High frequency coaxial switch employing strip-line techniques

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION FOR USE WITH TRANSMISSION LINES HAVING INNER AND OUTER CONDUCTORS TO TRANSMIT ELECTRICAL ENERGY AT HIGH FREQUENCIES, A FIRST CONDUCTING MEMBER HAVING FIRST AND SECOND LINEAR PORTIONS AND HAVING A THIRD PORTION EXTENDING IN A FIRST DIRECTION BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND PORTIONS IN A CURVE DEFINING AN ARC AT EVERY POSITION ALONG THE THIRD PORTION, THE CONDUCTING MEMBER BEING MOVABLE BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND POSITIONS IN THE FIRST DIRECTION AND BEING ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED TO THE INNER CONDUCTORS OF THE TRANSMISSION LINES IN AT LEAST ONE OF THE FIRST AND SECOND POSITIONS, A SECOND CONDUCTING MEMBER CONNECTED TO THE OUTER CONDUCTORS OF THE TRANSMISSION LINES IN AT LEAST ONE OF THE FIRST AND SECOND POSITIONS OF THE FIRST CONDUCTING MEMBER AND DISPOSED IN THE FIRST DIRECTION IN UNIFORMLY SPACED RELATIONSHIP TO THE FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD PORTIONS OF THE FIRST CONDUCTING MEMBERS AND PROVIDED WITH A LENGTH IN THE PARTICULAR DIRECTION AT LEAST AS GREAT AS THE COMBINED LENGTHS OF THE FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD PORTIONS OF THE FIRST CONDUCTING MEMBER IN THE FIRST DIRECTION AND BEING DISPOSED IN OVERLAPPING RELATIONSHIP IN THE FIRST DIRECTION TO THE FIRST AND SECOND PORTIONS OF THE FIRST CONDUCTING MEMBER IN BOTH THE FIRST AND SECOND POSITIONS OF THE FIRST CONDUCTING MEMBER, MEANS DISPOSED BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND CONDUCTING MEMBERS TO PROVIDE A UNIFORM DIELECTRIC CONFIGURATION BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND MEMBERS IN THE FIRST AND SECOND POSITIONS OF THE FIRST CONDUCTING MEMBER, AND MEANS OPERATIVELY COUPLED TO THE FIRST CONDUCTING MEMBER FOR PROVIDING A MOVEMENT OF THE FIRST CONDUCTING MEMBER IN THE FIRST DIRECTION BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND POSITIONS.