Broadband mixer circuit and method

J Staudinger, WB Beckwith, WL Seely - US Patent 5,339,462, 1994 - Google Patents
A signal mixing apparatus comprising first and second four port signal splitting/combining
networks having no relative phase shift between three ports and 180 of phase shift between …

Low-noise lossless feedback double-balanced active mixers

C Trask - US Patent 6,400,936, 2002 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A low-noise, linearized double-balanced active mixer circuit is described,
including a first input for a local oscillator (LO), a second input for an intermediate frequency …

Broad-band passive ring mixer

A Boubouleix - US Patent 4,317,230, 1982 - Google Patents
Mixer which has, in place of four conventional diodes, the collector-emitter spaces of
transistors polarized to earth and supplied at their bases by the local oscillating signal …

Receiver circuit arrangement

JJZ Zelst, CJ Meyer - US Patent 2,622,191, 1952 - Google Patents
The present invention relates to a receiver cir cuit arrangement and more particularly to a re
ceiver circuit arrangement comprising at least two mixing stages, to both of which the input …

Integrated circuit balanced mixer apparatus

D Wollesen - US Patent 3,727,078, 1973 - Google Patents
Balanced mixer circuit apparatus using two matched integrated circuit field effect transistors
as active elements wherein one input signal is applied to the gates of the transistors in …

Mixer carrier null adjustment

BR Hallford, CH Wright - US Patent 3,870,960, 1975 - Google Patents
A technique of minimizing local oscillator signals external to a mixer circuit through the
reflecting of the local oscillator frequency signals in a balanced rat-race hybrid mixer circuit …

Mixing apparatus

W Kluge, H Kaluzni, D Eggert - US Patent 6,937,849, 2005 - Google Patents
A mixer circuit is provided for receiving first and second input signals to be mixed and for
producing a mixed output signal. The mixer circuit comprises a pair of switching transistors …

Balanced Series Mixer for High-Frequency Signals

D Steinbuch - US Patent App. 12/226,175, 2009 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A balanced series mixer including a balun transformer (10) having a HF-
source port and an antenna port on one side and two diode ports on the other side, two …

Mixer with rat race circuit

K Misaizu, M Makimoto, H Endo - US Patent 4,876,744, 1989 - Google Patents
57 ABSTRACT A mixer for outputting an intermediate frequency signal as the result of
mixing of a radio frequency signal and a local oscillator signal which are inputted into the …

Multi-function passive frequency mixer

R Väisänen - US Patent 7,630,700, 2009 - Google Patents
A frequency-mixing device performing voltage multiplying and low-pass filtering operations
in addition to frequency mixing is provided. The three operations may be carried out with the …