Filter and communication device comprising dielectric resonators having frequency adjusting holes and negative coupling holes of greater depth

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10700401-B2
Application number	US-201815981070-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 16, 2018
Priority date	May 31, 2013
Publication date	Jun 30, 2020
Grant date	Jun 30, 2020

Abstract

Embodiments relate to the field of technologies of components of communications devices, and provide a dielectric filter, which resolves a problem that a solid dielectric filter has a difficulty in implementing capacitive coupling. The dielectric filter includes at least two dielectric resonators, where each of the dielectric resonators includes a body made of a solid dielectric material, and an adjusting hole located on a surface of the body. The adjusting hole is a blind hole, configured to adjust a resonance frequency of the dielectric resonator on which the blind hole is located. The bodies of all the dielectric resonators included by the dielectric filter form a body of the dielectric filter.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A dielectric filter, comprising:
a plurality of dielectric resonators, each dielectric resonator of the plurality of dielectric resonators comprising:
a body made of a solid dielectric material; and
an adjusting hole disposed on one side of the body, the adjusting hole being a blind hole, and configured to adjust a resonance frequency of the respective dielectric resonator on which the respective adjusting hole is disposed;

wherein the dielectric filter further comprises:
a first negative coupling hole disposed between two adjacent dielectric resonators of the plurality of dielectric resonators, wherein the first negative coupling hole extends from a surface of each of the two adjacent dielectric resonators, and the first negative coupling hole is a blind hole that is configured to implement capacitive coupling between the two adjacent dielectric resonators, wherein the adjusting hole disposed on a first dielectric resonator of the two adjacent dielectric resonators has a first depth, the adjusting hole disposed on a second dielectric resonator of the two adjacent dielectric resonators has a second depth, the first negative coupling hole has a third depth, and the third depth is greater than the first depth and greater than the second depth; and
a conducting layer covering the dielectric filter, the conducting layer at least partially covering a respective surface of the adjusting hole of each dielectric resonator of the plurality of dielectric resonators, and the conducting layer at least partially covering a surface of the first negative coupling hole.

2. The dielectric filter according to claim 1 , wherein the solid dielectric material is ceramic.

3. The dielectric filter according to claim 1 , wherein the third depth of the first negative coupling hole is at least twice the first depth or the second depth.

4. The dielectric filter according to claim 1 , wherein a depth of the first negative coupling hole is designed based on a frequency of a transmission zero of the dielectric filter.

5. The dielectric filter according to claim 1 , wherein the dielectric filter comprises a plurality of negative coupling holes, the plurality of negative coupling holes including the first negative coupling hole, and a number of the plurality of negative coupling holes is equal to the quantity of transmission zeros of the dielectric filter.

6. The dielectric filter according to claim 1 , wherein the two adjacent dielectric resonators of the plurality of dielectric resonators are designed to set a frequency of a transmission zero of the dielectric filter.

7. The dielectric filter according to claim 1 , wherein a part of the surface of the first negative coupling hole is not covered by the conducting layer.

8. The dielectric filter according to claim 7 , wherein an area of the part of the surface of the first negative coupling hole which is not covered by the conducting layer is designed to adjust a coupling degree of the capacitive coupling between the two adjacent dielectric resonators from which the first negative coupling hole extends.

9. The dielectric filter according to claim 1 , wherein a part of the surface of one adjusting hole disposed on each dielectric resonator of the plurality of dielectric resonators is not covered by the conducting layer.

10. The dielectric filter according to claim 9 , wherein an area of the part of the surface of the one adjusting hole which is not covered by the conducting layer is designed to adjust the resonance frequency of the respective dielectric resonator on which the one adjusting hole is located.

11. A communication apparatus, comprising a dielectric filter, wherein the dielectric filter comprises:
a plurality of dielectric resonators, each dielectric resonator of the plurality of dielectric resonators comprising:
a body made of a solid dielectric material; and
an adjusting hole disposed on one side of the respective body, the adjusting hole being a blind hole configured to adjust a resonance frequency of the respective dielectric resonator on which the respective adjusting hole is located; and the dielectric filter further comprising:

a first negative coupling hole disposed between two adjacent dielectric resonators of the plurality of dielectric resonators, wherein the first negative coupling hole extends from a surface of each of the two adjacent dielectric resonators, and the first negative coupling hole is a blind hole configured to implement capacitive coupling between the two adjacent dielectric resonators, wherein the adjusting hole disposed on a first dielectric resonator of the two adjacent dielectric resonators has a first depth, the adjusting hole disposed on a second dielectric resonator of the two adjacent dielectric resonators has a second depth, the first negative coupling hole has a third depth, and the third depth is greater than the first depth and greater than the second depth; and
a conducting layer covering the dielectric filter, the conducting layer at least partially covering a surface of the adjusting hole of each dielectric resonator of the plurality of dielectric resonators, and the conducting layer at least partially covering a surface of the first negative coupling hole.

12. The communication apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein a part of the surface of one adjusting hole disposed on each dielectric resonator of the plurality of dielectric resonators is not covered by the conducting layer.

13. The communication apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein an area of the part of the surface of the one adjusting hole which is not covered by the conducting layer is designed to adjust the resonance frequency of the respective dielectric resonator on which the one adjusting hole is located.

14. The communication apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the third depth of the first negative coupling hole is at least twice the first depth or the second depth.

15. The communication apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein a depth of the first negative coupling hole is designed based on a frequency of a transmission zero of the dielectric filter.

16. The communication apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the dielectric filter comprises a plurality of negative coupling holes, the plurality of negative coupling holes including the first negative coupling hole, and a number of the plurality of negative coupling holes is equal to a quantity of transmission zeros of the dielectric filter.

17. The communication apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the two adjacent dielectric resonators of the plurality of dielectric resonators are designed to set a frequency of a transmission zero of the dielectric filter.

18. The communication apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein a part of the surface of the first negative coupling hole is not covered by the conducting layer.

19. The communication apparatus according to claim 18 , wherein an area of the part of the surface of the first negative coupling hole which is not covered by the conducting layer is designed to adjust a coupling degree of the capacitive coupling between the two adjacent dielectric resonators from which the first negative coupling hole extends.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yuan Bengui

Classifications

• H01P1/2088 Primary

  Integrated in a substrate · CPC title

• H04B1/38 Primary

  Transceivers, i.e. devices in which transmitter and receiver form a structural unit and in which at least one part is used for functions of transmitting and receiving · CPC title

• H01P1/2002 Primary

  Dielectric waveguide filters (H01P1/212, H01P1/213, H01P1/215, H01P1/219 take precedence) · CPC title

• H01P1/2084 Primary

  with dielectric resonators · CPC title

• H01P1/2056

  Comb filters or interdigital filters with metallised resonator holes in a dielectric block · CPC title