Abstract: A non-reciprocal circuit device includes a yoke that is small-sized, has a simple structure, has sufficient adhesive strength, and can achieve favorable performance characteristics. The non-reciprocal circuit device includes a planar yoke, permanent magnets, a ferrite to which a DC magnetic field is applied by the permanent magnets, and first and second center electrodes located on the ferrite. The planar yoke is located on the upper surface of the ferrite-magnet assembly through an adhesive layer. On the rear surface of the yoke, protrusions are arranged in a lattice manner, and the protrusions increase the adhesive strength and facilitate the flow of a high-frequency field generated from the second center electrode.

Abstract: A non-reciprocal circuit device includes a yoke that is small-sized, has a simple structure, has sufficient adhesive strength, and can achieve favorable performance characteristics. The non-reciprocal circuit device includes a planar yoke, permanent magnets, a ferrite to which a DC magnetic field is applied by the permanent magnets, and first and second center electrodes located on the ferrite. The planar yoke is located on the upper surface of the ferrite-magnet assembly through an adhesive layer. On the rear surface of the yoke, protrusions are arranged in a lattice manner, and the protrusions increase the adhesive strength and facilitate the flow of a high-frequency field generated from the second center electrode.

Abstract: A method of forming a dielectric resonator from an inner-conductor-formed hole that has a substantially rectangular or substantially elliptical cross section in a direction perpendicular to the depth direction thereof, by placing a rotary cutting disk in contact with the edge of the opening of the inner-conductor-formed hole, and removing portions of an outer conductor and the inner conductor in the contact portion with the rotary cutting disk, thereby separating the inner conductor and the outer conductor.

Abstract: In a dielectric filter, from the top surface to the bottom surface of a substantially rectangular dielectric block, inner-conductor holes are formed. On the inner surfaces of the inner-conductor holes, inner conductors are formed except where non-conductor portions are formed in proximity to one of the top and bottom surfaces, in which the apertures of the inner-conductor holes are formed. On the outer surface of the dielectric block, an outer conductor is formed substantially over the entire outer surface, and input and output electrodes isolated from the outer conductor are coupled with the non-conductor portions in the respective inner-conductor holes at the ends of the dielectric block in the direction of array of the inner-conductor holes.

Abstract: A dielectric filter and a dielectric duplexer have structures for coupling between resonators, in which a range for determining the coupling strength between the resonators can be broadened and the polarity of the coupling can be changed. In addition, a communication apparatus incorporating the dielectric filter or the dielectric duplexer can be provided. Inside a dielectric member, resonance line holes having resonance lines formed on the inner surfaces thereof are disposed. Both ends of each of the resonance line holes are open-circuited. The inner diameter of each of the resonance line holes is changed at some point in the longitudinal direction of each resonance line to form a stepped part.

Abstract: A dielectric filter and a dielectric duplexer have structures for coupling between resonators, in which a range for determining the coupling strength between the resonators can be broadened and the polarity of the coupling can be changed. In addition, a communication apparatus incorporating the dielectric filter or the dielectric duplexer can be provided. Inside a dielectric member, resonance line holes having resonance lines formed on the inner surfaces thereof are disposed. Both ends of each of the resonance line holes are open-circuited. The inner diameter of each of the resonance line holes is changed at some point in the longitudinal direction of each resonance line to form a stepped part.

Abstract: A dielectric filter capable of easily obtaining desired filter characteristics by strongly coupling mutually adjacent resonators with high accuracy even when reducing the height of the entire filter. In this filter, inside a dielectric block, there are disposed inner-conductor-formed holes in which inner conductors are formed on the inner surfaces of the holes. Coupling electrodes are arranged on an outer surface of the dielectric block and are electrically connected to the inner conductors. Additionally, the coupling electrodes are extended, for example, from the edge of an opening surface of the dielectric block which contains the open ends of the inner-conductor-formed holes, onto a side surface which is disposed parallel to a direction in which the inner-conductor-formed holes are aligned. The invention also provides a duplexer and a communication apparatus using the dielectric filter.

Abstract: A dielectric block includes a plurality of plated through holes each having an inner conductor formed thereon to form respective plated through holes. At least one of the plated through holes branches into two legs at the short circuit side thereof so that the two legs are close to the short circuit side of the plated through holes adjacent thereto. This allows the resonators formed of the plated through holes to be strongly inductively coupled with each other.

Abstract: The invention provides a composite dielectric filter device that can easily improve the isolation characteristics between mutually adjacent filters, even when using a compact dielectric block to miniaturize the entire configuration of the device. The invention also provides a communication apparatus incorporating the filter device. In the filter device, inner conductor holes are arranged inside a single dielectric block, and an outer conductor is formed on outer faces of the dielectric block. Additionally, an outer-conductor-free portion is formed at the boundary between a transmission filter and a reception filter formed by the inner conductor holes.

Abstract: A dielectric duplexer includes a substantially rectangular dielectric block. The dielectric block includes inner-conductor-containing holes each having an inner conductor on the inner surfaces thereof, and inner-conductor-unformed portions on which the inner conductors are not formed are formed in the vicinity of first ends of the inner-conductor-containing holes. The dielectric block further includes an outer conductor and input/output electrodes which are formed on the outer surface thereof, and the input/output electrodes are separated from the outer conductor. A through-hole having a short circuited electrode formed on the inner surface thereof is provided between two of the inner-conductor-containing holes so as to run from the mounting surface to the surface opposite thereto.

