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- Patent Title: MHz range harmonic impedance tuner and method
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Application No.: US16039383Application Date: 2018-07-19
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Publication No.: US10756694B1Publication Date: 2020-08-25
- Inventor: Christos Tsironis
- Applicant: Christos Tsironis
- Main IPC: H03H7/12
- IPC: H03H7/12 ; H03H7/01 ; G01R31/28 ; H03H7/38

Abstract:
An electro-mechanical MHz range harmonic load pull tuner is made as a cascade of filter sections and independent tuning sections; the filter section includes three parallel series resonant circuits, each set including one inductor and one adjustable capacitor. The tuning section includes three parallel tuning modules; each module comprising three adjustable shunt air capacitors inter-connected using coaxial cables of appropriate length. Each capacitor is remotely adjustable to 10 or 20 values (settings); the tuner creates independently controllable impedances at three (harmonic) frequencies in octave size frequency bands between 5 and 150 MHz. An Error Function-based optimization algorithm allows impedance tuning at three frequencies independently, by optimized searching among the more than 209=512*109 possible combined tuner states. Stepper motors, drivers and control software are used to automate, calibrate and use the harmonic tuner for automated harmonic load pull measurement.
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