US3334318A - Stripline circulator having means causing electrostatic capacitance between adjacent pairs of terminals to be substantially equal to each other - Google Patents

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US3334318A
US3334318A US497929A US49792965A US3334318A US 3334318 A US3334318 A US 3334318A US 497929 A US497929 A US 497929A US 49792965 A US49792965 A US 49792965A US 3334318 A US3334318 A US 3334318A
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  • FIG. 1 A first figure.
  • FIG. 2 PRIOR ART FIG. 7
  • the intermediate strip line may have a suitably selected shape and dimension to cross the other strip lines with an area smaller than an area with which the remaining strip lines cross the intermediate strip.
  • the circular is of a microstrip structure and a simple and effective method of producing a .circulator including the above-mentioned four strip lines is taught.
  • This invention relates to improvements in an electronic circulator.
  • electronic circulators of the type which the invention concerns utilize the phenomena that when a body of ferromagnetic material such as a ferrite is dis posed in a high-frequency rotating magnetic field the effective permeability thereof varies in magnitude. Therefore the electronic circulators should be, of course, of such a construction that at least a high-frequency rotating magnetic field is established in the ferromagnetic material involved.
  • one type of conventional electronic cinculators includes a sheet of electrically conductive material in the form of a trifurcation or Y- shape sandwiched between a pair of circular disks of any suitable ferromagnetic material such as a ferrite or garnet having a static magnetic field applied thereto in the common axial direction of both disks with the assembly of conductive sheets and ferromagnetic disks being sandwiched between a pair of ground plane conductor plates.
  • the trifurcated conductive member acts as a distributed parameter circuit.
  • This known type of device has a disadvantage in that the device is large in dimension provided that the same is to be operated within :a range of relatively low frequencies, for example, in the VHF (very high frequency) or UHF (ultra high frequency) band.v
  • another type of the electronic circulators has been previously constructed on the basis of the lumped parameter principle.
  • a hybrid set is associated with a circular disk of any suitable ferro- Patented Aug. 1, 1967 magnetic material and serves as three input and output conductors. This measure does not provide a small dimension and good characteristics of the devices.
  • a principal object of the invention is to provide a new and improved electronic circulator substantially reduced or minimized in dimension.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a new and improved electronic circulator using microstrips and having a miniature dimension and excellent characteristics.
  • an electronic circulator comprising a ground plane conductor member, a plate of ferromagnetic material disposed upon the grounded conductive member, at least three strips of electrically conductive material disposed upon the plate of ferromagnetic material so as to 'be electrically insulated from each other and from the lattcrand crossing each other at angles of substantially degrees.
  • Each of the three strips of electrically conductive material including one end electrically connnected to the ground plane conductor member and the other and providing an input and output terminal, and means are provided for applying to the ferromagnetic plate a direct current magnetic field traversing the ferromagnetic material plate and those portions of the conductive strips crossing each other.
  • the conductor group consists of four electrically conductive members in the form as above described and disposed in the manner as above describe-d, and a pair of the outermost conductive strips are equal in width to each other, and disposed in aligned relationship with those two strips connected together at both ends.
  • the conductor group consists of three electrically conductive members identical to those as above described and disposed in the manner as above described and the intermediate conductive strip crosses either of the remaining strips with an area smaller than an area with which either of the remaining strips cross the intermediate strip.
