Antenna damping circuit and high frequency receiver employing same
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorKazuhisa Ishiguro
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Abstract
An antenna damping circuit in which the frequency characteristics of damping amount can be made substantially flat by providing a resistor (Ra) between PIN diodes (D1, D2) having a resistance varying upon application of a control voltage (Vc) and a capacitive dummy antenna circuit (10), and setting its resistance high enough to neglect the capacity of the dummy antenna circuit (10) sufficiently when the dummy antenna circuit (10) is viewed from the side of the PIN diodes (D1, D2) thereby substantially eliminating the influence of capacity of the dummy antenna circuit (10).
Claims8
An antenna damping circuit including a variable resistance element, a resistance of which changes according to an applied voltage, the antenna damping circuit damping an antenna input signal using the variable resistance element, comprising:
- a resistor connected in series between the variable resistance element and a capacitive circuit connected to a pre-stage of the variable resistance element, wherein
- plural output paths are provided for the capacitive circuit and the resistor and the variable resistance element is provided for a part of the output paths;
- a pair of variable resistance elements are connected in series between a constant current source that supplies a constant current according to the applied voltage and a ground;
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- the resistor is connected between an input terminal of the variable resistance element on a pre-stage side and the capacitive circuit and an output terminal of the variable resistance element on the pre-stage side is connected to an output end of the part of the output paths.
An antenna damping circuit including a variable resistance element, a resistance of which changes according to an applied voltage, the antenna damping circuit damping an antenna input signal using the variable resistance element, comprising:
- a MOS transistor provided between the variable resistance element and a capacitive circuit connected to a pre-stage of the variable resistance element, wherein
- an ON resistance of the MOS transistor is variably controlled;
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- the antenna damping circuit has a mode for reducing the ON resistance by causing the MOS transistor to operate in a saturation region and a mode for increasing the ON resistance by causing the MOS transistor to operate in a non-saturation region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.