Patents Examined by Jorge Salazar, Jr.
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Patent number: 9059497Abstract: A variable filter includes, on a dielectric substrate including ground conductor, first resonator including a transmission line connected to input terminal, second resonator including a transmission line connected to output terminal, and coupling portion including a transmission line having one end connected to the first and second resonators and another end being an open end, or structure having one end connected to the first and second resonators, including a serial connection of a transmission line and a variable capacitor, another end of the variable capacitor connected to the ground conductor, and adjusting means capable of changing electric length, in the first and second resonators and the coupling portion, wherein pass band width can be changed by changing ratio of electric transmission length of the coupling portion to electric transmission lengths of transmission line including the coupling portion, and the first and second resonators.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2012Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Xiaoyu Mi, Osamu Toyoda, Satoshi Ueda
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Patent number: 9054674Abstract: An acoustic wave filter includes: a substrate; resonators that are arranged on the substrate and excite acoustic waves; a ground terminal on the substrate; interconnection lines interconnecting the resonators and connecting predetermined ones of the resonators to the ground terminal; and a shield electrode disposed so as to be close to and face the interconnection lines.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2012Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazunori Inoue, Jun Tsutsumi, Kazuhiro Matsumoto, Takashi Matsuda
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Patent number: 9055674Abstract: A printed circuit board includes signal transmitting units that transmit signals, signal receiving units that receive signals, and a plurality of signal lines that connect the signal transmitting units and the signal receiving units. A resistor having a value Rp [?] of resistance with a first tolerance is provided between two signal lines that are adjacent to each other. In addition, a capacitor element that is connected in series to the resistor and that has a value Cp [F] of capacitance with a second tolerance is also connected between the two signal lines. In relation to the rise time tr [s] of the signals output from the signal transmitting units, the value Rp of resistance of the resistor and the value Cp of capacitance of the capacitor element are set such that an expression (Cp×Rp)×0.9?tr/3?(Cp×Rp)×1.1 is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2011Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shoji Matsumoto
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Patent number: 9041483Abstract: An attenuator includes, on a substrate: a resistor section; an insulating film covering the resistor section; and connection terminals covering the insulating film and connected in part to the resistor section. A total thickness of the insulating film and the connection terminal in a region where the insulating film and the connection terminal overlap with the resistor section is from 50 ?m to 200 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2012Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: SAE MAGNETICS (H.K.) LTD.Inventors: Tsz Chun Ng, Naoto Matono, Yat Hin Chan, Hui Wang
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Patent number: 9035727Abstract: A frequency tunable filter is disclosed. The frequency tunable filter includes a filter unit that can tune a frequency band of a frequency signal being filtered, a communication module that receives a control signal for controlling the tuning of the frequency band, and a control unit that controls the tuning of the frequency band based on the control signals. The disclosed filter can control the tuning of the filter's frequency band wirelessly.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2010Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Ace Technologies CorporationInventors: Sang-Ho Han, Sung-Hwan Yun, Eui-Jae Jung
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Patent number: 9019042Abstract: A high-frequency swinging choke has at least two rod cores arranged next to one another in the longitudinal direction. The rod cores each have at least one winding. The windings are connected in series.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2010Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Epcos AGInventors: Bernhard Roellgen, Herbert-Maurizio Cardarelli
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Patent number: 8994479Abstract: A surface acoustic wave SAW (SAW) device has a substrate and a filter provided at the substrate. The filter has a plurality of interdigital transducers (IDT) electrodes arranged along a propagation direction of a SAW. Each of the plurality of IDT electrodes has an electrode finger group including a plurality of electrode fingers which extent in a direction orthogonal to the propagation direction and are arranged along the propagation direction. At least one of the plurality of IDT electrodes has a wide pitch section including an adjacent first and second electrode finger among the plurality of electrode fingers. The interval between the first electrode finger and the second electrode finger is larger than the average value of the intervals between the remaining electrode fingers of the plurality of electrode fingers.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2010Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Masahisa Shimozono
