Patents Examined by Robert Pascal
  • Patent number: 9698754
    Abstract: A capacitive coupled resonator device includes a substrate, a bottom electrode, a piezoelectric layer, a top electrode, and at least one support frame positioned between the piezoelectric layer and the top electrode and/or positioned between the piezoelectric layer and the bottom electrode. The top electrode includes a first top comb electrode having a first top bus bar and first top fingers extending in a first direction from the first top bus bar, and a second top comb electrode having a second top bus bar and second top fingers extending in a second direction from the second top bus bar, the second direction being substantially opposite to the first direction such that the first and second top fingers form a top interleaving pattern. The at least one support frame includes air-gaps separating at least one of the top electrode and the bottom electrode from the piezoelectric layer, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Dariusz Burak
  • Patent number: 9691963
    Abstract: A capacitive coupled resonator device includes a substrate, a bottom electrode, a piezoelectric layer, a top electrode, and at least one set of support pillars positioned between the piezoelectric layer and the top electrode and/or between the piezoelectric layer and the bottom electrode. The top electrode includes a first top comb electrode having a first top bus bar and first top fingers extending in a first direction from the first top bus bar, and a second top comb electrode having a second top bus bar and second top fingers extending in a second direction from the second top bus bar, the second direction being substantially opposite the first direction such that the first and second top fingers form a top interleaving pattern. The at least one set of support pillars separates at least one of the top and bottom electrodes from the piezoelectric layer, respectively, thereby defining corresponding air-gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Dariusz Burak
  • Patent number: 9692389
    Abstract: Described embodiments include a surface acoustic wave device, method, and apparatus. The device includes a piezoelectric substrate and a configurable electrode assembly. The assembly includes N stacked instances of electrode assembly sub-units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Inventor: Jordin T. Kare
  • Patent number: 9685686
    Abstract: The invention provides a power divider, comprising: a plurality of transmission stages and a plurality of ground layers alternately arranged on respective ones of a plurality of dielectric layers, a first transmission stage being arranged on a first dielectric layer, and a last transmission stage being arranged below a last dielectric layer; wherein the plurality of transmission stages are arrayed vertically, each consisting of a loop formed by a transmission line; the first transmission stage has a first opening connected by a resistor, and each of the remaining transmission stages has the first opening connected by the resistor and a second opening without a resistor; two ends of the first opening of one of the adjacent transmission stages are connected to two ends of the second opening of the other one of the adjacent transmission stages by via transitions, in a top-to-bottom direction; and each ground layer has clearances through which the via transitions pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ)
    Inventors: Bo Zhou, Kun Liu, Junyou Chen
  • Patent number: 9680444
    Abstract: A multiplexer includes: a first filter connected between a common terminal and a first terminal; a second filter connected between the common terminal and a second terminal, and having a passband lower in frequency than a passband of the first filter; and a resonant circuit including: a first inductor and a capacitor connected in series between a first end and a second end of the resonant circuit, the first end being coupled to a node at which the common terminal diverges into the first filter and the second filter, the second end being coupled to the first filter, and a second inductor connected in parallel to the first inductor and the capacitor between the first end and the second end, wherein the passband of the first filter is higher in frequency than an antiresonant frequency of the resonant circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Gohki Nishimura
  • Patent number: 9680196
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a fabrication layout and design for transmission lines that are implemented as part of a differential Wilkinson power divider/combiner. The transmission lines are configured and arranged in a poly-loop line geometry. The poly-loop line geometry includes overlapping transmission lines to route differential signals within the differential Wilkinson power divider/combiner. The overlapping transmission lines each include a crossover region to route the differential signals. The crossover represents a spacing between the overlapping transmission lines that encompasses a magnetic flux of the overlapping transmission lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Seunghwan Yoon
  • Patent number: 9673775
