EP1239541A1 - Circuit gravé de protection contre la foudre et son procédé de fabrication - Google Patents
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- H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
- H01Q1/00—Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
- H01Q1/50—Structural association of antennas with earthing switches, lead-in devices or lightning protectors
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- the invention relates to lightning protection of transmitters in a transmission system.
- FIG. 1 shows a system lightning protection in localized elements. It has two inductors 11 and 12 each connected to ground. The first self 11 is directly connected to the transmitting antenna. It helps attenuate the low frequencies. A capacitor 13 is placed between these two inductors 11 and 12. The capacitor 13 filters the high frequencies. The second self 12 is optional. It improves the attenuation presented.
- Such lightning protection circuits are made of linear components and discreet. However, they are very bulky and require completion more complicated.
- the present invention makes it possible to obtain an etched circuit comprising such a lightning protection function thereby reducing size, easier and cheaper to make (due to other, because there are no components).
- the subject of the invention is an etched circuit with lightning protection comprising at least one main line connected to a connector suitable for the output of the transmitting antenna of a fixed frequency transmission system f 0 or in a band of narrow frequency ⁇ f 0 comprising a capacitor and characterized in that it comprises at least a first line of length I 1 of width constant or not, connected to said connector and terminated by a short-circuit forming an open circuit brought to the main line.
- the circuit proposed by the invention also allows filtering to be carried out. of the second harmonic.
- Another object of the invention is the method of manufacturing a circuit engraved with lightning protection according to one of claims 1 to 7 comprising the etching of the lines and of the capacitor of said circuit etched on the base of said circuit, the deposition of a film of conductive material and, if necessary scraping off the excess conductive material in order to prevent as the conductive material that has deposited in the etching.
- the invention further proposes the application of the etched circuit with lightning protection according to one of the preceding claims 1 to 7 to the filtering of the second harmonic 2f 0 and of the third harmonic 3f 0 .
- the inductors 11 and 12 are replaced by conductive lines 21 and 22 engraved over a length of a quarter wavelength at the frequency f 0 used. Lines 21 and 22 are each terminated by a short circuit.
- the main line includes a capacitor 23 placed between these two lines 21 and 22.
- the first line 21 therefore makes it possible to filter the low frequencies of the lightning signal and reject the second harmonic.
- the second line 22 is optional. It improves the mitigation presented.
- the harmonics filtering is a low pass type filtering.
- the circuits of FIGS. 3 and 4 allow the rejection of the second harmonic 2f 0 and of the third harmonic 3f 0 .
- the diagram in localized elements of figure 3 comprises 3 capacitors 31, 33 and 35 in parallel connected to earth in one of their ends and 2 inductors 32 and 34, an inductor between each of the two capacitors. Inductors can optionally be placed in series with capacitors 31, 33, 35. They are located between the capacitors and the circuit formed by the two inductors 32 and 34 as shown in figure 3
- the circuits most commonly used are the circuits with localized elements of FIGS. 1 and 3 are bulky.
- Distributed constant circuits also take up a lot of space because the capacitors represent rectangles etched on the order of 1 cm 2 on a substrate with high dielectric permittivity (for example on the order of 10) and the quarter wave lines represent lengths of 2 to 3 cm. These dimensions are given by way of example for frequencies of the order of GHz. These dimensions are not negligible, in particular in embedded applications.
- both the lightning protection function and the harmonics filtering function should be the first to be found after the antenna connector. This is the obvious placement for lightning protection which should protect the entire transmitting circuit.
- the filtering of the harmonics must also be as far downstream as possible from the transmission since there is a risk of creating harmonics, in particular harmonics 2f 0 and 3f 0 , by the antenna switching circuits or by coupling.
- the lightning protection circuit according to the invention presented in FIG. 2 already allowed the filtering of the second harmonic 2f 0 by using a single circuit making it possible to overcome these drawbacks.
- the second line in the lightning protection diagram in Figure 2 gives the possibility of also rejecting the third harmonic.
- the lengths will then be optimized and an adaptation topology will then be simulated to guarantee optimum rejection at the two harmonics as well as low loss at the fundamental frequency f 0 .
- This optimization can be obtained using a tool for simulating etched circuits such as ADS from AGILENT technology for example.
- the circuit optimized for lightning protection and filtering of the second and third harmonics comprises two lines 51 and 52 of respective length I 1 and I 2 determined during the simulation ended by a short circuit to ground .
- These lines 51 and 52 include open reactance arms (or stub) 54 and 55.
- the first line is connected to the antenna output connector.
- a capacitor 53 performs the high-pass filtering of the lightning protection. It is placed between the two lines on the main line.
- Figure 6 shows the first measures of the harmonics filtering in FIGS. 6a and 6b, they represent the amplitude in dB of the signal in output of a lightning protection circuit according to the invention in function of its frequency.
- the injected lightning wave is 1000V. It is attenuated around 50 V.
- FIGS. 6a correspond to the first measurements with a circuit of the type of that of FIG. 5. It shows an attenuation of the signal at output at least 30 dB at the two frequencies 2f 0 and 3f 0 .
- FIG. 6b corresponds to the measurements obtained after optimization of this circuit. Optimization makes it possible to obtain attenuation values of the signal at the output of the optimized circuit of 40 dB for 2f 0 and 50 dB for 3f 0 .
- such lightning protection circuits allow the filtering of the second harmonic 2f 0 and of the third harmonic 3f 0 .
