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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. 12, 1981
Filed:
Oct. 11, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Adel A Saleh, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Assignee:
W. L. Keefauver, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
333 33 ; 333246 ; 333263 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a class of adjustable microstrip and stripline tuners. An exemplary tuner comprises a pair of tuning elements, where each tuning element further comprises a pair of parallel spaced-apart conductive strips of equal length and at least one movable bridging wire connecting the two strips. The movement of the bridging wire will vary the output impedance of the tuning element, and a complementary arrangement of a pair of tuning elements will form a tuner capable of matching any impedance falling within the Smith chart.