Abstract: A stepped portion is formed inside the inner-conductor holes arranged between both side surfaces of a dielectric block. The axis at an open end of the holes is made to be different from the axis at a short-circuited surface. The open ends of the inner-conductor holes are formed so as to be close to corresponding input-output electrodes.

Abstract: A dielectric filter which has suitable attenuation characteristics and which readily exhibits desired characteristics. First, second and third inner-conductor holes having an inner conductor on each of the surfaces thereof are formed inside a dielectric block having an outer conductor on the outer surface thereof. First and second I/O electrodes extend from opposing side-surfaces to the undersurface of the dielectric block and are separated from the outer conductor. The side-surfaces are orthogonal to the direction in which the inner-conductor holes are arrayed in the dielectric block, and the undersurface is a mounting surface for facing a mounting board. The first I/O electrode extends from one of said side-surfaces near the first inner-conductor hole, to a position beyond a remote side of the second inner-conductor hole, that is, the side near the third inner-conductor hole.

Abstract: In a dielectric filter, from the top surface to the bottom surface of a substantially rectangular dielectric block, inner-conductor holes are formed. On the inner surfaces of the inner-conductor holes, inner conductors are formed except where non-conductor portions are formed in proximity to one of the top and bottom surfaces, in which the apertures of the inner-conductor holes are formed. On the outer surface of the dielectric block, an outer conductor is formed substantially over the entire outer surface, and input and output electrodes isolated from the outer conductor are coupled with the non-conductor portions in the respective inner-conductor holes at the ends of the dielectric block in the direction of array of the inner-conductor holes.

Abstract: A dielectric filter, a dielectric duplexer, a communication apparatus are capable of arbitrarily determining the coupling degree of an external coupling without changing the intensity between resonators and miniaturization. Resonator holes are aligned in a dielectric block with a step structure of a large-diameter portion extending in a thickness direction of a dielectric block and a small-diameter portion smaller than the large-diameter portion, and a predetermined pitch is set between the small-diameter portions of the resonator holes and excitation holes by decentering the central axis of the small-diameter portion from the central axis of the large-diameter portion, thereby deciding the intensity of the external coupling.

Abstract: In a dielectric filter, from the top surface to the bottom surface of a substantially rectangular dielectric block, inner-conductor holes are formed. On the inner surfaces of the inner-conductor holes, inner conductors are formed except where non-conductor portions are formed in proximity to one of the top and bottom surfaces, in which the apertures of the inner-conductor holes are formed. On the outer surface of the dielectric block, an outer conductor is formed substantially over the entire outer surface, and input and output electrodes isolated from the outer conductor are coupled with the non-conductor portions in the respective inner-conductor holes at the ends of the dielectric block in the direction of array of the inner-conductor holes.

Abstract: The invention provides a dielectric filter, comprising: a dielectric block having a first end face and a second end face and side faces extending therebetween; a plurality of resonator holes and at least one external coupling hole respectively passing through both end faces; inner conductors provided on inner faces of the resonator holes and the external coupling holes; an external conductor provided on the outer faces of the dielectric block; concavities provided in formation regions of the external coupling holes on the first and the second end face and in the short-circuiting regions of the resonator holes; and the external conductor being removed except from the portions of the concavities in the first end face and the second end face, thereby forming open faces of the resonator holes on the first end face and the second end face.

Abstract: A dielectric filter in which many attenuation poles can be generated, including attenuation poles generated by tap coupling, so that arbitrary passing characteristics and attenuation characteristics can be obtained. In this filter, inside a dielectric block there are formed through-holes having stepped structures in which inner conductors are disposed on the inner surfaces of the holes to capacitively couple the resonators. There are also formed lateral holes having conductive films disposed on the inner surfaces of the holes. The lateral holes are connected to input/output terminals in predetermined positions of the inner conductors. Further, terminal electrodes may be disposed adjacent to predetermined positions of the inner conductors. With this arrangement, attenuation poles are generated by both distributed constant resonator coupling and tap coupling on the low frequency side and/or the high frequency side of a pass band.

Abstract: Plural inner conductor formation holes 2a, 2b, and 2c having inner conductors formed on the inner walls thereof are arranged inside of a dielectric block 1, and an outer conductor 3 is formed so as to cover the outer surface of the dielectric block 1. The openings of the respective inner conductor formation holes 2a to 2c on the open end side have round hole shapes having substantially the same diameters. The cross-sections of a part of the inner conductor formation holes on the short-circuit end side have angular shapes.

Abstract: A dielectric filter and a dielectric duplexer with improved out-of-band attenuation characteristics in the vicinity of the pass band without changing the pass band characteristics. Inner conductor forming holes are formed from one end face to the opposite end face of a dielectric block, and inner conductors are formed on the respective inner surfaces. An outer conductor is formed over substantially the entire outer surface of the dielectric block. On one side surface of the dielectric block, substantially parallel to the inner conductors, outer conductor gaps are provided in at least one area disposed between a pair of inner conductors, extending between the opposite end faces.

Abstract: A dielectric filter includes a dielectric block having substantially a rectangular parallelepiped shape, a plurality of internal-conductor-formed holes provided substantially parallel to one another in the dielectric block, each including an internal conductor formed on the internal surface thereof, an external conductor formed on the external surface of the dielectric block, and an input/output electrode formed on the external surface of the dielectric block.