    Abstract: A circuit substrate includes a substrate body, an input signal line conductor with which the substrate body is provided and included in an input path, a first mounting portion provided on a main surface of the substrate body, included in a first output path and on which a high-pass filter including a lumped-parameter element is mounted, at least one first output signal line conductor with which the substrate body is provided and included in the first output path, and a second mounting portion provided on the main surface of the substrate body, included in a second output path and on which a low-pass filter including a lumped-parameter element is mounted. The first output signal line conductor provided farthest upstream in a signal propagation direction is connected to the input signal line conductor via a first lumped-parameter element mounted on the main surface of the substrate body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Asada
  • Patent number: 9673503
    Abstract: A power combiner/divider includes a main conductor defining an axis; an input connector having a center conductor, adapted to be coupled to a signal source, electrically coupled to the main conductor and having an axis aligned with the main conductor axis, and having a second conductor electrically coupled to a ground conductor; a plurality of satellite conductors radially exterior of and spaced apart from the main conductor, the satellite conductors defining the general shape of a slotted hollow cylinder having a cylinder axis aligned with the main conductor axis; a plurality of output connectors having respective axes that are perpendicular to the main conductor axis, the output connectors being radially spaced apart relative to the main conductor, the output connectors having center conductors electrically coupled to respective satellite conductors and having respective second conductors electrically coupled to a second ground conductor; and a multiconductor transmission line, including the satellite condu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Inventor: David B. Aster
  • Patent number: 9674942
    Abstract: A structure comprising: a first and a second conductor planes which are arranged in different layers and in a manner to face to each other; a first transmission line (103) which is arranged in a different layer from those of the first conductor plane and of the second conductor plane, faces to the second conductor plane, and has its one end being an open end; a first conductor via (104) which connects the other end of the first transmission line (103) with the first conductor plane; a second transmission line (105) which is formed in the same layer as that of the first transmission line, runs parallel to the first transmission line (103), and has its one end being an open end; and a second conductor via (106) which electrically connects the other end of the second transmission line (105) with either of the first and second conductor planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kasahara, Hiroshi Toyao
  • Patent number: 9666927
    Abstract: A high bandwidth, low signal error, compact waveguide includes a conductive body including a waveguide input portion and a plurality of waveguide output portions disposed coplanar with the input waveguide portion. The waveguide further includes a common junction joining the input waveguide portion and the plurality of output waveguide portions. A septum is disposed proximate the common junction collinear with a centerline of the input waveguide portion. The waveguide further includes a plurality of iris elements disposed proximate the common junction transverse to the centerline of the input waveguide portion. The septum and the plurality of iris elements changes an impedance of the common junction to match the impedance across the entire waveguide bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: Jeffrey P. Massman
  • Patent number: 9667224
    Abstract: An electroacoustic filter has improved low-pass characteristics. The filter includes a first electroacoustic converter, an electroacoustic element and a grid structure between the converter and the element. The grid structure is acoustically active in one frequency range that lies above the acoustically active frequency range of the first electroacoustic converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Holger Emrich, Clemens Ruppel, Martin Störkle, Werner Ruile, Thomas Finteis, Tilo Gärtner, Ingo Bleyl, Markus Mayer
  • Patent number: 9666923
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a filtering circuit comprising at least two slot line resonators arranged side by side and realized on a dielectric substrate having a first face equipped with a conductive layer and a second parallel face, each of said at least two resonators comprising a slot line etched in the conductive layer and folded according to a spiral pattern counting a plurality of turns, with a shape factor such that the slot line has parts noticeably parallel or concentric. According to embodiments of the invention, at least one turn of the spiral pattern of each of the resonators comprises at least one discontinuity, the discontinuities of said at least two slot line resonators being arranged in such a manner as to increase the electromagnetic coupling between said at least two slot line resonators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: THOMSON LICENSING
    Inventors: Ali Louzir, Chetan Joshi, Jean-Luc Robert
  • Patent number: 9667226
    Abstract: A surface acoustic wave device includes: a pair of comb-type electrodes that are provided on a piezoelectric substrate and include electrode fingers and dummy electrode fingers, the electrode fingers of one of the pair of comb-type electrodes facing the dummy electrode fingers of the other comb-type electrode; and additional films that are provided to cover gaps between tip ends of the electrode fingers and tip ends of the dummy electrode fingers and to overlap with at least one of first through third groups in which the first and second groups respectively include the electrode fingers and the dummy electrode fingers located at opposite sides of the gaps in a first direction in which the electrode fingers extend, and the third group includes the electrode fingers located at sides of the gaps in a second direction that crosses the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetaro Nakazawa, Kentaro Nakamura, Shogo Inoue, Jun Tsutsumi, Takashi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 9668390
