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Radio receiver

Assignee: Pioneer Corp
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Filing: 1996-05-03
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Granted: 1998-02-24
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Expires: 2016-05-03
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Abstract

Abstract A radio receiver has an antenna circuit, a high-frequency amplifier, a tuned circuit, a mixer for generating a first intermediate frequency signal, and an AGC circuit applied with an output signal of the radio receiver for controlling a gain of the receiver. An intermodulation predicting circuit is provided. The intermodulation predicting circuit has a high-frequency amplifier applied with an output of the radio receiver, and a mixer for generating a second intermediate frequency signal. The intermodulation predicting circuit has a dynamic range smaller than that of the radio receiver. Therefore an intermodulation prediction signal based on a received broadcasting signal is produced earlier than a response to the received broadcasting signal at the radio receiver.

Inventors

  • 👤 Fumihiko Horigome

Bibliographic Details

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CPC Classifications
H; H03; H03G; H03G3/00; H03G3/20; H03G3/30; H03G3/3052; H04; H04B; H04B1/00; H04B1/06; H04B1/10; H04B1/109

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 6
Claim 1
Independent Claim 110 words
A radio receiver having an antenna circuit, a first high-frequency amplifier, a tuned circuit, a mixer for generating a first intermediate frequency signal, and an AGC circuit applied with an output signal of the radio receiver for controlling a gain of the receiver, comprising: an intermodulation predicting circuit having a second high-frequency amplifier applied with an output of the radio receiver, and a mixer for generating a second intermediate frequency signal, and having a dynamic range smaller than that of the radio receiver, so that an intermodulation prediction signal based on a received broadcasting signal is produced earlier than a response to the received broadcasting signal at the radio receiver.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 110 words
A radio receiver having an antenna circuit, a first high-frequency amplifier, a tuned circuit, a mixer for generating a first intermediate frequency signal, and an AGC circuit applied with an output signal of the radio receiver for controlling a gain of the receiver, comprising: an intermodulation predicting circuit having a second high-frequency amplifier applied with an output of the radio receiver, and a mixer for generating a second intermediate frequency signal, and having a dynamic range smaller than that of the radio receiver, so that an intermodulation prediction signal based on a received broadcasting signal is produced earlier than a response to the received broadcasting signal at the radio receiver.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 36 words
The radio receiver according to claim 1 wherein the intermodulation predicting circuit has a comparator to produce the intermodulation predicting signal when an output signal of the second high-frequency amplifier is higher than a reference value.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 29 words
The radio receiver according to claim 2 wherein the AGC circuit is arranged to be operated by the intermodulation predicting signal for reducing the gain of the radio receiver.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 28 words
The radio receiver according to claim 3 wherein the AGC circuit is arranged such that a gain of the AGC circuit is changed by the intermodulation predicting signal.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 21 words
The radio receiver according to claim 3 wherein the gain of the radio receiver is a gain of the antenna circuit.

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