  • the invention also provides a method of producing an electronic circulator as outlined above, comprising the steps of preparing a pair of conductor members of foil copper with a suitable dimension and .a pair of ferromagnetic plates of circular shape in predetermined dimensions, forming a first star-shaped, electrically conductive element of foil copper including a central portion corresponding in both shape and dimension to said ferromagnetic plate, and three long relatively wide arms radially extending at angles of substantially 120' degrees therefrom, arid a second star-shaped foil copper element having a central portion corresponding in both shape and dimension to the ferromagnetic plate and two shorter arms and one longer arm radially extending at angles of substantially 120 degrees therefrom, disposing one of said ferromagnetic plates concentrically on the central portion of said first star-shaped element and then successively folding said three long arms along the side surface of said first ferromagnetic plate and over the opposite face of the latter while electrically insulating sheets are inserted betweeen the adjacent arms to insulate the crossed portions of
  • FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of an electronic Y circulator constructed in accordance with the teachings of prior art
  • FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic view of the circulator shown in FIG. 1 and illustrates the position of the electrically conductive portion relative to the remaining parts after the device has been assembled;
  • FIG. 3 is a plan view, partly in section of an electronic circulator constructed in accordance with the teachings of the invention with the section taken along the line III-III of FIG. 4;
  • FIG. 4 is an elevation section view of the circulator illustrated in FIG. 3 with the section taken along the line IV-IV of FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 5 is a perspective view in enlarged scale of a group of electrically conductive strips illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 4;
  • FIGS. 6 through 8 are views of several modifications of the group of electrically conductive strips illustrated in FIG. 5;
  • FIG. 9 is a view similar to FIG. 2 but illustrating the group of conductive strips shown in any one of FIGS. 5 through 8;
  • FIG. 10 is a section view of another embodiment of the invention taken along the line XX of FIG. 11;
  • FIG. 11 is a section view of the embodiment of FIG. 10 taken along the line XI-XI of FIG. 10;
  • FIGS. 12a and b are plan views of electrically conductive elements constructed in accordance with the teachings of the invention.
  • FIG. 13 is an exploded perspective View illustrating an electronic circulator being assembled in accordance with the teachings of the invention.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 there is illustrated an electronic circulator of the prior art type.
  • a pair of circular plates F and F made of any suitable ferromagnetic material such as ferrite or garnet has sandwiched therebetween a strip A of electrically conductive material in the form of a trifurcation.
  • the ferromagnetic plates F and F and the conductive strip A sandwiched therebetween are sandwiched between a pair of ground plane conductors G and G as diagrammatically shown in FIG. 2.
  • the device thus prepared is arranged to have a magnetic field H applied thereto in the direction of the arrow illustrated in FIG. 2.
  • the operation of the device just described is familiar to those skilled in the art and need not be described.
  • the electronic circulator such as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 is disadvantageous in that if the same is to be operated in a VHF (very high frequency) or a UHF (ultra high frequency) band it becomes inevitably large in dimension because the conductive strip functions as a distributed parameter element. Further its characteristics are generally bad.
  • the invention contemplates eliminating the abovementioned disadvantages.
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 there is illustrated an electronic circulator constructed in accordance with the teachings of the invention.
  • An arrangement illustrated comprises a pair of ground plane conductor members G and G of U-shaped section disposed in spaced parallel relationship with the recessed surfaces thereof facing externally.
  • the conductor member may be preferably of a rectangular shape.
  • Rigidly secured on the opposed surfaces of the ground plane conductor members G and G are a pair of circular plates F and P of any suitable ferromagnetic material such as a ferrite or garnet with a space formed therebetween having a predetermined width.
  • an electrical conductor group Positioned within the abovementioned space is an electrical conductor group generally designated by the reference character A and including three strips of any suitable electrically conductive material crossing each other at angles of substantially degrees.
  • Each of the conductive strips has one end portion projecting beyond the periphery of each ferromagnetic plate F or F and electrically connected to different one of terminals T T and T electrically insulated from and attached on three side surfaces of the rectangular ground plane conductor members G and G by any conventional means such as screws.
  • these terminals T T and T can act as either input or output terminals as the case may be.
  • magnets M and M are disposed in a recess formed on the external surface of each of the ground plane conductor members G and G and rigidly secured to a magnetic pole plate P or P of any suitable magnetic material attached on the external surface of the associated conductor member G or G
  • the lower magnet M is preferably attached to a screw member S of the same material as the pole plate wadjustably screwed into a threaded central opening formed on the lower pole plate P
  • screw member S serves to control the strength of the magnetic field.
