Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Beamformer integrated circuits with multiple-stage hybrid splitter/combiner circuits
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Application No.: US17457472Application Date: 2021-12-15
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Publication No.: US12119533B2Publication Date: 2024-10-15
- Inventor: Jasper Pijl , Mark Pieter van der Heijden
- Applicant: NXP B.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: NPX B.V.
- Current Assignee: NPX B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- Agent Sherry W Gourlay
- Main IPC: H01P5/16
- IPC: H01P5/16 ; H01Q3/38 ; H04B1/40

Abstract:
A multiple-stage splitter/combiner circuit includes first and second splitter/combiner circuits coupled together. The first splitter/combiner circuit has first, second, and third input/output (I/O) ports, a first quarter wave line with a first end coupled to the first I/O port and a second end coupled to the second I/O port, a second quarter wave line with a first end coupled to the first I/O port and a second end coupled to the third I/O port, and a first resistor with first and second terminals coupled to the second and third I/O ports, respectively. The second splitter/combiner circuit has fourth, fifth, and sixth I/O ports, and a ring of multiple quarter wave lines, which includes third and fourth quarter wave lines. The third and fourth quarter wave lines each extend from the fourth I/O port in different directions from each other to the fifth and sixth I/O ports, respectively.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230187805A1 BEAMFORMER INTEGRATED CIRCUITS WITH MULTIPLE-STAGE HYBRID SPLITTER/COMBINER CIRCUITS Public/Granted day:2023-06-15
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