Canceler device and wireless device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12476667-B2
Application number	US-202318229346-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 2, 2023
Priority date	Mar 18, 2021
Publication date	Nov 18, 2025
Grant date	Nov 18, 2025

Abstract

A canceler device includes: a line connector having a first terminal, a second terminal, and a third terminal, the line connector being configured to output a signal provided to the first terminal to the second terminal; and a reflection circuit to output a reflected wave of the signal output to the second terminal to the third terminal. The reflection circuit includes: a first variable resistor having a first end connected to the second terminal; a second variable resistor having a first end connected to the second terminal and a second end grounded; and a parallel resonance circuit having a first end connected to a second end of the first variable resistor and a second end grounded.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A canceler device comprising:
a line connector having a first terminal, a second terminal, and a third terminal, the line connector being configured to output a signal provided to the first terminal to the second terminal; and a reflection circuit to output a reflected wave of the signal output to the second terminal to the third terminal, wherein the reflection circuit includes: a first variable resistor having a first end connected to the second terminal; and a second variable resistor having a first end connected to the second terminal and a second end grounded; and a resonance circuit having a first end connected to a second end of the first variable resistor and a second end grounded.

2 . The canceler device according to claim 1 , wherein
the resonance circuit is a parallel resonance circuit including: an inductor having a first end connected to the second end of the first variable resistor and a second end grounded; and a capacitor connected in parallel with the inductor.

3 . The canceler device according to claim 1 , wherein
the resonance circuit comprises: a tip short-circuited stub having a first end connected to the second end of the first variable resistor and a second end grounded.

4 . The canceler device according to claim 3 , further comprising a variable capacitor having a first end connected to the second end of the first variable resistor and a second end grounded.

5 . The canceler device according to claim 1 , wherein
the resonance circuit comprises: a changeover switch; and a plurality of tip short-circuited stubs having characteristic impedances different from each other, and the changeover switch connects a first end of any one of the plurality of tip short-circuited stubs and the second end of the first variable resistor.

6 . The canceler device according to claim 1 , further comprising a phase shifter having a first end connected to the second terminal and a second end connected to a first end of each of the first variable resistor and the second variable resistor.

7 . The canceler device according to claim 6 , wherein
the phase shifter includes a switch, and the switch inserts the phase shifter between the second terminal and a first end of each of the first variable resistor and the second variable resistor or excludes the phase shifter from between the second terminal and a first end of each of the first variable resistor and the second variable resistor.

8 . The canceler device according to claim 1 , further comprising a phase shifter having a first end connected to the third terminal.

9 . The canceler device according to claim 1 , further comprising a variable attenuator having a first end connected to the second terminal and a second end connected to a first end of each of the first variable resistor and the second variable resistor.

10 . The canceler device according to claim 1 , further comprising a variable attenuator having a first end connected to the third terminal.

11 . The canceler device according to claim 1 , wherein
the line connector is a circulator.

12 . The canceler device according to claim 1 , wherein
the line connector is a directional coupler.

13 . The canceler device according to claim 1 , wherein
the resonance circuit is a series resonance circuit including an inductor and a capacitor, and the inductor and the capacitor are connected in series.

14 . The canceler device according to claim 1 , wherein
the resonance circuit comprises: a tip open stub having a first end connected to the second end of the first variable resistor and a second end opened.

15 . The canceler device according to claim 14 , further comprising a variable capacitor having a first end connected to the second end of the first variable resistor and a second end connected to a non-open end of the tip open stub.

16 . A wireless device comprising:
a transmitter to output a transmission signal; an antenna to radiate the transmission signal output from the transmitter into space as an electromagnetic wave, to receive an incoming electromagnetic wave, to output a reception signal of the received electromagnetic wave, and to output a part of the transmission signal as a leakage wave; a receiver to detect the reception signal output from the antenna; a canceler device according to claim 1 ; a divider to divide the transmission signal output from the transmitter into two, to output a first transmission signal of the two divided transmission signals to the antenna, and to output a second transmission signal of the two divided transmission signals to the canceler device; and a combiner to combine the leakage wave output from the antenna with a signal output from the canceler device and to output, to the receiver, a combined signal of the leakage wave and the signal output from the canceler device and the reception signal output from the antenna, wherein the second transmission signal output from the divider is provided to the first terminal of the line connector in the canceler device, and a signal output from the third terminal of the line connector is output to the combiner.

17 . The wireless device according to claim 16 , further comprising a control device to control circuit specifications of the canceler device in accordance with the reception signal detected by the receiver.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Yamaura Shingo
• Nishimoto Kengo
• Nishioka Yasuhiro

Classifications

• H04B1/586

  using an electronic circuit · CPC title

• H01Q15/0053

  Selective devices used as spatial filter or angular sidelobe filter · CPC title

• H04B1/123

  using adaptive balancing or compensation means (adaptive filter circuits and algorithms H03H) · CPC title

• H04B1/525 Primary

  with means for reducing leakage of transmitter signal into the receiver · CPC title

• H03H7/0123

  comprising distributed impedance elements together with lumped impedance elements · CPC title