EP0440661A1 - Hochfrequenz-bandpassfilter. - Google Patents
Hochfrequenz-bandpassfilter.Info
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- EP0440661A1 EP0440661A1 EP89908824A EP89908824A EP0440661A1 EP 0440661 A1 EP0440661 A1 EP 0440661A1 EP 89908824 A EP89908824 A EP 89908824A EP 89908824 A EP89908824 A EP 89908824A EP 0440661 A1 EP0440661 A1 EP 0440661A1
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- H01P—WAVEGUIDES; RESONATORS, LINES, OR OTHER DEVICES OF THE WAVEGUIDE TYPE
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- H01P1/20—Frequency-selective devices, e.g. filters
- H01P1/201—Filters for transverse electromagnetic waves
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Definitions
- the present invention relates to a high-frequency bandpass filter according to the preamble of patent claim 1.
- a generic high-frequency bandpass filter is already known from the textbook "Zinke / Brunswig: Textbook of High Frequency Technology, Volume 1, 3rd Edition, Springer-Verlag 1986, page 209, Figure 4.14 / 9".
- This known high-frequency band-pass filter is a so-called interdigital filter with capacitively shortened resonator inner conductors.
- an input line resonator, a center line resonator and an output line resonator lie parallel to one another in such a way that a coupling between the input line resonator nator and the center line resonator and a coupling between the center line resonator and the output line resonator occurs.
- This coupling is a so-called coupling of parallel lines.
- a desirable shift of the next pass band which in the case of lambda half-resonators is twice the resonance frequency, to higher frequencies, so that good attenuation at the first harmonic of the center frequency occurs of the passband can be achieved.
- the degree of coupling of this known interdigital filter cannot be increased arbitrarily and thus the damping at the resonance frequency cannot be reduced to low damping values without undesired direct coupling of the input resonator to the output resonator, which in turn inhibits the characteristics of the Inter ⁇ digital filter would affect.
- a bandpass filter with parallel coupled lambda half resonators is also known from the textbook on radio frequency technology cited above, page 207, Figure 4.14 / 6.
- the known bandpass filter is implemented using strip technology or micro-strip technology and comprises a plurality of lambda half-strip line resonators on a substrate, which are mutually offset in the longitudinal direction by lambda quarters.
- Such a high-frequency band-pass filter structure has large external dimensions. Furthermore, such an unabridged high-frequency bandpass filter cannot be tuned and has a relatively low attenuation at the first harmonic.
- FIG. 1 a high-frequency bandpass filter using stripline technology is known, which has an input coupling line, two center resonators and an output coupling line.
- the input coupling line and the output coupling line are each designed as idling lines and capacitive coupling elements, which are arranged parallel to one another and unaligned in the direction of their longitudinal extension, that is to say arranged at the same height.
- the two center resonators are designed as U-shaped, capacitively shortened lambda half resonators, the ends of which are connected to the ground potential and the center of which are each connected to a capacitor.
- the high-frequency bandpass filter according to the invention prevents a direct coupling of the input resonator to the output resonator by means of their arrangement which is offset in the longitudinal direction of the central resonator, as a result of which a high degree of coupling can be achieved, with a through loss of only 1 to 2.5 dB. of the pass-through frequency is possible without the usual wave formation of the attenuation curve in the frequency range with such a high degree of coupling.
- the high-frequency bandpass filter according to the invention not only shows the very high passband attenuation just mentioned, but also has, depending on the degree of coupling and bandwidth of the passband, an attenuation of up to -70 dB at the first harmonic.
- An important advantage of the filter according to the invention is that its characteristics can be simulated by computer, which is not the case with many known filter structures or can only be carried out approximately with considerable effort.
- the filter according to the invention is suitable for tuning capacitors with adjustable capacitance values or trimmers and can be constructed compactly and inexpensively using microstrip technology. Because of its low pass-through attenuation, the field of application of the line filter according to the invention not only appears to be limited to frequency processing, but it also seems to be possible in principle to use the filter according to the invention also in the power range.
- FIG. 2 shows a computational simulation of the damping curve of the embodiment according to FIG. 1;
- FIG. 3 shows a measurement result of the damping curve of the embodiment according to FIG. 1.
- the third-order high-frequency bandpass filter which is designated in its entirety by reference number 1, comprises an input resonator 2, a center resonator 3 and an output resonator 4.
- the resonators 2, 3, 4 are designed as line resonators in strip technology or microstrip technology on a substrate by means of the etching technology which is conventional per se.
