Patents Examined by Gerald Stevens
  • Patent number: 8710943
    Abstract: An electromagnetic bandgap structure and a printed circuit board that can solve a mixed signal problem between an analog circuit and a digital circuit are disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment, an electromagnetic bandgap structure is stacked with a first metal layer, a first dielectric layer, a metal plate, a second dielectric layer and a second metal layer, and an odd number of vias can be serially connected through a metal line between the first metal layer and the metal plate. This electromagnetic bandgap structure can have a small size and a low bandgap frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Han Kim, Hyung-Sik Choi, Sang-Hoon Kim, Joon-Sung Kim
  • Patent number: 8710941
    Abstract: A high-order harmonic device of a cavity filter including a base and a lid cover the base is disclosed. The base has a through groove connecting to an upper and a lower portion. The base has a plurality of output terminal with metallic conductor extending into the inner side formed on the surface of the sidewall. The base has resonance space formed indented to receive the metallic conductor and extending to connect to the through groove. The lid has a plurality of threading holes formed corresponding to chambers and partitions received with adjusting elements for height adjustment. The adjusting elements has the resonance bars corresponding to every chamber and the suppressing bars corresponding to every partition. By adjusting suppressing bar and the partition to a predetermined distance, the space of the channel for transmitting the high-order harmonic wave can be reduced to suppress noise produced by high-order harmonic wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Universal Microwave Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Chien-Chih Lee, Wei-Chin Hsu, Hsien-Wen Liu
  • Patent number: 8710942
    Abstract: Provided are a bandpass filter and a radio communication module and a radio communication device using the same. The bandpass filter includes: a first and a second grounding electrode arranged on the upper and the lower surface of a layered body; single resonance electrodes and composite resonance electrodes arranged to orthogonally intersect the single resonance electrodes; a first input coupling electrode opposing to the single resonance electrode of the input stage and a second input coupling electrode connected thereto and opposing to the composite resonance electrode of the input stage; a first output coupling electrode opposing to the single resonance electrode of the output stage and a second output coupling electrode connected thereto and opposing to the composite resonance electrode of the output stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Hiromichi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 8704618
    Abstract: A microwave filter is provided that includes a transmission line having a signal input port and a signal output port, a stub connected to the transmission line between the input port and the output port, and a spurline embedded in the stub. The microwave filter is configured to substantially attenuate a frequency while substantially passing at least one predetermined odd harmonic of the frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Valentine Research, Inc.
    Inventor: Marwan E. Nusair
  • Patent number: 8704619
    Abstract: Provided are a bandpass filter and a radio communication module and a radio communication device using the same. The bandpass filter includes: a first and a second grounding electrode arranged on the upper and the lower surface of a layered body; first resonance electrodes and second resonance electrodes arranged to orthogonally intersect the first resonance electrodes; a first input coupling electrode opposing to the first resonance electrode of the input stage and a second input coupling electrode connected thereto and opposing to the second resonance electrode of the input stage; a first output coupling electrode opposing to the first resonance electrode of the output stage and a second output coupling electrode connected thereto and opposing to the second resonance electrode of the output stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ninomiya, Hiromichi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 8686811
    Abstract: A stripline filter having a substrate, a grounding electrode, principal-surface lines, side-surface lines, and common electrodes, and is mounted on a set substrate by soldering. The side-surface lines are disposed on a side surface of the substrate, and are wetted by solder during soldering. Each of the common electrodes is connected to a corresponding one of the principal-surface lines. The common electrodes are also connected to the grounding electrode via the side-surface lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori Takei, Tatsuya Tsujiguchi, Motoharu Hiroshima
  • Patent number: 8680953
    Abstract: The invention relates to a low-pass filter for electromagnetic signals, made up of a series of rejection elements defined by stubs (2) of length ?g/4, with a small or zero distance between them, these elements being tuned to different frequencies determining the rejection band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Inventors: Iván Arregui Padilla, Israel Arnedo Gil, José María Lopetegui Beregaña, Miguel Ángel Gómez Laso, José Antonio Marcotegui Iturmendi
  • Patent number: 8680952
    Abstract: There is provided an improved bandpass filter having multiple passbands, and in one embodiment, two independent passbands are provided by a single filter. Embodiments of the present invention support communication architectures with several frequency bands without requiring one signal path per band, thus realizing improvements in size, cost, and weight. One aspect of the invention utilizes strongly overcoupled resonators to achieve multiple passband response, and in various embodiments, single-ended or differential mode inputs and outputs are accommodated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Jean-Luc Erb
  • Patent number: 8674784
    Abstract: A microwave pulse compressor has an elongated, cross-sectionally oversized waveguide resonator for decreasing the attenuation of the resonator, thereby increasing the resonator's QO The increased Q of the resonator guide results in more stored energy and greater output pulse power. The pulse compressor is symmetrically constructed to suppress high order modes that can be generated in oversized waveguides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Inventor: Ray M. Johnson
  • Patent number: 8674792
    Abstract: A metamaterial comprises a support medium, such as a planar dielectric substrate and a plurality of resonant circuits supported thereby. At least one resonant circuit is a tunable resonant circuit including a conducting pattern and a tunable material, so that an electromagnetic parameter (such as resonance frequency) may be adjusted using an electrical control signal applied to the tunable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Serdar H. Yonak, Frederick W. Mau, II, Vinh N. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 8643450
