US4580105A
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Automatic reduction of intermodulation products in high power linear amplifiers
Assignee: Nokia Bell Labs
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Filing: 1985-01-25
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Granted: 1986-04-01
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Expires: 2005-01-25
Abstract
Abstract A distortion simulating pilot is injected at the input of an amplifier which uses feed forward distortion correction. The magnitude of the pilot signal in the amplifier output is used to control a decreasing step size circuit algorithm for adjusting the gain and phase of the feed forward distortion signal to eliminate substantially the pilot signal and the distortion introduced by the amplifier.
Inventors
- 👤 Robert E. Myer
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-27 06:24
CPC Classifications
H; H03; H03F; H03F1/00; H03F1/32; H03F1/3223; H03F1/3229; H03F1/3235; H03F2201/00; H03F2201/32; H03F2201/3212
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 10
Claim 1
Independent Claim
134 words
An automatic control system for reducing the distortion produced by a power amplifier said control system comprising means for inserting a pilot signal into the path of an input signal before delivery to said power amplifier, means for extracting a sample of the output signal from said power amplifier, means for delivering a signal representing the amplitude of said pilot signal present in said output signal from said extracted sample, and means responsive to said signal representing the amplitude of said pilot signal present in said output signal for automatically controlling the attenuation and phase of a distortion component which is derived from said output signal so that when said controlled distortion component is coupled with said output signal, substantially all distortion, including said pilot signal, is canceled leaving a substantially pure amplified signal.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
134 words
An automatic control system for reducing the distortion produced by a power amplifier said control system comprising means for inserting a pilot signal into the path of an input signal before delivery to said power amplifier, means for extracting a sample of the output signal from said power amplifier, means for delivering a signal representing the amplitude of said pilot signal present in said output signal from said extracted sample, and means responsive to said signal representing the amplitude of said pilot signal present in said output signal for automatically controlling the attenuation and phase of a distortion component which is derived from said output signal so that when said controlled distortion component is coupled with said output signal, substantially all distortion, including said pilot signal, is canceled leaving a substantially pure amplified signal.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
89 words
The automatic control system of claim 1 wherein said means responsive to said signal representing the amplitude of said pilot signal present in said output signal for automatically controlling the attenuation and phase of the distortion component comprises means for comparing said amplitude of said pilot signal in two successive time intervals to determine whether said amplitude has changed and for producing a signal representative of said change, and means responsive to said signal representative of said change for adjusting said attenuation and said phase of said distortion component.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
23 words
The automatic control system of claim 2 further comprising means for preventing said system from malfunctioning when said pilot signal is lost temporarily.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
61 words
The automatic control system of claim 2 wherein said means responsive to said signal representing the amplitude of said pilot signal present in said output signal further for automatically controlling the attenuation and phase of the distortion component comprises means for controlling the step size of said signal representative of said change when said automatic control system is first turned on.
Claim 6
Independent Claim
122 words
A method for automatically controlling the distortion produced by a power amplifier comprising the steps of inserting a pilot signal into the input signal before delivery to said power amplifier, extracting a sample of the output signal from said power amplifier, delivering a signal representing the amplitude of said pilot signal present in said output signal from said extracted sample, and in response to said signal representing the amplitude said pilot signal present in said output signal automatically controlling the attenuation and phase of the distortion component which is derived from said output signal so that when said controlled distortion component is coupled with said output signal, substantially all distortion, including said pilot signal, is canceled leaving a substantially pure amplified signal.
Claim 7
Independent Claim
122 words
A method for automatically controlling the distortion produced by a power amplifier comprising the steps of inserting a pilot signal into the input signal before delivery to said power amplifier, extracting a sample of the output signal from said power amplifier, delivering a signal representing the amplitude of said pilot signal present in said output signal from said extracted sample, and in response to said signal representing the amplitude said pilot signal present in said output signal automatically controlling the attenuation and phase of the distortion component which is derived from said output signal so that when said controlled distortion component is coupled with said output signal, substantially all distortion, including said pilot signal, is canceled leaving a substantially pure amplified signal.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
82 words
The method of claim 5 wherein step for automatically controlling the attenuation and phase of the distortion component in response to said signal representing the amplitude of said pilot signal comprises the steps of comparing said amplitude of said pilot signal in two successive time intervals to determine whether said amplitude has changed and for producing a signal representative of said change, and adjusting said attenuation and said phase of said distortion component in response to said signal representative of said change.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
23 words
The method of claim 6 further comprising the step of preventing the amplifier system from malfunctioning when said pilot signal is lost temporarily.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
44 words
The method of claim 6 wherein said step of automatically controlling the attenuation and phase of the distortion component further comprises the step of controlling the step size of said signal representative of said change when said automatic control system is first turned on.
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| 7.5 Years (Year 8) | 1993-03-31 | 1993-09-30 | 1994-04-01 | $3760.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |
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