- the substrate has a thickness of approximately 1.5 mm with a relative permeability or effective dielectric constant
- the input resonator 2 is coupled to the central resonator 3 in parallel.
- the center resonator 3 is in turn coupled to the output resonator 4 in parallel.
- the mutually turned ends 5, 6 of the input resonator 2 and the output resonator 4 are connected to ground.
- the two ends 7, 8 of the center resonator 3 are connected to ground.
- the center of the center resonator 3 is connected to ground via a first adjustable capacitor 9.
- the opposite ends 10, 11 of the input resonator 2 and the output resonator 4 are also connected to ground via a second or third adjustable capacitor 12, 13.
- the input resonator 2 is parallel to the center resonator 3 between one end 7 and the center 14 of the center resonator 3.
- the output resonator 4 is parallel to the center resonator 3 between the center 14 of the center resonator 3 and the other end 8 thereof Offset of the input resonator and the output resonator largely prevents an undesired, direct coupling from the input resonator to the output resonator, which would lead to a weakening of the damping outside the pass frequency.
- the center resonator 3 in conjunction with the first capacitor 9 assigned to it forms a shortened lambda half-line resonator, the length of which, by suitable selection of the capacitance value of the first capacitor, is likewise from 10 to 30%, but preferably approximately 16%, of the length of a lambda Half resonator is set.
- the capacitance value of the first capacitor 9 corresponds with approximately 2% accuracy to twice the capacitance value of the second or third capacitor 12, 13.
- the ratio of the capacitance values results from the line lengths.
- the lengths can be changed independently of one another within certain limits, which is accompanied by a corresponding change in the capacitance values.
- the outer line elements 2, 4 can be shifted slightly parallel to the middle line 3, which facilitates the placement of the middle capacitor 9.
- the input resonator 2 is connected to an input connection line 15 by means of a direct tap.
- the output resonator 4 is connected to an output connection line 16 by means of a direct tap.
- any other coupling can be used in deviation from the exemplary embodiment shown.
- the computational attenuation curve shows a transmission loss of less than -1 dB and an attenuation of -65 dB at twice the transmission frequency
- FIG. 3 shows the actually measured attenuation curve of the embodiment of the high-frequency band-pass filter according to the invention with the above-mentioned direction
- the computed attenuation curve according to FIG. 2 coincides relatively well with that actually measured Attenuation curve according to FIG. 3.
- a transmission loss of -1.2 dB was achieved at the transmission frequency f of 400 MHz.
- the attenuation curve shown in FIG. 3 shows that a very high degree of coupling is achieved at the pass frequency f without the wave formation of the attenuation curve in the frequency range which is usual with such high degrees of coupling being accepted must be taken, as occurs in filters with two resonators coupled in parallel.
- the illustrated embodiment of the bandpass filter according to the invention has a very wide tuning range from 360 MHz to 960 MHz with an approximately constant quality.
- a decisive advantage of the high-frequency bandpass filter according to the invention is that its damping behavior can be simulated with little effort using programs known per se. B. is not possible with an interdigital filter with more than two resonators.
- Preferred areas of application of the filter according to the invention are in the field of frequency processing technology at frequencies between approximately 50 MHz and 10 GHz. It is also conceivable to use the filter according to the invention as an output filter for transmitters with low power to suppress harmonics.
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AT89908824T ATE95341T1 (de) | 1988-10-18 | 1989-08-01 | Hochfrequenz-bandpassfilter. |
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DE3835480A DE3835480A1 (de) | 1988-10-18 | 1988-10-18 | Hochfrequenz-bandpassfilter |
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EP0440661A1 true EP0440661A1 (de) | 1991-08-14 |
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WO (1) | WO1990004861A1 (de) |
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EP0600118B1 (de) * | 1992-12-01 | 1998-05-27 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | Spannungsgesteuerter Mikrowellen-Oszillator |
US5442330A (en) * | 1993-12-27 | 1995-08-15 | Motorola, Inc. | Coupled line filter with improved out-of-band rejection |
KR20010094784A (ko) * | 2000-04-06 | 2001-11-03 | 윤종용 | 커패시터 보상회로를 갖는 콤라인 구조의 무선필터 |
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JP4230467B2 (ja) * | 2005-02-25 | 2009-02-25 | 日本電波工業株式会社 | コプレーナライン型の共振器を用いた高周波フィルタ |
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