Wave transmission lines and networks inventions 03/06

20060066414 - Method and apparatus for changing the polarization of a signal: A method and apparatus for changing the polarization of an input signal includes propagating a polarized input signal having orthogonal E-field components by at least one surface each having a respective surface impedance and varying at least one of the surface impedances to shift the phase of one of the...

20060066415 - Miniaturized multi-layer balun: A miniaturized multi-layer balun includes a pair of capacitive elements, at least one section of broadside coupled lines connected in series to a unbalanced and two balanced ports through a pair of transmission lines. Each section has first and second coupled lines. A ground connection is located between two central...

20060066416 - Interconnecting a port of a microwave circuit package and a microwave component mounted in the microwave circuit package: In one aspect, a signal path is described. The signal path has a nominal impedance over a specified bandwidth and interconnects a port of a microwave circuit package and a microwave component mounted in the microwave circuit package. The signal path includes an inductive transition and first and second capacitive...

20060066417 - Wiring pattern structure of differential transmission paths: A wiring pattern structure having differential transmission paths electrically connects an integrated circuit element and a connector, which are arranged on a printed wiring board. Each of the differential transmission paths includes a pair of first and second signal lines. The first and second signal lines are substantially hook-shaped and...

20060066418 - Multi-section coupler assembly: A coupler assembly may include first and second electromagnetic couplers connected together. In some examples, the couplers may be connected in cascade configuration, with at least the second coupler including at least third and fourth couplers connected in tandem configuration. In some examples, a first asymmetric coupler may include a...

20060066419 - Duplexer: A duplexer includes: first and second filters including film bulk acoustic resonators (FBARs) arranged in a ladder form; first and second integrated-passive devices (IPDs) provided between a common terminal and the first and second filters; and a substrate on which the first and second filters and the first and second...

20060066420 - Dual mode band-pass filter: A dual mode band-pass filter includes a metallic film for defining a resonator, disposed on the first main surface of a dielectric substrate having first and second main surfaces, or inside of the dielectric substrate. An opening is formed in the metallic film. At least one ground electrode is provided...

20060066421 - Bandpass filter with pseudo-elliptic response: The invention proposes an H-plane filter with inductive irises which exhibits a quasi-elliptic response while retaining the same compactness as a filter having a Chebyshev response. The invention furthermore makes it possible to use a large number of transmission zeros. For this purpose, there is proposed a waveguide filter comprising...

20060066422 - Zeroeth-order resonator: A high frequency resonator circuit and method of fabrication is described which has a resonant frequency independent of physical resonator dimensions. The resonator operates in a zeroeth-order mode on a composite right/left-handed (CRLH) transmission line (TL). The LH wave properties of the CRLH-TL contributing anti-parallel phase and group velocities. In...

20060055484 - Method and apparatus for rejecting common mode signals on a printed circuit board and method for making same: In one embodiment, the invention is an apparatus. The apparatus includes a pair of parallel traces on a first level of a PCB (printed circuit board). The apparatus also includes a stub on a second level of the PCB. The stub is parallel to the pair of parallel traces. The...

20060055485 - Duplexer and method of isolating an rx-band and a tx-band: A duplexer (1) with two band-pass filters (5, 6) comprising film bulk acoustic wave resonators (FBAR) (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13) has an extra antiresonant circuit in order to block the transmission signal. It has an extra resonant circuit in order to allow the desired receive signal to pass....

20060055486 - Filter module using piezoelectric resonators, duplexer, communication device, and method for fabricating filter module: A filter module includes a substrate and a plurality of resonators formed on the substrate and utilizing longitudinal vibration along the thickness of a piezoelectric layer. A plurality of external connection terminals are formed above or below the piezoelectric layer so as to be electrically connected to external circuits and...

20060055487 - Bead type noise filter: A bead type noise filter according to the present invention is constituted by a magnetic core 1 formed of Mn—Zn ferrite having its resistivity increased so as to improve a high frequency characteristic, and having its permittivity lowered, and thereby can successfully suppress radiation noises without distorting the waveform of...

20060055488 - Resonator filter structure having equal resonance frequencies: The invention relates to a resonator filter structure (10) for radio frequency (RF) filters, especially a bulk acoustic wave (BAW) filter structure. According to the invention, a resonator filter structure (10) is constructed with a BAW lattice filter section (20), in which all of the BAW resonator elements (20-1, 20-2,...

20060055489 - Dual mode band-pass filter: A dual mode band-pass filter includes a metallic film for defining a resonator, disposed on the first main surface of a dielectric substrate having first and second main surfaces, or inside of the dielectric substrate. An opening is formed in the metallic film. At least one ground electrode is provided...

20060049890 - Noise suppressing circuit: A noise suppressing circuit (1) suppresses noise emerging from an electronic apparatus (2) and propagating through conductive lines (3a and 3b). The noise suppressing circuit (1) comprises a low-band noise reducing circuit (10) and a high-band noise reducing circuit (80). The low-band noise reducing circuit (10) is connected to the...

20060049891 - Phase noise reduction device: A device for reducing the phase noise of a signal (Sin), coming from a quasiperiodic source of fundamental frequency f0, comprises a superconducting circuit with an active line for voltage pulse transmission by transferring quanta of flux φ0. This circuit is defined so as to have a characteristic frequency fc...

20060049892 - Equivalent circuits and simulation method for an rf switch: Equivalent circuits and a simulation method for simulating an RF switch are disclosed. The equivalent circuits are a first equivalent circuit and a second equivalent circuit, and are formed by resistors, capacitors, and inductors. The method includes using the first equivalent circuit to simulate the switch at a turned-off state...