  • a plate Y of any suitable magnetic material is provided to magnetically interconnect the pair of pole plates P and P as shown in
  • the conductor group A as above described may be preferably of a construction as illustrated in FIG. 5. More specifically, the conductor group A includes three strips A A and A of any suitable electrically conductive material having a common width and laying one upon another in electrically insulating relationship while crossing one another at angles of substantially 120 degrees, and an auxiliary strip A identical in material and shape to the strips A A and A The auxiliary strip A is disposed substantially parallel to the lowermost strip A and above the uppermost strip A with the strips A and A connected together at both ends.
  • Each of the conductive strips A A and A has one end a a or a connected to the individual terminal T T or T and the other end b b or b connected to the ground plane conductor members G and G With the arrangement illustrated in FIG. 5, the conductive strips A A and A act as lumped parameter elements with respect to the ferromagnetic plates F and F This leads to an advantage that the conductive group A can become small-sized even in the case of the low operating frequencies.
  • auxiliary strip A permits the con ductive strips A A and A connected respectively to the terminals T T and T to have the equal number of the strips disposed adjacent the same.
  • each strip has two strips disposed adjacent the same. Therefore the capacitance between each pair of the strips will be equal to that between other pair of the strips and. the degrees of isolation between pairs of strips will become higher and uniform.
  • the conductor group A may be preferably constructed through the steps as illustrated in FIG. 13.
  • First prepared from a foil of any suitable conductive material such as copper are a first conductive element including a central portion C corresponding in shape to the associated ferromagnetic plate and three long arms A A and A radially extending at angles of substantially 120 degrees therefrom (see FIG. 12a) and a second conductive element including a central portion C identical in shape to the central portion C of the first element and two shorter arms D and D and one longer arm A radially extending also at'angles of 120 degrees therefrom (see FIG. 12b).
  • first conductive element including a central portion C corresponding in shape to the associated ferromagnetic plate and three long arms A A and A radially extending at angles of substantially 120 degrees therefrom
  • second conductive element including a central portion C identical in shape to the central portion C of the first element and two shorter arms D and D and one longer arm A radially extending also at'angles of 120 degrees therefrom (see FIG. 12b).
  • the ferromagnetic plate F is disposed on the central portion C of the first conductive element and three arms A A and A are successively folded along the edge surface of the ferromagnetic plate F and over the opposite face of the latter as shown on the lower portion of FIG. 13'.
  • the ferromagnetic plate F is disposed on the central portion C of the second conductive element and the shorter arms D and D and the longer arm A are folded along the edge surface of the ferromagnetic plate.
  • the longer arm A is further folded over the opposite face of the ferromagnetic plate F as shown on the upper portion of FIG. 13.
  • those portions of the arms A A and A folded over the opposite surface of the ferromagnetic plate F should be suitably electrically insulated from the latter and each other while that portion of the longer arm A folded over the opposite surface of the ferromagnetic plate F should be suitably electrically insulated from the latter. Also it is to be noted that in order to allow the arms A A A and A to project beyond the periphery of the associated ferromagnetic plates F and F in folded state, they should have a length greater than the sum of the thickness and diameter of the plates and that the shorter arms D and D should have a length slightly greater than the thickness of the ferromagnetic plate.
  • the ferromagnetic plate F having the second conductive element folded thereon is put upon the ferromagnetic plate F having the first conductive element folded thereon in such a manner that the folded along arms are sandwiched between the two plates while the folded arm A located nearest the plate F aligns with the folded arm A; on the plate F with the arm A; suitably insulated from the outermost folded arm A
  • both plates F and F are associated in the manner just described it will be seen that the folded shorter arms D and D align with the portions E and E respectively of the folded arms A and A positioned on the edge surface of the plate F
  • the conductive group A associated with both ferromagnetic plates F and F is completed by soldering the arms A and A together at both ends and also soldering the extremities of the shorter arms D and D to those portions E and E of the arms A and A disposed on the edge surface of the plate F
  • the conductive group A operatively coupled to the ferromagnetic plates F and F can now be operatively associated with the ground plane conductive members G and G
  • the conductive group A may be variously changed in construction as shown in FIGS. 6 through 8.
