Balanced-type surface acoustic wave lattice filter
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsYutaka Taguchi, Kazuo Eda, Shun-ichi Seki, Keiji Onishi
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Abstract
A balanced-type surface acoustic wave filter is provided which can attain a balanced-type of high frequency circuit without connecting a balance-unbalanced conversion circuit. A substrate of tantalic acid lithium substrate with 36 degrees rotation, Y cut, and X propagation is used, and aluminium is used for electrode to form resonators. Then, two resonators in a serial arm and two resonators in a parallel arm are connected in the form of symmetry and lattice to form a balanced-type surface acoustic wave filter. In this configuration, antiresonance frequency in the serial arms and resonance frequency in the parallel arms are substantially equal to each other.
Claims7
A balanced-type surface acoustic wave filter comprising:
- a plurality of symmetrical and latticed circuits connected in series, each of said symmetrical and latticed circuits comprises four arms which are connected so that two of said four arms serve as serial arms and the other two arms serve as latticed arms, and four surface acoustic wave resonators disposed so that said resonators are respectively arranged in said serial arms and said latticed arms;
- a plurality of connectors for connecting each of said four surface acoustic wave resonators,
- wherein each of said plurality of connectors has substantially the same impedance;
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- means for adjusting resonant frequencies in said latticed arms and said serial arms to satisfy at least one of the following conditions;
- (i) an antiresonance frequency in said latticed arms and a resonance frequency in said serial arms are substantially equal to each other, and
- (ii) a resonance frequency in said latticed arms and an antiresonance frequency in said serial arms are substantially equal to each other,
- wherein a first resonator of said four surface acoustic wave resonators has a resonance frequency which is lower than a resonance frequency of a second resonator of said four surface acoustic wave resonators, and wherein an equivalent parallel capacity of said first resonator is smaller than an equivalent parallel capacity of said second resonator.
A balanced-type surface acoustic wave filter comprising:
- a symmetrical and latticed circuit, said symmetrical and latticed circuit comprises first and second surface acoustic wave resonators, wherein an antiresonance frequency in said first surface acoustic wave resonators and a resonance frequency in said second surface acoustic wave resonators are substantially equal to each other;
- an equivalent parallel capacity of said first surface acoustic wave resonators is smaller than an equivalent parallel capacity of said second surface acoustic wave resonators;
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- a geometric mean of the equivalent parallel capacity of said first surface acoustic wave resonators and the equivalent parallel capacity of said second surface acoustic wave resonators is C, an input-output impedance of said symmetrical and latticed circuit is Z, a passing center frequency of said symmetrical and latticed circuit is F, a correction factor is K, and an equation ZK=1/2.pi.FC is satisfied where 0.6 .ltoreq.K<1.8.
A balanced-type surface acoustic wave filter comprising:
- a plurality of symmetrical and latticed circuits connected in series, wherein each of said symmetrical and latticed circuits comprises first and second surface acoustic wave resonators, wherein an antiresonance frequency in said first surface acoustic wave resonators and a resonance frequency in said second surface acoustic wave resonators are substantially equal to each other;
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- an equivalent parallel capacity of said first surface acoustic wave resonators is smaller than an equivalent parallel capacity of said second surface acoustic wave resonators, and said symmetrical and latticed circuits have different ratio in terms of equivalent parallel capacities of said first surface acoustic wave resonators to said second surface acoustic wave resonators.
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