20060049893 - Image forming apparatus: An output device is disclosed that includes an impedance matching section including an impedance adjustment section, and a dummy circuit section having the same configuration as the impedance adjustment section and adapted to calculate an adjustment value for matching an output impedance to a characteristic impedance of the transmission line....

20060049894 - Signal transmission circuit, electronic device, cable, and connector: A signal transmission circuit has first to fourth inductors, and first and second varistors. The first and second inductors are magnetically coupled to each other. The first varistor is located posterior to the first inductor and is electrically connected in parallel to the first inductor. The third inductor is located...

20060049895 - Micromachine and method of producing the same: Disclosed is a micromachine as a high-frequency filter which includes a high Q value and is suitable for higher frequency bands. The micromachine (1) includes an output electrode (7) formed on a substrate (5), an interlayer insulating film (9) which covers the substrate (5) and includes an opening (9a) whose...

20060049896 - Surface acoustic wave device and method for manufacturing the same: An SAW chip (11) where ones are balanced signal terminals and the others are unbalanced signal terminals is mounted on a mounting board (12) in a flip chip manner, and the mounting board (12) and a surface of the SAW chip are covered with resin (19). At that time, grounds...

20060049898 - Band-pass filter: A base band of a λa wave generated by a λa/4 resonator is used as it is, a triple wave of the λa wave generated by the resonator is shifted to a low frequency side, and the fundamental wave and the triple wave are complemented by a pass band, generated...

20060049897 - Resonator, filter, communication apparatus: A conductive film is provided on a dielectric substrate. The conductive film has conductor opening portions, which serve as inductive regions, and a conductor opening portion, which serves as a capacitive region. Multi-step ring resonator elements, each including a conductor line aggregate, are provided on respective substrates to configure resonator...

20060049899 - Tunable poly-phase filter and method for calibration thereof: A resonator circuit is shown that is fabricated with substantially identical elements disposed symmetrically along an axis such that the circuit has a linear response to bias current. The alignment of the circuit permits multiple characteristics of the circuit to be calibrated....

20060044073 - Compensated interdigitated coupler: A coupler may include four ports, and first and second sets of conductive strips. Each set of conductive strips may include a plurality of interconnected conductive strips connected between two ports. Each conductive strip of the first set may be electromagnetically coupled to a conductive strip of the second set....

20060044074 - High-directivity spurline directional coupler: A spurline directional coupler includes a first coupling section and a second coupling section that are in parallel with each other for coupling, and a first sub-coupling section and a second sub-coupling section coupled with the first coupling section, and a third sub-coupling section and a fourth sub-coupling section coupled...

20060044075 - Low loss, high power air dielectric stripline edge coupling structure: A high power, low loss RF strip transmission line coupling structure is provided. It includes a multi-layer printed circuit board (PCB), a top cover and a bottom cover. The top and bottom covers provide the ground reference for the strip transmission line coupling structure. The PCB is fastened to the...

20060044076 - Serial signal injection using capacitive and transformer couplings for power line communications: A coupling network has a first power line interface port and a power line modem interface configured to be coupled to a power line modem transceiver. An inductor-capacitor circuit coupled to the power line modem interface has a low-impedance resonant frequency at a signal frequency of the power line modem...

20060044077 - Bias-feeding device: A bias-feeding device for feeding a bias signal to a physical object to be measured includes a first input terminal for inputting thereto a bias voltage, a second input terminal for inputting thereto a reference potential, a first output terminal for outputting the bias voltage to the physical object, a...

20060044078 - Capacitive vertical silicon bulk acoustic resonator: Disclosed are high frequency, vertical silicon bulk acoustic resonators. Resonator structures having a relatively large transduction areas fabricated using a HARPSS fabrication process provide for high frequency capacitive resonators with significantly low impedance values. Impedance values as low as a few kilo-Ohms to sub-kilo-Ohm and quality factors in the range...

20060044079 - Surface acoustic wave device: A surface acoustic wave device having a given impedance includes multimode type filters connected in series. A composite impedance of the multimode type filters defines the given impedance of the surface acoustic wave device....

20060044080 - Balanced-unbalanced type multiband filer module: An unbalanced-balanced multiband filter module comprising three high-frequency switches each comprising a switching element, and two unbalanced-balanced bandpass filters having different transmitting frequency bands, a first high-frequency switch being connected to an unbalanced port of the module, an unbalanced port of the first unbalanced-balanced bandpass filter, and an unbalanced port...

20060044081 - Surface acoustic wave apparatus and communications equipment: A surface acoustic wave apparatus comprises a piezoelectric substrate 17 on the bottom face of which IDT electrodes 3 and 4 and an annular ground electrode 6 which encloses the IDT electrodes 3 and 4 and is connected to the IDT electrode 3, and a base substrate on the top...

20060044082 - Waveguide e-plane rf bandpass filter with pseudo-elliptic response: The invention relates to RF bandpass filters with pseudo-elliptic response. In a filter comprising a dielectric substrate placed in E position in a rectangular waveguide and comprising inserts on one of the surfaces of the substrate are placed conductors linked electrically to the walls of the guide, and on the...

20060044083 - Circuit board and method for producing a circuit board: A circuit board comprises a dielectric layer with a through-hole between a first and a second surface of the dielectric layer. An electrically conductive coating is arranged on a wall of the through-hole between the first and the second surface and a first signal trace is arranged on the first...