High-Selectivity Low-Loss Duplexer

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016182006-A1
Application number	US-201514966721-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 11, 2015
Priority date	Dec 22, 2014
Publication date	Jun 23, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A high-selectivity low-loss duplexing system includes a first duplexer having a first port, a second port, a transmit port and a receive port. A second duplexer has a third port, a fourth port, an inverted transmit port and the receive port. The first port and the third port are connected to an antenna by a balun. The transmit port and the inverted transmit port are connected to at least one power amplifier. The receive port is connected to a low noise amplifier. A phase shifter includes a lattice filter configured to short the second port to the third port and the fourth port to the first port at a receive frequency, and short the second port to the first port and the fourth port to the third port at a transmit frequency.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method for electronic duplexing comprising:
coupling by positive mutual induction, an input signal at a first port to a receive port; coupling by negative mutual induction, a phase-shifted signal at a second port to the receive port; coupling by induction, an output signal at a transmit port to the first port; coupling by induction, the output signal at the transmit port to the second port; and forming the phase-shifted signal by phase shifting the input signal by 180 degrees at a receive frequency and by zero degrees at a transmit frequency.

2 . The method of claim 1 further comprising:
coupling by positive mutual induction, an inverted input signal at a third port to the receive port,
coupling by negative mutual induction, an inverted phase-shifted signal at a fourth port to the receive port,
coupling by induction, an inverted output signal at an inverted transmit port to the third port,
coupling by induction, the inverted output signal at the inverted transmit port to the fourth port,
wherein phase shifting the input signal by 180 degrees at the receive frequency comprises shorting the phase-shifted signal to the inverted input signal and the inverted phase-shifted signal to the input signal, and
wherein phase shifting the input signal by zero degrees at the transmit frequency comprises shorting the phase-shifted signal to the input signal and the inverted phase-shifted signal to inverted input signal.

3 . The method of claim 1 wherein a transmit-receive coupling from the transmit port to the receive port is nullified by the coupling of the output signal from the transmit port to the first port and the coupling of the output signal from the transmit port to the second port.

4 . The method of claim 1 further comprising amplifying, by a differential low noise amplifier, a difference between the input signal and the phase-shifted signal, coupled to the receive port.

5 . The method of claim 1 further comprising generating, by a power amplifier, the output signal at the transmit port.

6 . The method of claim 2 further comprising receiving, by a balun coupled to an antenna, the input signal and the inverted input signal.

7 . The method of claim 2 wherein the input signal and the output signal are contemporaneous.

8 . The method of claim 2 further comprising reconfiguring one of the receive frequency and the transmit frequency.

9 . The method of claim 2 further comprising calibrating a phase shift of one of the input signal and the inverted input signal to reduce one of a manufacturing process variation and an environmental variation.

10 . An electronic duplexer comprising:
a first port coupled to a transmit port by a primary winding of a first transformer; a second port coupled to the transmit port by a primary winding of a second transformer; a receive port bridging a secondary winding of the first transformer connected to a secondary winding of the second transformer; and a phase shifter configured to phase shift an input signal at the first port to generate a phase-shifted signal at the second port, the phase shifter shifting the input signal by 180 degrees at a receive frequency and by zero degrees at a transmit frequency.

11 . The electronic duplexer of claim 10 further comprising:
a third port coupled to an inverted transmit port by a primary winding of a third transformer,
a fourth port coupled to the inverted transmit port by a primary winding of a fourth transformer,
the receive port bridging a secondary winding of the third transformer connected to a secondary winding of the fourth transformer, and
the phase shifter further configured to phase shift an inverted input signal at the third port to generate an inverted phase-shifted signal at the fourth port, the phase shifter shifting the inverted input signal by 180 degrees at a receive frequency and by zero degrees at a transmit frequency.

12 . The device of claim 10 wherein the phase shifter comprises a bridged-T delay equalizer between the first port and the second port.

13 . The device of claim 11 wherein the phase shifter comprises a lattice filter configured to:
phase shift the input signal by 180 degrees at the receive frequency by shorting the phase-shifted signal to the inverted input signal and the inverted phase-shifted signal to the input signal, and
phase shift the input signal by zero degrees at the transmit frequency by shorting the phase-shifted signal to the input signal and the inverted phase-shifted signal to the inverted input signal.

14 . The device of claim 11 wherein the phase shifter comprises a first bridged-T delay equalizer between the first port and the second port, and a second bridged-T delay equalizer between the third port and the fourth port.

15 . The device of claim 11 , wherein the first port and the third port are connected to an antenna by a balun.

16 . The device of claim 11 further comprising a mode configuration module configured to modify the phase shifter for at least one of a different receive frequency and a different transmit frequency.

17 . The device of claim 11 further comprising a calibration module configured to calibrate the phase shifter to reduce one of a manufacturing process variation and an environmental variation for at least one of the receive frequency and the transmit frequency.

18 . A high-selectivity low-loss duplexing system comprising:
a first duplexer having a first port, a second port, a transmit port and a receive port; a second duplexer having a third port, a fourth port, an inverted transmit port and the receive port, the first port and the third port connected to an antenna by a balun, the transmit port and the inverted transmit port connected to at least one power amplifier, and the receive port connected to a low noise amplifier; and a phase shifter comprising a lattice filter configured to short the second port to the third port and the fourth port to the first port at a receive frequency, and short the second port to the first port and the fourth port to the third port at a transmit frequency.

19 . The system of claim 18 further wherein the receive frequency and the transmit frequency are within a mobile cellular frequency band.

20 . The system of claim 18 wherein the receive frequency and the transmit frequency are within a radar band.

Assignees

• Univ Brown

Inventors

• Larson Lawrence

Classifications

• H03H7/21

  providing two or more phase shifted output signals, e.g. n-phase output · CPC title

• H03H7/463 Primary

  Duplexers · CPC title

• H03H7/18

  Networks for phase shifting · CPC title