KR20130014978A - Tuner module - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A tuner module is provided to produce a tuner module by receiving an integrated PCB(Printed Circuit Board) and by standardizing a pin map applied to a tuner. CONSTITUTION: Various tuners(210~240) include a plurality of pins. One of the tuners is mounted on a main circuit board. One tuner is fixed at supporting stands(111~114,121,122,131,132,141,142) of the main circuit board. Pin holes of the main circuit board are combined with the pins. One or more areas(110~140) of the circuit board include the supporting stands and the pin holes for selectively receiving the tuners.

Description

Tuner Modules {TUNER MODULE}

The present invention relates to a tuner module used in the input unit of the wireless receiving device.

Tuner is used in the input part of a radio receiver, and refers to a device that tunes to a frequency of a fixed radio wave or an electric signal and selects and extracts only the radio wave.

In general, a tuner module includes the tuner, and converts a high frequency signal input from the outside into a baseband signal from a set top box, a television, or the like, and the main printed circuit board as a set main board to which the tuner and the tuner are fixedly coupled. It includes.

Recently, a complex wireless terminal in which various functions are added in addition to a television function for receiving airwaves through an antenna has been developed, and a tuner module capable of receiving two or more high frequency signals is also developed. These tuners are currently developing various kinds of tuners.

In the main printed circuit board for each tuner to be developed, the pin hole is positioned according to the pin map of each tuner. Therefore, each pin of each tuner is fixed to correspond to each pin hole of the main printed circuit board, and the tuner receives data and transmits power and inputs to the control unit on the main printed circuit board through the electrical connection between each pin and the pin hole. It becomes possible.

According to the development of a number of tuners, the main printed circuit board is also being developed for each tuner. However, the development of each of the main printed circuit boards corresponding to the respective tuners reduces the development efficiency, it is not a uniform standard for each product, and the design must be repeated, resulting in a poor design quality.

The present invention has been proposed to improve the above problems, and standardizes the pin map (PIN MAP) applied to various types of tuners, and integrates each tuner module even if only one main printed circuit board is applied. All to provide a main printed circuit board and a tuner module including the same can be produced.

In addition, the present invention is to provide a tuner module that can minimize the size and compactness of the main board including the main printed circuit board and to reduce the overall volume of the device to reduce the production cost.

The technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is not limited to the technical problem mentioned above, and other technical problems not mentioned above may be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description. will be.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, in the tuner module, any one of a plurality of tuners including a plurality of pins and the plurality of tuners is mounted, and the support and the plurality of pins to which the tuner is fixed are fixed. And a main circuit board having a plurality of pin holes that can be coupled correspondingly, wherein the support board and the pin holes are formed in at least one or more regions so that any one of the multiple tuners can be selectively mounted. do.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the plurality of tuners may include any one of a first tuner including one connector and using an external demodulator or a second tuner including at least two connectors and using an external demodulator. Include.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the plurality of tuners includes a third tuner including one connector and a built-in demodulator, a fourth tuner including at least two connectors and a built-in demodulator, the first tuner or the And any one of the second tuners.

The present invention standardizes the pin map (PIN MAP) applied to a plurality of tuners as described above, and the main printed circuit board that can produce all of the tuner module even if only one main printed circuit board is applied by unification and It is effective to provide a tuner module including the same.

In addition, the present invention enables the minimization and compactness of the main board size including the main printed circuit board through the optimization of the pin map (PIN MAP), and the reduction of the production cost by reducing the volume of the entire apparatus, the tuner It is effective to realize slimming and compactness of the whole module.

1 is a conceptual diagram showing a manufacturing process of a tuner module according to the type of tuner;
2 is a structural diagram of a main circuit board and a tuner module according to an embodiment of the present invention;
3 is a schematic diagram showing a pin map of the first and second tuners according to an embodiment of the present invention;
4 is a schematic diagram showing pin maps of the third and fourth tuners according to an embodiment of the present invention;
5 is a comparison diagram comparing sizes of a fourth tuner and an existing tuner according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The size and shape of the components shown in the drawings may be exaggerated for clarity and convenience of explanation and specific terms defined in consideration of the configuration and operation of the present invention may be used in accordance with the intention or custom of the user or the operator And the definitions of these terms should be based on the content of this specification.