    Abstract: An electromagnetic interference suppressing structure including a multi-layered substrate; a differential pair including first and second signal lines which are disposed on a first layer of the multi-layered substrate; and two grounding recess structures disposed symmetrically in a second layer of the multi-layered substrate which is positioned under the first layer, and on both sides, respectively, of the differential pair, wherein no electrical coupling element extends across a region lying directly under the differential pair, between the two grounding recess structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Kuo Ying Hung
  • Patent number: 9667216
    Abstract: A wideband tunable combiner system for a dual frequency diversity transmitter is provided that includes a tunable capacitance network. Incoherent RF signals with the same audio signal may be combined with the system into a combined RF signal for transmission on an antenna. The tunable capacitance network, in conjunction with a combiner and a band pass filter, may optimize the isolation between the incoherent RF signals and reduce intermodulation, while maintaining a wide operating bandwidth. The capacitance value of the tunable capacitance network may be selected based on the frequencies of the incoherent RF signals, RF spectrum information, or antenna loading data. An RF transmitter including the tunable combiner system may have improved spectral efficiency and performance and take advantage of available spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Szopko
  • Patent number: 9660612
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for a tunable filter. In some example embodiments, there may be provided an apparatus. In some example embodiments, there is provided an apparatus. The apparatus may include a tunable radio frequency filter including a tunable phase shifter coupled to a resonator, wherein the tunable phase shifter tunes a center frequency of the tunable radio frequency filter by at least varying a phase of a radio frequency signal provided to the resonator. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Yu-Ting Huang, Brecht Francois, Niels Bonne Larsen
  • Patent number: 9655230
    Abstract: The present invention is related to an electromagnetic noise filter device and an equivalent filter circuit thereof. The filter device comprises a substrate, a transmission line and a ground plane having slotted ground structure. The transmission line is configured on the top surface of the substrate, and the grounding plane is configured on the bottom surface of the substrate. At least one pair of impedance elements are configured within the slotted ground structure. The transmission line can be electromagnetic coupled to the slotted ground structure and the impedance elements so as to form an equivalent filter circuit. Thereby, the electromagnetic noises on at least one specific frequency may be absorbed by the impedance elements of the filter device so as to avoid the electromagnetic reflection induced by the electromagnetic noise and interfering the signal transmitted on the transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Tzong-Lin Wu, Chih-Ying Hsiao, Chien-Hua Hung
  • Patent number: 9653766
    Abstract: A polarizer, such as a septum polarizer, which may alter between two states wherein, effectively, the septum is rotated 180 degrees around the longitudinal axis of the waveguide so that the polarization of the signals in the waveguide may easily be altered without having to alter receivers/transmitters connected to the waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: THRANE & THRANE A/S
    Inventor: Morten Hagensen
  • Patent number: 9653767
    Abstract: A waveguide structure including a plurality of unit structures, each of which at least includes a first conductive plane and a second conductive plane, which are arranged to partially face with each other, a plurality of transmission lines with one ends being open ends, which are disposed in a plane, positioned opposite to the second conductive plane, in a layer different from the first conductive plane and the second conductive plane, and at least one conductive via, which electrically connect between the first conductive plane and other ends of the transmission lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Toyao, Noriaki Ando
  • Patent number: 9647316
    Abstract: A transmission line and an electronic component including a resonator using the transmission line are provided. The transmission line is capable of transmitting electromagnetic waves of at least one frequency ranging from 1 GHz to 10 GHz and is composed of a first dielectric with a first relative permittivity and a surrounding dielectric portion composed of a second dielectric with a second relative permittivity, wherein, the first dielectric is represented by a formula of {XBaO.(1?X)SrO}TiO2 (0.25<X?0.55), and the second relative permittivity is smaller than the first relative permittivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshio Sakurai, Kiyoshi Hatanaka, Takashi Fukui, Shigemitsu Tomaki