Abstract: A base station in a mobile communication network, includes at least one transmission line for transmitting a radio frequency signal. Each transmission line includes a coupling hole. A two-port coupled line includes one or more coupling holes. Each transmission line and the coupled line are couplable to form a coupling by setting the coupling hole of the transmission line against the coupling hole of the two-port coupled line. The coupling enables a signal sample of the radio frequency signal to propagate from the transmission line to the two-port coupled line.

Abstract: A transmission line is provided which has a low loss and can flow large current. A superconductor transmission line has: an internal conductor; and an external conductor surrounding the internal conductor, made of oxide superconductor and having four planes, which four planes have a cross section of a hollow quadrilateral with each corner portion being removed, and adjacent planes of which define a slit narrower than ?/4 (? being a wavelength of a high frequency wave to be transmitted).

Abstract: Microwave generator having two electrodes which are provided in a housing and are separated via a spark gap which breaks down when a high voltage is applied in order to emit microwaves, in which the first electrode (6) is in the form of a pot, and the other, inner electrode (5) engages over the first electrode on the outside at a distance therefrom at least over a part of the length thereof with the pot-shaped electrode (6) having a bottom section (10) which concurrently forms the side termination of the housing.

Abstract: A microstrip-based RF coil for use in an MRI apparatus constructed to perform human head imaging is provided and includes (a) a cylindrical non-magnetic core module having an outer surface and a longitudinal axis, a cylindrical bore extending through the core module along the longitudinal axis and defining an inner surface; and a plurality of conductive strip lines. The strip lines extend parallel to the longitudinal axis on the outer surface of the core module. The coil is constructed such that one or more of the conductive strips are divided into conductive microstrip segments with one or more tuning capacitors being bridged between two adjacent microstrip segmented sections of the conductive strip. The coil also include a shield support cylinder that is disposed concentrically about the core module and is spaced therefrom to receive the tuning capacitors.

Abstract: A dual-band bandpass filter having a first pass band and a second pass band respectively corresponding to a first frequency and a second frequency. The filter includes a first pair of resonators, a second pair of resonators and a first coupling element. The first pair of resonators includes a first resonator and a second resonator, which share a first grounding transmission line and are grounded through the first grounding transmission line to generate coupling. The second pair of resonators includes a third resonator and a fourth resonator, which share a second grounding transmission line and are grounded through the second grounding transmission line to generate coupling. The first coupling element connected between the first and second pairs of resonators makes the first and second pairs of resonators produce coupling such that the dual-band bandpass filter has the first and second pass bands.

Abstract: A dielectric resonator has a metallic casing having an opening, a metallic cover which covers the opening, and a dielectric resonance element having a pair of flat surfaces formed opposite from each other, one of the pair of flat surfaces being brought into contact with a bottom portion of the casing. At least one of the cover and the bottom portion has a resilient portion which supports the dielectric resonance element and presses one of the pair of flat surfaces by a biasing force so as to follow expansion or contraction of the dielectric resonance element due to a change in temperature. The biasing force applied from the resilient portion is obtained by warping of a portion of the cover or a portion of the bottom portion that one of the pair of flat surfaces or an edge portion of the flat surface contacts.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for making an inner conductor from a conductive body integrally forms a flange on one end of the conductive body. The flange is formed integral to the conductive body by flaring the end of the conductive body. The size and shape of the flange is selected to achieve a desired capacitance surface area for use in a resonator. A resonator housing that has a plurality of cavities can be provided with a plurality of conductive bodies that are inserted into holes located in a bottom wall of the resonator body and that protrude into the plurality of cavities. The resonator housing and conductive bodies are placed onto a flanging fixture to produce a flange on each conductive body of a desired size and shape to achieve a desired capacitance surface area. The plurality of conductive bodies can be simultaneously flanged and fastened to the base of the resonator housing.

