US 10,256,521 B2Granted

Waveguide connector with slot launcher

AssigneeIntel Corporation

InventorsAdel A. Elsherbini, Sasha N. Oster, Johanna M. Swan, Georgios C. Dogiamis, Shawna M. Liff, Aleksandar Aleksov, Telesphor Kamgaing

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Abstract

The systems and methods described herein provide a traveling wave launcher system physically and communicably coupled to a semiconductor package and to a waveguide. The traveling wave launcher system includes a slot-line signal converter and a tapered slot launcher. The slot-line signal converter may be formed integral with the semiconductor package and includes a balun structure that converts the microstrip signal to a slot-line signal. The tapered slot launcher is communicably coupled to the slot-line signal converter and includes a first plate and a second plate that form a slot. The tapered slot launcher converts the slot-line signal to a traveling wave signal that is propagated to the waveguide.

Claims25

Dependent claims

A traveling wave launcher apparatus, comprising:

a slot-line signal converter that includes:
a first electrically conductive member having a first physical geometry, the first electrically conductive member conductively coupleable to a semiconductor package;
and
a second electrically conductive member having a second physical geometry;
the second electrically conductive member conductively coupleable to the first electrically conductive member and conductively coupleable to a waveguide member;
and
a tapered slot launcher that includes a first plate and a second plate;
wherein the tapered slot launcher includes at least a first end and a second end, the first end of the tapered slot launcher physically closer to a surface of the second electrically conductive member than the second end of the tapered slot launcher;
wherein the tapered slot launcher communicably couples to the second electrically conductive member;
and
wherein the first plate and the second plate extend at an angle from the second electrically conductive member.

8 more elements

A traveling wave transmission method, comprising:

providing a signal to a slot-line signal converter communicably coupled to a semiconductor package and physically coupled to a surface of the semiconductor package;
converting the signal to a slot line signal via the slot-line signal converter;
and
converting the slot line signal to a closed waveguide mode signal via a tapered slot launcher that includes a first plate and a second plate, the first plate and the second plate disposed normal to the surface of the semiconductor package.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/280,823Filed 29 Sep 2016
Published: US 2018/0090803 A129 Mar 2018
Granted: 9 Apr 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H01P 5/1007
For coupling balanced lines or devices with unbalanced lines or devices: microstrip transitions to Slotline or finline
H01P 5/10
For linking dissimilar lines or devices: for coupling balanced lines or devices with unbalanced lines or devices
H01P 11/00
Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing waveguides or resonators, lines, or
H01P 5/107
For coupling balanced lines or devices with unbalanced lines or devices: hollow-waveguide/strip-line transitions