1 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a manufacturing process of a tuner module according to the type of tuner.

The circuit board to which the tuner is coupled is provided with a plurality of pin holes so that a plurality of pins provided in the tuner can be fitted.

The plurality of pins of the tuner are positioned on the pin holes, and then pressurized so that the plurality of pins are inserted into the pin holes so that the tuner is coupled to the main circuit board. The bonded pins contain a metal component, and the pin holes can be electrically fixed to each other by soldering.

Each pin has a corresponding role, and by using a pin connected to each pin hole, the tuner can transmit and receive data or signals with a control device (CPU, etc.) on the main circuit board.

As shown in FIG. 1, in the case of the existing tuner module, different main circuit boards 11, 21, 31, and 41 are developed according to the types of the tuners 10, 20, 30, and 40. Different tuner modules incorporating tuners are commercially available.

However, such a development structure has a problem in that production efficiency is lowered because the main circuit boards need to be redesigned for each tuner.

2 is a conceptual diagram illustrating the structure of a tuner module and a main circuit board according to the present invention.

2, in the tuner module 100 according to the present invention, any one of a plurality of tuners and a plurality of tuners including a plurality of pins is mounted, and a support on which one of the tuners is fixed and the plurality of tuners is fixed. And a main circuit board having a plurality of pin holes that can be coupled correspondingly to the pins, wherein the circuit board includes the support and the pin holes in at least one region so that any one of the multiple tuners can be selectively mounted. Is formed.

The various types of tuners selectively applied to the tuner module 100 of the present invention may be classified into four types according to types.

First, the first tuner 210 includes one connector for receiving a broadcast signal, and a half tuner of a half network interface module (HALF NIM) method that uses an external demodulator because a demodulator is not built in for miniaturization. Can be.

In addition, the second tuner 220 includes two connectors for receiving a broadcast signal, has a built-in RF switch, and does not have a built-in demodulator, so that the second tuner 220 uses an external demodulator (HALF NIM). It can be a handheld tuner.

In addition, the third tuner 230 may be a tuner of a NIM (Network Interface Module) type including a connector for receiving broadcast signals and a built-in demodulator.

Finally, the fourth tuner 240 includes two connectors for receiving a broadcast signal, a built-in RF switch and a demodulator, and may be a tuner configured in a can form.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, in order to design the main circuit board 150 for common use included in the tuner module 100 of the present invention, each of the pins formed in the four types of tuners as described above is operated by the tuner. Depending on the function and location can be determined.

Therefore, the main circuit board 150 forms a respective pinhole and support for each tuner in a plurality of regions so that the main circuit board 150 can be selectively applied corresponding to each tuner. The plurality of regions may include a first region 110 corresponding to the first tuner 210, a second region 120 corresponding to the second tuner 220, and a third region corresponding to the third tuner 230 ( 130 and the fourth region 140 corresponding to the fourth tuner 240, and each region may be partially overlapped for common production of the main circuit board.

First, in the first region 110 corresponding to the first tuner 210, the first to eleventh pin holes corresponding to the pins of the first tuner 210 and the support on which the first tuner 210 is fixed ( 111, 112, 113, 114 are formed.

In addition, since the pin functions of the second tuner 220 and the first tuner 210 are the same and differ only in size, the positions of the pins of the second region 120 may also be arranged in the same manner as the first region 110. have.

In addition, since the size of the second region 120 includes the connector 1, the second tuner 220 may have one more connector. Therefore, the second region 120 may be larger than the first region 110, and the second tuner 220 may be fixed to the support. The additional supports 121 and 122 are positioned in the square of the second region 120.

Meanwhile, the third tuner 230 further includes a demodulated stream data and a pin for signal processing.

Therefore, the first and second pin holes of the first and second tuners for the common use are used in the third region 130 corresponding to the third tuner 230, and the 12th to 27th pinholes are added. To use all the remaining pin functions of the third module.

In addition, some of the supports 111 and 121 of the existing second region 120 are used in the quadrangles of the third region 130, and the supports 131 and 132 may be used to fix the third tuner 230. It is further formed to secure the third module.