Abstract: A monoblock ceramic triplexer for connection to an antenna, a transmitter, a receiver and a GPS receiver is described. The triplexer includes a solid, monolithic core of dielectric material defining a plurality of through-holes extending between top and bottom surfaces. The surfaces of the core present a pattern of metallized and unmetallized areas including a relatively expansive metallized area, a transmitter coupling area, first and second receiver coupling areas spaced, an antenna coupling metallized area and an unmetallized area circumscribing at least one of the openings on the top surface. The antenna coupling metallized area includes a top surface extension towards the first receiver coupling area, and the expanded metallized area includes a top surface extension between adjacent resonator through-holes.

Abstract: A compact combline resonator and filter. The annular radius of inductive posts are modulated along the length of the inductive post to establish a desired inductive value for a series inductive capacitive resonator. The filter has a waveguide channel with an input port and an output port. One or more of the inductive posts are located in the waveguide channel, the one or more inductive posts providing filter poles and coupling the input port to the output port, each inductive post being electrically connected at one post end to a wall of the waveguide channel and providing a capacitance gap between an other post end and an opposing wall of the waveguide channel to provide a series inductive capacitive resonator.

Abstract: The idea of the invention is to fabricate a multilayer coaxial transmission line into a printed circuit. The outermost conductor is fabricated by conductive strips in different layers, using conductive via posts in isolation layers connecting the strips. The innermost conductor can be a single conductive strip or multi strips in different layers connected together through conductive via posts.

Abstract: A dielectric filter includes a dielectric block having a plurality of through holes; an outer conductor provided on an outer surface of the dielectric block; and inner conductors provided on inner surfaces of the plurality of through holes. The dielectric filter also includes a first dielectric provided between the respective inner conductors and the outer conductor; and at least one second dielectric provided between the inner conductors of two adjacent through holes. The temperature coefficient of the resonant frequency of the first dielectric is different from that of the second dielectric. If inductive coupling between the adjacent resonators generates an attenuation pole at a frequency higher than a pass band, the temperature coefficient of the resonant frequency of the first dielectrics is set to a predetermined positive value, and the temperature coefficient of the resonant frequency of the second dielectric is set to a predetermined negative value.

Abstract: A coaxial resonator according to an embodiment of the invention includes a tubular dielectric block, an inner conductor having a thin-film, multi-layer electrode structure, which is formed on an outer surface of a cylindrical shaft received in the hole of the tubular dielectric block, and an outer conductor formed on an outer surface of the tubular dielectric block. The cylindrical shaft is inserted into the hole in the dielectric block, and is held by a holding member and an outer frame.

Abstract: In a resonator having a dielectric member and an electrode formed on the dielectric member, a displacement area (D area) having a high vertical electric field component, and a short or steady area (S area) having a vertical electric field component of zero or close to zero are provided in an interface between the dielectric member and the electrode. A single-layer conductive film divided into portions is formed in the D area or on the side surfaces of the dielectric member, and a multilayer thin-film electrode is formed in the S area or on the end faces of the dielectric member. Conductive thin films of the multilayer thin-film electrode are alternately connected to the single-layer conductive film portions. In-phase currents having the same amplitude flow to the conductive thin films of the multilayer thin-film electrode in the S area in radial direction with respect to the axis of symmetry, thus achieving low-loss operation of the multilayer thin-film electrode in the S area.

Abstract: A system and method for a novel microwave coaxial resonator oscillator using a ?ths wavelength resonator is described. The novel system and method provides a coaxial resonator for operation at high frequencies comprising a conductive resonator and a coaxial conductive outer shell electrically connected by an conductive end member, wherein the conductive resonator and outer shell are of a length approximately equal to (1/8+n/2) of the wavelength of the desired frequency, where n is a positive integer. The novel system and method provides a low noise oscillator for operation at high frequencies and reduces oscillator phase noise in high Q implementations. The novel system and method also provides for reducing the aspect ratio of a 1/8 wavelength coaxial resonator by increasing in a stepwise manner the length of the coaxial resonator by n/2 wavelengths of the resonator frequency, where n is a positive integer.

