Tdk Corporation

Nec Corporation

Yuta Ashida

Shigemitsu Tomaki

Masahiro Tatematsu

Shuhei Sawaguchi

Tetsuzo Goto

Noriyuki Hirabayashi

Yasuyuki Hara

Noriaki Ootsuka

Yoshinori Matsumaru

Itaru Nishioka

Takeshi Kijima

Keigo Shibuya

Toshio Koide

Yasunori Sakisaka

Longfei Yi

Yutaka Ui

Kazunari Kimura

Hiroya Suzuki

Tomonori Terui

Takuya Sato

Yasuharu Miyauchi

Yousuke Futamata

Naoki Sotoma

Shin Takane

Yuta Higuchi

Toshiki Tate

Yasuyuki Hiwatashi

Honoka Atsuchi

A filter device includes a ground conductor layer, at least one through hole electrically connected to the ground conductor layer, a first resonator conductor layer and a second resonator conductor layer arranged to sandwich the at least one through hole, and a stack. The first resonator conductor layer extends in a first direction becoming away from the at least one through hole, i.e., the −X direction. The second resonator conductor layer extends in a second direction becoming away from the at least one through hole, i.e., the X direction.

Multilayered filter device

A filter circuit includes two ports, a first resonant circuit, and a second resonant circuit. The first resonant circuit is provided between the two ports in a circuit configuration and coupled with both of the two ports. The second resonant circuit is provided between the two ports in the circuit configuration and coupled with at least one of the two ports. Coupling of the second resonant circuit and the two ports is weaker than coupling of the first resonant circuit and the two ports.

Filter circuit

In a multilayer filter, first and second resonant circuits are arranged in a direction crossing a stacking direction of a plurality of dielectric layers. An input/output portion includes an input/output port group including an unbalanced port and a pair of balanced ports or an input/output port group including two pairs of balanced ports. The second resonant circuit includes an inductor conductor, a first capacitor conductor, and a second capacitor conductor. The inductor conductor includes first and second ends. The first capacitor conductor is connected to the first end. The second capacitor conductor is connected to the second end. The second dielectric layer has a dielectric constant lower than that of the first dielectric layer. The first and second capacitor conductors are provided in the first dielectric layer. At least a part of the inductor conductor is provided in the second dielectric layer.

Multilayer filter

In a multilayer filter, first to fourth resonant circuits are connected to an input/output portion. The input/output portion includes an input/output port group including an unbalanced port and a pair of balanced ports or an input/output port group including two pairs of balanced ports. Each of the first to fourth resonant circuits includes an inductor conductor and first and second capacitor conductors. The inductor conductor includes first and second ends. The first capacitor conductor is connected to the first end. The second capacitor conductor is connected to the second end. The second and third resonant circuits are magnetically coupled to each other. The second and third resonant circuits are arranged between the first resonant circuit and the fourth resonant circuit in a first direction. Each of first and second electrodes of a jump capacitor conductor is connected to the inductor conductors of the first and fourth resonant circuits.

A filter circuit includes a pair of balanced input ports, a pair of balanced output ports, first and second resonators provided in parallel between the pair of balanced input ports and the pair of balanced output ports in a circuit configuration, a first capacitor connected in parallel to the first resonator, and a second capacitor connected in parallel to the second resonator. The first and second resonators are magnetically coupled to each other and electrically connected to each other. The first and second capacitors are not electrically connected to ground.

Filter circuit and multilayered filter device

A filter circuit includes a pair of balanced input ports, a pair of balanced output ports, and first and second resonators provided in parallel between the pair of balanced input ports and the pair of balanced output ports in a circuit configuration, the first and second resonators being magnetically coupled to each other. Between the first resonator and the second resonator, a capacitor is present but no inductor is present in the circuit configuration.

An antenna module includes first and second signal pads, an antenna element, and first and second filters. The first signal pad is coupled to the antenna element through the first to fourth conductor patterns of the first filter. The second signal pad is coupled to the antenna element through the fifth to eighth conductor patterns of the first filter. The second, third, sixth and seventh conductor patterns extend along the diagonal line of the antenna element. The second and sixth conductor patterns face each other with the diagonal line interposed therebetween. The third and seventh conductor patterns face each other with the diagonal line interposed therebetween. The first, fourth, fifth and eighth conductor patterns extend in the second direction, respectively with respect to the second, third, sixth and seventh conductor patterns.

Antenna module

Disclosed herein is an antenna device that includes a filter layer, an antenna layer, a divider layer, and ground patterns. The antenna layer has first and second radiation conductors and first and second ground pillars that surround the first and second radiation conductors, respectively. Each of the first and second ground patterns has a first area that overlaps a first space surrounded by the first ground pillars, a second area that overlaps a second space surrounded by the plurality of second ground pillars, and a third area that connects the first and second areas. A width of the third area in a width direction perpendicular to an arrangement direction of the first and second areas is smaller than a width of each of the first and second areas in the width direction.

Antenna device

A band-pass filter includes a first input/output port, a second input/output port, a plurality of resonators, and a multilayer stack. The multilayer stack includes a plurality of stacked dielectric layers. Each of the resonators is an open-ended resonator formed of a conductor line in the multilayer stack. Each of the resonators includes a resonator conductor portion including a first line part and a second line part located away from each other in a direction orthogonal to a stacking direction of the plurality of dielectric layers, and a third line part connecting the first line part and the second line part. The first to third line parts extend to surround a space between the first line part and the second line part.

Band-pass filter

A band-pass filter includes a first input/output port, a second input/output port, a first high-pass filter, a first low-pass filter, and a first stub resonator. The first stub resonator includes a first distributed constant line. The first low-pass filter is provided between the first input/output port and the first high-pass filter in the circuit configuration. The first distributed constant line has a first end connected to a first path connecting the first input/output port and the first low-pass filter, and a second end closest to a ground in the circuit configuration.

A band-pass filter includes an unbalanced port, a first balanced port, a second balanced port, and first to third resonators provided between the unbalanced port and the first and second balanced ports. The second resonator and the third resonator each are a resonator with both ends open. The second resonator and the third resonator are adjacent to each other in a circuit configuration, and electromagnetically coupled by magnetic coupling as main coupling. The first resonator is provided closer to the second resonator than to the third resonator, and jump-coupled to the third resonator.

A multilayered filter device includes a multilayer stack, a band pass filter, a first band elimination filter, and a second band elimination filter. The band pass filter and the first and second band elimination filters are each constructed using the multilayer stack. The band pass filter includes a plurality of first resonators with open ends. Each band elimination filter includes a connection path, and a second resonator coupled to the connection path. The connection path includes an impedance transformer. The second resonator includes a conductor line constituting a distributed constant line.

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