Meanwhile, the fourth tuner 240 further includes a demodulated stream data and a pin for signal processing, like the third tuner 230, and additional data and power supply pins for a CAN type tuner module. It may include.

Therefore, the first to twenty-seventh pins corresponding to the third tuner 230 are used in the fourth region 140 in which the fourth tuner 240 is disposed, and the twenty-ninth to thirty-seventh pins are added. To use all the remaining pin functions of the fourth module.

In addition, the squares of the fourth region 140 may further include the supports 141 and 142 so that the fourth tuner 240 may be fixed by including some of the existing supports 11 and 121 and the fourth module 140. Allow it to be secured to this circuit board.

Through the configuration of the pin hole and the support of the main circuit board as described above, the first to fourth tuner 240 may be selectively mounted on the circuit board according to the present invention.

In addition, as an embodiment of the present invention by setting the function of the pin hole by changing the mounting position of the jumper on the main circuit board, it is possible to respond to the change in the pin function according to the selective application of the tuner.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, since the number of changed pins may be minimized as compared to the existing tuner, the number of jumpers whose position needs to be changed on the circuit board may be reduced even when using the above method.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a pin map showing pin functions of the first tuner 210 and the second tuner 220.

3, a detailed description of the first and second tuners 220 and each of the pin functions will be described.

First, the first tuner 210 is a half network interface module (HAN NIM) tuner for miniaturization, and is a tuner that uses an external demodulator without a demodulator for demodulating data. It includes, and comprises the first to eleventh pin. Accordingly, the pin holes are also provided with the first to eleventh pin holes.

Referring to FIG. 3, each pin function of the first tuner 210 may be an RF S / W CTL pin that controls switching of a received signal.

The second pin of the first tuner 210 may be a reset pin for resetting the tuner setting value.

In addition, pin 3 of the first tuner 210 may be an SCL pin to which a clock signal necessary for communicating with the CPU is input.

In addition, pin 4 of the first tuner 210 may be an SDA pin to which a command transmitted from the CPU is input.

In addition, pin 5 of the first tuner 210 is a + B1 power supply pin for supplying a first power (3.3V voltage) required for the first tuner 210, and the pin 1 of the first tuner 210. Pin 7 may be a + B2 power supply pin for supplying a second power (1.8V voltage) required for the first tuner 210.

The sixth and eighth pins of the first tuner 210 may be spare pins that are not used. In addition, pin 9 of the first tuner 210 may be an IF-AGC pin for automatic gain control of an intermediate frequency, and pins 10 and 11 are DIF (P) and DIF (N) pins for a digital interface. Can be.

Therefore, corresponding to the pin configuration and position of the first tuner 210 as described above, the first and second pin holes and wires are formed in the first region 110 in the main circuit board 150.

Meanwhile, the second tuner 220 is a half network interface module (HALF NIM) type tuner, which does not have a demodulator for demodulating data and uses an external demodulator, and includes two connectors. And first to eleventh pins.

As a result, a pin hole and a support for the second tuner 220 are formed in the second region 120. On the other hand, the second tuner 220 has the same function and position as the first tuner 210.

Accordingly, the first through eleventh pins of the second tuner 220 are disposed in the first through eleventh pin holes on the first region 110 formed for the first tuner 210 on the main circuit board 150. Similarly coupled to each other, accordingly, the second tuner 220 may be coupled to the main circuit board 150 to be fixed to the supports 111, 112, 121, 122 of the second region 120. Wiring may be formed.

4 is a pin map showing pin functions of the third tuner 230 and the fourth tuner 240, respectively.

A pin function of the third and fourth tuners 240 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 4.

First, the third tuner 230 is a full NIM (full half network interface module) type tuner that includes a connector and a self-modulating tuner. The third tuner 230 includes first to twenty seventh pins. Accordingly, the pin holes of the circuit board are also provided with pin holes Nos. 1 through 27.

Referring to FIG. 4, the respective pin functions of the third tuner 230 may be pin 1 of the third tuner 230. The pin S 1 may be an RF S / W CTL pin for controlling switching of a received signal.

The second pin of the third tuner 230 may be a reset pin for resetting the tuner setting value.

In addition, pin 3 of the third tuner 230 may be an SCL pin to which a clock signal necessary for communicating with the CPU is input.

