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Receiver capable of quickly suppressing defective effect of multipath reflection interference
Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co Ltd
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Filing: 1990-11-13
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Granted: 1993-04-20
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Expires: 2010-11-13
Abstract
Abstract A FM receiver quickly suppressing defective effect of multipath reflection interference is disclosed. A field strength detecting circuit (8) is responsive to output signals from preceding stage amplifiers (51) in an IF amplifying circuit (5) for detecting the field strength of the received signal. In response to the field strength detecting circuit (8), a soft muting control circuit (10) is operated, whereby a muting circuit (7) gradually mutes the output signal of a detector circuit (6). Furthermore, an alternate current signal detecting circuit (12) detects the alternate current signal component included in the output signal from the field strength detecting circuit (8), whereby the occurrence of multipath reflection interference is detected. In the case of multipath reflection interference, the gain of the succeeding stage amplifier (52) in the IF amplifying circuit (5) is quickly reduced by the alternate current signal detecting circuit (12) to prevent unpleasant noise due to multipath reflection interference from being generated from the speaker.
Inventors
- 👤 Sakae Sugayama
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-02 11:28
CPC Classifications
H; H03; H03G; H03G3/00; H03G3/20; H03G3/30; H03G3/3052; H03G3/34; H03G3/344; H04; H04B; H04B1/00; H04B1/06; H04B1/10; H04B1/16
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 13
Claim 1
Independent Claim
156 words
A radio receiver comprising: means for receiving a modulated radio frequency signal, means connected to said receiving means for converting the received modulated radio frequency signal into an intermediate frequency signal, means connected to said frequency converting means for amplifying the intermediate frequency signal, means connected to said intermediate frequency signal amplifying means for producing a final signal, means responsive to the intermediate frequency signal for detecting the field strength of the received modulated radio frequency signal, first means responsive to the level of the detected field strength for reducing at a first rate the level of said final signal, means for detecting the alternate current signal component of the detected field strength for detecting multipath reflection interference occurring in the received modulated radio frequency signal, and second means responsive to the output of said interference detecting means for rapidly reducing the level of said final signal at a second rate faster than said first rate.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
156 words
A radio receiver comprising: means for receiving a modulated radio frequency signal, means connected to said receiving means for converting the received modulated radio frequency signal into an intermediate frequency signal, means connected to said frequency converting means for amplifying the intermediate frequency signal, means connected to said intermediate frequency signal amplifying means for producing a final signal, means responsive to the intermediate frequency signal for detecting the field strength of the received modulated radio frequency signal, first means responsive to the level of the detected field strength for reducing at a first rate the level of said final signal, means for detecting the alternate current signal component of the detected field strength for detecting multipath reflection interference occurring in the received modulated radio frequency signal, and second means responsive to the output of said interference detecting means for rapidly reducing the level of said final signal at a second rate faster than said first rate.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
38 words
The receiver according to claim 1, wherein said field strength detecting means comprises detection means for detecting a current component included in the output signal from said intermediate frequency amplifying means to be applied to said first means.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
70 words
The receiver according to claim 2, wherein said field strength detecting means comprises diode means for detecting the output signal of said first amplifier means of said plurality of cascaded amplifier means, said field strength detecting means further comprises adder means for adding the output signal from said diode means, and said interference detecting means detects the alternate current signal component included in the output signal from said adder means.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
49 words
The receiver according to claim 2, further comprising comparing means connected to said field strength detecting means for comparing the level of the signal component detected by said field strength detecting means and a predetermined level, wherein said second means ceases reduction operation in response to said comparing means.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
29 words
The receiver according to claim 4, wherein said alternate current signal detecting means ceases the detecting operation of the alternate current signal component in response to said comparing means.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
87 words
The receiver according to the claim 1, wherein said intermediate frequency signal amplifying means comprises a plurality of cascaded amplifier means, said field strength detecting means detects the field strength of the received modulated radio frequency signal in response to the output signal generated from a first amplifier means of said plurality of cascaded amplifier means preceding the last stage thereof, and said second means comprises means for reducing the gain of an amplifier means of said plurality of cascaded amplifier means after said first amplifier means.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
58 words
The receiver according to claim 1, wherein said first means comprises capacitor means, charging means responsive to the output signal from said field strength detecting means for charging said capacitor means, and muting circuit means responsive to the charged potential of said capacitor means for muting the level of the output signal of said intermediate frequency amplifying means.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
29 words
The receiver according to claim 7, wherein said second means comprises charge accelerating means responsive to said interference detecting means for accelerating the charge function of said charging means.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
26 words
The receiver according to claim 7 wherein said second means comprises means for reducing the level of the output signal of said intermediate frequency amplifying means.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
55 words
The receiver according to claim 1, further comprising demodulating means connected to the output of said intermediate frequency amplifying means for demodulating the output signal from said intermediate frequency amplifying means, said first level reducing means reducing the level of the output signal of said demodulating means in response to said field strength detecting means.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
26 words
The receiver according to claim 1 wherein said second means comprises means for reducing the level of the output signal of said intermediate frequency amplifying means.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
30 words
The receiver according to claim 1, further comprising means for disabling the detection of the alternate current signal component in response to a debited field strength below a predetermined level.
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