Abstract: An acoustic surface wave interaction device includes a plate of dielectric material provided with two transducers each having at least one pair of comb-shaped electrode arrays having a plurality of teeth. The teeth in one comb-shaped electrode array of each pair are interleaved with the teeth of the other comb-shaped electrode array. At least one transducer has the pair of comb-shaped electrode arrays divided into two or more pairs of comb-shaped electrode arrays which are electrically connected in series, while the length of teeth is varied so that the tip ends thereof are enveloped by a curve representing the inverse Fourier transform of the transfer function of the device. The number of pairs of interleaving teeth to be included in one divided pair of electrode arrays is determined by the length of interleaving of the teeth in order to provide each divided pair of electrode arrays with the same impedance.

Abstract: An elastic surface wave device comprises a substrate of dielectric material, a thin layer of piezoelectric material, a plurality of electrodes and a thin layer of dielectric material. The piezoelectric layer is spaced from the electrodes with the thin dielectric layer formed therebetween and is so arranged as to facilitate the employment of a known photo-etching method to form the electrodes.

Abstract: An acoustic surface wave filter device for use in video IF stages in television receivers and the like, which comprises a substrate of a piezoelectric material and a spaced pair of transducers each of which is composed of a pair of interleaved comb type electrodes. One of the transducers is designed so as to have a frequency response curve in which attenuation poles at the both sides of the main lobe thereof, respectively, occur at frequencies corresponding to the upper adjacent-channel picture carrier frequency and the lower adjacent-channel sound carrier frequency. The other of the transducers is designed so as to have a frequency response curve in which the bandwidth thereof corresponds to the width from the sound carrier frequency of the associated channel to the lower adjacent-channel sound frequency. The substrate may be provided with a piezoelectric resonator. The substrate may be further provided with at least one ancillary transducing element.

Abstract: An elastic surface wave filter having a substrate of piezoelectric material and input and output transducer electrodes of interleaved-comb-type rigidly mounted on one surface of the substrate. The substrate is steadily supported in position within a casing by means of elastic support means which are made of synthetic or natural rubber material and which support means not only act as supporting instruments for the substrate, but also as vibration absorbing instruments for substantially suppressing unnecessary wave propagation through the substrate.