Terminal device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11083079-B2
Application number	US-201616346611-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 26, 2016
Priority date	Dec 26, 2016
Publication date	Aug 3, 2021
Grant date	Aug 3, 2021

Abstract

Lossy members, which are disposed to overlap with a part of branch conductors in a signal conductor, respectively, and cause a loss of the power of signals flowing in the branch conductors, and via holes connecting each of the output terminals of the signal conductor and the ground conductor are included. The branch conductor includes a delay circuit having an electrical length of 90 degrees.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A terminal device comprising:
a dielectric substrate formed of a dielectric;
a signal conductor disposed in a first layer of the dielectric substrate, the signal conductor having a branching point at which the signal conductor branches into two, the branching point being between an input terminal and at least one first output terminal, the branching point also being between the input terminal and at least one second output terminal;
a ground conductor disposed in a second layer of the dielectric substrate opposing the first layer of the dielectric substrate;
lossy members disposed to overlap with: a part of a first branch conductor extending from the branching point of the signal conductor to the at least one first output terminal; and a part of a second branch conductor extending from the branching point of the signal conductor to the at least one second output terminal, in a thickness direction of the dielectric substrate, the lossy members causing a loss of power of signals flowing in the first branch conductor and the second branch conductor; and
connecting members connecting each of the at least one first output terminal and the at least one second output terminal and the ground conductor, the connecting members each formed as a via hole connecting the first layer and the second layer of the dielectric substrate,
wherein the first branch conductor includes a delay circuit having an electrical length longer than an electrical length of the second branch conductor by 90 degrees, and the ground conductor is disposed on an entire surface of the second layer of the dielectric substrate.

2. The terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein the first layer of the dielectric substrate is a front surface of the dielectric substrate, and the second layer of the dielectric substrate is a back surface of the dielectric substrate.

3. The terminal device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the at least one first output terminal comprises two branched first output terminals,
the first branch conductor branches into two to form the two branched first output terminals of the first branch conductor,
a first direction oriented from the branching point of the first branch conductor toward one of the branched first output terminals and a second direction oriented from the branching point of the first branch conductor toward the other of the branched first output terminals are orthogonal to a direction oriented from an input side part of the branching point toward the branching point, and the first direction and the second direction are opposite to each other,
the at least one second output terminal comprises two branched second output terminals,
the second branch conductor branches into two to form the two branched second output terminals of the second branch conductor, and
a third direction oriented from the branching point of the second branch conductor toward one of the branched second output terminals and a fourth direction oriented from the branching point of the second branch conductor toward the other of the branched second output terminals are orthogonal to a direction oriented from an input side part of the branching point toward the branching point, and the third direction and the fourth direction are opposite to each other.

4. The terminal device according to claim 1 , further comprising resonators connected with the first branch conductor and the second branch conductor at parts where the lossy members are overlapped with the first branch conductor and the second branch conductor, respectively.

5. The terminal device according to claim 4 , wherein the resonators are stubs branching from each of the first branch conductor and the second branch conductor.

6. The terminal device according to claim 5 , wherein each of end portions of the stubs has a shape formed by a curved line with no corners and has a width wider than line widths of the stubs.

7. The terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein the signal conductor includes a matching circuit matching an impedance on an input side and an impedance on an output side.

8. The terminal device according to claim 7 , wherein the matching circuit is an impedance transformer or a stub.

9. The terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein the first layer of the dielectric substrate is an inner layer of the dielectric substrate, and the second layer of the dielectric substrate includes a front surface and a back surface of the dielectric substrate.

10. The terminal device according to claim 1 ,
wherein each of the first layer and the second layer of the dielectric substrate is multilayered,
a part of the signal conductor where the lossy members are overlapped and a part of the signal conductor where the lossy members are not overlapped are arranged in different layers in the first layer, and
the ground conductor is arranged in a plurality of layers in the second layer.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Ishibashi Hidenori
• Tarui Yukinobu
• Onodera Yuko
• Aoyama Hiroyuki
• Yoneda Naofumi

Classifications

• H01P5/12 Primary

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• H01P3/08

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• H05K1/024

  Dielectric details, e.g. changing the dielectric material around a transmission line · CPC title

• H05K2201/066

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