Electrical resonator with a ribbon loop and variable capacitors formed at the parallel ends
AssigneeMemscap
InventorsBertand Guillon, Pierre Blondy
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Abstract
An elementary electrical resonator which includes a ribbon conductor forming a flat loop with at least one turn, the conductor having ends which form two parallel segments. The resonator further includes a conducting bridge which forms an arch straddling the two parallel segments of the ribbon conductor wherein opposing surfaces of the arch and the parallel segments form a capacitor. A part of the bridge is capable of being displaced with respect to the parallel segments under the action of a control signal so as to cause the capacitance of the capacitor and therefore the tuning frequency of the resonator to vary.
Claims11
An elementary electrical resonator comprising:
- a ribbon conductor forming a flat loop with at least one turn, in which the ends of said ribbon conductor form two parallel segments;
- a first conducting bridge forming an arch straddling said parallel segments of said ribbon conductor in which opposing surfaces of the arch and of said parallel segments forms a capacitor, and in which a part of the first conducting bridge is capable of being displaced with respect to said parallel segments under the action of a control signal so as to cause the capacitance of said capacitor, and therefore the tuning frequency of said resonator to vary;
- a track parallel to the two parallel segments forming the ends of the flat loop;
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- a second conducting bridge also forming a variable capacitor, said second bridge straddling said track and one of said two parallel segments forming the ends of the flat loop.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.