The fourth pin of the third tuner 230 may be an SDA pin to which an instruction transmitted from the CPU is input.

In addition, pin 5 of the third tuner 230 may be a + B1 power supply pin for supplying a first power (3.3V voltage) required for the third tuner 230, and pin 7 is the third pin. It may be a + B2 power supply pin for supplying the second power (1.8V voltage) required for the tuner 230, and pin 12 is for supplying the third power (3.3V voltage) required for the third tuner 230. It may be a + B3 power supply pin, and pin 13 may be a + B4 power supply pin for supplying a fourth power (1.23V voltage) required for the third tuner 230.

The sixth pin of the third tuner 230 may be a SIF pin for voice output. In addition, pins 9 to 11 and 14 may be unused spare pins added in consideration of space between modules on a circuit board.

In addition, pin 15 of the third tuner 230 may be a GND pin for ground, pin 16 may be an error pin for error output, pin 17 may be a sync pin for synchronization, pin 18 May be a Valid pin for validity determination and Pin 19 may be a Mclk pin for operation clock input. The pins 20 to 27 may be data pins D0 to D7 for transmitting the demodulated stream data to the CPU.

Corresponding to each of the 27 pins of the third tuner 230 as described above, a pin hole on the circuit board 150 of the present invention is disposed and a wiring is formed. Here, for the common design of the circuit board 150, the positions of the first to eleventh pins among the pins of the third module may be formed to be the same as the pin positions of the first and second tuners 220.

Accordingly, in the pinhole arrangement of the third region 130 on the main circuit board 150 for the third tuner 230, the positions of the first to eleventh pinholes are also arranged on the circuit board 150. It may be formed in the same manner as the positions of the first to eleventh pin holes disposed in the region 110 and the second region 120.

The 12th and 13th pin holes are disposed on the 10th and 11th pin holes, and the 14th to 27th pins are spaced on the circuit board 150 and the fourth tuner 240 to be described later. It may be arranged in two rows on one side of the eleventh pin in consideration of the pin position.

Accordingly, each pin of the third tuner 230 is coupled to correspond to the respective pin hole of the third region 130, and the supports 111, 121, 131, and 132 positioned in the quadrangles of the third region 130. It can be fixed to the main circuit board.

Meanwhile, the fourth tuner 240 is a complex tuner including a CAN-type tuner module. The fourth tuner 240 includes two connectors, a built-in demodulator, and may include first to thirty-seventh pins. Correspondingly, the pin holes of the circuit board are also formed with the pin holes Nos. 1 to 37, and wires are formed accordingly.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the fourth tuner 240 is coupled to the fourth region 140. The fourth region 140 includes pin holes to which the fourth tuner 240 can be coupled and supports 111, 121, 141, and 142. The functions and positions of pins 1 to 27 of the fourth tuner 240 are the same as those of the third tuner 230. Therefore, the first to 27th pins of the third tuner 230 may be coupled to correspond to the first to 27th pin holes on the circuit board.

In addition, the function of each of the pins added in the fourth tuner 240 will be described.

Pins 28, 29, and 37 may be GND pins for ground, and pins 30 and 32 may be + B5 (1.23V) and + B6 (3.3V) pins for power input. And, pin 31 may be an S2 Reset pin for resetting the CAN tuner module, pin 33 may be an S2 F22 Output pin for 22k band output of the CAN tuner module, and pin 34 is transmitted to the CPU. It may be an SCL pin for clocking data, pin 35 may be an SDA pin for serial data transmission to the CPU, and pin 36 may be an LNB pin for voltage input of a low noise amplifier.

The main circuit board 150 of the present invention forms additional pin holes in the fourth region 140 according to the positions of the respective pins having the same function as described above, and supports 111, The tuner module to which the fourth tuner 240 may be fixed may be configured by forming 121, 141, and 142.

5 is a development view illustrating a comparison of a circuit board 300 on which a fourth tuner 240 according to the present invention and a conventional tuner of the same type are mounted.

As shown in FIG. 5, in the case of a circuit board 300 on which an existing tuner is mounted, the location of each pin is greatly stretched in the vertical and horizontal directions, which makes it difficult to slim.

