US 7,587,182 B2
Receiver input circuit
Kazuo Kawai, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to General Research of Electronics, Inc., Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Oct. 03, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/538,112.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-292764 (JP), filed on Oct. 05, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0099589 A1, May 03, 2007
Int. Cl. G06F 3/033 (2006.01); H04B 1/18 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 455—130  [455/150.1; 455/193.1] 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A receiver input circuit connected between a receiving antenna and a high frequency amplifier, comprising:
a four-terminal R-∞ type low-pass filter having an input termination resistance indicative of a specific resistance value R and an output termination resistance indicative of an infinite resistance value; and
an LC parallel tuning circuit connected to one output terminal of the four-terminal R-∞ type low-pass filter via a small-capacitance type coupling capacitor element,
wherein the four-terminal R-∞ type low-pass filter has an inductor element and a first capacitor element series-connected between one input and output terminals thereof, and a second capacitor element shunt-connected between one and other output terminals thereof,
wherein a series-connected portion of the first capacitor element and the second capacitor element corresponds to one in which a capacitor element shunt-connected between one and other output terminals of the four-terminal R-∞ type low-pass filter is divided into two, and a total capacitance value thereof is selected equal to a capacitance value of the shunt-connected capacitor element,
wherein the LC parallel tuning circuit has a tuning capacitor element constituted of a first variable capacitance type capacitor element,
wherein the small-capacitance type coupling capacitor element is constituted of a second variable capacitance type capacitor element, and
wherein when a tuning frequency of the LC parallel tuning circuit is changed by adjusting the capacitance of the first variable capacitance type capacitor element, a capacitance value of the second variable capacitance type capacitor element is changed in conjunction with the adjustment to the capacitance thereof.