Receiver for human body communication and method for removing noise thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9866332-B2
Application number	US-201715419871-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 30, 2017
Priority date	Mar 9, 2016
Publication date	Jan 9, 2018
Grant date	Jan 9, 2018

Abstract

Provided is a receiver for human body communication, the receiver including a comparator, a clock and data recovery circuit, and resistors or passive elements having a resistance property in power supply and ground connection units of other digital operation components and a power supply and ground connection unit of a printed circuit board (PCB) to remove or suppress a digital noise reflowed into a human body in the receiver and to raise reception performance by amplifying, with a high gain, a very small transmission signal transmitted through the human body causing a very high loss.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A receiver for performing human body communication, the receiver comprising:
a reception electrode attached on a human body;
an impedance matching circuit configured to receive a transmission signal from the reception electrode and perform impedance matching;
a signal amplifying circuit configured to amplify a signal output from the impedance matching circuit;
a band pass filter configured to filter a signal output from the signal amplifying circuit;
a comparator configured to amplify a voltage level of a signal output from the band pass filter;
a clock and data recovery circuit configured to recover data and a clock from a signal output from the comparator using a reception clock;
a digital modem configured to recover reception information from the data and the clock output from the clock and data recovery circuit;
a first power supply terminal configured to provide a first power supply voltage to the impedance matching circuit, the signal amplifying circuit and the band pass filter;
a second power supply terminal configured to provide a second power supply voltage to the comparator, the clock and data recovery circuit, and the digital modem;
a first ground terminal configured to provide a first ground voltage to the impedance matching circuit, the signal amplifying circuit and the band pass filter;
a second ground terminal configured to provide a second ground voltage to the comparator, the clock and data recovery circuit, and the digital modem; and
a power supplying circuit for generating the first power supply voltage, the second power supply voltage, the first ground voltage, and the second ground voltage,
wherein a first resistor or a first passive element is connected between the second power supply terminal and at least one of the comparator, the clock and data recovery circuit and the digital modem, and
a second resistor or a second passive element is connected between the second ground terminal and at least one of the comparator, the clock and data recovery circuit and the digital modem.

2. The receiver of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the comparator, the clock and data recovery circuit and the digital modem comprises an output circuit configured to output data,
the output circuit comprises a first transistor configured to be connected between the first resistor and an output terminal, and a second transistor configured to be connected between the output terminal and the second resistor, and
a capacitor connected between the output terminal and the second ground terminal.

3. The receiver of claim 2 , wherein the output circuit is disposed inside any one integrated circuit, and
the first resistor, the second resistor, and the capacitor are disposed outside the one integrated circuit.

4. The receiver of claim 2 , wherein the output circuit is disposed inside any one integrated circuit,
the first and second resistors are disposed inside the one integrated circuit, and
the capacitor is disposed outside the one integrated circuit.

Assignees

• Electronics & Telecommunications Res Inst

Inventors

• Oh Kwang Il
• Kang Tae Wook
• Kim Sung Eun
• Park Hyung-Il
• Kang Sung Weon
• Lim In Gi

Classifications

• H04B13/005 Primary

  Transmission systems in which the medium consists of the human body · CPC title

• H04B15/005

  Reducing noise, e.g. humm, from the supply · CPC title