Tunable ultra-high frequency filter with variable capacitance tuning devices
AssigneeThomson-CSF
InventorsJean C. Curtinot, Xavier Delestre, Jean Fouillet
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AssigneeThomson-CSF
InventorsJean C. Curtinot, Xavier Delestre, Jean Fouillet
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The invention relates to ultra-high frequency filters with variable capacitance tuning devices tunable in a wide frequency range. Each tuning device comprises two coaxial fingers, namely a fixed finger and a finger movable in the filter body. One of these fingers is hollow and the other has a tuning plunger, whose end is cylindrical and which is displaceable, e.g. by screwing in the body of the finger. The minimum capacitance obtained with a minimum penetration of the plunger, its end being level in the vicinity of the end of the corresponding finger, is adjustable by displacing the movable finger relative to the fixed finger. The supplementary variable capacitance is obtained by plunging the tuning plunger into the hollow finger.
A tunable ultra-high frequency filter comprising at least one variable capacitance tuning device incorporating first and second coaxial fingers fitted up in the filter, the first finger being a hollow cylindrical body having an external diameter with an end face at least partly flat, and the second finger comprising a cylindrical body having the same external diameter with an end face at least partly flat, extended with a plunger having a diameter much smaller than the external diameter of the cylindrical bodies which is displaceable relative to the first finger between a minimum and a maximum penetration positions where the plunger and the hollow body of the first finger have minimum and maximum facing surfaces for determining a first capacitance variation, said two cylindrical bodies being displaceable relative to one another, the variable distance between the corresponding flat faces determining a second capacitance variation.
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