CN111384497A

CN111384497A - Dielectric filter and communication equipment

Info

Publication number: CN111384497A
Application number: CN201910209747.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 吴亚晖; 钟志波
Original assignee: Shenzhen Tatfook Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shenzhen Tatfook Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-12-29
Filing date: 2019-03-19
Publication date: 2020-07-07

Abstract

The application discloses a dielectric filter and communication equipment. The dielectric filter of the embodiment of the application comprises at least two layers of dielectric blocks which are arranged at intervals and respectively comprise at least two dielectric resonance units which are cascaded in sequence; the first medium coupling piece is arranged between the two layers of medium blocks and is used for coupling the two layers of medium blocks between two medium resonance units which are arranged adjacent to each other in space so as to form a main coupling path; and the second medium coupling piece is arranged between the two layers of medium blocks and used for coupling two medium resonance units which are arranged adjacently in space but are not arranged adjacently along the main coupling path, and the second medium coupling piece is used for coupling other two medium resonance units of the two layers of medium blocks except the two medium resonance units coupled by the first medium coupling piece so as to form a CQ cross coupling path. In this way, the structure of the dielectric filter with CQ cross coupling can be simplified, and the volume of the dielectric filter can be reduced.

Description

Dielectric filter and communication equipment

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a dielectric filter and a communications device for a 5G communications system.

Background

With the rapid advance of communication technology, especially in the coming 5G communication era, more rigorous technical requirements are put on system architecture, and while high-efficiency and high-capacity communication is realized, system modules are required to be highly integrated, miniaturized, light-weighted and low-cost. For example, when the 5G Massive MIMO technology further expands the system channel from the current 8 or 16 channels to 32, 64, or even 128 channels, the overall architecture size of the system cannot be too large, and even a certain degree of miniaturization needs to be realized. The microwave filter is used as a core component of a system, and performance parameters, size and cost of the microwave filter have great influence on the performance, architecture size and cost of the system.

The inventor of the present application finds, in long-term research and development work, that the dielectric filter has the characteristics of miniaturization and high performance, and receives more and more attention. In order to realize transmission zero point of the existing dielectric filter, a dielectric coupling piece is usually built between non-cascaded dielectric blocks to realize cross coupling, but the existing dielectric filter with cross coupling has a complex structure and a large volume.

Disclosure of Invention

The technical problem that this application mainly solved provides a dielectric filter and communication equipment to solve above-mentioned problem.

In order to solve the technical problem, the application adopts a technical scheme that: there is provided a dielectric filter including: at least two layers of dielectric blocks which are arranged at intervals and respectively comprise at least two dielectric resonance units which are cascaded in sequence; the first medium coupling piece is arranged between the two layers of medium blocks and is used for coupling the two layers of medium blocks between two medium resonance units which are arranged adjacent to each other in space so as to form a main coupling path; and the second medium coupling piece is arranged between the two layers of medium blocks and used for coupling two medium resonance units which are arranged adjacently in space but are not arranged adjacently along the main coupling path, and the second medium coupling piece is used for coupling other two medium resonance units of the two layers of medium blocks except the two medium resonance units coupled by the first medium coupling piece so as to form a CQ cross coupling path.

In order to solve the above technical problem, the present application adopts another technical solution: the communication device comprises the dielectric filter and the antenna, wherein the dielectric filter is coupled with the antenna, and the dielectric filter is used for filtering the transceiving signals of the antenna.

