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Mixer for direct conversion receiver

US5303417A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 6, 1991
Grant dateApr 12, 1994
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Expiry dateAug 6, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03D2200/0047
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A mixer system for a direct conversion receiver, the receiver including an RF input path which is divided into I and Q paths for demodulating from the RF signals I and Q signals in phase quadrature with one another, the mixer system including first and second serially coupled mixer means in the I path, third and fourth serially coupled mixer means in the Q path, and a local oscillator providing a plurality of local oscillator signals in phase quadrature with one another to the mixer means, such that the first mixer means receives a local oscillator signal in phase quadrature to the local oscillator signal applied to the second mixer means, and the third mixer means receives a local oscillator in phase quadrature to that applied to the fourth mixer means.

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