Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for automatic impedance matching and corresponding transmission channel
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Application No.: US14915079Application Date: 2014-08-27
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Publication No.: US09729111B2Publication Date: 2017-08-08
- Inventor: José Luis Gonzalez Jimenez
- Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
- Applicant Address: FR Paris
- Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
- Current Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
- Current Assignee Address: FR Paris
- Agency: Baker & Hostetler LLP
- Priority: FR1358471 20130904
- International Application: PCT/EP2014/068159 WO 20140827
- International Announcement: WO2015/032669 WO 20150312
- Main IPC: H03F1/56
- IPC: H03F1/56 ; H03H7/40 ; H04B1/04 ; H04B1/18 ; H03F1/30 ; H03F3/21

Abstract:
A method for facilitating the impedance matching of radiofrequency circuits, notably transmission circuits using a power amplifier connected to a load which may include an antenna. A signal is produced for measuring the temperature resulting from the operation of the output amplifier stage, by a temperature sensor positioned in the immediate vicinity of this stage, the measuring signal is used to control a circuit for controlling the variable impedances of a matching network positioned between the amplifier and the load, and values which seek to minimize the sensed temperature are applied to these variable impedances values. An abnormal heating of the amplifier is an indication of an impedance mismatch that must be corrected to restore a minimum temperature.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160211813A1 METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC IMPEDANCE MATCHING AND CORRESPONDING TRANSMISSION CHANNEL Public/Granted day:2016-07-21
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