Reducing interference from oscillators in electronic equipment

Telecommunications – Transmitter – Having harmonic radiation suppression

Patent

Rate now

  [ 0.00 ] – not rated yet Voters 0   Comments 0

Details

455 63, 455317, 375346, H04B 110

Patent

active

058129405

ABSTRACT:
In an electronic apparatus including a reference oscillator and an interfering part that generates an interference signal having a spectral component within a receiver bandwidth, the reference oscillator supplying a reference oscillating signal to the interfering part from which reference oscillating signal the interference signal is derived, amplitude of the interference signal within the receiver bandwidth is reduced by angle modulating the reference oscillating signal with a sinusoidal signal to generate an angle modulated interference signal having a reduced carrier amplitude and modulation sidebands that are outside of the receiver bandwidth. The angle modulated interference signal preferably has a modulation index, .beta., that is close to a solution of the equation J.sub.0 (.beta.)=0, where J.sub.0 is a Bessel function of the first kind. Angle modulation may alternatively be accomplished by applying direct frequency modulation to the reference oscillator with the sinusoidal signal to generate a modulated reference signal and then applying the modulated reference signal to the interfering part, or by phase modulating the reference oscillating signal with the sinusoidal signal prior to supplying it to the interfering part. Where the interference signal has an interfering spectral component within a measurement bandwidth, the amplitude of the interfering spectral component is reduced by using a deterministic, non-noise modulating signal, such as a sawtooth waveform modulating signal, to angle modulate a clock signal from which the interference signal is derived.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3354410 (1967-11-01), Beuscher
patent: 3496470 (1970-02-01), Richardson
patent: 3617892 (1971-11-01), Hawley
patent: 4035727 (1977-07-01), Ishii
patent: 4247939 (1981-01-01), Stromswold et al.
patent: 4425661 (1984-01-01), Moses et al.
patent: 4466107 (1984-08-01), Stoner
patent: 4507796 (1985-03-01), Stumfall
patent: 4545072 (1985-10-01), Skutta et al.
patent: 4745566 (1988-05-01), Ciardi
patent: 4811425 (1989-03-01), Feerst
patent: 4870699 (1989-09-01), Garner et al.
patent: 4888788 (1989-12-01), Teranishi et al.
patent: 4977607 (1990-12-01), Maucksch et al.
patent: 5128957 (1992-07-01), Nakagawa
patent: 5148447 (1992-09-01), Ito
patent: 5179728 (1993-01-01), Sowadski
patent: 5225792 (1993-07-01), Prakash
patent: 5239686 (1993-08-01), Downey
patent: 5263055 (1993-11-01), Cahill
patent: 5281930 (1994-01-01), Taromaru et al.
Patent Abstracts of Japan, vol. 014 No. 558 (P-1141), published on Dec. 12, 1990, corresponding to Japanese Patent Document No. JP-2239309, published on Sep. 21, 1990.
T. Mor and M. Reznik, "Frequency Modulator of Reference Oscillator", Motorola Technical Developments, vol. 12, pp. 24-25, Apr. 1991.
Japanese Pub. No. 61-95651 (A), to Yoshifumi Tateda on May 5, 1986.
Japanese Pub. No. 60-229544, to Ichiro Kubota et al. on Nov. 14, 1985.
RF Design, Apr. 1991, "Designing a Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Secure Communication System", p. 31.
Hewlett Packard Journal, Sep. 1980, "Automatic Measurements with High Performance Universal Counter", pp. 21-31.

LandOfFree

Say what you really think

Search LandOfFree.com for the USA inventors and patents. Rate them and share your experience with other people.

Rating

Reducing interference from oscillators in electronic equipment does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Reducing interference from oscillators in electronic equipment, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Reducing interference from oscillators in electronic equipment will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

     

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-1634764

  Search
All data on this website is collected from public sources. Our data reflects the most accurate information available at the time of publication.