Therefore, the circuit board of the tuner module 100 using the common circuit board of the present invention shown in FIG. 5 overlaps each pin in two rows as much as possible, and arranges the pins necessary for commonization, so that the largest fourth module The size can also be produced in a significantly smaller size in length and width than the size of the existing tuner module.

When comparing the length in Figure 5, in the same type, the main circuit board size corresponding to the existing tuner is 70mm in width, 33.9mm in length, but in the case of the common tuner (fourth tuner) according to the present invention, at least 53.6mm, Manufactured to a size of 26.8mm in height can be made lightweight and compact.

According to the configuration of the tuner module of the present invention as described above, in producing a tuner module according to each type of the first to fourth tuners (210 to 240), it is not divided into the type of tuner, the common circuit board ( By using 150), it can be seen that there is an advantage in reducing the time and cost of designing and producing each tuner.

In addition, by adjusting the type of each tuner module to the first to fourth tuners (210 to 240), and standardized in accordance with the circuit board 150 of the present invention, to produce a miniaturized tuner, the tuner module 100 and Slimming and compacting of the receiving device using the same can be realized.

While the present invention has been described in connection with certain exemplary embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, is intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

Therefore, while the above has been shown and described with respect to preferred embodiments of the present invention, the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments described above, the technical field to which the invention belongs without departing from the spirit of the invention claimed in the claims. Of course, various modifications can be made by those skilled in the art, and these modifications should not be individually understood from the technical spirit or prospect of the present invention.

100: tuner module
210: first tuner 220: second tuner
230: third tuner 240: fourth tuner
110: first region 120: second region
130: third region 140: fourth region
111-114: support

Claims (10)

In the tuner module,
A plurality of tuners including a plurality of pins; And
Any one of the plurality of tuners is mounted, a support circuit to which any one of the tuner is fixed and a plurality of pin holes that can be coupled to correspond to the plurality of pins are formed;
The circuit board is a tuner module in which the support and pin holes are formed in at least one or more areas so that any one of the plurality of tuners can be selectively mounted. The method of claim 1,
The various kinds of tuners,
A tuner module, which is either a first tuner comprising one connector and using an external demodulator or a second tuner comprising at least two connectors and using an external demodulator. The method of claim 2,
The tuner module having the same position of the pin holes formed in the first and second regions corresponding to the first and second tuners. The method of claim 2,
Pins of the first tuner and the second tuner
Received Signal Switching Control (SW CTL) Pin, Reset Value Reset Pin, Serial Clock (SCL) Pin to Send Clock Signals Required to Communicate with CPU At least one of a serial data (SDA, Serial Data) pin to which a command is input,
The circuit board is a tuner module in which the pin hole and the wiring is formed so that the role according to the pin can be performed. The method of claim 2,
Each pin function of the first tuner and the second tuner is
At least one of the power supply pin for supplying power, the Intermediate-Frequency Auto Gain Control (IF-AGC) pin for intermediate frequency automatic gain, the Digital Interface pin for digital output, and an extra unused pin Including,
The circuit board is a tuner module in which the pin hole and the wiring is formed so that the role according to the pin can be performed. The method of claim 2,
The first module is of a half network interface module (HALF NIM) type including one connector,
The second module is a HALF NIM type tuner module including two connectors. The method of claim 2,
The tuner is a third tuner including one connector and a demodulator built-in, a tuner module of any one of the fourth tuner, at least two connectors and a built-in demodulator, the first tuner or the second tuner. 8. The method of claim 7,
Pin holes corresponding to the pins of the first to fourth tuners are formed in the circuit board.
The pin hole corresponding to the fourth tuner includes a pin hole corresponding to the third tuner. 8. The method of claim 7,
The third tuner and the fourth tuner are tuner modules of the NIM (Network Interface Module) type. 8. The method of claim 7,
Pins of the third tuner may include a sound intermediate frequency (SIF) pin for outputting a voice subcarrier, a composite video blanking sync (CVBS) pin for outputting an image, an error pin for outputting an error signal, At least one of a synchronization pin for inputting and outputting a synchronization signal, and a D0 to D7 pin for transmitting stream data,
The circuit board is a tuner module in which the pin hole and the wiring is formed so that the role according to the pin can be performed.

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