Abstract: The idea of the invention is to fabricate a multilayer coaxial transmission line into a printed circuit. The outermost conductor is fabricated by conductive conduit strips in different layers, using conductive via posts in isolation layers connecting the strips. The innermost conductor can be a single conductive strip or multiple strips in different layers connected together through conductive via posts.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for making an inner conductor from a conductive body integrally forms a flange on one end of the conductive body. The flange is formed integral to the conductive body by flaring the end of the conductive body. The size and shape of the flange is selected to achieve a desired capacitance surface area for use in a resonator. A resonator housing that has a plurality of cavities can be provided with a plurality of conductive bodies that are inserted into holes located in a bottom wall of the resonator body and that protrude into the plurality of cavities. The resonator housing and conductive bodies are placed onto a flanging fixture to produce a flange on each conductive body of a desired size and shape to achieve a desired capacitance surface area. The plurality of conductive bodies can be simultaneously flanged and fastened to the base of the resonator housing.

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: For a compact microwave generator (11) with powerfully wide-band microwave radiation in which there is a marked resonance increase whose frequency center of gravity is variable in order to be able to adapt the power center in respect of the radiated wavelengths to the geometrical structure of a circuit configuration to be disturbed, a conductor (29) which coaxially surrounds the spark gap (13) between the electrodes (14-15) is electrically connected to one of the two electrodes (15) mechanically adjustably in its effective length as a variable resonator.

Abstract: The present invention is a filter and a method of making a filter to remove unwanted frequency harmonics associated with current filters. The filter is made up of resonators, such that the filter resonates a design frequency. Whereby, at least two resonators are coupled together between an input and an output and at least one of the resonators is of a different design from other resonators, such that the resonator of a different design resonates the same design frequency as the other resonators and resonates different higher order harmonic frequencies than the other resonators. The present invention also provides methods of improving skirt response for a filter, as well as other response properties of the filter. One way to improve the filter's properties is where at least one of the resonators in a filter is reversed in orientation as compared to the other resonators.

Abstract: In an inner conductor of a coaxial gyrotron, which inner conductor is disposed on the cathode of the gyrotron and includes an entrance funnel, a center part and an exit funnel, axial corrugations are formed in the conductor by axial grooves formed into its wall such that they begin at the end of the entrance funnel and have, in the center part, an increasing depths up to the exit funnel, in which the depth again becomes steadily smaller, the corrugations being evenly distributed about the inner circumference of the inner conductor.

Abstract: The invention is a method and apparatus for coupling energy into or out of a dielectric resonator circuit by means of a coupling loop. More particularly, the invention is a method and apparatus for adjustably mounting a coupling loop relative to a resonator, the method and apparatus particularly adapted for use with conical and similar resonators in which the field of interest, typically the TE mode, varies as a function of longitudinal position relative to the resonator.

Abstract: A dielectric filter includes a dielectric block having inner-conductor-formed holes extending from a first face of the dielectric block to a second face opposed to the first face. Inner conductors are formed inside the inner-conductor-formed holes such that both ends of the inner-conductor-formed holes are open-circuited. On the exterior surface of the dielectric block, balanced input/output terminals are capacitively coupled to the open ends of the inner-conductor-formed holes. A metal cover is provided so as to cover one of the first or second face of the dielectric block. The metal cover functions as a short-circuit conductor in a spurious mode such as a TE mode other than a TEM mode, and hence the influence of the spurious mode is avoided.