The beneficial effect of this application is: different from the prior art, the dielectric filter in the embodiment of the application comprises upper two layers of dielectric blocks which are arranged at intervals and respectively comprise at least two dielectric resonance units which are cascaded in sequence; the first medium coupling piece is arranged between the two layers of medium blocks and is used for coupling the two layers of medium blocks between two medium resonance units which are arranged adjacent to each other in space so as to form a main coupling path; and the second medium coupling piece is arranged between the two layers of medium blocks and used for coupling two medium resonance units which are arranged adjacently in space but are not arranged adjacently along the main coupling path, and the second medium coupling piece is used for coupling other two medium resonance units of the two layers of medium blocks except the two medium resonance units coupled by the first medium coupling piece so as to form a CQ cross coupling path. The dielectric block is stacked, only the second dielectric coupling piece needs to be arranged in the gap between the layers, the second dielectric coupling piece is connected with the dielectric resonance units on different layers in the main coupling path, the CQ cross coupling path can be achieved, the structure of the dielectric filter with the CQ cross coupling can be simplified, and the size of the dielectric filter is reduced.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present application or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings needed to be used in the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a schematic 3D structure of a first embodiment of a dielectric filter according to the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic plan view of the dielectric filter of the embodiment of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of the topology of the dielectric filter of the embodiment of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a graph showing simulation results of the performance of the dielectric filter of the embodiment of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a schematic 3D structure of a second embodiment of the dielectric filter of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a planar structure of the dielectric filter of the embodiment of FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of the topology of the dielectric filter of the embodiment of FIG. 5;

FIG. 8 is a graph showing simulation results of the performance of the dielectric filter of the embodiment of FIG. 5;

FIG. 9 is a schematic topological structure of a third embodiment of a dielectric filter according to the present application;

FIG. 10 is a schematic topological structure of a fourth embodiment of a dielectric filter according to the present application;

fig. 11 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of the communication device of the present application.

Detailed Description

The present application will be described in further detail with reference to the following drawings and examples. It is to be noted that the following examples are only illustrative of the present application, and do not limit the scope of the present application. Likewise, the following examples are only some examples and not all examples of the present application, and all other examples obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art without any inventive step are within the scope of the present application.

The terms "first," "second," "third," "fourth," and the like in the description and in the claims of the present application and in the drawings described above, if any, are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used is interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the application described herein are, for example, capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or otherwise described herein. Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

The dielectric filter and the communication equipment can be used for a 5G communication system.

The dielectric filter is prepared by filling the resonant cavity with materials such as ceramics with high dielectric constants and the like, so that a microwave wavelength compression effect can be generated, the effective size of the resonant cavity can be greatly compressed, the overall size of the dielectric filter is miniaturized, and meanwhile, the materials such as ceramics are easy to mold, and batch production with lower cost can be realized, so that the dielectric filter is highly matched with the technical requirements of 5G micro base stations (Small Cells) and MIMO systems, and higher attention and market application of related communication scenes are obtained.

The present application first proposes a dielectric filter, as shown in fig. 1 to 3, fig. 1 is a schematic 3D structure diagram of an embodiment of the dielectric filter of the present application; FIG. 2 is a schematic plan view of the dielectric filter of the embodiment of FIG. 1; fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of the topology of the dielectric filter of the embodiment of fig. 1. The dielectric filter 201 of the present embodiment includes: the dielectric coupling structure comprises at least two layers of

dielectric blocks

202 and 203, a first dielectric coupling piece 204 and a second dielectric coupling piece 205, wherein the

dielectric blocks

202 and 203 are arranged at intervals, the dielectric block 202 comprises at least two dielectric resonance units 206 which are sequentially cascaded, and the dielectric block 203 comprises at least two dielectric resonance units 207 which are sequentially cascaded; the first medium coupling piece 204 is arranged between the

medium blocks

202 and 203, and the first medium coupling piece 204 is used for coupling the medium

resonant units

206 and 207 which are arranged on the

medium blocks

202 and 203 in an adjacent space so as to form a main coupling path; the second medium coupling member 205 is disposed between the

medium blocks

202 and 203, the second medium coupling member 205 is configured to couple the

medium resonance cells

206 and 207 disposed adjacent to each other in space but not adjacent to each other along the main coupling path between the

medium blocks

202 and 203, and the second medium coupling member 205 couples the

medium resonance cells

206 and 207 other than the

medium resonance cells

206 and 207 coupled by the first medium coupling member 204 of the first medium coupling member 204 and the second medium coupling member 206 to form a CQ cross-coupling path.

