Granted Patent B2

US 7,339,445 · App. 11/246,996 · Granted Mar 4, 2008

Abstract

Claims (26)

1. A duplexer for connection with an antenna comprising:

an antenna port;

a transmitting filter comprising bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators having a first antenna side impedance coupled with said antenna port;

a receiving filter comprising BAW resonators having a second antenna side impedance coupled with said antenna port; and

a shunt inductance coupled between said antenna port and ground, wherein the shunt inductance and the first and second antenna side impedances of said transmitting filter and said receiving filter are selected in such a way that the shunt inductance turns the first and second antenna side impedances in a negative direction in a Smith diagram.

2. A duplexer according to claim 1 , wherein a rotation of the first and second antenna side impedances is established by approximately −90°

3. The duplexer according to claim 1 , wherein the transmitting filter comprises a plurality of series connected BAW resonators and a plurality of shunt BAW resonators.

4. The duplexer according to claim 3 , the transmitting filter comprising a series of four BAW resonators and three shunt BAW resonators wherein each shunt BAW resonators is coupled between a node between two series BAW resonators and ground.

5. The duplexer according to claim 4 , the transmitting filter further comprising bond wire inductances for signal coupling of the series circuit of BAW resonators and for coupling the shunt BAW resonators with ground.

6. The duplexer according to claim 1 , wherein the transmitting filter and the receiving filter are coupled with the antenna port through bond wire inductances.

7. The duplexer according to claim 1 , wherein the receiving filter comprises a plurality of series connected BAW resonators and a plurality of shunt BAW resonators.

8. The duplexer according to claim 7 , the receiving filter comprising a series of four BAW resonators and four shunt BAW resonators wherein each shunt BAW resonators is coupled with a terminal of one series BAW resonators and ground.

9. The duplexer according to claim 8 , the receiving filter further comprising bond wire inductances for signal coupling of the series circuit of BAW resonators and for coupling the shunt BAW resonators with ground.

10. The duplexer according to claim 1 , wherein the transmitting filter and the receiving filter each are implemented on a chip.

11. The duplexer according to claim 10 , wherein the transmitting filter chip and the receiving filter chip are arranged on a substrate.

12. The duplexer according to claim 11 , wherein the transmitting filter chip is mounted on the substrate by flip-chip technology.

13. A duplexer for connection with an antenna comprising:

means for filtering a transmission signal by bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators wherein said means comprise a first antenna side impedance;

means for filtering a receiving signal by bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators wherein said means comprise a second antenna side impedance;

means for coupling said means for filtering the transmission signal and for filtering the receiving signal with an antenna; and

a shunt inductance means coupled between said antenna port and ground for shifting said first and second antenna side impedance in a negative direction in a Smith diagram.

14. A method for processing signals through a duplexer for an antenna comprising the steps of:

filtering a transmission signal by means of bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators wherein said means comprise a first antenna side impedance;

filtering a receiving signal by means of bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators wherein said means comprise a second antenna side impedance;

coupling said means for filtering the transmission signal and for filtering the receiving signal with an antenna; and

shifting said first and second antenna side impedance in a negative direction in a Smith diagram by means of a shunt inductance coupled between said antenna port and ground.

Assignments (10)