Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reconfigurable electrical balance duplexer (EBD) supporting frequency division duplex (FDD) and time division duplex (TDD)
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Application No.: US16927748Application Date: 2020-07-13
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Publication No.: US11757486B2Publication Date: 2023-09-12
- Inventor: Joonhoi Hur , Rastislav Vazny , Ronald W. Dimpflmaier
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: FLETCHER YODER PC
- Main IPC: H04B1/44
- IPC: H04B1/44 ; H04B1/58 ; H04B1/04 ; H03H7/46 ; H04L5/14 ; H04B1/525

Abstract:
Systems, methods, and devices for operating in either frequency division duplexing (FDD) or time division duplexing (TDD) for wireless communications using the same electrical balance duplexer (EBD) circuitry in a transceiver device are provided. A series of switches may selectively couple components of the EBD, such as a low noise amplifier (LNA), a power amplifier (PA), and balancing impedance, to ground based on selected operation mode (e.g., FDD or TDD) while reducing insertion loss of the receiver (RX) and transmitter (TX) signals. Tuned matching network blocks for the LNA and PA may be used in addition to the series of switches to provide impedance matching for additional reduction of insertion loss.
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