In this way, the dielectric resonance unit 206 and the dielectric resonance unit 207 coupled to the first dielectric coupling element 204 and the dielectric resonance unit 206 and the dielectric resonance unit 207 coupled to the second dielectric coupling element 205 form a CQ cross-coupling structure, which can generate a pair of transmission zeros, i.e., one bottom transmission zero located on the left side of the frequency band of the dielectric filter 201 and one high transmission zero located on the right side of the frequency band, thereby improving the performance such as the suppression on both sides of the frequency band and improving the performance such as the out-of-band suppression of the entire frequency band of the dielectric filter 201.

The transmission zero is the transmission function of the filter is equal to zero, namely, the electromagnetic energy cannot pass through the network on the frequency point corresponding to the transmission zero, so that the complete isolation effect is achieved, the suppression effect on signals outside the frequency band is achieved, and the high isolation among a plurality of frequency bands can be better achieved.

Different from the prior art, the dielectric blocks of the embodiment are stacked, only the second dielectric coupling piece needs to be arranged in the gap between the layers, and the second dielectric coupling piece is connected with the dielectric resonance units on different layers in the main coupling path, so that a CQ cross-coupling path can be realized, the structure of the dielectric filter with CQ cross-coupling can be simplified, and the volume of the dielectric filter can be reduced.

Alternatively, the dielectric block 202, the dielectric block 203, the first dielectric coupling member 204, and the second dielectric coupling member 205 are integrally sintered.

Specifically, in the present embodiment, a specific mold may be used to form the dielectric block 202, the dielectric block 203, the first dielectric coupling element 204, and the second dielectric coupling element 205, and the dielectric block 202, the dielectric block 203, the first dielectric coupling element 204, and the second dielectric coupling element 205 are formed by one-step sintering.

Of course, in other embodiments, after the dielectric body is formed, a first groove and a plurality of second grooves may be formed on the dielectric body through a grooving process or an etching process, so that the dielectric body is separated by the first groove to form the dielectric block and the dielectric coupling member, the dielectric block is separated by the second groove to form at least two dielectric resonant units, and then the dielectric resonant units and the dielectric coupling member are once sintered and molded.

In the present embodiment, the dielectric resonant unit 206, the dielectric resonant unit 207, the first dielectric coupling element 204, and the second dielectric coupling element 205 are integrally formed by sintering the same dielectric material, which may be a ceramic material. In other embodiments, the material of the dielectric resonant unit and the dielectric coupling element may also be other materials with high dielectric constant and low loss, such as glass, quartz crystal, or titanate, and it is not limited whether the material of the dielectric resonant unit and the material of the dielectric coupling element are the same.

Further, the dielectric filter 201 of the present embodiment further includes an electromagnetic shielding layer coated on the outer surfaces of the dielectric block 202, the dielectric block 203, the first dielectric coupling member 204, and the second dielectric coupling member 205. The electromagnetic shielding layer is used for limiting an electromagnetic field in the dielectric block 202, the dielectric block 203, the first dielectric coupling member 204 and the second dielectric coupling member 205, and can prevent electromagnetic signal leakage, so that standing wave oscillation signals are formed in the dielectric block 202, the dielectric block 203, the first dielectric coupling member 204 and the second dielectric coupling member 205, and electromagnetic signal transmission is realized.

The electromagnetic shielding layer of this embodiment may be a metal layer, and the metal layer may specifically cover the outer surfaces of the dielectric block 202, the dielectric block 203, the first dielectric coupling member 204, and the second dielectric coupling member 205 by plating, spraying, welding, or the like. The material of the metal layer may be silver, copper, aluminum, titanium, tin, gold, or the like.

In this embodiment, the dielectric resonance unit 206 connected to the first dielectric coupling member 204 is different from the dielectric resonance unit 206 connected to the second dielectric coupling member 206, and the dielectric resonance unit 207 connected to the first dielectric coupling member 204 is also different from the dielectric resonance unit 207 connected to the second dielectric coupling member 206. Therefore, the coupling between the dielectric resonance units 207 connected by the two pairs of second dielectric coupling members 206 can be achieved by the first and second

dielectric coupling members

204 and 206, respectively.

