Antenna system comprising an electrically small antenna for reception of UHF band channel signals
AssigneeThomson Licensing
InventorsJean-Luc Robert, Philippe Minard, Brice Praho
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Abstract
An antenna system for reception of channel signals form the UHF band by a receiver, including an electrically small antenna and, connected between the port connected to the antenna and that of the receiver, an active impedance matching device controlled by command signals depending on the quality of the signal received by the receiver to compensate for the impedance variations due to the environment associated with the antenna and to reject the frequencies of interfering channels adjacent to the reception channel without interfering with the active impedance matching of the antenna.
Claims3
An antenna system for reception of channel signals from the UHF band by a receiver, comprising:
- an electrically small antenna;
- and
- connected between the port connected to the antenna and that of the receiver,
- an active impedance matching device,
- wherein the active impedance matching device is controlled by command signals depending on the quality of the signal received by the receiver and comprises a negative impedance converter of variable capacity to compensate for the impedance variations due to the environment associated with the antenna connected to a filtering network formed by a parallel network of active reject filters of variable capacities to reject the frequencies of interfering channels adjacent to the reception channel;
- wherein the negative impedance converter of variable capacity is formed by a first transistor and a second transistor mounted differentially, the base of the first transistor is connected to the ground plane via an inductance L2 and the base of the second transistor is connected to the ground plane via a variable capacity Cv to realize an impedance matching;
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- wherein a first command signal S1 for the control of the variable capacity C of the negative impedance converter and a second command signal S2 for the control of variable capacities of the filtering network are delivered via receiver information signifying the level of the signal received or the presence of a high level of interference according to a defined threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.