Wave transmission lines and networks inventions 01/06

20060017520 - Ferrite circulator having alignment members: A ferrite circulator having integrated alignment members and a method for aligning a ferrite element within a ferrite circulator are provided. The ferrite circulator includes a ferrite circulator housing having a body for receiving at least one ferrite element therein. The ferrite circulator housing further includes a plurality of alignment...

20060017521 - Switchable multi-transmitter combiner and method: A transmitter-combining broadcast system and method is provided that allows IBOC-compatible broadcast with simple analog-to-IBOC upgradeability with high efficiency. At full power, a standard analog signal and an IBOC-compatible digital signal are transmitted by combining the output of a wide-band transmitter containing VHF-FM analog and in-band digital signals with the...

20060017522 - Modular frequency division filter: The present invention is a modular frequency division filter having an antenna port that connects to two or three transmission paths. Each transmission path includes either a band pass filter or a duplexer to separate the received signal by frequency. Frequency phase shifters or shunt inductors may be included to...

20060017523 - Internal electrostatic transduction structures for bulk-mode micromechanical resonators: An electrostatic transducer for micromechanical resonators, in which the electrode gaps are filled with a dielectric material having a much higher permittivity than air. This internal electrostatic transducer has several advantages over both air-gap electrostatic and piezoelectric transduction; including lower motional impedance, compatibility with advanced scaled CMOS device technology, and...

20060017524 - Surface acoustic wave element: A surface acoustic wave element includes a pair of interdigital transducers arranged in parallel with a propagation direction of a surface acoustic wave; a reflector prepared at both sides of the interdigital transducers; and a coupling portion, which mutually couples one end of a plurality of electrode fingers constituting one...

20060017525 - Switched filterbank and method of making the same: An integrated switched filterbank and method of forming an integrated switched filterbank is disclosed. One embodiment includes a switched filterbank that includes an active subassembly, a plurality of active devices mounted to the active subassembly, and a stripline filter subassembly stacked below the active subassembly. The stripline filter subassembly includes...

20060017526 - Balanced gyrator and devices including the balanced gyrator: A balanced gyrator comprises interconnected pairs of single-ended inverting class AB transconductors (TC1 to TC4) fabricated from MOSFETs together with common mode feedback circuits (26) connected between balanced inputs (18, 19) and outputs (22, 23). Peaking of the frequency response resulting from distortion due to the creation of a high...

20060017527 - Resonator: Inside a multilayer dielectric substrate (1), there are a spiral-shaped first slot (4) set in a part of a first ground conductor layer (2) and a spiral-shaped second slot (5) in a part of a second ground conductor layer (3) put on the front surface of the multilayer dielectric substrate,...

20060017528 - System and method for threaded plunger assembly: A system and method for a plunger assembly includes a tuning slug with a bore in the stem, a tuning screw rotatably disposed in the stem, and a coupling assembly to rotatably secure the tuning screw to the slug. The system and method may also include a locking assembly to...

20060017529 - Multi-layer integrated rf/if circuit board: An improved multi-layered integrated RF/IF circuit board has been disclosed. The board is fabricated beginning with a center layer of material. In a first preferred embodiment, the center layer is a rigid core material. In a second preferred embodiment, the center layer is a pliable non-conductive material. For every layer...

20060017530 - Interferometric load-pull tuner: The present invention discloses an interferometric load-pull tuner system consisting of a radio-frequency (RF) or microwave transmission line containing a pair of identical RF slugs sliding on the central conductor, said slugs surrounding partially the central conductor, being extractable from the transmission line, and the corresponding exact three-terms cascade procedure...

20060012448 - Ferroelectric devices and method relating thereto: The present invention relates to an electrically controllable/tunable microwave device comprising a ferroelectric substrate with a variable dielectric permitivity and conducting electrodes, arranged on said substrate, and the capacitance of which depends on applied voltage C/V), the microwave device comprises at least two sections or parts of the substrate/electrodes for...

20060012449 - Power line coupling device and method of using the same: The coupler of the present invention includes a plurality of core members that are disposed between the semi-conductive ground jacket and neutral conductor of a standard URD MV cable. The core members are series wound by a transformer conductor, which forms a secondary winding that is coupled to the primary...

20060012450 - Method for manufacturing surface acoustic wave device: A plurality of surface acoustic wave elements, with an IDT electrode 2 and a pad electrode 3 formed on the principal surface of a piezoelectric substrate 1, are formed to be flip-chip mounted on a circuit board 5 and sealed using sealing resin 7. The circuit board 5 is diced...

20060012451 - Capacitive feedback circuit: An improved capacitive feedback circuit (20) comprises a feedback capacitor (23) having its output terminal connected to a high-impedance node (N). More particularly, the improved capacitive feedback circuit comprises a first branch (24) having a bias current source (25), an amplifying element (26), and a current sensor (27) connected in...

20060012452 - Dielectric-filled transmission lines: A printed circuit board transmission line has an outer conductive wall surrounding an inner dielectric core. The transmission line may be disposed inside a grounded shielding to provide a form of coaxial conductor that mitigates cross talk from adjacent transmission lines and EMI. Further, groups of dielectric-core transmission lines may...

20060006956 - Circulator element: P

20060006957 - Rf circuit component: An RF circuit component according to the present invention includes a substrate with a principal surface and a plurality of resonators, including a first resonator, a second resonator and a third resonator, which are arranged on the principal surface of the substrate so as to be coupled in series together....

