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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2002
Kenneth V. Buer, Mesa, AZ (US);
Richard S. Torkington, Mesa, AZ (US);
Edwin Jack Stanfield, Queen Creek, AZ (US);
Kenneth V. Buer, Mesa, AZ (US);
Richard S. Torkington, Mesa, AZ (US);
Edwin Jack Stanfield, Queen Creek, AZ (US);
U.S. Monolithics, L.L.C., Chandler, AZ (US);
Abstract
A system and method for high power block upconversion having a stand-alone and surface-mountable component is provided. The HP-BUC system of the invention provides a 'drop-in' component capable of mixing a local oscillator signal with an IF signal to produce an RF signal in the millimeter-wave and higher bands. In addition, the HP-BUC provides filtering of unwanted spurious signals and requires no further signal amplification prior to transmission, for example in a satellite communications system.