Abstract: An improved monolithic piezoelectric filter unit having two bilateral electrodes on one surface and a common electrode on the opposite surface, the common electrode connected to the common terminal of the filter unit via a capacitor.

Abstract: This invention provides a surface elastic wave device constituted by a unitary body of a piezoelectric plate having a pair of transducers thereon, which unitary body is embedded in a casing, and wherein the wave propagation of a surface elastic wave generated on the surface of the piezoelectric plate during excitation of the device is prevented from being transferred to the casing by a thin film inserted between the casing and the wave propagation surface of the piezoelectric plate or by using as the casing a roll of flexible sheet which has the same function of wave propagation prevention as that of the thin film. This device is advantageous because it has a low spurious signal level without incrementing insertion loss, is easy to manufacture and is inexpensive. This invention also provides an effective method of making the device.

Abstract: The input signal to a CCD register is sampled many times during one period of the multiple phase voltages employed to drive the CCD. The samples are translated to small charge packets which are added to one another during the one period to produce a sum charge packet which subsequently is propagated down the register. The higher frequency components, including noise, which are present in the input signal largely cancel during the charge addition process.

Abstract: Microwave devices for power conversion between harmonically related frequencies, using an oversized cavity and antenna means to provide the required coupling to a varactor therein.

Abstract: Shock-absorbing members are provided in the vicinity of free ends of vibratory reeds of an electromechanical reed filter and deformable in at least two stages so as to stepwisely absorb external shocks being imparted to the filter for ensuring stability of the operation of the filter.

Abstract: An elastic surface wave transmitting device comprising a piezoelectric substrate S.sub.1 on which is arranged a transmitting transducer T.sub.E placed on the center of the substrate S.sub.1, and two receiving transducers T.sub.R1 and T.sub.R2 arranged on either side of the transmitting transducer T.sub.E, means (a metallic wafer P.sub.1, for example deposited by evaporation on to the substrate S.sub.1) enabling the waves transmitted by the transmitting transducer T.sub.E towards each of the receiving transducers T.sub.R1 and T.sub.R2 to be phase-shifted so that the waves O.sub.1 and O.sub.2 respectively reflected by these receiving transducers T.sub.R1 and T.sub.R2 cancel one another out at the transmitting transducer T.sub.E.

Abstract: HF signal transmission device comprising a HF transmission path and an LF supply current transmission path connected between common input and output terminals. The LF transmission path is provided with a blocking inductance for the HF signals which, to avoid hum modulation, comprises a series of at least two coil pairs wound on an open magnetizable core, the coils in each pair being wound in opposite sense, and the LF supply current being tapped from the junction point between the two pairs.

Abstract: A surface acoustic wave (SAW) tapped delay line, including a piezoelectric substrate having a pair of signal launching transducers disposed thereon for providing surface acoustic waves in the substrate in response to electrical signals applied thereto, and including a plurality of transducer taps disposed in an interaction region of the substrate for providing a plurality of sensed electrical signals in response to the surface acoustic waves propagating through the interaction region, the plurality of sensed electrical signals including signals at the frequency of each of the acoustic waves, is combined with a plurality of nonlinear frequency mixers, each responsive to a corresponding one of the transducer taps, and each providing signal manifestations of the sum and different frequencies of the surface acoustic waves in a selected one of two phases which are displaced by 180.degree.

Abstract: The present invention relates to surface elastic wave programmable oscillators. The oscillator in accordance with the invention comprises an amplifier and a feedback loop comprising a selective surface wave transmission system which offers N possibilities of energy exchange between a transducer array with curved teeth, and a set of auxiliary transducers arranged in a fantail fashion.

Abstract: A length weighted interdigital transducer has .lambda./2 spaced electrodes within the overlap region. Outside the overlap region, the overlapping .lambda./2 spaced electrodes are connected to the bus bars by pairs of .lambda./4 spaced electrodes and extra "dummy" pairs of .lambda./4 spaced electrodes are also connected to the bus bars. The .lambda./2 spaced electrodes give a good manufacturing yield, and the .lambda./4 spaced pairs of electrodes and pairs of dummy electrodes provide compensation for wavefront distortion combined with low "interactions.

Abstract: A compensation circuit is provided for a piezo-electric quartz crystal in a filter circuit for reducing the influence of the secondary resonance frequencies of the crystal on the filter characteristic. The Q-value of the crystal at one or several secondary resonance frequencies is reduced by connecting to the crystal a two-terminal network the impedance of which has a real and an imaginary part so that the real part gives an ohmic contribution which at the resonance frequency of the imaginary part reduces the Q-value of the crystal.

