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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:
Aug. 24, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 27, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kenneth Meade Lakin, Redmond, OR (US);
Assignee:
TFR Technologies, Inc., Bend, OR (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03H / ; H03H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
333189 ; 310320 ; 310366 ; 333191 ;
Abstract
A microwave filter made of piezoelectric resonators fabricated in a monolithic device. Combinations of resonators connected in series and and parallel to each other are laid out in a symmetrical compact arrangement providing symmetrical and similar paths connecting the resonators together and to the ground. The symmetrical layout thus avoids differences in the connector inductances that otherwise would degrade filter performance.