Patents Examined by Gerald Stevens
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Patent number: 8427260Abstract: A dual-band bandpass filter according to the present invention includes a plurality of dual-band bandpass resonators. The dual-band bandpass resonator includes a central conductor having a central axis aligned with an input/output direction, a pair of grounding conductors, a central conductor short-circuit part and a pair of stub conductors that are formed on a surface of a dielectric substrate. The pair of grounding conductors are disposed on the opposite sides of the central conductor with a space interposed therebetween. The central conductor short-circuit part short-circuits the pair of grounding conductors, and one end of the central conductor is connected to the central conductor short-circuit part.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2009Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Kei Satoh, Shoichi Narahashi
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Patent number: 8421557Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor is formed by stacking flat solid electrolytic capacitor elements. Negative electrode sections of a part of the solid electrolytic capacitor elements and negative electrode sections of the remaining part of the solid electrolytic capacitor elements are led out so as to be faced to each other, and are connected to the first and second negative electrode lead frames which are independent to each other, respectively. Two of negative electrode sections are insulated from each other in the solid electrolytic capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2008Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Junichi Kurita, Hiroshi Higashitani, Tsuyoshi Yoshino
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Patent number: 8410871Abstract: A tunable filter is provided which includes a filter unit comprising a pair of microstrips which are disposed facing each other, a capacitor unit connected to one side of the filter unit, and an adjustment unit for regulating the length of each of the pair of microstrips to adjust inductance of the filter unit, the adjustment unit being connected to the opposite side of the filter unit. The length of the microstrips may thereby be regulated in order to vary the frequency band.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2008Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chul-soo Kim, Sang-won Yun, Young-ho Cho, In-sang Song, Byeoung-ju Ha, Duck-hwan Kim
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Patent number: 8410872Abstract: Provided is a line filter. The line filter includes a plurality of dielectric layers stacked one another, a plurality of line resonator each comprising transmission lines on at least two of the dielectric layers, and a tuning unit adjusting a binding amount and resonance frequency of the line resonators. Since the line filter includes at least one line resonator on at least two stacked dielectric layers, the integration can be easily realized. Further, since the line filter can be adjusted even after the line filter is manufacture, the line filter has an excellent frequency property. Since the line filter is realized on the plurality of the dielectric layers, the frequency band can be widened.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2010Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Man Seok Uhm, Changsoo Kwak, Youn Sub Noh, In Bok Yom
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Patent number: 8410870Abstract: A filter includes: a container; at least one barrier, an input device and an output device. The at least one barrier divide the space of the container into at least two resonant cavities. Each resonant cavity has a harmonic oscillator disposed therein. The harmonic oscillators includes a supporter and a carbon nanotube structure disposed on a surface of the supporter.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2012Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignees: Tsinghua University, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wen-Hua Chen, Zheng-He Feng, Ping-Yang Chuang
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Patent number: 8410866Abstract: Parameters of a radio frequency filter can be changed by changing structure of each component of the filter. Material of each component, diameters of each of magnetic cylinders, density of each of conductive coils, thickness of a dielectric layer, and thickness of an insulation tube can be changed. When any component needs to be replaced, each cover is rotated, with connection partitions moving to two slots of an insulation portion, to detach the filter.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2009Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shen-Chun Li, Shou-Kuo Hsu, Yung-Chieh Chen, Hsiao-Yun Su, Hsien-Chuan Liang
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Patent number: 8400368Abstract: A multifunction electronics member combining structural and electronics functions includes in one embodiment an elongate longitudinally-extending structural body capable of supporting a structural load and having at least one metal surface defining a first circuit base, a first electrical circuit supported by the first circuit base, and a first cover having at least one metal surface facing the electrical circuit. The circuit preferably is embedded between the first circuit base and cover to form an electrically-active, or in some embodiments passive, structural member. In one embodiment, the electrical circuit may be a circuit board including a dielectric substrate and metallic electrical conductor supported by the substrate. In one embodiment, the circuit base, circuit, and cover define a stripline. In one embodiment, the structural body includes a stiffening projection. The structural body may be made entirely of metal in some embodiments.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2007Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventor: Marc T. Angelucci
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Patent number: 8400236Abstract: An electronic component includes a laminated body including an insulating material layer made of a first dielectric material and a second insulating material layer made of a second dielectric material having a relative dielectric constant greater than that of the first dielectric material that are laminated to one another. An LC filter is defined by a coil included in the laminated body and a capacitor. The coil includes a coil conductor layer provided on the insulating material layer. The coil conductor layer is provided within a region including the insulating material layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2011Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Mori, Hiroshi Masuda
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Patent number: 8384498Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a spurline filter comprises a capacitive element connected to a spur and either a through-line of the spurline filter or ground. In another embodiment, multiple capacitive elements are connected to the spur. In an exemplary embodiment, the capacitively loaded spurline filter provides a band rejection frequency response similar to the band rejection frequency response of a similar spurline filter that does not comprise at least one capacitive element but the capacitively loaded spurline filter has half the layout area or less. In an exemplary embodiment, the spurline filter comprises capacitive elements, where the capacitive elements are configured to reduce the resonant frequency of the filter.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2009Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: ViaSat, Inc.Inventors: Christopher D. Grondahl, Michael R. Lyons, Dean Lawrence Cook
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Patent number: 8384605Abstract: A communication system includes a first communication module within a rotating frame of reference and a second communication module within a fixed frame of reference. The first communication module and the second communication module in wireless communication at least partially through a hollow shaft.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2009Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Sikorsky Aircraft CorporationInventors: Alan Matthew Finn, Joseph Zacchio, Michael G. O'Callaghan, Jimmy Lih-Min Yeh