Alternatively, the first dielectric coupling member 204 of the present embodiment couples the

dielectric resonance units

206 and 207 respectively located at the end portions of the dielectric block 202 and the dielectric block 203. By this arrangement, all the dielectric resonance units 206 in the dielectric block 202 and all the dielectric resonance units 207 in the dielectric block 203 can be located in the main coupling path. The dielectric resonance unit 206 at the end of the dielectric block 202 and the dielectric resonance unit 207 at the end of the dielectric block 203 are signal transmission junctions between the dielectric block 202 and the dielectric block 203.

The first and second

media coupling pieces

204 and 205 of the present embodiment are respectively disposed in the gaps between the

dielectric blocks

202 and 203.

Further, the dielectric filter 201 of the present embodiment further includes an input terminal 208 and an output terminal 209, and the input terminal 208 and the output terminal 209 are provided to the dielectric resonance unit 206 and the dielectric resonance unit 207 located at the end portions of the main coupling path, respectively.

As can be seen from the above analysis, the dielectric resonant unit 206 and the dielectric resonant unit 207 connected to the first dielectric coupling member 204 are the transitions of the electromagnetic signals between the

dielectric blocks

202 and 203, and are located at the middle positions of the main coupling path. The main coupling path end portion thus includes an end of the dielectric block 202 distal from the first dielectric coupling member 204 and an end of the dielectric block 203 distal from the second dielectric coupling member 205.

Specifically, the input terminal 208 is provided on the dielectric resonance unit 207 at an end of the dielectric block 203 remote from the first dielectric coupling piece 204; the output terminal 209 is provided on the dielectric resonance unit 206 at an end of the dielectric block 202 remote from the first dielectric coupling member 204. Of course, in other embodiments, the positions of the input terminal and the output terminal may be reversed.

Alternatively, the dielectric resonant units 206 in the dielectric block 202 of this embodiment are sequentially arranged in a cascade along the length direction of the dielectric block 202, the dielectric resonant units 207 in the dielectric block 203 are sequentially arranged in a cascade along the length direction of the dielectric block 203, and the dielectric block 202 and the dielectric block 203 are arranged at intervals perpendicular to the length direction.

In order to satisfy the performance of the dielectric resonator unit, the dielectric resonator unit 206 and the dielectric resonator unit 207 of the present embodiment have a large length and width and a relatively small height, and the dielectric resonator unit 206 and the dielectric resonator unit 207 are stacked in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction (i.e., the height direction), so that the volume of the dielectric filter 201 can be reduced. Of course, in other embodiments, two dielectric blocks may be stacked in the width direction.

Optionally, the sizes of the dielectric blocks 202 and 203 in the length direction of the present embodiment are the same, and two end surfaces of the dielectric blocks 202 and 203 in the length direction are coplanar, so that the forming process of the dielectric blocks 202 and 203 can be simplified. Of course, in other embodiments, the shape and size of the dielectric block may be modified according to actual product and performance requirements.

Optionally, the number of the dielectric resonance units 206 on the dielectric block 202 of the present embodiment is the same as the number of the dielectric resonance units 207 on the dielectric block 203, and the dielectric resonance units are arranged adjacent to each other two by two.

Specifically, the number of the dielectric resonance units 206 and the number of the dielectric resonance units 207 in the present embodiment are both 3.

Specifically, the first dielectric coupling element 204 of the present embodiment is disposed at a position on one side of the gap between the dielectric resonance unit 206 and the dielectric resonance unit 207, so as to realize the inductive coupling between the dielectric resonance unit 206 and the dielectric resonance unit 207; the second dielectric coupling element 205 is provided at the position right in the middle of the gap between the dielectric resonator unit 206 and the dielectric resonator unit 207, and can realize capacitive cross coupling between the dielectric resonator 206 and the dielectric resonator unit 207. This configuration enables formation of a CQ cross-coupling path, generation of a pair of transmission zeros, i.e., a bottom transmission zero located on the left side of the frequency band and a top transmission zero located on the right side of the frequency band, as shown in fig. 4 (indicated by dashed circles), and further improvement of the out-of-band rejection performance of the dielectric filter 201, and generation of a pair of parasitic coupling zeros (indicated by solid circles) between the dielectric resonator element denoted by reference numeral 6 and the dielectric resonator element denoted by reference numeral 1.

