US 7,522,004 B2
High-frequency electronic switch, and burst wave generating device using the same and short range radar using the same
Sumio Saito, Atsugi (Japan)
Assigned to Anritsu Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Appl. No. 10/588,910
PCT Filed Nov. 14, 2005, PCT No. PCT/JP2005/020860
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Aug. 09, 2006,
PCT Pub. No. WO2006/051948, PCT Pub. Date May 18, 2006.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-331029 (JP), filed on Nov. 15, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2007/0139254 A1, Jun. 21, 2007
Int. Cl. H03F 3/04 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 330—310  [330/98] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A high-frequency electronic switch comprising:
a signal input terminal to which a high-frequency signal to be switched is input;
a plurality of amplifying circuits with transistors to respectively amplify the high-frequency signal to be switched sequentially, the amplifying circuits being cascade-connected in a plurality of stages to the signal input terminal;
a signal output terminal which is connected to an output section of an amplifying circuit at final stage among the plurality of amplifying circuits, and which outputs the high-frequency signal to be switched sequentially amplified;
a control terminal to which a pulse signal serving as a switching signal and having a period of a first level and a period of a second level is input; and
a supply current control circuit which makes the plurality of amplifying circuits be in an amplification-operational state by supplying operational current to each of the transistors of the plurality of amplifying circuits in a period when the pulse signal input to the control terminal is at the first level, and which makes the plurality of amplifying circuits be in a non-amplification-operational state by stopping supplying operational current to each of the transistors of the plurality of amplifying circuits in a period when the pulse signal is at the second level,
the high-frequency electronic switch which turns on/off between the signal input terminal and the signal output terminal substantially high-frequency likewise in accordance with a level of the pulse signal input to the control terminal.