Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Telecommunications device comprising an EBD circuit, a tunable impedance network and a method for tuning a tunable impedance network
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Application No.: US15217927Application Date: 2016-07-22
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Publication No.: US10230347B2Publication Date: 2019-03-12
- Inventor: Benjamin Hershberg , Barend Wilhelmus Marinus Van Liempd , Jan Craninckx
- Applicant: IMEC VZW , VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL
- Applicant Address: BE Leuven BE Brussel
- Assignee: IMEC vzw,Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Current Assignee: IMEC vzw,Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Current Assignee Address: BE Leuven BE Brussel
- Agency: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear, LLP
- Priority: EP15178340 20150724
- Main IPC: H03H7/38
- IPC: H03H7/38 ; H03H7/46 ; H04B1/18 ; H04B1/52

Abstract:
A system having a tunable impedance network and a method of tuning a tunable impedance network are disclosed. In one aspect, a telecommunications device comprises an electrical-balance duplexer (EBD) circuit coupled to at least one output node of a transmit path (TXin), an antenna, and at least one input node of a receive path (RXout), wherein the EBD circuit is configured to isolate the transmit path from the receive path by signal cancellation, and a balancing network (Zbal) as part of the EBD circuit. In one embodiment, the balancing network is an integrated tunable impedance network configured to provide an impedance that matches a target impedance (Zant) associated with the antenna at a first frequency and simultaneously at a second, different frequency. The network comprises a first portion and a second portion, the first portion reducing the influence of the tuning of the second portion at the first frequency. In some embodiments, the network preferably comprises no explicit resistors.
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