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Surface acoustic wave filter
Assignee: Skyworks Filter Solutions Japan Co Ltd
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Filing: 1994-10-07
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Granted: 1996-12-03
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Expires: 2014-10-07
Abstract
Abstract A SAW resonator disposed with an IDT electrode and reflector electrodes is formed on the surface of a piezoelectric substrate. Three pieces of the SAW resonator form an acoustic coupling by being disposed close to each other, electrode fingers comprising the IDT electrode in the center are all grounded, and IDT electrode fingers are electrically independent on the side to be connected to input-output terminals of the IDT electrodes disposed outside. As a result, three excitation modes having different propagation frequencies are generated which are used to attain a broad band SAW resonator filter. When these three pairs of the IDT electrode are electrically independent, a balanced input-output can be achieved, and excellent out-of-band rejection characteristics can be obtained.
Inventors
- 👤 Toru Yamada
- 👤 Toshio Ishizaki
- 👤 Kazunori Nishimura
- 👤 Kozo Murakami
Bibliographic Details
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Jurisdiction
US
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2026-11-08 00:58
CPC Classifications
H; H03; H03H; H03H9/00; H03H9/46; H03H9/64; H03H9/6423; H03H9/6433; H03H9/6479; H03H9/0023; H03H9/0028; H03H9/02; H03H9/05; H03H9/0538; H03H9/0542; H03H9/125; H03H9/145; H03H9/14544; H03H9/14591; H03H9/14597; H03H9/644; H03H9/6456; H03H9/6459; H03H9/6463; H03H7/00; H03H7/38
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 11
Claim 1
Independent Claim
104 words
A surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter, comprising three surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonators, each of said SAW resonators comprising an inter-digital transducer (IDT) electrode and reflectors on both sides of the IDT electrode, the SAW resonators being disposed on a surface of a piezoelectric substrate, wherein said SAW resonators form an acoustic coupling by being disposed close to each other in parallel to a propagation direction of the SAW resonators, wherein IDT electrodes of an adjacent pair of SAW resonators are electrically independent from each other, and wherein an IDT electrode of a SAW resonator positioned between two other SAW resonators is totally grounded.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
104 words
A surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter, comprising three surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonators, each of said SAW resonators comprising an inter-digital transducer (IDT) electrode and reflectors on both sides of the IDT electrode, the SAW resonators being disposed on a surface of a piezoelectric substrate, wherein said SAW resonators form an acoustic coupling by being disposed close to each other in parallel to a propagation direction of the SAW resonators, wherein IDT electrodes of an adjacent pair of SAW resonators are electrically independent from each other, and wherein an IDT electrode of a SAW resonator positioned between two other SAW resonators is totally grounded.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
46 words
The surface acoustic wave filter as in claim 1, wherein an IDT electrode of a first one of the SAW resonators is connected to a balanced type input terminal, and wherein an IDT electrode of a second SAW resonator is connected to a balanced output terminal.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
36 words
The surface acoustic wave filter as in claim 1, wherein the IDT electrode that is totally grounded is grounded via electrode patterns disposed between the IDT electrodes of the SAW resonators the reflectors of the resonators.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
50 words
The surface acoustic wave filter as in claim 1, wherein a line width of electrode patterns for bus bars comprising IDT electrodes that are not totally grounded is selected to be larger than a line width of electrode patterns for bus bars comprising the IDT electrode that is totally grounded.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
32 words
The surface acoustic wave filter as in claim 1, wherein a plurality of said filter are concatenately connected through several interstage connecting electrode patterns formed on the surface of the piezoelectric substrate.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
26 words
The surface acoustic wave filter as in claim 5, wherein a part of said several interstage connecting electrode patterns has an electrode pad formed for bonding.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
25 words
The surface acoustic wave filter as in claim 5, wherein said several interstage connected electrode patterns are connected to each other via a reactive element.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
28 words
The surface acoustic wave filter as in claim 5, wherein one of said several interstage connecting electrode patterns is grounded, and another is grounded via a reactive element.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
32 words
The surface acoustic wave filter as in claims 7 or 8, wherein said reactive element is a spiral inductor formed by an electrode pattern disposed on the surface of the piezoelectric substrate.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
41 words
The surface acoustic wave filter of claim 1, wherein the IDT electrodes of the adjacent pair of SAW resonators are made electrically independent from each other by physically dividing electrode patterns that define bus bars disposed between the adjacent SAW resonators.
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