Patent ID: 8289028
Filing Date: 2012-10-16
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. A wireless communication device performing wireless communication by switching between transmission timing and reception timing in time division, comprising: an amplifier that amplifies a transmission signal in a transmission timing period; a temperature detector that detects temperature of the amplifier; at least one of a heater that heats the amplifier and a fan that cools the amplifier; a power supply unit that supplies the amplifier with power; a switch that switches ON/OFF of the power supply to the heater of the fan; and a timing controller that obtains the temperature detected by the temperature detector, that determine whether the detected temperature is outside a specified temperature range while a time-division switchover between the transmission timing and the reception timing is performed, incase that the detected temperature is outside of the specified range, that outputs a control signal to the switch for supplying the heater or the fan with power supplied from the power supply unit in the reception timing period, and that outputs a control signal to the switch for suspending supplying the heater or the fan with the power supplied from the power supply unit in the transmission timing period.