Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Passive fourier transform circuits and butler matrices
- Patent Title (中): 被动傅立叶变换电路和管家矩阵
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Application No.: US11963884Application Date: 2007-12-24
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Publication No.: US08497743B2Publication Date: 2013-07-30
- Inventor: Paul Wilkinson Dent
- Applicant: Paul Wilkinson Dent
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
- Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Coats & Bennett, P.L.L.C.
- Main IPC: H03H7/00
- IPC: H03H7/00 ; H01P1/00

Abstract:
The coupling circuit described herein comprises passive analog components for coupling a transceiver to an antenna, such as an antenna array. The coupling circuit transforms an input signal into an appropriate format for each element of the antenna array. The coupling circuit comprises a coupling network having a plurality of inputs and a plurality of outputs. The inputs provide quadriphase versions of at least one input signal. In one embodiment, the coupling circuit performs a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) on the input signal. In another embodiment, the coupling circuit performs a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) on the input signal. In still another embodiment, the FFT performed by the coupling circuit implements a Butler matrix.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090160576A1 Passive Fourier Transform Circuits and Butler Matrices Public/Granted day:2009-06-25
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