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Patent number: 8384491Abstract: A signal transmission apparatus includes two circuit layers. First and second ground sheets are arranged in the two circuit layers respectively. A third ground sheet is arranged between the two circuit layers. A differential pair includes a transmission line arranged between the first and third ground sheets and a transmission line arranged between the second and third ground sheets. The first to third ground sheets have same electric potential. Projections of the first and second ground sheets on the third ground sheet superpose a border of the third ground sheet. The third ground sheet is formed by extending the border along a signal transmission direction. A vertical distance between the first and second transmission lines is twice as each of a vertical distance from the first ground sheet to the first transmission line and a vertical distance from the second ground sheet to the second transmission line.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2009Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Po-Chuan Hsieh, Hsiao-Yun Su, Yu-Chang Pai, Shou-Kuo Hsu
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Patent number: 8384496Abstract: A band-stop filter is proposed which is constructed on a multilayered substrate and consists of a parallel circuit comprising a bandpass filter and a high-pass filter. The two filters are at least partly realized in the form of LC-elements integrated into the substrate. Further circuit components can be arranged as discrete components on the substrate. In the filter branch having the bandpass filter, an electroacoustic resonator is arranged in a transverse branch to ground. By means of the filter, a wide stop band is obtained, while the passband or passbands can comprise a plurality of radio bands.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2009Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: EPCOS AGInventors: Thomas Bauer, Andreas Przadka
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Patent number: 8378761Abstract: Parameters of a radio frequency filter can be changed by changing structure of each component of the filter. Material of each component, diameters of each of magnetic cylinders, density of each of conductive coils, thickness of a dielectric layer, and thickness of an insulation tube can be changed. When any component needs to be replaced, each cover is rotated, with connection partitions move to two slots of an insulation portion, to detach the filter.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2009Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shen-Chun Li, Shou-Kuo Hsu, Yung-Chieh Chen, Hsien-Chuan Liang
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Patent number: 8378762Abstract: An electromagnetic band gap (EGB) structure includes a substrate made of an isolating material. A plurality of identical planar transmission line segments are formed one under another in conductor layers embedded in the substrate. Vertical transitions connect one by one the plurality of planar transmission line segments. Adjacent ones of the vertical transitions are equally spaced on a predetermined distance in a direction parallel to the transmission line segments, thereby the vertical transitions serve as periodical inclusions forming the EBG structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2007Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Taras Kushta
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Patent number: 8368485Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a RF combiner/splitter having a first port separated from a second port and a third port by a generally tapering microstrip section. The second and third ports are separated by a generally rectangular bridge bar having a width selected to match the impedance of devices to be connected to the second and third ports and a length selected to provide a separation between the second and third ports of approximately quarter wavelength at a center point of an operational frequency of the devices. In a first embodiment, a horizontal RF choke joint is positioned between the first port and the tapering section. In a second embodiment, one choke joint is positioned between the second port and the bridge bar and a second choke joint is positioned between the third port and the bridge bar.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2011Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Dockon AGInventor: Forrest James Brown
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Patent number: 8369816Abstract: According to one exemplary embodiment, a selectable notch filter includes a transmission line, a bias circuit, and a switch for selectably coupling the transmission line to ground. In one embodiment, the switch is a PIN diode. The selectable notch filter can selectably suppress a first frequency from being output when the transmission line is coupled to ground. Additionally, the selectable notch filter can selectably suppress a second frequency from being output when the transmission line is not coupled to ground. In one embodiment, the first frequency is approximately equal to a multiple of two of the second frequency. In one embodiment, the selectable notch filter can utilize more than one transmission line.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2009Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Lukose Ninan, Stephen E. Krafft
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Patent number: 8368488Abstract: 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 of the present invention, 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: GrantFiled: June 11, 2008Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Han Kim, Hyung-Sik Choi, Sang-Hoon Kim, Joon-Sung Kim
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Patent number: 8358184Abstract: A stripline filter that suppresses a fundamental wave frequency without increasing the size of a board and in which a harmonic frequency is easily set to a desired frequency. The stripline filter includes a glass layer having a relative dielectric constant lower than that of a dielectric board. A first top surface line is provided on a top surface of the dielectric board and has a resonant open end. A second top surface line and a side surface electrode are provided on the glass layer so as to extend from positions connected to the first top surface line.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2011Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Soichi Nakamura
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Patent number: 8358176Abstract: A microwave generator has a resonator with two mutually spaced resonator electrodes. The resonator electrodes provide a spark gap device which breaks down upon the application of a firing voltage between them. The spark gap device has at least two parallel-connected spark gaps.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2009Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: Diehl BGT Defence GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Robert Stark, Jürgen Urban
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Patent number: 8350640Abstract: A transceiver module for a satellite antenna comprises a base and a cover. The base includes a transducer extending between a first end plate and a second end plate in a first direction, a first filter portion including a number or first grooves extending in the first direction and arranged along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a waveguide to guide signals toward a third end plate. The cover serves as a second filter portion for the transceiver module and includes a number of second grooves arranged along the second direction. The base includes the transducer, the first filter portion and the waveguide as an integral member.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Azure Shine International Inc.Inventor: Wen-Chao Shen