Method, system, and apparatus for resonator circuits and modulating resonators

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10790796-B2
Application number	US-201916453409-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 26, 2019
Priority date	Dec 10, 2010
Publication date	Sep 29, 2020
Grant date	Sep 29, 2020

Abstract

Embodiments of resonator circuits and modulating resonators and are described generally herein. One or more acoustic wave resonators may be coupled in series or parallel to generate tunable filters. One or more acoustic wave resonances may be modulated by one or more capacitors or tunable capacitors. One or more acoustic wave modules may also be switchable in a filter. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A filter module, including:
a first switchable pass-band and tunable rejection band filter module, comprising:
a first acoustic wave resonator (AWR);
a first switch coupled serially to the first AWR wherein the first AWR is inoperative when the first switch is opened and active when the first switch is closed, the first AWR having a resonant frequency (RFA 1 ) and an anti-resonant frequency (AFA 1 );
a second AWR;
a second switch coupled serially to the second AWR,
wherein:
(a) the second AWR is inoperative when the second switch is opened and active when the second switch is closed;
(b) a combination of the first switch and first AWR is coupled in parallel to a combination of the second switch and second AWR;
(c) the second AWR has a resonate frequency (RFA 2 ) and an anti-resonate frequency (AFA 2 ), wherein the RFA 1 and RFA 2 are offset in frequency; and

a first variable capacitor coupled in parallel with the combination of the first switch and the first AWR, the first variable capacitor configured to vary at least one of the AFA 1 and the AFA 2 thereby configuring the first switchable pass-band and tunable rejection band filter module; and
a tunable filter module, comprising:
a third AWR, the third AWR coupled to the first AWR and the second AWR, the third AWR configured to filter electrical signals and having a resonate frequency (RFA 3 ) and an anti-resonate frequency (AFA 3 ); and
a second variable capacitor configured to vary the AFA 3 thereby configuring the tunable filter module.

2. The filter module of claim 1 , wherein the RFA 1 has a frequency shift greater than 5% of the RFA 1 frequency magnitude.

3. The filter module of claim 1 , the combination of the first AWR and the third AWR forming a first filter when the first switch is closed and the second switch is open and the combination of the second AWR and the third AWR forming a second filter when the first switch is open and the second switch is closed.

4. The filter module of claim 1 , further comprising an inversion module coupled to the first switchable pass-band and tunable rejection band filter module.

5. The filter module of claim 4 , wherein the inversion module comprises a K-filter.

6. The filter module of claim 5 , wherein the K-filter comprises two capacitor in series and third capacitor in parallel.

7. The filter module of claim 4 , further comprising a second switchable pass-band and tunable rejection band filter module connected to the first switchable pass-band and tunable rejection band filter module via the inversion module.

8. The filter module of claim 7 , wherein the second switchable pass-band and tunable rejection band filter module comprises:
a fourth acoustic wave resonator (AWR);
a third switch coupled serially to the fourth AWR wherein the fourth AWR is inoperative when the third switch is opened and active when the third switch is closed, the fourth AWR having a resonant frequency (RFA 4 ) and an anti-resonant frequency (AFA 4 );
a fifth AWR;
a fourth switch coupled serially to the fifth AWR;
wherein:
(a) the fifth AWR is inoperative when the fourth switch is opened and active when the fourth switch is closed;
(b) a combination of the third switch and fourth AWR is coupled in parallel to a combination of the fourth switch and fifth AWR; and
(c) the fifth AWR has a resonate frequency (RFA 5 ) and an anti-resonate frequency (AFA 5 ), wherein the RFA 5 and RFA 5 are offset in frequency.

9. The filter module of claim 8 , further comprising a second variable capacitor coupled in parallel with the combination of the third switch and the fourth AWR, the second variable capacitor configured to vary at least one of the AFA 4 and the AFA 5 thereby configuring the second switchable pass-band and tunable rejection band filter module.

10. The filter module of claim 9 , wherein each of the fourth and the fifth AWRs comprise two AWRs connected in parallel.

Assignees

• Psemi Corp

Inventors

• Burgener Mark L
• Cable James S

Classifications

• H03H7/38

  Impedance-matching networks · CPC title

• H03H9/542

  including passive elements (H03H9/545 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H03H9/6403

  Programmable filters · CPC title

• H03H7/48

  Networks for connecting several sources or loads, working on the same frequency or frequency band, to a common load or source (phase shifters providing two or more output signals H03H7/21) · CPC title

• H03H2210/015

  Quality factor or bandwidth · CPC title