Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Hitoshi Tada

Hideyuki Kato

Haruo Matsumoto

Tatsuya Tsujiguchi

Yasuo Yamada

Tadahiro Yorita

Yukihiro Kitaichi

Hisashi Mori

Motoharu Hiroshima

Takashi Maruyama

Hajime Suemasa

Hiromi Ogura

Hirohumi Miyamoto

Hiroshi Tada

Masayuki Atokawa

Takahiro Okada

Masayuki Kikuda

Muneyoshi Yamamoto

Kengo Onaka

Yoshiki Yamada

Jinsei Ishihara

Tomohiro Nagai

Masakazu Tani

Kikuo Tsunoda

Yoshinori Taguchi

Keiichi Hirose

Takashi Ogami

Takayoshi Yui

Shouzo Sugiyama

Masashi Arai

A filter device includes a laminate body, plate electrodes, resonators, and shield conductors. The plate electrodes are provided in the laminate body and are spaced apart from each other in a lamination direction. The resonators are between the plate electrodes and extend in a first direction. The shield conductors are on respective side surfaces of the laminate body, and connected to the plate electrodes. The resonators are within the laminate body and aligned in a second direction. The resonators each include a first end connected to the shield conductor and a second end spaced apart from the shield conductor. The resonator includes conductors laminated in the lamination direction. When the resonator is viewed in plan from the first direction, the conductors each include a first region including an end portion of the conductor and having a thickness greater than other portions of the conductor.

Dielectric filter

A dielectric resonator includes a dielectric substrate, a distributed element, and a shield conductor portion. The distributed element extends in the X-axis direction inside the dielectric substrate. The shield conductor portion is on a surface of the dielectric substrate and winds around the distributed element when the distributed element is viewed from the X-axis direction in plan view. One end of the distributed element is not connected to the shield conductor portion. The distributed element includes a plurality of conductors.

Dielectric resonator, dielectric filter, and multiplexer

A distributed constant filter includes a resonator that is not grounded and a first ground electrode. The first ground electrode faces the resonator in a first direction (Z). The resonator is a distributed constant line resonator. The resonator includes a plurality of distributed constant lines and a via conductor. The plurality of distributed constant lines are arranged in layers in the first direction (Z). The via conductor extends in the first direction (Z). Each of the plurality of distributed constant lines is connected to the via conductor only at one end portion of both end portions of the distributed constant line.

Distributed constant filter, distributed constant line resonator, and multiplexer

A dielectric resonator includes a dielectric block, an external conductor, and wall-surface conductors. The dielectric block has a rectangular parallelepiped shape including a first surface and a second surface opposed to each other. The dielectric block includes a through hole extending from the first surface to the second surface. The external conductor is disposed on an outer surface of the dielectric block. The wall-surface conductors are disposed on a wall surface defining the through hole. The wall-surface conductor includes a first portion of the through hole adjacent to the first surface and a second portion of the through hole adjacent to the second surface. The first and second portions of the wall-surface conductors are separated by a separation distance.

Dielectric resonator and dielectric filter

A filtering device includes at least one dielectric resonant element, which includes a dielectric block, an outer conductor, and an inner conductor, a terminal disposed in a through hole of the dielectric resonant element from a front surface, a plate-shaped circuit element electrically coupled with the at least one dielectric resonant element via the terminal, and a substrate on which the at last one dielectric resonant element and the plate-shaped circuit element are mounted. The outer conductor is disposed so as to cover the back surface besides the peripheral surface of the dielectric block. The first end surface of the dielectric block includes a first electrode-free portion that electrically isolates the inner conductor from the outer conductor, and a second electrode-free portion that electrically isolates the inner conductor from the outer conductor.

Filtering device and method for adjusting filter characteristic

A variable filter circuit includes a serial arm connected between ports (P-P), a parallel arm having a resonator connected in series between ports (P-P), and another parallel arm having another resonator connected in series between ports (P-P). The serial arm includes a capacitor connected between the ports (P-P), and the parallel arms include variable capacitances connected in series to the resonators.

Variable filter circuit and wireless communication apparatus

A dielectric filter with an ultra hetero-axial structure is provided with open end-face electrodes. By increasing the capacitance between each open end-face electrode and an external conductor greater than that generated between the open end-face electrodes adjacent to each other, the inductive coupling between two resonators due to neighboring resonator holes is increased.

Dielectric filter, dielectric duplexer, and communication apparatus

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.

