Television tuner which operates at low voltage
AssigneeAlps Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorTakeo Suzuki
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Abstract
A television tuner has a high frequency tuning circuit, a high frequency amplifier, a mixer, and an oscillating section. The tuning circuit is made up of an inductor and plural capacitors and at least one of the capacitors is selected and connected in parallel with the inductor; and the oscillating section has at least plural oscillators which are included in an integrated circuit. In the integrated circuit, the oscillators respectively have variable capacitors to vary a frequency of a local oscillation signal. Groups into which a receiving frequency band is divided correspond to the oscillators on the basis of one oscillator per group; and each of the oscillators generates local oscillation frequencies depending on television signals in the corresponding group.
Claims6
A television tuner comprising:
- a tuning circuit which tunes with a television signal within a prescribed receiving frequency band;
- a high frequency amplifier which amplifies the television signal;
- a mixer which converts the television signal into an intermediate frequency signal;
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- an oscillating section which supplies a local oscillation signal to the mixer, wherein
- the tuning circuit is made up of an inductor and plural capacitors;
- wherein at least one of the capacitors is selected and connected in parallel with the inductor;
- wherein the oscillating section is made up of at least plural oscillators which are included in an integrated circuit;
- wherein in the integrated circuit, each of the oscillators has a variable capacitor to vary a frequency of the local oscillation signal;
- wherein groups into which the receiving frequency band is divided correspond to the oscillators on the basis of one oscillator per group;
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- wherein each of the oscillators generates local oscillation frequencies depending on television signals in the corresponding group.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.