High-frequency transmission line, radar apparatus provided with high-frequency transmission line, and wireless device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11799182-B2
Application number	US-201816978536-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 7, 2018
Priority date	Mar 9, 2018
Publication date	Oct 24, 2023
Grant date	Oct 24, 2023

Abstract

The high-frequency transmission line is configured by stacking conductor layers and an insulating layer, and is provided with: a signal via, which extends in a stacking direction and electrically connects the conductor layers together; an input line, which is arranged in one of the conductor layers and inputs an electrical signal to the signal via; a signal line, which is arranged in another one of the conductor layers and is connected to the input line through the signal via; a ground plane, which is arranged in any one of the conductor layers; a conductor arm arranged within a separation region that separates the signal via and the ground plane; and a conductor connection arranged within the separation region and connecting the conductor arm and the ground plane. The conductor arm and the conductor connection are configured to suppress an electrical signal of a predetermined frequency within an electrical signal.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A high-frequency transmission line configured to stack a plurality of conductor layers and an insulating layer, the high-frequency transmission line comprising:
a signal via that extends in a direction where the conductor and insulating layers are stacked and electrically connects the conductor layers to one another;
an input line that is provided in one of the conductor layers to input an electric signal to the signal via;
a signal line provided in another one of the conductor layers and connected to the input line through the signal via;
a ground plane that is provided in at least one of one of the conductor layers in which the input line is provided, another one of the conductor layers in which the signal line is provided, and a further one of the conductor layers provided between the one conductor layer and the another one conductor layer, is spaced apart from the signal via, and is connected to a reference potential;
a conductor arm provided in a spacing region between the signal via and the ground plane; and
a conductor connecter that is provided in the spacing region to connect the conductor arm and the ground plane, wherein
at a level of the ground plane, an outer edge of the signal via, a part of the spacing region, the conductor arm, and another part of the spacing region are arranged in this order in a direction from a center of the signal via to an outer edge of the spacing region, and
the conductor arm and the conductor connector are configured to suppress a specific frequency electric signal of the electric signal.

2. The high-frequency transmission line according to claim 1 , wherein a top view shape of the spacing region is substantially circular shape centered on the signal via.

3. The high-frequency transmission line according to claim 1 , wherein in top view, the conductor arm has an arc shape centered on the signal via, and the conductor connector has a linear shape.

4. The high-frequency transmission line according to claim 1 , wherein the conductor arm includes a plurality of conductor arms, and the conductor connector includes a plurality of conductor connectors.

5. The high-frequency transmission line according to claim 4 , wherein the plurality of conductor arms and the plurality of conductor connectors include conductor arms and conductor connectors configured to have different shapes.

6. The high-frequency transmission line according to claim 4 , wherein the plurality of conductor arms and the plurality of conductor connectors include conductor arms and conductor connectors configured to have the same shapes.

7. The high-frequency transmission line according to claim 4 , wherein the plurality of conductor arms and the plurality of conductor connectors are arranged point-symmetrically centered on the signal via in top view.

8. The high-frequency transmission line according claim 1 , wherein the ground plane is provided in the conductor layer that is different from the conductor layer in which the input line is provided and that is closest to the conductor layer in which the input line is provided.

9. The high-frequency transmission line according to claim 8 , wherein the specific frequency is in a 20 GHz or more frequency band.

10. A wireless device comprising the high-frequency transmission line according to claim 1 .

11. A radar device comprising the high-frequency transmission line according to claim 1 .

12. The radar device according to claim 11 , further comprising at least a transmitting antenna that transmits a transmission signal to outside, wherein
the high-frequency transmission line inputs the transmission signal, suppresses a specific frequency electric signal of the transmission signal, and outputs the transmission signal suppressed the specific frequency electric signal to the transmitting antenna.

13. The radar device according to claim 12 , further comprising:
a local oscillator that generates the specific frequency electric signal; and
a multiplier that multiplies the specific frequency electric signal input from the local oscillator and then outputs the multiplied electric signal to poststage, wherein
the transmitting antenna poststage of the multiplier transmits the multiplied electric signal as the transmission signal to outside.

14. The radar device according to claim 13 , wherein the multiplied electric signal has a 76 GHz or 79 GHz band.

Assignees

• Furukawa Electric Co Ltd
• Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc

Inventors

• Murofushi Noritaka
• Nakajima Hikaru

Classifications

• H01P3/08 Primary

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• G01S7/03

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• G01S7/032

  Constructional details for solid-state radar subsystems · CPC title

• G01S13/34

  using transmission of continuous, frequency-modulated waves while heterodyning the received signal, or a signal derived therefrom, with a locally-generated signal related to the contemporaneously transmitted signal · CPC title

• H01Q1/50

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