Production method for dielectric resonator device

A dielectric filter provided with a dielectric block including at least four resonant through holes that are adjacent to each other. A multipath slot is arranged near three adjacent through holes of the at least four resonant through holes. The multipath slot has an inner conductor formed on an inner surface thereof in order to generate a first capacitance between a first area near the open end of each of the three adjacent through holes and the inner conductor of the multipath slot. A step is formed so that a second capacitance is generated between a second area near the open end of each of two through holes of the at least four resonant through holes and an outer conductor located within the step. An attenuation peak is generated at the lower-frequency side of the passband with the multipath slot and the three adjacent through holes, and an attenuation peak is generated at the higher-frequency side of the passband with the two through holes and the outer conductor within the step.

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.

A dielectric filter comprising a dielectric block having first and second opposed surfaces with a width direction and a length direction greater than the width direction. At least three conductive through holes are arrayed in the dielectric block in the length direction. In one embodiment, a sectional shape of at least one conductive through hole located between two other conductive through holes of the at least three conductive through holes is elongated in the width direction. In another embodiment, a sectional shape of two conductive through holes on either side of a third conductive through hole of the at least three conductive through holes is elongated in the width direction. With these arrangements, the jumping coupling capacitance is controlled.

Dielectric filter, dielectric duplexer, and communication device having elongated through holes

A method of adjusting characteristics of a dielectric filter including the following steps: forming a dielectric filter having a dielectric body, the dielectric body having an outer surface; forming an external conductor on the outer surface of the dielectric body; and forming at least one hole extending through the dielectric body, the at least one hole having a respective inner surface, and a respective internal conductor and a respective non-conductive portion at the inner surface; the outer surface of the dielectric body comprising first and second end surfaces and a side surface extending between the first and second end surfaces; the at least one hole extending through the dielectric body between the first and second end surfaces; the respective inner conductor being formed as a respective pair of internal conductors conductively connected to the external conductor at respective ends of the at least one hole, the respective non-conductive portion at the inner surface of the at least one hole being spaced from both end surfaces, thereby separating the corresponding pair of internal conductors and defining a respective capacitance between the corresponding pair of internal conductors; and a predetermined portion of the outer surface of the dielectric body being formed with a shape such that a first portion of the external conductor at the predetermined portion of the outer surface is closer to at least one of the internal conductors in the at least one hole as compared with a second portion of the external conductor at a portion of the outer surface of the dielectric body other than the predetermined portion; the method further comprising the steps of: initially forming the respective inner conductor over an entire length of the inner surface of the corresponding hole; and thereafter grinding off a portion of the respective inner conductor with a grinding tool in order to form the non-conductive portion.

Method of adjusting characteristics of dielectric filter

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.

Dielectric resonator, dielectric filter, dielectric duplexer, and communication device

A dielectric filter or a dielectric duplexer is provided which comprises a dielectric block in a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape, having a pair of opposite parallel end-faces and plural sides extending between the paired opposite end-faces, one of the plural sides being a mounting face; plural resonator holes elongating through the inside of the dielectric block across the paired opposite end-faces; inner conductors provided on the inner walls of the plural resonator holes, respectively; an outer conductor provided on the outside of the dielectric block; input-output electrodes provided only on one of the paired opposite end-faces, separated from the outer conductor, and capacitance-coupled to the predetermined inner conductors, respectively; and conductive terminals for external connection, connected to the input-output electrodes, having at least portions thereof lying substantially in the same plane as the mounting face. In the dielectric filter or the dielectric duplexer, since input-output electrode are provided on the end-face of the dielectric block, not provided on the sides of the dielectric block, the deterioration of Q0, caused by the input-output electrodes, can be reduced. Accordingly, the insertion loss and the attenuation characteristics are improved.

Dielectric filter, dielectric duplexer, and communication equipment

A dielectric filter having a dielectric body made of dielectric material and having an outer surface including first and second end faces; an external conductor disposed on the outer surface of the dielectric body; at least one hole extending through the dielectric body between the two end faces, the at least one hole having a respective inner surface; the at least one hole having a pair of internal conductors respectively provided in the corresponding hole and conductively connected to the external conductor at respective ends of the corresponding hole, a respective non-conductive portion at the inner surface of the corresponding hole being spaced from both ends of the respective hole and thereby separating the corresponding pair of internal conductors and defining a capacitance between the corresponding pair of internal conductors; the first end face of said dielectric body being closer to the non-conductive portion at the inner surface of the corresponding hole than the second end face; the first end face having a non-conductive portion free of a portion of the external conductor, the non-conductive portion being disposed at a location for adjusting either a resonance frequency or a coupling degree of the filter, or both. At the first end face of the dielectric body, the non-conductive portion may in addition be free of a portion of the dielectric material.

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