third ¼ wavelength impedance line is disposed at an input end of the peak amplifier, and after the output end of the primary amplifier is connected to an output end of the peak amplifier by using the first ¼ wavelength impedance line, the output end of the primary amplifier is further connected to a second ¼ wavelength impedance line.

5. The radio frequency system according to claim 4 , wherein the primary amplifier is connected to a first power supply, and the peak amplifier is connected to a second power supply.

6. The radio frequency system according to claim 5 , wherein the first power supply is connected to a first APT circuit, and the second power supply is connected to a second APT circuit.

7. The radio frequency system according to claim 6 , wherein the antenna array comprises a plurality of antenna array elements, and the antenna array elements are associated with a common interface by using a matching network and connected to the output end of the Doherty power amplification unit by using the common interface.

8. A mobile terminal, comprising the radio frequency system based on millimeter wave communication according to claim 1 .

9. A method for adjusting transmit power, wherein the method is applied to the mobile terminal according to claim 8 , and the method comprises:
determining, based on a downlink signal from a network-side device, level information corresponding to the downlink signal;
adjusting, based on the level information, a direction of an antenna array in the radio frequency system based on millimeter wave communication in the mobile terminal; and
after the direction of the antenna array is adjusted, if a level value corresponding to a downlink signal received from the network-side device increases, controlling the Doherty power amplification unit in the radio frequency system to reduce transmit power by using the MCU in the radio frequency system.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the method further comprises:
after the direction of the antenna array is adjusted, if a level value corresponding to the downlink signal received from the network-side device decreases, adjusting the direction of the antenna array in the radio frequency system.

Assignees

• Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wang Kun

Classifications

• H03F1/0288 Primary

  using a main and one or several auxiliary peaking amplifiers whereby the load is connected to the main amplifier using an impedance inverter, e.g. Doherty amplifiers · CPC title

• H04W52/42 Primary

  in systems with time, space, frequency or polarisation diversity · CPC title

• H03F3/24

  of transmitter output stages · CPC title

• H03F2200/451

  the amplifier being a radio frequency amplifier · CPC title

• H04W52/0261

  managing power supply demand, e.g. depending on battery level · CPC title