To provide a transmitter wherein even in a case of sharing a detector circuit between or among a plurality of transmitting circuits, a high degree of detection accuracy can be achieved without increasing the signal power supplied to the detector circuit. In a transmitter including a detector circuit 14 shared by transmitting circuits 1 and 2 that deal with signals of different frequency bands, a capacitor C 1 , which constitutes an RF coupler disposed on an output signal line of the transmitting circuit 1 , is directly connected to the input terminal of the detector circuit 14 , while series coils L 1 and L 2 are inserted between a capacitor C 2 , which makes up an RF coupler disposed on an output signal line of the transmitting circuit 2 which deals with signals of a lower frequency band than the transmitting circuit 1 , and the input terminal of the detector circuit 14.
1. A transmitter comprising:
a first transmitting circuit which corresponds to a signal of a first frequency band;
a second transmitting circuit which corresponds to a signal of a second frequency band having a lower frequency band than the first frequency band;
a first coupler which, disposed on an output signal line of the first transmitting circuit, branches and outputs part of an output signal from the first transmitting circuit;
a second coupler which, disposed on an output line of the second transmitting circuit, branches and outputs part of an output signal from the second transmitting circuit; and
a detector circuit detecting an input signal whose input terminal is coupled to a branched output terminal of the first coupler and a branched output terminal of the second coupler,
wherein said input terminal is directly connected to the branched output terminal of the first coupler; and
a filter circuit which, arranged between the input terminal and the branched output terminal of the second coupler, selectively passes a signal of the second frequency band.
2. The transmitter of claim 1 , wherein said filter circuit is comprises a series of coils arranged between said input terminal and said branched output terminal of the second coupler.
3. The transmitter of claim 2 , wherein the first coupler is comprises a first capacitor whose first terminal is coupled to an output signal line of the first transmitting circuit and second terminal is coupled to the input terminal;
the second coupler is a second capacitor whose first terminal is connected to an output signal line of the second transmitting circuit;
a first coil of the coils, whose first terminal is connected to said input terminal, is disposed near the first capacitor; and
a second coil of the coils, whose first terminal is connected to a second terminal of the first coil and second terminal is connected to a second terminal of the second capacitor, is disposed near the second capacitor.
4. The transmitter of claim 2 , wherein the coil is substituted by a capacitor.
5. The transmitter of claim 1 , further comprising:
a third transmitting circuit which corresponds to signals of a third frequency band having a lower frequency band than the second frequency band; and
a third coupler which, disposed on an output signal line of the third transmitting circuit, branches and outputs part of an output signal from the third transmitting circuit,
wherein a filter circuit which, arranged between the input terminal and a branched output terminal of the third coupler, selectively passes a signal of the third frequency band.
6. A transmitter comprising:
a first transmitting circuit which corresponds to a signal of a first frequency band;
a second transmitting circuit which corresponds to a signal of a second frequency band having a lower frequency band than the first frequency band;
a first coupler which, disposed on an output signal line of the first transmitting circuit, branches and outputs part of an output signal from the first transmitting circuit;
a second coupler which, disposed on an output line of the second transmitting circuit, branches and outputs part of an output signal from the second transmitting circuit; and
a detector circuit detecting an input signal whose input terminal is coupled to a branched output terminal of the first coupler and a branched output terminal of the second coupler,
wherein said input terminal is directly connected to the branched output terminal of the first coupler; and
a phase shifter, providing a signal of the first frequency band with a larger phase shift than that for a signal of the second frequency band, is arranged between said input terminal and said branched output terminal of the second coupler.
7. The transmitter of claim 1 , further comprising a controller which variably controls a gain of a variable gain amplifier in the first transmitting circuit based on a detection output of the detector circuit while the first transmitting circuit operates and variably controls a gain of a variable gain amplifier in the second transmitting circuit based on a detection output of the detector circuit while the second transmitting circuit operates.
8. A transmitter comprising:
a first transmitting circuit which corresponds to a signal of a first frequency band;
a second transmitting circuit which corresponds to a signal of a second frequency band having a lower frequency band than the first frequency band; a detector circuit which detects an input signal;
a first coupler which, disposed on an output signal line of the first transmitting circuit, branches and outputs part of an output signal from the first transmitting circuit to the detector circuit; and
a second coupler which, disposed on an output line of the second transmitting circuit, branches and outputs part of an output signal from the second transmitting circuit to the detector circuit; and
the transmitter further comprising, between the second coupler and the detector circuit, one of a filter circuit which selectively passes a signal of the second frequency band and a phase shifter which provides a signal of the first frequency band with a larger phase shift than that for a signal of the second frequency band.
9. The transmitter of claim 8 , further comprising:
a third transmitting circuit which corresponds to signals of a third frequency band having a lower frequency band than the second frequency band; and
a third coupler which branches part of an output signal of the third transmitting circuit in an output signal line of the third transmitting circuit and outputs the part to the detector circuit, and
a second filter circuit which, arranged between the second coupler and the detector circuit, selectively passes a signal of the third frequency band.
10. The transmitter of claim 8 , wherein both of the filter circuits comprise a coil or a series of coils.
11. The transmitter of claim 8 , wherein both of the filter circuits comprise a capacitor.
12. The transmitter of claim 8 , wherein both of the first coupler and the second coupler are a capacitor.
13. The transmitter of claim 8 , further comprising a controller which variably controls a gain of a variable amplifier in the first transmitting circuit based on a detection output of the detector circuit while the first transmitting circuit operates and variably controls a gain of a variable gain amplifier in the second transmitting circuit based on a detection output of the detector circuit while the second transmitting circuit operates.