Abstract: In a dielectric block, an array of three excitation holes, in each of which one opening is a short-circuited end and the other opening is an open-circuited end, are disposed so as to be interdigitally coupled and balanced input-output terminals are provided at the opening of the excitation holes at both ends of the array. A resonator hole is provided so as to be coupled to one excitation hole of the excitation holes at either end of the array. Thus, a compact dielectric filter with balanced input-output terminals is constructed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a dielectric resonator, a dielectric filter, a dielectric duplexer capable of reducing leakage of electromagnetic waves and capable of being miniaturized, and a communication apparatus incorporating the same. In each of the dielectric resonator and filter, inside a dielectric block, there is formed a L-shaped inner-conductor-formed hole having a bend at some point of the hole in a manner extending from an outer surface of the dielectric block to a surface perpendicular to the outer surface. An inner conductor is formed on the inner surface of the inner-conductor-formed hole. On the substantially entire outer surfaces of the dielectric block, there is disposed an outer conductor, with one end of the inner-conductor-formed hole open-circuited and the remaining end of the hole short-circuited. Around the edge of the open-circuited end there is formed an outer coupling electrode.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for attaching an additional object to an object made by the process of extruding, especially a resonator body, and to the structure resulting from the application of the method. A recess is made in the pushing part (ES) of an extrusion machine, which recess is shaped like a portion of the surface of the additional object. The additional object (320), such as a portion of the inner conductor of a resonator, is inserted prior to extrusion in the said recess so that the said portion of the surface of the additional object rests tightly against the surface of the recess and the rest of the surface of the additional object remains free. In the extrusion stage, the pushing part with the additional object is pressed (F) against a bloom of a resonator body whereby the material (31c) of the bloom is pressed tight against the free surface of the additional object. When the pushing part is retracted the additional object remains attached to the body element thus formed.

Abstract: The invention provides a dielectric resonator device comprising a coaxial dielectric resonator 2 which comprises a dielectric block 21 having a bore 22 extending therethrough, an outer conductor layer 24 formed on an outer peripheral surface of the dielectric block 21, an inner conductor layer 23 formed on the dielectric block 21 over an inner peripheral surface thereof defining the bore 22, a short-circuiting conductor layer 25 providing a short circuit between the outer conductor layer 24 and the inner conductor layer 23, and a separated conductor layer 3 formed on the outer peripheral surface of the dielectric block 21 and electrically separated from the outer conductor layer 24. The separated conductor layer 3 is connected to the ground by a switch SW, which varies the capacity of the resonator 2 upon switching to alter the resonance frequency thereof.

Abstract: A high frequency dielectric ceramic composition includes: as a major component a composition which contains a rare earth element (Re), Al, Sr, and Ti as metal elements and has a composition formula expressed by a molar ratio of aRe2O3—bAl2O3—cSrO—dTiO2 in which a, b, c, and d satisfy the following formula; 0.113≦a≦0.172, 0.111≦b≦0.171, 0.322≦c≦0.388, 0.323≦d≦0.396, and a+b+c+d=1.000; and 0.01 to 2 parts by weight on a Fe2O3 conversion basis of Fe as an element, based on 100 parts by weight of the major component.

Abstract: The present invention provides a dielectric resonator, a dielectric filter, a dielectric duplexer capable of reducing leakage of electromagnetic waves and capable of being miniaturized, and a communication apparatus incorporating the same. In each of the dielectric resonator and filter, inside a dielectric block, there is formed a L-shaped inner-conductor-formed hole having a bend at some point of the hole in a manner extending from an outer surface of the dielectric block to a surface perpendicular to the outer surface. An inner conductor is formed on the inner surface of the inner-conductor-formed hole. On the substantially entire outer surfaces of the dielectric block, there is disposed an outer conductor, with one end of the inner-conductor-formed hole open-circuited and the remaining end of the hole short-circuited. Around the edge of the open-circuited end there is formed an outer coupling electrode.

Abstract: The present invention is a filter and a method of making a filter to remove unwanted frequency harmonics associated with current filters. The filter is made up of resonators, such that the filter resonates a design frequency. Whereby, at least two resonators are coupled together between an input and an output and at least one of the resonators is of a different design from other resonators, such that the resonator of a different design resonates the same design frequency as the other resonators and resonates different higher order harmonic frequencies than the other resonators. The present invention also provides methods of improving skirt response for a filter, as well as other response properties of the filter. One way to improve the filter's properties is where at least one of the resonators in a filter is reversed in orientation as compared to the other resonators.

