Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Tomoya Maekawa

Toru Yamada

Toshio Ishizaki

Hiroshi Shigemura

Hideaki Nakakubo

Tetsuyoshi Ogura

Hiroshi Kushitani

Hiroyuki Nakamura

Koichi Ogawa

Yasuhiro Sugaya

Emiko Kawahara

Fumihiko Taniguchi

Toshihiro Teraoka

A design support system for circuit board includes: a noise source extracting unit for extracting a source of unwanted radiation noise which is generated from a circuit board mounted on an electronic equipment; a noise characteristics input unit for inputting noise characteristics of the unwanted radiation noise which is emitted by the extracted noise source; a noise attenuation ratio input unit for inputting an attenuation ratio of the unwanted radiation noise which is emitted by the noise source and propagated to a feed point of an antenna; a correlation value calculation unit for calculating a correlation value between the noise characteristics and the attenuation ratio of the unwanted radiation noise; and a comparator unit for comparing the calculated correlation value with a predetermined allowable value, whereby avoiding malfunction of an electronic equipment due to interference of unwanted radiation noises generated from the particular electronic equipment into the circuit board via the antenna.

Design support system and design method for circuit board, and noise analysis program

A design support apparatus of the present invention includes the following: an antenna electromagnetic field distribution input portion that inputs data indicating an antenna electromagnetic field distribution in the vicinity of electronic equipment; a board near electromagnetic field distribution input portion that inputs data indicating a board near electromagnetic field distribution as unwanted radiation noise radiated from a board of the electronic equipment; and a correlation value generator that generates a distribution of correlation values showing a correlation between the antenna electromagnetic field and the board near electromagnetic field based on the antenna electromagnetic field distribution data and the board near electromagnetic field distribution data.

Electromagnetic wave analysis apparatus and design support apparatus

In recent years, ceramic laminated devices are becoming a focus of great attention as considerable contribution to the miniaturization of high frequency wireless equipment such as a cellular phone, but it is difficult for the conventional ceramic laminated device to secure reliability while maintaining favorable high frequency characteristics. The present invention provides a ceramic laminated device including a reinforcement electrode, which is formed inside a laminated body in which a plurality of ceramic layers, a plurality of inner electrodes and inter-layer via holes are stacked, not electrically connected with inner electrodes nor inter-layer via holes but mechanically connected with the ceramic layers.

Ceramic laminated device, communication equipment and method of manufacturing ceramic laminated device

A duplexer is composed of a laminate in which dielectric layers and electrode layers are laminated alternately. A first filter for transmitting and a second filter for receiving, having different pass band frequencies, are provided in the laminate. A matching circuit composed of a coupling line, having one end that is short-circuited and the other end that is connected to an external terminal, is provided between the first filter and the second filter. The first filter includes two first stripline resonators, each having one end that is short-circuited. The second filter includes two second stripline resonators, each having one end that is short-circuited. The coupling line is coupled to the first stripline resonator dose to the coupling line by electromagnetic field coupling. The coupling line is coupled to the second stripline resonator close to the coupling line by electromagnetic coupling.

Duplexer, and laminate-type high-frequency device and communication equipment using the same

A dielectric filter includes resonator electrodes, an inter-stage coupling capacitor electrode, and an input/output coupling capacitor electrode on dielectric substrates, respectively. The resonator electrodes are electro-magnetically coupled to each other to form a tri-plate structure, are made of a metallic foil embedded in a resonator dielectric substrate. Another dielectric filter includes an upper shield electrode dielectric substrate, an inter-stage coupling capacitor dielectric substrate, a resonator dielectric substrate, and an input/output coupling capacitor dielectric substrate which are made of a composite dielectric material including a high-dielectric-constant material and a low-dielectric-constant material. The above described arrangement provides the dielectric filter with an improved Q factor of a resonator, a low loss, and a high attenuation.

Dielectric filter, antenna duplexer

The present invention comprises baluns which convert balanced line signals and unbalanced line signals mutually, and filters which are electrically connected to the baluns and pass or attenuate the predetermined frequency bands. Electrode layers which compose the electrode patterns of the baluns and the filters , and the dielectric layers are integrally stacked.

Complex high frequency components

Antenna duplexer and communication apparatus

A dielectric filter including a plurality of resonators, and at least one transmissions line provided among said plurality of resonators. A band rejection characteristic is formed around a resonance frequency of said resonator, and a line length of said transmission line is shorter than &frac14; of a wavelength corresponding to the resonance frequency of said resonator.

Dielectric filter, antenna duplexer, and communications appliance

A dielectric filter including a plurality of resonators, and at least one transmission line provided among said plurality of resonators. A band rejection characteristic is formed around a resonance frequency of the resonator, and a line length of the transmission line is shorter than &frac14; of a wavelength corresponding to the resonance frequency of the resonator.

An antenna device comprising a plurality of directional antennas which are aligned on the same axis in one direction and which are also arranged in a manner that the main radiation directions of the plurality of directional antennas deviate from each other in a direction orthogonal to the direction. Hence, a drop in directivity due to the array factor can be prevented and radiation characteristics in the plane orthogonal to the direction is expanded.

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Nara, Japan

Tomoya Maekawa