Patent ID: 8183957

Claim:
A radio communication apparatus, comprising: a radio circuit including a first terminal to transmit or receive a signal having a frequency belonging to a first frequency band and a second terminal to receive a signal having a frequency belonging to a second frequency band different from the first frequency band, to perform given processing on a signal input through the first terminal or the second terminal; a first branching circuit configured to output an input signal to either one of the first terminal and the second terminal according to a frequency band to which a frequency of the input signal belongs; a first antenna and a second antenna mounted separately and capable of receiving signals having frequencies belonging to the first frequency band and the second frequency band; and a second branching circuit configured to combine a signal, as a combined signal, received by the first antenna and a signal received by the second antenna and supplies the combined signal to the first branching circuit, wherein the radio circuit outputs the signal having the frequency belonging to the first frequency band from the first terminal and outputs the signal having the frequency belonging to the second frequency band from the second terminal, wherein the first branching circuit outputs the signal output from the first terminal or the signal output from the second terminal, wherein the second branching circuit divides the signal output from the first branching circuit between the first antenna and the second antenna, wherein each of the first antenna and the second antenna sends the signal divided by the second branching circuit, and wherein the radio circuit comprises: a first transmitting/receiving circuit configured to output the signal having the frequency belonging to the first frequency band to the first terminal and receive the signal having the frequency belonging to the first frequency band from the first terminal; and a second transmitting/receiving circuit configured to output the signal having the frequency belonging to the second frequency band to the second terminal and receive the signal having the frequency belonging to the second frequency band from the second terminal.