Amplitude limiter

US5408204A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Deutsche Aerospece AG · DE

Inventors

• Heinz-Peter Feldle · Senden, DE
• Bernhard Schweizer · Darmstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 6, 1993
• Grant date: Apr 18, 1995
• Expiry date: Oct 6, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H03G11/025
• WIPO field: Basic communication processes
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An amplitude limiter including an input power divider, first and second circuit branches each having an input end coupled to receive a split input signal and each being substantially identical electrically parallel-connected branches, each circuit branch being composed of a series connection of first and second conductor sections with the first and second conductor sections having respectively different lengths, and with the first and second conductor sections of each circuit branch being connected in anti-parallel, an absorber resistor connected between the two respective input ends of the circuit branches, and first and second rectifiers with each respective rectifier being connected between a connection point between the first and second conductor sections of each respective circuit branch and a ground conductor.