Capacitor circuit for a quasi-broadband doherty amplifier

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9236190-B2
Application number	US-201514716638-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 19, 2015
Priority date	May 5, 2011
Publication date	Jan 12, 2016
Grant date	Jan 12, 2016

Abstract

An amplifier provides a first amplifier circuit, a second amplifier circuit, a first hybrid-coupler circuit and a termination. The hybrid-coupler circuit provides an output terminal and an insulation terminal. In this context, the termination is connected to the insulation terminal of the hybrid-coupler circuit. The termination comprises a first capacitor and/or an inductance, which is disposed directly at the insulation terminal of the hybrid-coupler circuit.

First claim

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:

1. A capacitor circuit, comprising:
a first capacitor plate;
a second capacitor plate;
an insulator plate, the second capacitor plate being rigidly connected to the insulator plate, whereas the second capacitor plate and the insulator plate are displaceable relative to the first capacitor plate; and
a terminal, connected in a detachable manner to the first capacitor plate.

2. The capacitor circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the insulator plate and the switch terminal are embodied in such a manner that the insulator plate separates the switch terminal from the first capacitor plate when the first capacitor plate approaches the second capacitor plate.

3. The capacitor circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the insulator plate and the switch terminal are embodied in such a manner that the switch terminal comes into contact with the first capacitor plate when the first capacitor plate is moved away from the second capacitor plate.

4. The capacitor circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the second capacitor plate and the insulator plate are mounted in a displaceable manner relative to the first capacitor plate by a sliding bearing.

5. The capacitor circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the second capacitor plate and the insulator plate are mounted in a rotatable manner relative to the first capacitor plate via a rotary bearing.

6. The capacitor circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the switch terminal is a contact spring, and wherein the contact spring is disposed in contact with the first capacitor plate through spring tension.

7. The capacitor circuit according to claim 6 , wherein the insulator plate is embodied in such a manner that it is displaced between the contact spring and the first capacitor plate when the first capacitor plate approaches the second capacitor plate.

8. The capacitor circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the insulator plate is connected by a carrier to a conductor portion, and wherein the switch terminal connects the conductor portion to the first capacitor plate or respectively separates the conductor portion from the first capacitor plate.

Assignees

• Rohde & Schwarz

Inventors

• Schenk Lothar

Classifications

• H03F2200/417

  A switch coupled in the output circuit of an amplifier being controlled by a circuit · CPC title

• H03F2200/36

  the amplifier comprising means for increasing the bandwidth · CPC title

• H03F1/0288

  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

• H03F1/42

  Modifications of amplifiers to extend the bandwidth · CPC title

• H03F3/68

  Combinations of amplifiers, e.g. multi-channel amplifiers for stereophonics {(power amplifiers using a combination of several semiconductor amplifiers H03F3/211; combinations of amplifiers using coupling networks with distributed constants H03F3/602)} · CPC title