    Abstract: A variable distributed constant line includes a substrate, a signal line that is provided on the substrate, and includes a first line portion and a second line portion facing each other, a movable electrode that is provided above the substrate, and straddles both the first line portion and the second line portion in a manner to face the first line portion and the second line portion, and a driving electrode that is provided on the substrate in a manner to face the movable electrode, attracts the movable electrode by an action of a voltage applied between the driving electrode and the movable electrode, and changes a distance between the signal line and the movable electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Xiaoyu Mi, Osamu Toyoda, Satoshi Ueda
  • Patent number: 8633790
    Abstract: A waveguide structure including (i) a base that has a mounting surface, (ii) a metal plate member that has elasticity, that is stacked on the mounting surface, and that functions together with the base to constitute a waveguide, (iii) a positioning mechanism that is constituted by a positioning pin that is disposed so as to protrude from the base and an interfitting portion that is formed on the plate member, and that is fitted together with the positioning pin, the positioning mechanism positioning the plate member on the mounting surface of the base and also restricting movement along the mounting surface by fitting together of the positioning pin and the interfitting portion, and (iv) a holder that holds the plate member in a state of close contact with the mounting surface by pressing the plate member so as to generate a reaction force in the plate member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Fujii
  • Patent number: 8629738
    Abstract: Provided is a composite resonator wherein two resonance frequencies can be set discretionarily to a certain extent. The composite resonator is provided with a grounding electrode (21) arranged on a lower surface of a laminated body wherein a plurality of dielectric layers (11) are laminated, and a composite resonant electrode (26) arranged on an upper surface or inside of the laminated body. The composite resonant electrode (26) is composed of a base section (27) and a plurality of strip-like protruding sections (28a, 28b). One end of the base section (27) is grounded. One end of each of the protruding sections (28a, 28b) is connected to the other end of the base section (27), and the protruding sections are arranged in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Hiromichi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 8629740
    Abstract: A bandpass filter for a wide frequency band such as UWB is disclosed. The bandpass filter comprises a laminate of a plurality of dielectric layers, a first ground electrode connected to a ground potential, a plurality of resonant electrodes in a first inter-layer and a plurality of coupling electrodes in a second inter-layer. A transmission characteristic of the bandpass filter having flat and low loss over the entire region of the broad pass band can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ninomiya, Katsuro Nakamata, Hiromichi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 8618894
    Abstract: Various multi-mode resonant filters including a housing having a cavity, are provided. The multi-mode resonant filters include a Dielectric Resonant (DR) element received in the cavity of the housing, and a plurality of transmission lines for connecting a point on one of a first axis, a second axis, and a third axis with a point on another axis. The first axis, the second axis, and the third axis are orthogonal to each other with respect to a center of the DR element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: KMW Inc.
    Inventors: Duk-Yong Kim, Nam-Shin Park
  • Patent number: 8593236
    Abstract: The invention concerns a waveguide filter (200NP) for microwaves, characterized in that it has, at least on part of its length, a cross-section having two mutually non-parallel opposite sides (111, 111?), for example trapezoid. The use of such a shape enables the power threshold for forming self-maintained electron avalanche discharges to substantially increased and satisfactory filtering properties to be obtained. The invention also concerns the use of such a filter in a high-power microwave transmitter operating in X and Ka bands, in particular for space applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Agence Spatiale Europeenne
    Inventors: Jaime Hueso Gonzalez, David Raboso Garcia-Baquero, Dietmar Schmitt
  • Patent number: 8581677
    Abstract: A variable resonator includes a ring-shaped conductor line (2) which is provided on a dielectric substrate (5) and has a circumferential length of a wavelength at a resonance frequency or an integral multiple of the wavelength, and at least two circuit switches (31, 32), wherein the circuit switches (31, 32) have one ends (31) electrically connected to the ring-shaped conductor line (2) and the other ends (32) electrically connected to a ground conductor (4) formed on the dielectric substrate (5), electrical connection/disconnection between the ground conductor (4) and ring-shaped conductor line (2) can be switched, and the one ends (31) of the circuit switches (31, 32) are connected to the ring-shaped conductor line (2) on different portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kunihiro Kawai, Hiroshi Okazaki, Shoichi Narahashi
  • Patent number: 8581676
    Abstract: A common-mode filter including two input terminals and two output terminals and, in series between each input or output terminal and the ground, a capacitive element and a first inductive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Tours) SAS
    Inventors: Fabrice Guitton, Benjamin Thon
  • Patent number: 8564384
    Abstract: A variable resonator that comprises a loop line (902) to which two or more switches (903) are connected and N of reactance circuits (102) (N?3), in which switches (903) are severally connected to different positions on the loop line (902), the other ends of the switches are severally connected to a ground conductor, and the switches are capable of switching electrical connection/non-connection between the ground conductor and the loop line (902), the reactance circuits (102) severally have the same reactance value, the loop line (902) has a circumference corresponding to one wavelength or integral multiple thereof at a resonance frequency corresponding to each reactance value of each reactance circuit, and the reactance circuits (102) are electrically connected to the loop line (902) as branching circuits along the circumference direction of the loop line (902) at equal electrical length intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kunihiro Kawai, Hiroshi Okazaki, Shoichi Narahashi
  • Patent number: 8547186
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a compact balun device that includes an unbalanced port and a set of balanced differential ports. A first set of coupled transmission line structures is coupled to the unbalanced port and one port of the set of balanced differential ports. The first set of coupled transmission line structures is characterized by at least one device parameter and a first length that is substantially equal to a quarter of a wavelength (?). The wavelength (?) corresponds to a first frequency. A second set of coupled transmission line structures is coupled to another port of the set of balanced differential ports. The second set of coupled transmission line structures is characterized by the at least one device parameter and a second length that is substantially equal to the quarter of a wavelength (?). The wavelength (?) corresponds to the first frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Anaren, Inc.
    Inventor: Niels H. Kirkeby