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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1999

Filed:

Aug. 21, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Guenther Herbster, Munich, DE;

Friedrich Schumacher, Munich, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F / ; H03G / ; H01Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
330149 ; 330136 ; 455126 ;
Abstract

A control system for the linearization of an amplifier circuit having a power amplifier operating in the non-linear region for the amplification of an RF input signal. In a modulator a local oscillator is derived from a coupled-out input measurement signal. In a mixer, the local oscillator signal is mixed with the input and output measurement signal to form a respective intermediate-frequency signal. In a detector, level signals are derived from the intermediate-frequency signal and are compared in an amplitude controller. A derived amplitude control signal controls an amplitude controlling element for the linearization of the amplification of the input signal.


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