Abstract: A microstrip resonator including a dielectric substrate, a resonance electrode on a first main surface of the dielectric substrate, and a ground electrode over an entire second main surface of the dielectric substrate. The resonance electrode includes a superconducting film and a metal film deposited in that order. The ground electrode includes a superconducting film and a metal film deposited in that order. The superconducting film functions as an electrode in low-temperature operation below a critical temperature, and the metal film functions as an electrode in high-temperature operation at or above the critical temperature. The length of the superconducting film of the resonance electrode is set to be longer than that of the metal film of the resonance electrode, so that the resonance frequency in low-temperature operation is substantially equal to the resonance frequency in high-temperature operation.

Abstract: A dielectric filter stopping a frequency signal at a lower frequency band than a pass band as a reference band with a higher attenuation ratio to perform adjustment of the attenuation ratio even the lower frequency area. The dielectric filter comprises a predetermined conductive pattern on the front surface on a dielectric block in which a plurality of resonant holes are provided, the dielectric block including back and side surfaces covered with a conductive material, each resonant hole being covered with the conductive material in the internal surface, the predetermined conductive pattern being separated at a predetermined distance from the end portions of the resonant holes, whereby the predetermined conductive pattern forms a coupling capacitance between the adjacent resonators and a cross coupling capacitance between the resonators not adjacent to control an electromagnetic coupling over the whole dielectric filter.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing an inner conductor of a resonator, and an inner conductor of a resonator comprising a first end and a second end, which is free. The inner conductor is deep-drawn from a uniform, electrically conductive blank.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing an inner conductor of a resonator, and an inner conductor of a resonator comprising a first end and a second end, which is free. The inner conductor is deep-drawn from a uniform, electrically conductive blank.

Abstract: In a dielectric block having a through-hole, an outer surface electrode is formed on the outer surface of the dielectric block excluding the outer surfaces having the openings of the through-hole, and an inner surface electrode is formed on the inner surface of the through-hole. The dielectric block is made of a dielectric of which the dielectric constant having a negative temperature coefficient, that is, the dielectric constant increases as the temperature decreases. The inner surface electrode is formed by lamination of a superconductor film and a metallic film, and similarly, the outer surface electrode is formed by lamination of a superconductor film and a metallic film.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a coaxial cavity resonator having walls delimiting cavity, and one resonator body having a conductive rod with a first end being in short circuit relation to a first wall of the cavity walls. the first end a cross-sectional area. The resonator further includes a first conductive supportive plate with a first side connected to the first end of each rod. The first side has a larger area than the cross-sectional area of the first end of the rod and a second side, opposite the first side, fo the supportive plate is electrically connected to the first wall. A retainer is provided in the first cavity wall to guide the supportive plate, and an attachment is provided to secure the first supportive plate to the retainer. The invention also relates to a filter and a use of a resonator component in a filter.

Abstract: A high-frequency dielectric ceramic compact is provided which has a relative dielectric constant (∈r) of about 20 or less and a Q value of about 20,000 or more at 1 GHz, in which the temperature coefficient (&tgr;f) can be optionally controlled at about 0 (ppm/° C.). When the compact of the dielectric ceramic compact is represented by the formula aBaO.bMeO.cSbO3/2, 0.476≦a≦0.513, 0.160≦b≦0.175, and 0.324≦c≦0.350. In addition, when the compact of the dielectric ceramic compact is represented by the formula dBaO.eMeO.fSbO3/2.gTiO2, 0.476≦d≦0.513, 0.100≦e≦0.175, 0.200≦f≦0.349, and 0<g≦0.200.

Abstract: A resonator including a resonator body having a longitudinally extending through hole, an electrically conductive coating formed on the inner and outer surfaces of the resonator and an electrical gap formed by cutting a groove around the circumference of the body. The groove divides the resonator body into a short section and a long section, wherein the short section is used as a conductive pad for attachment to a circuit board.