Of course, in other embodiments, the second dielectric coupling element may be disposed at a side position of the gap to realize the inductive cross coupling between the two dielectric resonators.

In order to realize multiple pairs of transmission zeros of the dielectric filter and further improve the out-of-band rejection performance, the present application further proposes a dielectric filter of a third embodiment, as shown in fig. 5 to 7, the dielectric filter 701 of this embodiment further includes a third dielectric coupling part 702 on the basis of the dielectric filter 201, and the third dielectric coupling part 702 is disposed between another pair of

dielectric resonance units

703 and 704 to realize another cross-coupling path.

Specifically, the third dielectric coupling element 702 is disposed at a side of a gap between the dielectric resonance unit 703 and the dielectric resonance unit 704, and can realize inductive coupling between the dielectric resonance unit 703 and the dielectric resonance unit 704. The third medium coupling piece 702 and the second medium coupling piece 705 can form another CQ cross-coupling structure, and can generate another pair of transmission zeros, as shown in fig. 8 (indicated by dashed circles in the figure), so that the out-of-band rejection performance of the medium filter 201 can be further improved, and the strength of the coupling zeros of the embodiment is changed on the basis of the medium resonator 201, so that the control of the strength of the coupling zeros can be realized.

In other embodiments, the number of dielectric resonant units of the two dielectric blocks may be different, and the number and the stacking manner of the dielectric blocks are not limited.

In other embodiments, other topological structures can be adopted among the multiple dielectric resonance units to realize multiple cross-coupling structures, so that the frequency selection performance of the filter is improved, and the out-of-band rejection performance and other performances are improved. For example, other topologies may be as shown in fig. 9 and 10.

As shown in fig. 11, a communication device 1301 of this embodiment includes a dielectric filter 1303 and an antenna 1302, where the dielectric filter 1303 is coupled to the antenna 1302, and the dielectric filter 1303 is used for filtering a transmission/reception signal of the antenna 1302. The dielectric filter 1303 in this embodiment is the dielectric filter in the above embodiment, and the structure and the working principle thereof are not described herein again.

The communication device 1301 may be a base station or a terminal for 5G communication, and the terminal may specifically be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a wearable device with a 5G communication function, and the like.

Different from the prior art, the dielectric filter in the embodiment of the application at least comprises two layers of dielectric blocks which are arranged at intervals and respectively comprise at least two dielectric resonance units which are cascaded in sequence; the first medium coupling piece is arranged between the two layers of medium blocks and is used for coupling the two layers of medium blocks between two medium resonance units which are arranged adjacent to each other in space so as to form a main coupling path; and the second medium coupling piece is arranged between the two layers of medium blocks and used for coupling two medium resonance units which are arranged adjacently in space but are not arranged adjacently along the main coupling path, and the second medium coupling piece is used for coupling other two medium resonance units of the two layers of medium blocks except the two medium resonance units coupled by the first medium coupling piece so as to form a CQ cross coupling path. The dielectric block is stacked, only the second dielectric coupling piece needs to be arranged in the gap between the layers, the second dielectric coupling piece is connected with the dielectric resonance units on different layers in the main coupling path, the CQ cross coupling path can be achieved, the structure of the dielectric filter with the CQ cross coupling can be simplified, and the size of the dielectric filter is reduced.

Furthermore, the dielectric filter in the embodiment of the application adopts evanescent mode coupling, so that the problems of precision and consistency caused by a window splicing process technology are solved.

Furthermore, the dielectric filter of the embodiment of the application can realize extremely high space utilization rate due to the symmetrical structure with regular appearance.