Abstract: Two cylindrical sleeves of metal oxide varistor material (MOV) are used as apacitive elements of a low pass feedthrough pi-filter network. A metallic housing coaxially surrounds the MOV sleeves and provides electrical contact to ground. The inner surface of each sleeve is electrically connected to an inductor whose leads are terminated by feedthrough connectors on either side of the metal housing. The sleeve inner diameter is large enough to envelop the inductance thereby reducing the package length. The combined shunt capacitance and series inductance form the low pass pi-filter network. At normal signal levels, the package acts as a normal feedthrough low pass pi-filter network. At higher signal levels and transients, the bipolar MOV components clamp the voltage to a given level, determined by the MOV material grain structure and sleeve thickness.

Abstract: Two partial circular chips of metal oxide varistor (MOV) material are moud in a TO-5 transistor case. Each chip acts as a capacitive element to ground for a low pass pi-filter network. An inductance, whose value is chosen for the required filter impedance and cut off frequency, is placed across the MOV chips and connected to TO-5 contacts, along with the MOV, completing the filter network. At normal signal levels, the package acts as a normal low-pass pi-filter network. At higher signal levels and transients, the bipolar MOV components clamp the voltage to a given level, determined by the MOV material grain structure and chip thickness.

Abstract: A filter circuit includes an acoustic surface-wave filter device having an input transducer comprised of a set of interleaved electrodes disposed on a first portion of a body of piezo-electric material adapted to propagate acoustic surface waves for producing an acoustic surface-wave signal in response to an input signal applied to the input transducer, and an output transducer comprised of a set of similar interleaved electrodes disposed on a second portion of the piezo-electric body spaced a selected distance from the first portion for receiving the acoustic surface-wave signals so as to produce a corresponding output signal having a selected frequency response. The frequency response (e.g., bandwidth) of the acoustic surface-wave filter device is controlled by selectively changing the number of conductor elements constituting the interleaved electrodes of the input and output transducers.

Abstract: A high power tunable radio frequency circuit which may be used, for example, in a power oscillator, frequency discriminator, diplexer, filter, or a multicoupler comprising a stripline distributed circuit in the influence of a variable magnetic field introduced orthogonally to the plane of the stripline circuit. The stripline is laminated between two layers of planar ferrite members and the D.C. magnetic field intensity is varied to bias the material to a predetermined but variable permeability level, thus changing the propagation velocity of the R.F. signal in the stripline and, therefore, acting to tune the device. Alternately, a microstrip embodiment may be employed utilizing a planar ferrite substrate on one side of the circuit configuration only.

Abstract: There is disclosed a stripline interdigital filter fabricated in a self-supporting structure and including a plurality of parallel-coupled resonators. The parallel-coupled resonators are disposed between first and second ground planes, which first ground plane being removably mounted to the filter housing to facilitate interchanging of the first ground plane with another ground plane so dimensioned that the spacing between the parallel-coupled resonators and the first ground plane is varied a predetermined amount whereby the band-pass characteristics of the filter are varied.

Abstract: A connector having a plurality of electrical contacts includes a metal plate to which is secured a foil sheet having spring properties. The sheet is punched to form apertures defined by circumferentially spaced tines. EMI filters are press fit within the apertures sandwiching the tines between the filters and the plate. The composite plate and foil provides a ground plane for the filters.

Abstract: An electromagnetic wave guiding rotary joint admitting of rotary motion about two or more axes. A spherical journal and a complementary spherical race afford electromagnetic communication between two wave guiding means.

Abstract: The mercury-vapor pressure within a fluorescent lamp is controlled by a metal (indium or an alloy of indium and tin, for example) that wets glass, combines with the mercury within the lamp to form an amalgam and is divided into segments which are fused directly to one or both of the glass stems at spaced locations. The amalgamative-metal segments are of such shape and mass that they inherently remain in place on the stem when they are heat-softened and pressed onto the glass surface. Segments of larger size and mass are retained in place by an overlying porous layer of inert material that adheres to the glass or by an embedded wire mesh member and an exterior porous coating of inert material. The amalgamative metal can also be combined with a fusible binder to form a composite which is divided into small pellets that are pressed onto the glass stem and held in place by the adhesive action of the binder when the latter is fused during the bulb-lehring operation required to fabricate the lamp.

Abstract: A coaxial transmission line for u.h.f. waves, and particularly for use with slotted line equipment, in which the center conductor is supported coaxially within the outer conductor by spaced dielectric pins extending radially between said conductors, wherein wave reflections are minimized by means of counter-bored areas in the form of shallow depressions in the surface of the inner conductor where it is engaged by said pins, said depressions completely surrounding the point of engagement of each pin with said inner conductor and being dimensioned to produce an inductive effect to compensate for the capacitive effect of the dielectric pins.