Abstract: The present invention provides a small dielectric filter suitable for use in a high frequency band equal to or higher than 3 GHz. an input/output electrode made up of island type of conductive film is formed on one surface of said dielectric located on each end portion; in each of said dielectrics located on each end respectively, an earth electrode is formed on almost of all remaining area of said surface so as to be isolated from said input/output electrode and is also formed on all of the other surfaces with an exception of connecting surfaces; in an intermediate dielectric, an earth electrode is formed on all surfaces other than the connecting surface; and a conductive film connected to the earth electrode is formed on a part of at least one of the connecting surfaces of the dielectrics to be connected. Three or more elements of resonators may be integrally formed on a dielectric block, and, in that case, a through-hole is formed between the resonators.

Abstract: A small-sized low-loss dielectric resonator, dielectric filter, and dielectric duplexer, and a communication device using such an element. Through-holes are formed in a dielectric block. The inner surface of each through-hole is covered with a thin-film multilayer electrode consisting of an outermost conductive layer and a multilayer region including thin-film conductive layers and thin-film dielectric layers. An outer conductor having a similar thin-film multilayer electrode structure is formed on the outer surface of the dielectric block. An outer conductor in the form of a single-layer electrode is formed on a short-circuited end face of the dielectric block thereby connecting together the thin-film conductive layers of the inner and outer conductors.

Abstract: A small dielectric filter suitable for use in a high frequency band equal to or higher than 3 GHz. An input/output electrode made up of island type of conductive film is formed on one surface of the dielectric located on each end portion. In each of the dielectrics located on each end respectively, an earth electrode is formed on almost all of the remaining area of the one surface so as to be isolated from the input/output electrode and is also formed on all of the other surfaces with an exception of connecting surfaces. In an intermediate dielectric, an earth electrode is formed on all surfaces other than the connecting surface, and a conductive film connected to the earth electrode is formed on a part of at least one of the connecting surfaces of the dielectrics to be connected. Three or more elements of resonators may be integrally formed on a dielectric block, and, in that case, a through-hole is formed between the resonators.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a dielectric device that is suitable for miniaturization and height reduction and is surface-mountable. In a resonator unit Q1, a first hole 41 is provided to a dielectric substarate 1, extends from a surface 21 toward a surface 22 opposite thereto, opens in the surface 21, and has a first internal conductor 61 in the interior. A second hole 51 is provided to the dielectric substarate 1, opens in a surface 23 adjacent to the surface 21, extends from the surface 23 toward a surface 24 opposite thereto, and is connected with the first hole 41 in the interior of the dielectric substarate 1. The second hole 51 has a second internal conductor 81 in the interior, and the second internal conductor 81 is connected to the first internal conductor 61 in the interior of the dielectric substarate 1.

Abstract: In a resonator having a dielectric member and an electrode formed on the dielectric member, a displacement area (D area) having a high vertical electric field component, and a short or steady area (S area) having a vertical electric field component of zero or close to zero are provided in an interface between the dielectric member and the electrode. A single-layer conductive film divided into portions is formed in the D area or on the side surfaces of the dielectric member, and a multilayer thin-film electrode is formed in the S area or on the end faces of the dielectric member. Conductive thin films of the multilayer thin-film electrode are alternately connected to the single-layer conductive film portions. In-phase currents having the same amplitude flow to the conductive thin films of the multilayer thin-film electrode in the S area in radial direction with respect to the axis of symmetry, thus achieving low-loss operation of the multilayer thin-film electrode in the S area.

Abstract: There are provided a resonator for use in a filter, which interprets and reduces intermodulation distortion by analyzing characteristics of current density occurring at resonance and linear and nonlinear characteristics of the filter, a method for manufacturing filters by using the resonator and a filter manufactured by the method. The resonator has a ratio of an inside diameter to an outside diameter belonging to a range which is larger than about 1:3 and smaller than or equal to about 1:3.75 and its length (H) is about &lgr;/4, wherein &lgr; is a wavelength of a plane wave provided to the resonator. By employing the method, it is possible to effectively design the filters through the use of a circuitry and structural approach with breaking from a conventional approach depending on local and minute processing steps when manufacturing the filters.