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Patent number: 8994476Abstract: A ferrite bead inductor comprises a ferrite bead element body having magnetic layers and inner electrodes stacked therein, and first and second outer electrodes arranged on first and second side faces of the ferrite bead element body. The inner electrode extends in the direction of shorter sides which are shorter than longer sides, so as to connect with the first and second outer electrodes. The ferrite bead element body has an interstice for allowing the magnetic layers adjacent to each other in the stacking direction to join together within an inner electrode region adapted to form the inner electrode on the magnetic layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: TDK CorporationInventor: Masaaki Togashi
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Patent number: 8994480Abstract: A resonant element is provided with a multilayer board, comprising a plurality of conductor layers isolated by a dielectric, a signal via conductor, penetrating through the multilayer board, and a plurality of ground vias, penetrating thought the multilayer board and disposed around the signal via conductor. The multilayer board comprises a first conductor layer, a second conductor layer, and a corrugated conductor layer disposed between the first and the second conductor layers. The corrugated conductor layer comprises a corrugated signal plate, connected to the signal via conductor, and a corrugated ground plate, connected to the plurality of ground vias, isolated from the corrugated signal plate by the dielectric.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2009Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Taras Kushta
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Patent number: 8994472Abstract: An antenna duplexer includes first and second filters connected to an antenna terminal. The first filter has a passband of a low frequency band. The second filter has a passband of a high frequency band. The second filter is a ladder-type filter including series-arm resonators and parallel-arm resonators. At least one parallel-arm resonator out of the parallel-arm resonators has a main resonance and an auxiliary resonance. Attenuation poles caused by the main resonance and the auxiliary resonance are within the low frequency band. This antenna duplexer has a high attenuation characteristic and a high isolation characteristic while maintaining a low insertion loss.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Toru Yamaji, Kazunori Nishimura, Joji Fujiwara, Hiroyuki Nakamura
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Patent number: 8988166Abstract: A novel and useful fabricated variable transmission line that is tuned digitally is presented. Digital tuning of the variable transmission line enables the compensation of process variation in both the active and passive devices of the RF design. Along with several embodiments of the variable transmission line, the present invention also provides a method of compact modeling of the variable transmission line. The variable transmission line structure and compact modeling enables circuit level simulation using a parametric device that in one embodiment can be included as an integral part of a silicon foundry design kit.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2011Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Danny Elad, David Goren, Shlomo Shlafman
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Patent number: 8952678Abstract: In a gap-mode waveguide embodiment, an interior gap in a tubular waveguide principally condenses a dominant gap mode near the interior gap, and an absorber dissipates electromagnetic energy away from the gap mode. In this manner, the gap mode may dissipate relatively little power in the absorber compared to other modes and propagate with lesser attenuation than all other modes. A gap mode launched into a gap-mode waveguide may provide for low-loss, low-dispersion propagation of signals over a bandwidth including a multimode range of the waveguide. Gap-mode waveguide embodiments of various forms may be used to build guided-wave circuits covering broad bandwidths extending to terahertz frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2011Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Inventor: Kirk S. Giboney
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Patent number: 8952766Abstract: An object is to provide a control board, an inverter device, and an integrated-inverter electric compressor that are capable of improving electromagnetic compatibility (EMC property) and improving reliability against input/output of electromagnetic noise, which shows a tendency towards greater complexity and intensity. A control board to which two power systems, that is, a low-voltage power system and a high-voltage power system, are inputs, comprising a low-voltage circuit and a high-voltage circuit, and a low-voltage-side ground region and a high-voltage-side ground region that are formed in correspondence with the circuits, respectively, wherein frame ground regions are provided at a plurality of positions on the control board, and a plurality of communication line patterns connected to the low-voltage circuit are respectively connected to both the low-voltage-side ground region and the frame ground region through capacitance elements with various capacitances.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2010Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Hattori, Masahiko Asai
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Patent number: 8947178Abstract: A dielectric core tunable filter for microwave frequencies of 0.5-30 GHz. The filter includes a low loss machined dielectric having multiple channels a portion of which are terminated in micro-electromechanical variable capacitors to realize coupled resonators. The machined dielectric is metalized with a material, such as copper, silver, or gold, and then patterned to provide ring shaped recesses at the ends of preselected channels.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2011Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventor: James R. Reid, Jr.
