US3772616A - Electric power divider having function of impedance transformation - Google Patents

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US3772616A
US3772616A US00296023A US3772616DA US3772616A US 3772616 A US3772616 A US 3772616A US 00296023 A US00296023 A US 00296023A US 3772616D A US3772616D A US 3772616DA US 3772616 A US3772616 A US 3772616A
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    • H01P—WAVEGUIDES; RESONATORS, LINES, OR OTHER DEVICES OF THE WAVEGUIDE TYPE
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  • ABSTRACT A high frequency circuit arrangement having function of both impedance transformation and electric power division comprising first, second, third and fourth strip lines each having a length of a quarter of the wavelength of a transmitted signal which are connected in sequence to form a closed loop, and four branch lines each of which is connected to each of the junction points of the first, second, third and fourth strip lines, wherein the characteristic impedances of the first strip line and the branch lines connected to both ends of the first strip line are equal to each other, the characteristic impedances of the second and fourth strip lines are equal to each other, the characteristic impedances of the branch lines connected to both ends of the third strip line are equal to each other, and the characteristic impedances of the second and fourth strip lines are one half the square root of the characteristic impedance of the third strip line.
  • the present invention relates to a microwave circuit, and more particularly to an electric power divider having functions of both impedance transformation and division of electric power.
  • the impedance transformer increases the transmission line loss.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a circuit arrangement suitable for miniaturization of an r.f. circuit.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide an r.f. circuit arrangement capable of performing both electric power division and impedance transformation.
  • the arrangement according to the present invention is constructed such that first, second, third, and fourth lines each having a length of a quarter of the wavelength of a signal to be transmitted are connected in sequence to form a closed loop and four branch lines are connected respectively to the junction points of the first, second, third and fourth lines, and that the characteristic impedances of the first line and the branch lines connected to both ends of the first line are equal to each other, the characteristic impedances of the second and fourth lines are equal to each other, the characteristic impedances of the branch lines connected to both ends of the third line are equal to each other, and the characteristic impedances of the second and fourth lines are one half the square root of the characteristic impedance of the third line.
  • the arrangement can be connected to a load having an arbitrary impedance in matched condition without the necessity of any intermediary impedance transformer and matching circuit, thereby miniaturizing the overall arrangement and reducing the transmission loss.
  • this construction is very efi'ective as an impedance transforma tion type 3 dB electric power divided suitable for a miof the present invention when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 are diagrams of circuit arrangements embodying the present invention.
  • FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of an embodiment of the impedance transformation type 3 dB electric power divider according to the present invention which is composed of micro strip lines.
  • a first line 3, a second line 4, a third line 6 and a fourth line 5 are connected in sequence to form a closed loop.
  • the lengths of the four lines 3, 4, 6 and 5 are all a quarter of the wavelength of a signal to be transmitted.
  • Branch lines 1, 7, 8 and 2 are connected to the junction points of the four lines 3, 4, 6 and 5, respectively.
  • This arrangement per se is similar to the known branch line type directional coupler, but the present invention is characterized by the setting of the impedances of the component lines to provide the function of impedance transformation to the circuit arrangement.
  • the characteristic impedancs of the branch lines 1 and 2 are Zi
  • the characteristic impedances of the lines 3, 4, 5 and 6 and the branch lines 7 and 8 normalized with Zi 1 are a, b, b, c, e and e, respectively
  • the output voltages on the branch lines 1, 7, 8 and 2 are V V V and V,, respectively, when the input voltage 17 to the branch line 1 is I.
  • the output voltages V V V and V corresponding to the central frequency of the input sig nal are expressed as e be
  • this circuit arrangement functions as a 3 dB electric power divider.
  • the matching condition of the load impedance Z is satisfied with the result that an impedance transformation type 3 dB electric power divider which can be matched with an arbitrary circuit without employing any intermediary impedance transformer is provided.
  • This construction of circuit arrangement can also be applied to a distributed constant circuit composed of coaxial lines as well as strip lines.
  • Table I An example of the practical values of impedance transformation for the circuit of FIG. 1 is shown in Table I.
  • Table I provides the characteristic impedances of an impedance transformation type 3 dB electric power divider according to the present invention for various load impedances.
  • the above-described circuit is a single circuit showing a fundamental construction according to the present invention. It is evident that various impedance transformation type electric power dividing circuits can be produced by coupling a plurality of such single circuits as a multi-stage circuit.
  • An example of the multistage circuit is shown in FIG. 2.
  • the circuit of FIG. 2 is an impedance transformation type 3 dB electric power divider made into a two-stage cascade connection to broaden the pass band. 1 i
  • lines 4, 5' and 6' are individually a quarter of the wavelength in their transmission line lengths and b', b and a (normalized with Zi 1),
  • An electric power divider having a function of impedance transformation comprising a first line, a second line, a third line and a fourth line connected in sequence to form a closed loop, each of said lines having a length of a quarter of the wavelength of a signal to be transmitted therethrough, and four branch lines each connected to each of the junction points of said closed loop, in which the characteristic impedance of said first line and the impedances of the branch lines connected to both ends of said second and fourth lines connected to both ends of said first line are equal to each other, the impedances of the branch lines connected to both ends of said third line are equal to each other, the impedances of said branch lines connected to both ends of said third line being different from the impedances of said branch lines connected to both ends of said first line, and the characteristic impedances of said second and fourth lines is the square root of one half of the characteristic impedance of said third line.
  • An impedance transformation type 3 dB electric power divider comprising an electric power divider according to claim 1 and another electric power divider also according to claim 1 coupled with each other in cascade janion such that the third line of said electric power divider and the first line of said another electric power divider are superimposed on each other into a common line to both loops.

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