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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2014
Applicant:
Tdk Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Bouchaib Cherif, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Assignee:
TDK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01G 5/14 (2006.01); H05K 1/02 (2006.01); H05K 1/16 (2006.01); H01G 5/16 (2006.01); H01G 5/18 (2006.01); H01P 1/203 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 1/0292 (2013.01); H01G 5/14 (2013.01); H05K 1/16 (2013.01); H01G 5/16 (2013.01); H01G 5/18 (2013.01); H01P 1/20336 (2013.01); H05K 1/024 (2013.01); H05K 1/025 (2013.01); H05K 1/162 (2013.01); H05K 2201/09727 (2013.01); H05K 2201/09781 (2013.01); H05K 2203/171 (2013.01);
Abstract
A tunable filter design. The filter is implemented using transmission line sections as inductive and capacitive components. At least one capacitive component is a tunable capacitor. In some implementations, the tunable capacitor may be an interdigitated array of finger elements arranged so that the spacing between fingers may be adjusted. The design has a number of advantages including high capacitance for a given circuit area, small area for a given desired capacitance, mechanical stability, high self resonance frequency, and high quality factor.