  • FIG. 6 An arrangement shown in FIG. 6 is similar to that illustrated in FIG. 5 excepting that the intermediate strip A is smaller in width that the upper and lower strips A and A with the auxiliary strip A omitted.
  • the width of the intermediate strip A is selected such that a capacitance between each pair of the terminals is substantially equal to that between other pair of the terminals.
  • the intermediate strip A may be provided with a slot on that portion thereof crossing the remaining strips as shown in FIG. 7. Atlernatively only that portion of the intermediate strip A crossing the remaining strips may be reduced in Width as shown in FIG. 8.
  • FIG. 9 shows diagrammatically a circulator including the conductor group A illustrated in any of FIGS. 5 through 8.
  • FIGS. 10 and 11 there is illustrated a modification of the invention applied to a microstrip line structure including a single ground plate.
  • the main difference between the arrangements illustrated in FIGS. 10 and 11 and FIGS. 3 and 4 is that in FIGS. 10 and 11, a cover plate K substitutes the upper ground plane conductor member G and ferromagnetic plate F shown in FIGS. 3 and 4.
  • the other components are substantially the same as thoseillustrated in FIGS. 3 and 4.
  • FIGS. 10 and 11 may include a conductive group shown in any one of FIGS. 5 through 8.
  • the conductive group may have such a construction as one portion thereof with the satisfactory results.
  • a first and a fourth strip are connected to a first terminal
  • a second and a fifth strip connected to a second terminal
  • a third and a sixth strip are connected to a third terminal.
  • a seventh or auxiliary strip may lie upon the sixth strip in parallel to the first strip and is connected to the first strip.
  • the invention has several advantages. For example, since widening of the conductive strip operating on the associated ferromagnetic disk does not lead to unbalance among the capacitances as viewed from the respective terminals the effect of high-frequency magnetic field upon the ferromagnetic disk can increase. Thus the invention provides improved electronic circulators small in dimension and excellent in characteristics.
  • An electric circulator comprising a group of electrical conductors comprising at least three electrically conductive wide strip members disposed crossing one another at angles of substantially 120 degrees and insulated each from the other, a plate of ferromagnetic material disposed in contact With one side of one of said strip members of said group of electrical conductors, a ground conductor disposed on a side of said ferromagnetic plate opposed to said one strip of said group of electrical conductors, magnet means for applying across said ferromagnetic plate and across overlying portions of said electrically conductive strip members crossing one another a direct current magnetic field in a direction transverse to said ferromagnetic plate and to said crossed portions of said electrically conductive strip members, each of said electrically conductive strip members having one end connected to said ground conductor and for each other end of said strip members an individual terminal connected thereto, and means causing electrostatic capacitance between adjacent pairs of said terminals to be substantially equal to each other.
  • said group of electrical conductors consists of four electrically conductive strip members each crossing an adjacent one of said strips at angles of substantially 120 degrees in insulated relationship, and wherein a pair of outermost conductive strip members are equal in width to each other and are disposed aligned in parallel relationship and connected together at both ends thereof.
  • An electronic circulator comprising, a first ferromagnetic plate, a first thin, flat, conductive member on said first plate and insulated therefrom and having a central portion corresponding in shape and dimension to said first ferromagnetic plate and the strip arms extending :from said central portion at angles of degrees from each other, said three arms being disposed folded over the edge of said first plate and disposed overlying each other on a side of said first plate opposite to a side on which said central portion is disposed and extending across said first plate side opposite to the side on which said central portion is disposed, a second ferromagnetic plate, a second, thin, fiat, conductive member on said second plate and insulated therefrom and having a central portion corresponding in shape and dimension to said second plate and having one long strip arm and two shorter strip arms extending from said central portion at 120 degrees from each other folded over the edge of said second plate with only said one long arm disposed extending across a side of said second plate opposite to a side on which said central portion of said second conductive member is

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