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Patent number: 8933855Abstract: Various exemplary embodiments relate to an antenna feed configured to receive a signal having a wavelength. They antenna feed may include a cylindrical body and four pin groups. Each pin group may include two pins in close proximity extending across the center of the cylindrical body. One of the two pins may be rotated approximately 22.5° from the angle of the other pin. Each pin group may be spaced approximately one quarter of a wavelength away from each other, and may be rotated approximately 22.5° from the angle of the previous pin group.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2012Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventor: James W. Nelson
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Patent number: 8917148Abstract: A transmission unit with reduced crosstalk signal includes a first conductor group having at least one first conductor surrounded by a first sheath and at least one second conductor surrounded by a second sheath. The first and the second conductor are axially arranged corresponding to one another. The first sheath has a dielectric coefficient higher than that of the second sheath, so that a difference in dielectric property exists between the first and the second conductor to enable reduction of crosstalk occurred during high-speed signal transmission over the transmission unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2011Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Yes Way Enterprise CorporationInventors: Da-Yu Liu, Da-Yung Liu, Teng-Lan Liu, Ben-Hwa Jang
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Patent number: 8907747Abstract: A filter device including an input electronic circuit having an input load admittance Yin, an output electronic circuit having an output load admittance Yout, a lattice filter with two types of two piezoelectric resonators having a characteristic impedance Zc; those of the first type have a resonant frequency Fr1 and an antiresonant frequency Fa1; those of the second type have a resonant frequency Fr2 different from Fr1 and an antiresonant frequency Fa2 different from Fa1. The input and output impedances are matched to the reciprocal of the real part Re{Yin} of the admittance Yin and the reciprocal of the real part Re{Yout} of the admittance Yout, which are at least two to five times greater than the characteristic impedance Zc of the resonators. The frequency differences Fa1?Fr1 and Fa2?Fr2 are at least two to three times greater than the absolute value of the difference Fr1?Fr2.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2012Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies AlternativesInventors: Carolynn Bernier, Jean-Baptiste David
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Patent number: 8884724Abstract: A cavity filter includes a housing having a positioning portion, a cover on top of the housing which have a pair of first positioning holes, a sliding plate with movably support on the positioning portion and mounted between the positioning portion and the cover to be configured to adjust a resonating frequency of the cavity filter, and a tuning structure fixed on the cover and having a pair of first positioning poles. The sliding plate includes a plurality of elastic arms, each of which is made of insulated material and supported by the positioning portion. Each of the pair of first positioning poles extends through the corresponding first positioning holes to touch the corresponding one of the plurality of elastic arms of the sliding plate.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2012Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kwo-Jyr Wong
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Patent number: 8884716Abstract: A feeding structure including a carrier substrate, a top conductor plane of a cavity formed in the carrier substrate, a feedline substrate covering the top conductor plane, a signal conductor of a feedline, the signal conductor being formed in or on the feedline substrate opposite the top conductor plane, a via probe connected to the signal conductor and leading through the feedline substrate and the top conductor plane into the cavity, a ring-shaped aperture formed in the top conductor plane around the via probe, and at least one slot-shaped aperture formed in the top conductor plane starting at the ring-shaped aperture and leading away from the via probe.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2012Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Joo-Young Choi, Stefan Koch, Thomas Merkle
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Patent number: 8847703Abstract: The invention relates to a filtering network in HR-Si silicon technology defined by at least one cut-off frequency and comprising an input terminal for receiving the signal to be filtered and an output terminal for delivering a filtered signal. The network comprises a first ground line connected by its ends to first and second ground points connected directly to the ground plane, a second ground line connected via its ends to third and fourth ground points directly connected to the ground plane, a plurality of L/C resonant elements connected in parallel and linked via one end to one of the two ground lines and via the other end between them, by means of coupling inductors which thus create transmission zeros.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2010Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventors: Dominique Lo Hine Tong, Raafat Lababidi, François Baron, Ali Louzir, Bernard Jarry, Bruno Barelaud, Julien Lintignat