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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:
Mar. 25, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Thomson Licensing S.A., Boulogne, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01P 1/18 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01P 1/18 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a T-circuit produced using microstrip technology with two branches ( ) of identical length L comprising a phase-shifting element ( ) producing a given phase shift &PHgr; by extending one of the branches, the T-circuit operating in broadband, the circuit comprises at least one elbow ( ) extending the branch ( ) without the phase-shifting element and the length L is equal to a multiple of &lgr;g/2 where &lgr;g is the guided wavelength.