Radio Frequency Systems, Inc.

William Deppen Blair

Chi Wang

William D Wilber

Gregory J Lamont

Weili Wang

William H Holland

A delay filter uses the dielectric mono-block triple-mode resonator and unique inter-resonator coupling structure, having smaller volume and higher power handling capacity. The triple-mode mono-block resonator has three resonators in one block. An input/output probe is connected to each metal plated dielectric block to transmit microwave signals. Corner cuts couple a mode oriented in one direction to a mode oriented in a second, mutually orthogonal direction. An aperture between two blocks couples all six resonant modes, and generates two inductive couplings by magnetic fields between two modes, and one capacitive coupling by electric fields. The input/output probes, coupling corner cuts and aperture are aligned such that all six resonators are coupled in the desired value and sign, so constant delay on the transmitted signal within certain bandwidth can be achieved. By connecting the input and output probes to the base printed circuit board, the delay filter is surface mountable.

Dielectric mono-block triple-mode microwave delay filter

The invention is related to the field of tunable multiplexers. It consists of a tunable microwave multiplexer comprising a plurality of channel filters coupled to a combining/dividing mechanism. The plurality of channel filters can be either dielectric loaded resonators or combline resonators, while the combining/dividing mechanism can be a common resonator. In one embodiment, the common resonator is a multiple half-wavelength coaxial resonator.

Tunable microwave multiplexer

A tunable, temperature compensated, thermal and mechanical stable, dielectric loaded cavity resonator and filter assembly has high unloaded Q, wide frequency tuning range and simple structure suitable for high volume production. The cavity resonator consists of a conductive housing, a substantially cylindrical ring shape dielectric body with a low loss, low thermal expansion coefficient support, a tuning mechanism and a plastic support at the opposite side of the main cylindrical dielectric body, which holds the main cylindrical dielectric body in place. The tuning mechanism further includes a substantially cylindrical dielectric tuning element positioned in or near the hole of the main cylindrical dielectric body and a self-locked or equivalent nut locked rotor with a support using the same material as that of the main cylindrical body support. The rotor is accessible and rotational movable from the outside of the conductive enclosure, resulting in linear motion of the dielectric tuning element with respect to the main dielectric body. Therefore the resonant frequency of the resonator can be substantially adjusted.

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William Deppen Blair