Transmission line pair

• US 20070040628A1
• Filed: 10/30/2006
• Published: 02/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kanno, Hiroshi, Sakiyama, Kazuyuki, Fujishima, Tomoyasu, Sangawa, Ushio
• Granted Patent: US 7,414,201 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 333/4
• CPC Class Codes: H01P 3/02 with two longitudinal conductors
• CPC Class Codes: H01P 3/088 Stacked transmission lines

Abstract

In a transmission line pair including a first transmission line and a second transmission line which is so placed in adjacency that a coupled line region to be coupled with the first transmission line is formed, in the coupled line region, the first transmission line includes a first signal conductor which is placed on one surface which is either a top face of a substrate formed from a dielectric or semiconductor or an inner-layer surface parallel to the top face and which has a linear shape along its transmission direction, and the second transmission line includes a second signal conductor which is placed on the one surface of the substrate and which partly includes a transmission-direction reversal region for transmitting a signal along a direction having an angle of more than 90 degrees with respect to the transmission direction within the plane of the placement, and which has a line length different from that of the first signal conductor.

Claims

1. A transmission line pair comprising:

a first transmission line; and

a second transmission line which is so placed in adjacency to the first transmission line that a coupled line region is formed, the coupled line region having a coupled line length being 0.5 time or more as long as an effective wavelength in the first transmission line at a frequency of a transmitted signal, wherein

in the coupled line region,

the first transmission line comprises a first signal conductor which is placed on one surface which is either a top face of a substrate formed from a dielectric or semiconductor or an inner-layer surface parallel to the top face and which has a linear shape along a transmission direction thereof, and

the second transmission line comprises a second signal conductor which is placed on the one surface of the substrate and which partly includes a transmission-direction reversal region for transmitting a signal along a direction having an angle of more than 90 degrees with respect to the transmission direction within the plane of the placement, and which has a line length different from that of the first signal conductor.

2. The transmission line pair as defined in claim 1, wherein an absolute value of a difference between a product of the coupled line length and a square root of an effective dielectric constant of the first transmission line and a product of the coupled line length and a square root of an effective dielectric constant of the second transmission line is 0.5 time or more as long as a wavelength at the frequency of the signal transmitted in the first transmission line or the second transmission line.

3. The transmission line pair as defined in claim 1, wherein an absolute value of a difference between a product of the coupled line length and a square root of an effective dielectric constant of the first transmission line and a product of the coupled line length and a square root of an effective dielectric constant of the second transmission line is 1 time or more as long as a wavelength at the frequency of the signal transmitted in the first transmission line or the second transmission line.

4. The transmission line pair as defined in claim 1, wherein in the coupled line region, the second transmission line includes a plurality of the transmission-direction reversal regions.

5. The transmission line pair as defined in claim 1, wherein the transmission-direction reversal region contains a region for transmitting the signal toward a direction rotated 180 degrees with respect to the transmission direction.

6. The transmission line pair as defined in claim 1, further comprising, in the coupled line region, a proximity dielectric placed closer to the second transmission line than to the first transmission line.

7. The transmission line pair as defined in claim 6, wherein at least part of a surface of the second signal conductor is coated with the proximity dielectric.

8. The transmission line pair as defined in claim 1, wherein the second transmission line has an effective dielectric constant higher than an effective dielectric constant of the first transmission line, and

a signal transmitted in the first transmission line is higher in a transmission speed than a signal transmitted in the second transmission line.

9. The transmission line pair as defined in claim 8, wherein in the coupled line region, the first transmission line is a differential transmission line including a pair of two transmission lines.

10. The transmission line pair as defined in claim 1, wherein the second transmission line is a bias line for supplying electric power to active elements.

11. The transmission line pair as defined in claim 1, wherein in the coupled line region, the second transmission line has an effective dielectric constant different from an effective dielectric constant of the first transmission line.

12. The transmission line pair as defined in claim 11, wherein an effective-dielectric-constant difference setting region, in which a difference in effective dielectric constant between the first transmission line and the second transmission line is set, is allocated all over the coupled line region.

13. The transmission line pair as defined in claim 11, wherein the coupled line region includes:

an effective-dielectric-constant difference setting region in which a difference in effective dielectric constant between the first transmission line and the second transmission line is set, and

an effective-dielectric-constant difference non-setting region in which the difference in effective dielectric constant is not set, wherein

a line length of the effective-dielectric-constant difference non-setting region is shorter than 0.5 time the effective wavelength in the first transmission line.

14. The transmission line pair as defined in claim 13, wherein in the coupled line region, a line length of one of the effective-dielectric-constant difference non-setting regions placed in succession is shorter than 0.5 time the coupled line length.