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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 1977
Filed:
Jan. 30, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
David John Gunton, Malvern, EN;
Edward George Paige, Malvern, EN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
333 10 ; 325446 ;
Abstract
A directional coupler comprising a dielectric substrate having two opposing faces carrying a sheet electrode on one face and two comb like electrode structures on the other face. Each comb electrode has finger like electrodes projecting from a bus bar towards the other comb. Varying the length of finger electrodes and the amount of overlap varies the amount of signal power coupled between the two combs. Couplers may be arranged to couple up to 100% of signal power. When half signal power is coupled, a 3dB coupler, various microstrip circuits may be built e.g. balanced mixers, power dividers, or power combiners.