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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8232853 | Transmission line with left-hand characteristics including a spiral inductive element The present invention relates to a transmission line in which a physical value of an inductive element can be changed in various ways while minimizing a size. The transmission line of the present invention includes a transmission unit, a ground unit and inductive el... | 07/31/2012 |
| 8081052 | Electromagnetic bandgap structure and printed circuit board An electromagnetic bandgap structure and a printed circuit board having the same are disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the electromagnetic bandgap structure can include a plurality of conductive layers, placed between two conducti... | 12/20/2011 |
| 7990237 | System and method for improving performance of coplanar waveguide bends at mm-wave frequencies An apparatus including a liquid crystal polymer substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface, a coplanar waveguide formed on the top surface of the liquid crystal polymer substrate, the coplanar waveguide having a 90 degree bend with a mitered edge, an inner ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7969261 | Transmission line substrate having overlapping ground conductors that constitute a MIM capacitor A transmission line substrate includes: a dielectric substrate; a signal line disposed on the upper surface of the dielectric substrate; first and second ground conductors disposed on the upper surface of the dielectric substrate, field-coupled to the signal line, h... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7889031 | High-speed electrical interconnects and method of manufacturing High-speed interconnect systems for connecting two or more electrical elements for both on-chip and off-chip applications are provided. Interconnect system has the means, which could reduce the microwave loss induced due to the dielectrics. Reducing the effective lo... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7852176 | Tunable artificial dielectrics Tuning devices and methods are disclosed. One of the devices comprises a metal structure connected with artificial dielectric elements, and variable capacitance devices. Each variable capacitance device is connected with a respective artificial dielectric element an... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7852175 | Circuit board defined by transmission line patterns disposed within trenches and covered by a conformal layer A circuit board is provided, and a method for manufacturing the same, suitable for use in high frequency circuits, and comprising a planar pattern of transmission line conductors for linking components formed on or within the circuit board, the transmission line con... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7750761 | Signal transmission structure A signal transmission structure includes two power planes, a signal line and a first pillar. The power planes spaced by an interval space provide a first voltage and a second voltage respectively. The signal line, disposed on first surfaces of the power planes, is d... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7605679 | System and method for providing a non-planar stripline transition The present invention is a system including a first transmission line oriented in a first plane and a second transmission line oriented in a second plane. Both the first transmission line and the second transmission line include a pair of rigid substrate layers, a p... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7504913 | DC block with band-notch characteristic using DGS A DC block with a band-notch characteristic using a defected ground structure (DGS), includes a pair of coupled lines for being formed parallel to each other on one surface of a dielectric and blocking a flow of a DC, and at least one DGS for being formed on an area... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7477118 | High frequency device mounting substrate and communications apparatus Terminal electrodes 9 for carrying a high frequency device 3 are formed on a surface of a circuit board having its reverse surface covered with a reverse surface conductor layer 6, and a plurality of signal lines 2 for exchanging a signal... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7471174 | Connection structure for coaxial connector and multilayer substrate In the structure for connecting a board and a coaxial connector, which electrically connects a high-frequency board 20 mounted in an electroconductive casing 1 and a coaxial connector 10, a transfer board 30 is disposed between the high-f... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7446633 | Inductor circuit board, method of forming inductor, and bias-T circuit An inductor circuit board that is made compatible with broadband by reducing parasitic capacitance of an inductor. The inductor circuit board is comprised of a flexible substrate made of a material, such as polyimide or liquid polymer, a transmission line formed on ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7439831 | Transition circuit A transition circuit includes: a waveguide having a notched portion formed by cutting away a portion of the tube wall of the waveguide from the end portion of the waveguide; a dielectric substrate in which a portion extending outside the waveguide through the notche... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7432779 | Transmission line impedance matching Transmission line impedance matching for matching an impedance discontinuity on a transmission signal trace with one or more non-transmission traces disposed near the transmission signal trace at a region corresponding to the impedance discontinuity. ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7429902 | Differential transmission line having a curved region with selected radius of curvature A differential transmission line includes: a substrate; a ground conductor layer; and a first and a second signal conductor disposed in parallel to each other on the substrate. The first signal conductor and the ground conductor layer compose a first transmission li... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7411475 | Superconductor filter A superconductor filter comprises a plurality of resonance elements arranged between input-output lines formed on a substrate. Metal conductor sections serving to inhibit the spatial coupling between the adjacent resonance elements are arranged between prescribed re... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409200 | Module integration integrated circuits A first signal conditioning circuit is formed from a first portion, a second portion and a third portion. Signal conditioning functions of each of these portions are facilitated by a predetermined type of integrated semiconductor die within which they are formed. Tw... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7405634 | Method for altering the delay properties of a transmission line using compensation tabs An improved method and apparatus for altering the effective electrical length of trace on a circuit board. In the present invention small tabs of etch are routed perpendicular to the trace in the unused areas between adjacent traces. In an embodiment of the inventio... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403080 | Transmission line apparatus having conductive strips coupled by at least one additional capacitance element A transmission line apparatus includes: a substrate 101 with a ground conductor plane; and first and second signal strips 102a, 102b supported on the substrate 101 in parallel with each other. The apparatus further includes ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7397320 | Non-uniform transmission line for reducing cross-talk from an aggressor transmission line A non-uniform transmission line, including at least a first section with length L1, uniform width W1 and thickness h1, and a second section with length L2, uniform width W2 and thickness h2, joined together to form a composi... