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Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2011

Filed:

Aug. 11, 2005
Applicants:

David C. Steed, Jr., American Fork, UT (US);

Martin R. Johnson, Draper, UT (US);

Inventors:

David C. Steed, Jr., American Fork, UT (US);

Martin R. Johnson, Draper, UT (US);

Assignee:

Digi International Inc., Minnetonka, MN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A multi-channel superheterodyne receiver employs a low intermediate frequency (IF) and both high-side injection and low-side injection of a selected local oscillator (LO) signal into the mixer in order to position image frequencies outside the passband of a single image reject filter. Any channel that falls within a used portion of the image reject filter passband can be downconverted with image rejection if the utilized bandwidth portion is no greater than about 4 times the IF minus the bandwidth of a channel in the filter passband. Low side injection is used for channels falling within the lower half of the passband of the image reject filter, while high-side injection is used for channels falling within the upper half thereof. The image always remains outside the passband and the receiver can accommodate a greatly increased number of channels.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Steed, Jr., David. (2011). Superheterodyne receiver having at least one downconversion stage empolying a single image reject filter stage and both low-side injection and high-side injection of a local oscillator signal (U.S. Patent No. 7877073). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/7877073

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