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- Patent Title: Transmission module, array antenna device including transmission module, and transmission device including transmission module
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Application No.: US15525169Application Date: 2016-01-28
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Publication No.: US10044329B2Publication Date: 2018-08-07
- Inventor: Hiroyuki Nonomura
- Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Chiyoda-ku
- Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiyoda-ku
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2015-140313 20150714
- International Application: PCT/JP2016/052486 WO 20160128
- International Announcement: WO2017/010111 WO 20170119
- Main IPC: H04B1/00
- IPC: H04B1/00 ; H03F3/193 ; H03F1/02 ; H03F3/21 ; H03G3/30 ; H03F1/32 ; H03G1/00

Abstract:
A transmission module includes n oscillator modules and a phase command signal generator. Each of the oscillator modules includes a voltage controlled oscillator and an amplification circuit. The voltage controlled oscillators output transmission high-frequency signals having the same frequency and synchronized among the n oscillator modules by synchronous control based on a common reference signal. The amplification circuits each perform power amplification for the transmission high-frequency signal from a corresponding one of the voltage controlled oscillators and output the resultant signal. Phases of the transmission high-frequency signals synchronized among the n oscillator modules and output from the voltage controlled oscillators are separately controlled according to respective n phase command signals from the phase command signal generator.
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