- these circuits can have a common lightning protection function and filtering of one or more harmonics nf 0 (n integer ⁇ 3).
- the circuit of FIG. 5 is an example of embodiment of a circuit having a common function of lightning protection and harmonics filtering. More generally, it can be envisaged optimize this circuit with the same simulation tools for rejection of the first n harmonics (n integer ⁇ 3).
- the circuit can have one or more lines terminated by a short circuit identical or different lengths to be determined, widths to be determined constant or not and identical or different, with or without one or several reactance arms (or stub in Anglo-Saxon) whose size is determine.
- the advantage of such a circuit is therefore the gain in area because the two lightning protection and harmonic filtering functions is realized in a single circuit. In addition, it does not require a large area of etching like the harmonics filtering circuit in figure 4. Indeed, it only uses lines that can be "rolled up" or folded. Another advantage of this type of circuit is the possibility of optimizing them performance and reproducibility. Indeed, it allows a unique adaptation and under control. And, the two functions are the first function seen from the antenna.
- the manufacture of an engraved circuit with lightning protection as, for example, those illustrated in Figures 2 and 5 includes the engraving lines and capacitor of said circuit etched on the base of said circuit, the depositing a film of conductive material and, if necessary, scraping excess conductive material to keep only the material conductor which is deposited in the engraving.
- This device can be applied to any field requiring one and / or the other of the two functions.
- transmitters in all systems of communication dissemination or identification such as IFF, TACAN, DME can use such a circuit.
- IFF IFF
- TACAN TACAN
- DME DME
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- Figure 1, un circuit de protection contre la foudre en éléments localisés selon l'état de l'art,
- Figure 2, la fonction de protection contre la foudre sur un circuit gravé selon l'invention,
- Figure 3, un circuit de filtrage d'harmoniques en éléments localisés selon l'état de l'art,
- Figure 4, la fonction de filtrage des harmoniques sur un circuit gravé selon l'état de l'art,
- Figure 5, la fonction commune de protection contre la foudre et de filtrage des harmoniques 2f0 et 3f0 selon l'invention,
- Figure 6a et 6b, courbe représentant le filtrage des harmoniques grâce au filtre de la figure 5, la figure 6b correspondant au filtre optimisé.
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- Circuit gravé avec protection contre la foudre comportant au moins une ligne principale reliée à un connecteur adapté pour la sortie de l'antenne d'émission d'un système de transmission à fréquence fixe f0 ou dans une bande de fréquence étroite Δf0 comportant un condensateur (23, 53) et caractérisé en ce qu'il comporte au moins une première ligne (21, 51) d'une longueur I1 de largeur constante ou non, reliée audit connecteur et terminée par un court-circuit formant un circuit ouvert ramené sur la ligne principale pour la fréquence f0.
- Circuit gravé avec protection contre la foudre selon la revendication précédente caractérisé en ce qu'il comporte une deuxième ligne (22, 52) de longueur I2 de largeur constante ou non, reliée à la sortie du condensateur (23, 53) et terminée par un court-circuit formant un circuit ouvert ramené sur la ligne principale.
- Circuit gravé avec protection contre la foudre selon la revendication précédente caractérisé en ce que les largeurs des première et deuxième lignes (21, 51 et 22, 52) sont différentes.
- Circuit gravé avec protection contre la foudre selon l'une des revendications précédentes caractérisé en ce que la première ligne (51) comporte au moins un premier bras (54) de réactance (ou stub en anglo-saxon) ouvert.
- Circuit gravé avec protection contre la foudre selon l'une des revendications 2 à 4 caractérisé en ce que la deuxième ligne comporte au moins un deuxième bras (55) de réactance (ou stub en anglo-saxon) ouvert.
- Circuit gravé avec protection contre la foudre selon l'une des revendications précédentes caractérisé en ce que la longueur I1 de la première ligne (21, 51) et/ou la longueur I2 de la deuxième ligne (22, 52) est un quart de la longueur d'onde de la fréquence utilisée f0.
- Circuit gravé avec protection contre la foudre selon l'une des revendications précédentes caractérisé en ce que la largeur et/ou de la longueur de la première ligne (21, 51) et/ou de la deuxième ligne (22, 52) et/ou du premier bras (54) de réactance (ou stub en anglo-saxon) et/ou du deuxième bras (55) de réactance (ou stub en anglo-saxon) sont déterminées en fonction de la ou des harmoniques nf0 (n entier ≥ 2) à filtrer.
- Procédé de fabrication d'un circuit gravé avec protection contre la foudre selon l'une des revendications 1 à 7 comportant la gravure des lignes (21, 51, 22, 52, 54, 55) et du condensateur (23, 53) dudit circuit gravé sur la base dudit circuit, le dépôt d'une pellicule de matériau conducteur et, le cas échéant, le raclage de l'excès de matériau conducteur afin de ne conserver que le matériau conducteur qui s'est déposé dans la gravure.
- Application du circuit gravé avec protection contre la foudre selon l'une des revendications précédentes 1 à 7 au filtrage de la deuxième harmonique 2f0 et de la troisième harmonique 3f0.
- Application du procédé de fabrication d'un circuit gravé avec protection contre la foudre selon la revendication 8 à la fabrication d'un circuit gravé avec fonction commune de protection contre la foudre et de filtrage d'une ou plusieurs harmoniques nf0 (n entier ≥ 3).
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