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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2014
Applicant:
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/44 (2006.01); H04B 1/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/48 (2013.01); H04B 2001/485 (2013.01);
Abstract
A front end circuit includes a transmission signal filter for allowing a transmission signal to pass, a reception signal filter for allowing a reception signal to pass and a circulator (an antenna duplexer), and a transmission output variable circuit is connected between a transmission signal terminal of the circulator and the transmission signal filter. The transmission output variable circuit includes a first high frequency switch, a second high frequency switch, and a buffer circuit, and attenuation is switched by switching of the first high frequency switch and the second high frequency switch.