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7391288 | Zeroeth-order resonator A high frequency resonator circuit and method of fabrication is described which has a resonant frequency independent of physical resonator dimensions. The resonator operates in a zeroeth-order mode on a composite right/left-handed (CRLH) transmission line (TL). The ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7385459 | Broadband DC block impedance matching network An apparatus in one example has: a substrate having a microstrip line; a capacitor at a predetermined location along the microstrip line, the capacitor producing a discontinuity; and a ground plane assembly on the substrate, the ground plane assembly having an openi... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7385455 | Monolithic integrated circuit with integrated interference suppression device The invention discloses a monolithic integrated circuit with at least one signal connection carrying a signal and with an interference suppression device integrated in the circuit to reduce radiated interference. The interference suppression device has at least one ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7378919 | Planar microwave line having microstrip conductors with a directional change region including a gap having periodic foldings A planar microwave line is provided, having a dielectric substrate and a planar arrangement of a first microstrip conductor and at least one additional microstrip conductor, in which a gap between the first microstrip conductor and the additional microstrip conducto... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7375983 | Circuit board for reducing crosstalk of signals A circuit board includes a first group of layers located close to a top side of the circuit board, and a second group of layers located close to an underside of the circuit board. Signals which are fed to input and output contact terminals on the top side of the cir... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7375290 | Printed circuit board via with radio frequency absorber A printed circuit board with vias that reduce or eliminate radio frequency interference and method of forming the same. The printed circuit board includes non-conductive layers, conductive-layers interspersed between the non-conductive layers, vias extending through... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372144 | High speed electronics interconnect and method of manufacture Fundamental interconnect systems for connecting high-speed electronics elements are provided. Interconnect system has the means, which could reduce the microwave loss by reducing the effective dielectric loss and dielectric constant of the interconnect system, and i... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373031 | Apparatus for an electro-optical device connection An optical fiber connector for releasably coupling an optical fiber to an electro-optical module is disclosed. The optical fiber connector includes a housing, a strain relief, a fiber retention clip, and a pair of latching arms. The housing includes a housing bore d... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373171 | Front end module A front end module comprises a diplexer, a first duplexer, and a second duplexer. The first duplexer is connected to the diplexer through a first high frequency switch and separates transmission signals and reception signals of the N-CDMA from each other. The second... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365618 | High-frequency circuit device, high-frequency module, and communication apparatus A high-frequency circuit device, a high-frequency module, and a communication apparatus, which prevent generation of an undesired wave to prevent electrical power loss and undesired coupling, are provided. The high-frequency circuit device includes a first slot line... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366629 | High frequency module board device The present invention relates to a high frequency module board device having a high frequency transmitting and receiving circuit for modulating and demodulating a high frequency signal. The high frequency module board device comprises a base board (2) whose m... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7361994 | System to control signal line capacitance A system may include a conductive plane defining a non-conductive antipad area and a second non-conductive area extending from the antipad area in at least a first direction, a dielectric plane coupled to the conductive plane, a conductive via passing through the di... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359693 | Enclosure and substrate structure for a tuner module A tuner module comprising a tuner and a tuner enclosure. The tuner includes a substrate containing filter coils and the tuner enclosure includes at least one partition plate placed between filter coils of the tuner to improve the isolation between the filter coils. ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358918 | Planar antenna apparatus An antenna apparatus including a dielectric substrate, a planar antenna element disposed on the substrate, and a waveguide for propagating electromagnetic waves to or from the planar antenna element. The waveguide includes at least a first conductor and a second con... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359213 | Circuit board A circuit board is formed by mounting at least one passive component on a first surface of a first laminate material; interconnecting the passive component to contact traces and vias of the first laminate material; and attaching a second laminate material to the fir... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355491 | Interconnecting a port of a microwave circuit package and a microwave component mounted in the microwave circuit package In one aspect, a signal path is described. The signal path has a nominal impedance over a specified bandwidth and interconnects a port of a microwave circuit package and a microwave component mounted in the microwave circuit package. The signal path includes an indu... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352995 | Direct digitally tunable microwave oscillators and filters A tunable element in the microwave frequency range is described that may include one or more tunable elements that are directly digitally controlled by a digital bus connecting a digital control circuit to each controlled element. In particular, each digital signal ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352257 | Flexible print cable having alternating signal and ground conductors and connector for the same A flexible print cable includes signal lines and ground lines. The signal lines and the ground lines are disposed alternately on each of an upper surface and an under surface of a film. The positions of the signal lines on the upper surface correspond to the positio... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352260 | Transceiver using low temperature co-fired ceramic method Provided is a microwave and millimeter wave transceiver package technology that can unify the transceiver composed of an amplifier, a filter and a mixer into a low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) module package by using an LTCC method utilizing a multilayer diel... | 04/01/2008 |