Abstract: Dielectric tube loaded metal cavity resonators and filters having a dielectric tube resonator extending substantially the full height of the metallic cavity are disclosed herein. The resonators and filters achieve low insertion loss in a size substantially smaller than conventional dielectric loaded resonators for equivalent quality factors. The dielectric tube resonators may be used with coaxial resonators to provide mixed resonator filter constructions.

Abstract: A dielectric filter, a dielectric duplexer, and a communication apparatus using them allow balanced input and/or output to be implemented without requiring a balun. Using a dielectric block, two &lgr;/2 resonators are individually formed using either inner-conductor-forming openings with inner conductors therein, or stripline-type conductors, both of said conductors having both ends open-circuited, and said conductors being capacitively coupled together. Terminal electrodes coupled to the vicinities of two open-circuited ends of one of the resonators are used as balanced terminals on one side, and terminal electrodes coupled to the vicinities of the two open-circuited ends of the other one of the resonators are used as balanced terminals on the other side.

Abstract: A coaxial resonator which can be electrically connected to an inductance or similar electric element easily to reduce the number of work steps for mounting and the number of parts, and a dielectric filter and a dielectric duplexer which include a resonator and which can be more compact and installed in a diminished space. The coaxial resonator includes a dielectric block having a through-bore extending through opposite end faces thereof, and a conductor layer formed over an outer peripheral surface of the block except one end face thereof and over a block inner surface defining the through-bore for causing electromagnetic waves to resonate within the dielectric block. A lead-equipped electric element has its lead inserted in and fixed in the through-bore and electrically connected to the conductor layer over the bore-defining inner surface with a braze filler metal or electrically conductive adhesive.

Abstract: A multimode dielectric resonator device is provided in which a dielectric core can be easily disposed in a cavity, a dielectric resonator device comprising resonators in plural stages can be obtained, and the Q0 is maintained at a high value. Dielectric cores 1b, 1c to resonate in plural modes such as TM01 &dgr;−(x−z), TE01&dgr;−y, TM01&dgr;−(x+z) or the like are supported substantially in the center of a cavity 2 by means of a support 3, in the state that the cores are substantially separated from the inner walls of the cavity 2 at a predetermined interval, respectively.

Abstract: Inner-conductor holes whose internal surfaces are coated with inner conductors are provided in a dielectric block. Input/output electrodes are provided on the outside of the dielectric block, coupled to the inner conductors by electrostatic capacitance. Gap portions are provided between the input/output electrodes and an outer conductor. The input/output electrodes may be formed to extend from a bottom surface (mounting surface) and onto a side surface of an external surface of the dielectric block. Filter characteristics are determined depending on a width or a depth of the gap portion on the side surface of the dielectric block.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for fastening an inner conductor of a resonator structure and to a method for fastening an inner conductor of a resonator structure to a fastening surface structure. The arrangement comprises a fastening surface structure, which in turn comprises an edge of an opening and the opening defined by the edge, the opening being formed through the fastening surface structure. In addition, the arrangement comprises an inner conductor of a resonator structure arranged at the opening formed through the fastening surface structure, the inner conductor comprising an inner space at least on the portion of the conductor that faces the fastening surface structure, which inner space is defined by the wall of the inner conductor which extends into the opening formed through the fastening surface structure.

Abstract: A dielectric resonant device having function of a dielectric filter and a dielectric duplexer having a desired external coupling capacitance includes a substantially rectangular-parallelepipedal dielectric block provided with inner conductive holes therein, and input-output electrodes on the outer surfaces extending from an open surface thereof. Also, a method is provided for forming input-output electrodes of the dielectric resonant device for obtaining a given external coupling capacitance, in which the input-output electrodes are formed by a cutting tool including cutting edges applied to two outer surfaces of the dielectric block along first conductive film removing lines on the two outer surfaces, extending from the open surface, and a cutting edge applied to the two outer surfaces along a second conductive film removing line connecting the first conductive film removing lines.