Patents by Inventor Manfred B. Schulz

Manfred B. Schulz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4155057
    Abstract: A surface acoustic wave low loss filter device having input and output transducers located along opposed sides of a rectangular propagation path with frequency selective reflective gratings at each of the four corners of the rectangle. Two traveling surface waves traverse the device along opposed paths encountering frequency filtering at the gratings. The two waves arrive at the output transducer additively in phase eliminating the bidirectionality loss normally associated with surface acoustic wave devices. At frequencies for which the gratings are reflective there can be nearly lossless transmission from input to output. At all other frequencies, transmission between input and output transducers is negligible. The device has high sidelobe rejection, adjustable passband skirt slopes, and an adjustable bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1979
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Frank Sandy, Manfred B. Schulz
  • Patent number: 4114119
    Abstract: A surface acoustic wave device having substantially all of the surface wave energy produced at an input transducer coupled to the output utilization means. Plural reflecting means upon the surface of a piezoelectric substrate reflect surface waves produced by the input transducer in plural directions. The passband characteristics of the device are determined by the interaction of the transfer properties of each of the reflecters as well as those of the input and output transducers. Devices are described having extremely low insertion loss and wide bandwidth with low sidelobes and steep passband skirts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Frank Sandy, Manfred B. Schulz
  • Patent number: 4035775
    Abstract: A temperature compensated acoustic surface wave device, such as a surface wave delay line is provided in which temperature compensation is provided by the deposition of an interdigital electrode structure on a substrate with an overlay film surface of piezoelectric material of a predetermined thickness. A double substrate arrangement is also disclosed in which the interdigital electrode structure is deposited upon the surface of a non-piezoelectric layer which in turn is placed upon the surface of a piezoelectric substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1977
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Manfred B. Schulz, Melvin G. Holland
  • Patent number: 3952268
    Abstract: A temperature compensated acoustic surface wave device, such as a surface wave delay line is provided in which temperature compensation is provided by the deposition of an interdigital electrode structure on a substrate with an overlay film surface of piezoelectric material of a predetermined thickness. A double substrate arrangement is also disclosed in which the interdigital electrode structure is deposited upon the surface of a non-piezo-electric layer which in turn is placed upon the surface of a piezoelectric substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1976
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Manfred B. Schulz, Melvin G. Holland
  • Patent number: 3931420
    Abstract: A temperature compensated acoustic surface wave device, such as a surface wave delay line is provided in which temperature compensation is provided by the deposition of an interdigital electrode structure on a substrate with an overlay film surface of piezoelectric material of a predetermined thickness. A double substrate arrangement is also disclosed in which the interdigital electrode structure is deposited upon the surface of a non-piezoelectric layer which in turn is placed upon the surface of a piezoelectric substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1973
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1976
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Manfred B. Schulz, Melvin G. Holland