Tunable Impedance Matching Circuit

Abstract

The tunable impedance circuit comprises capacitors C1 and C2, an inductor L1, and an inductor L2 magnetically coupled with the inductor L1. The control current Icontrol with variable phase and amplitude from the control circuit 13 flows in the inductor L2. The impedance of the inductor L1 is changed by changing the phase and amplitude of the control current Icontrol. The output impedance is set to an optimum level by setting an effective inductance and an effective quality factor of the tunable impedance circuit 12a to be optimum by means of the phase and amplitude of the control current Icontrol relative to output current IRF of RF PA 11.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.