20060006958 - Coupling arrangement for rf-based differential signal transmission: The present invention provides a coupling arrangement for coupling out a RF signal of a transmission line connecting a first and a second RF unit, such like an IQ modulator and a power amplifier. The coupling arrangement comprises first and second coupling means that are adapted to be coupled to...

20060006959 - Apparatus and method for in-process high power variable power division: A power divider for a waveguide between a single electromagnetic microwave generator input and two output ports, the divider including two tuner networks, each comprising a moveable capacitive probe with a pair of fixed flanking inductive posts....

20060006960 - Diplexer formed in multi-layered substrate.: A lumped-element diplexer formed in a multi-layered substrate includes a high-pass filter circuit, a low-pass filter circuit, and a ground plane, the elements of the filter circuits being disposed as follows: a first capacitor plate on a first layer of the substrate connected to a first port and a first...

20060006962 - Phase shifters and method of manufacture therefore: An embodiment of the present invention provides a hybrid phase shifter, comprising a first port wherein a microwave signal enters said hybrid phase shifter and splits and exits from two other ports into two reflector circuits, wherein said microwave signal reflects and re-enters said hybrid phase shifter and recombines and...

20060006961 - Tunable dielectric phase shifters capable of operating in a digital-analog regime: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a multi-tiered cascaded tunable dielectric phase shifter capable of operating in digital-analog regime by at least one cascade operable in an analog regime and at least one cascade operable in a digital regime. The multi-tiered cascaded tunable dielectric phase shifter...

20060006963 - Miniature wideband rf choke: A miniature wideband RF choke has a low temperature co-fired ceramic substrate with a top surface and a bottom surface. A first inductor is located within the substrate. Terminals are located on the top and bottom surfaces. A second inductor is located on the top surface. The second inductor has...

20060006964 - Method for frequency tuning of a micro-mechanical resonator: A method for modifying the resonance frequency of a micro-mechanical resonator, and resonators on which the method is practiced. A packaged resonator is trimmed by directing electromagnetic energy to the resonator through a transparent portion of the package. The removal of mass (by the energy) affects the resonance frequency of...

20060006965 - Rf filter and method for fabricating the same: An RF filter includes: one or more first piezoelectric resonators each of which is held on a principal surface of a substrate and is constituted by a first piezoelectric film and opposed first upper and lower electrodes provided on the upper and lower faces of the first piezoelectric film, respectively;...

20060006966 - Electronically tunable ridged waveguide cavity filter and method of manufacture therefore: An embodiment of the present invention provides a voltage-controlled tunable filter, comprising a tunable ridged waveguide filter formed from a first ridged waveguide cavity coupled to a second ridged waveguide cavity thereby forming a resonator; and one or more tunable capacitors in at least one of said first or second...

20060001501 - Package integrated one-quarter wavelength and three-quarter wavelength balun: According to embodiments of the present invention, a balun is disposed on a package that is to receive a die. In embodiments, the balun includes a first metal trace disposed on a first base and a second metal trace disposed on a second base. In embodiments, the first metal trace...

20060001503 - Microstrip to waveguide launch: A method and apparatus for coupling a conductor-based transmission line, such as a strip transmission line, to a waveguide. The transmission line may be separated from a corresponding conducting ground plane by a first dielectric substrate layer. The ground plane may be adhesively coupled to a portion of the waveguide,...

20060001502 - Miniaturized planar microstrip balun: A miniaturized planar microstrip balun includes first and second microstrip coupling segments that are considerably shorter than a quarter of a guide wavelength (λg/4). In at least one embodiment, a microstrip balun is provided that does not require the use of lumped circuit elements or short circuit terminations....

20060001504 - High bandwidth high gain receiver equalizer: There is provided a receiver equalizer comprising, a first equalizer unit having a basic equalizer stage and a negative impedance cell connected to said basic equalizer stage. Preferably the negative impedance cell comprises a pair of back to back transistors, and connected thereto a parallel resistor capacitor RC network. The...

20060001505 - Directional bridge coupler: A directional bridge coupler includes a coaxial balun having a coaxial cable with a plurality of ferrite beads disposed about an outer conductor of the coaxial cable, and a circuit substrate accommodating a directional bridge coupled to an output of the coaxial bridge. A conductive package having an internal cavity...

20060001506 - Variable power coupling device: An apparatus and method for providing adaptive control of the output of a radio frequency coupler. A plurality of input signals is provided to a multi-prong divider/combiner, the divider/combiner having a first and a second input terminals communicating a first and a second input signals with a first and a...

20060001507 - Phase shifter: A phase shifter with a low insertion loss in which impedance miss-matching at a point in rear of a high-pass filter or a low-pass filter in the signal flow direction is reduced and difference in insertion loss or phase shifting error across a high-pass filter- low-pass filter is suppressed. A...

20060001508 - Film bulk acoustic-wave resonator (fbar), filter implemented by fbars and method for manufacturing fbar: A film bulk acoustic-wave resonator encompasses a substrate having a cavity; a bottom electrode partially fixed to the substrate, part of the bottom electrode is mechanically suspended above the cavity; a piezoelectric layer provided on the bottom electrode; and a top electrode provided on the piezoelectric layer having crystal axes...

20060001509 - Systems and methods for automated resonant circuit tuning: An apparatus and method for automatically tuning a resonant circuit in a chiroptical measurement system. A sample cell holds a sample being measured for a chiroptical property as the sample is modulated by the resonant circuit. A signal source coupled to the resonant circuit generates a driving signal at one...