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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 23, 1999
Toshio Ishizaki, Kobe, JP;
Toru Yamada, Katano, JP;
Hideaki Nakakubo, Soraku-gun, JP;
Shoichi Kitazawa, Nishinomiya, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a balanced dielectric filter used in high-frequency circuits, such as those used for radio apparatuses, and provides a balanced dielectric filter having balanced input/output terminals. Namely, the balanced dielectric filter comprises two resonators, each comprising plural strip-line resonating elements, disposed in parallel and mutually coupled electro-magnetically, and input and output terminals coupled to each resonator so as to function as a pair of balanced input terminals and a pair of balanced output terminals, wherein the two resonators are located in a ceramic dielectric to face each other and to be mirror images of each other. The resonating element is a quarter-wavelength resonating element, the end of the strip line thereof is grounded. The strip lines and coupling electrodes are arranged among ceramic layers, whereby the filter is integrated into a ceramic-multilayered structure.