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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2000

Filed:

Apr. 13, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

John R Hicks, Lone Oak, TX (US);

David W Allen, Plano, TX (US);

Peter Mailandt, Dallas, TX (US);

Assignee:

Allen Telecom Inc., Beachwood, OH (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03J / ; H04B / ; H01P / ; H01P / ; H01P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
333 171 ; 333134 ; 333202 ; 3332191 ; 333232 ; 333235 ; 455123 ; 455125 ;
Abstract

In one form of the invention, a resonant cavity filter (50) is disclosed, comprising an input port (210) for receiving an input signal, a dielectric resonator (204) in a cavity, the dielectric resonator operable to receive an input signal from the input port and further operable to produce an output signal at a resonant frequency of the cavity, an output port (212) operable to receive the output signal and a tuning plate (308) disposed in the cavity, the tuning plate coupled to a control means operable to cause movement of the tuning plate, thereby changing dimensions of the cavity, the control means operable to determine a frequency of the input signal, retrieve an expected tuning plate position from a memory (514) based on the frequency, and move the tuning plate to the expected position. Other systems, devices and methods are disclosed.


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