The position and the size of the dielectric resonance unit in the embodiment of the application are not limited to the above embodiment, and can be adjusted according to the actual electrical property of the dielectric filter; the number and topology of the dielectric resonance units in the embodiment of the present application are not limited to the above-described embodiments; the input terminal and the output terminal of the embodiment of the present application are not limited to the above-described positions; the input terminal and the output terminal of the embodiment of the application are not limited to the form of a probe, and can also be in the forms of a planar printed PCB (printed circuit board), a microstrip line and the like; in the cross-coupling topological structure of the embodiment of the application, the specific topological structure can be adjusted according to the actual electrical property requirement of the dielectric filter and the position requirements of the input terminal and the output terminal; the embodiment of the present application is not limited to the above-mentioned two-layer structure, and may be a structure with three or more layers.

It should be noted that the above embodiments belong to the same inventive concept, and the description of each embodiment has a different emphasis, and reference may be made to the description in other embodiments where the description in individual embodiments is not detailed.

The protection circuit and the control system provided by the embodiment of the present application are described in detail above, and a specific example is applied in the description to explain the principle and the embodiment of the present application, and the description of the above embodiment is only used to help understand the method and the core idea of the present application; meanwhile, for a person skilled in the art, according to the idea of the present application, there may be variations in the specific embodiments and the application scope, and in summary, the content of the present specification should not be construed as a limitation to the present application.

The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating embodiments of the present application and is not intended to limit the scope of the present application, and all modifications of equivalent structures and equivalent processes, which are made by the contents of the specification and the drawings of the present application or are directly or indirectly applied to other related technical fields, are also included in the scope of the present application.

Claims

1. A dielectric filter, characterized in that the dielectric filter comprises:

at least two layers of dielectric blocks which are arranged at intervals and respectively comprise at least two dielectric resonance units which are cascaded in sequence;

the first medium coupling piece is arranged between the two layers of medium blocks and is used for coupling the two layers of medium blocks between two medium resonance units which are arranged adjacent to each other in space so as to form a main coupling path;

and the second medium coupling piece is arranged between the two layers of medium blocks and used for coupling two medium resonance units which are arranged on the two layers of medium blocks in a spatially adjacent manner but are not arranged in an adjacent manner along the main coupling path, and the second medium coupling piece is used for coupling other two medium resonance units of the two layers of medium blocks except the two medium resonance units coupled by the first medium coupling piece so as to form a CQ cross coupling path.

2. The dielectric filter of claim 1, wherein the two-layer dielectric block, the first dielectric coupling member, and the second dielectric coupling member are integrally sintered.

3. The dielectric filter according to claim 1, wherein the first dielectric coupling member couples two dielectric resonance units respectively located at ends of the two-layered dielectric block.

4. A dielectric filter according to claim 3, further comprising an input terminal and an output terminal respectively provided on the two dielectric resonant units at the ends of the main coupling path.

5. The dielectric filter according to claim 1, wherein the dielectric resonance units in the two dielectric blocks are sequentially arranged in cascade along a length direction of the dielectric blocks, respectively, and the two dielectric blocks are arranged at intervals perpendicular to the length direction.

6. The dielectric filter according to claim 5, wherein the two layers of dielectric blocks have the same dimension along the length direction, and two end surfaces of the two layers of dielectric blocks, which are spaced apart along the length direction, are coplanar with each other.

7. The dielectric filter according to claim 5, wherein the number of the dielectric resonance units on the two layers of dielectric blocks is the same, and two dielectric resonance units are arranged adjacently.

8. The dielectric filter of claim 1, wherein the first dielectric coupling piece and the second dielectric coupling piece are respectively disposed in a gap between the two dielectric blocks.

9. The dielectric filter of claim 1, further comprising an electromagnetic shield layer coated on an outer surface of the two-layer dielectric block, the first dielectric coupling member, and the second dielectric coupling member.

10. The dielectric filter of claim 1, wherein the two-layer dielectric block, the first dielectric coupling member, and the second dielectric coupling member are integrally sintered from the same dielectric material.

11. A communication device, comprising the dielectric filter according to any one of claims 1 to 10 and an antenna, wherein the dielectric filter is coupled to the antenna, and wherein the dielectric filter is configured to filter a transceived signal of the antenna.