Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Low-loss tunable radio frequency filter
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Application No.: US12620455Application Date: 2009-11-17
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Publication No.: US07863999B2Publication Date: 2011-01-04
- Inventor: Genichi Tsuzuki , Balam A. Willemsen
- Applicant: Genichi Tsuzuki , Balam A. Willemsen
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Barbara
- Assignee: Superconductor Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Superconductor Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Barbara
- Agency: Vista IP Law Group LLP
- Main IPC: H01P1/20
- IPC: H01P1/20

Abstract:
A tunable RF filter comprises a signal transmission path having an input and output, a plurality of resonant elements disposed along the signal transmission path between the input and output, and a set of non-resonant elements coupling the resonant elements together to form a stop band having a plurality of transmission zeroes corresponding to respective frequencies of the resonant elements, and at least one sub-band between the transmission zeroes. The set of non-resonant elements comprises a first plurality of non-resonant elements respectively coupled in parallel with the resonant elements, and a second plurality of non-resonant elements respectively coupled in series with the resonant elements. The first plurality of non-resonant elements comprises at least one variable non-resonant element for selectively introducing at least one reflection zero within the stop band to create a pass band in one of the one sub-band(s) without varying any of the second plurality of non-resonant elements.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100060380A1 LOW-LOSS TUNABLE RADIO FREQUENCY FILETER Public/Granted day:2010-03-11
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