Multiband Filter

• US 20100127795A1
• Filed: 11/24/2009
• Published: 05/27/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Snaptrack Incorporated (Qualcomm, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Epcos AG (TDK Corporation)
• Inventors: Bauer, Thomas, Przadka, Andreas
• Granted Patent: US 8,384,496 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 333/134
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 2250/00 Indexing scheme relating to dual- or multi-band filters
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 7/0123 comprising distributed impedance elements together with lumped impedance elements
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 7/175 Series LC in series path H03H7/1783 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 7/1758 Series LC in shunt or branch path H03H7/1791 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 9/542 including passive elements H03H9/545 takes precedence

Abstract

A band-stop filter is proposed which is constructed on a multilayered substrate and consists of a parallel circuit comprising a bandpass filter and a high-pass filter. The two filters are at least partly realized in the form of LC-elements integrated into the substrate. Further circuit components can be arranged as discrete components on the substrate. In the filter branch having the bandpass filter, an electroacoustic resonator is arranged in a transverse branch to ground. By means of the filter, a wide stop band is obtained, while the passband or passbands can comprise a plurality of radio bands.

Claims

1. A band-stop filter comprising:

a multilayered substrate having integrated structured metallization planes;

an input port and an output port;

first and second filter branches coupled in parallel between the input port and the output port;

a first subfilter arranged in the first filter branch, the first subfilter comprising a bandpass filter for a first passband;

a second subfilter arranged in the second filter branch, the second subfilter comprising a high-pass filter having a second passband, the second passband being established above the first passband, wherein the bandpass filter and the high-pass filter are constructed from inductor and capacitor elements that are at least partly integrated in the multilayered substrate;

a transverse branch connected to ground in the first filter branch; and

a resonator arranged in the transverse branch.

2. The band-stop filter as claimed in claim 1, wherein the resonator comprises an electroacoustic resonator and has a quality factor of at least 500.

3. The band-stop filter as claimed in claim 1, wherein the resonator arranged in the transverse branch is connected in series with an inductance.

4. The band-stop filter as claimed in claim 1,

wherein all the capacitor elements of the bandpass filter and the high-pass filter are integrated into the substrate;

and

wherein the inductor elements are at least partly realized from discrete inductances or coils arranged on the substrate.

5. The band-stop filter as claimed in claim 1, wherein a stop band is formed below the first passband and wherein the resonator has a resonant frequency that lies in a region of an upper flank of the stop band.

6. The band-stop filter as claimed in claim 1, wherein a series capacitance in the second filter branch is arranged on input and output sides of the second filter branch.

7. The band-stop filter as claimed in claim 1, wherein the bandpass filter, in the first filter branch, comprises at least a first and a second series inductance, a first and a second series capacitance and, a first parallel inductance connected to ground transversely with respect thereto.

8. The band-stop filter as claimed in claim 7, wherein the bandpass filter further comprises a third series inductance and a second parallel inductance.

9. The band-stop filter as claimed in claim 8, wherein the first or second parallel inductance is arranged in a transverse branch with respect to the first filter branch and is connected in series with a capacitance.

10. The band-stop filter as claimed in claim 1, wherein a cut-off frequency of the high-pass filter is chosen to be in the vicinity of the first passband and has a relative separation of +1-20% with respect to the first passband.

11. The band-stop filter as claimed in claim 1, wherein the high-pass filter has a cut-off frequency that is chosen to be in the range of the first passband.

12. The band-stop filter as claimed in claim 1, wherein the high-pass filter, in the second filter branch, comprises at least a first and a second series capacitance and an inductance arranged in a transverse branch connected therebetween relative to ground.

13. The band-stop filter as claimed in claim 12, wherein the inductance in the transverse branch of the high-pass filter is connected in series with a capacitance.

14. The band-stop filter as claimed in claim 1, wherein a stop band is formed below the first passband and wherein

the stop band is between at least 470 and 750 MHz;

the first passband is between at least 824 and 960 MHz and

the second passband is between at least 1710 and 2170 MHz.

15. The band-stop filter as claimed in claim 1, wherein the resonator is embodied as an at least doubly cascaded SAW resonator and is arranged on the substrate.

16. The band-stop filter as claimed in claim 1, wherein the resonator is embodied as a SAW resonator in a chip composed of a substrate material.

17. The band-stop filter as claimed in claim 16, wherein the substrate material has a higher coupling than lithium tantalate.

18. A wireless communication device comprising:

a radio system that operates in a first passband and a second passband, the second passband being established above the first passband, wherein a stop band is formed below the first passband;

transmitting and receiving paths of the radio system, wherein the radio system is designed to receive a further signal in the stop band in order to filter out interference noise that is generated in the transmitting path and lies in the stop band between a transmitting path and an antenna; and

a filter circuit coupled to the radio system, the filter circuit comprising;

a multilayered substrate having integrated structured metallization planes;

an input port and an output port;

first and second filter branches coupled in parallel between the input port and the output port;

a first subfilter arranged in the first filter branch, the first subfilter comprising a bandpass filter for the first passband;

a second subfilter arranged in the second filter branch, the second subfilter comprising a high-pass filter having the second passband, wherein the bandpass filter and the high-pass filter are constructed from inductor and capacitor elements that are at least partly integrated in the multilayered substrate;

a transverse branch connected to ground in the first filter branch; and

a resonator arranged in the transverse branch.

19. A wireless communication device comprising:

an antenna;

a transmitting path coupled to the antenna;

a receiving path coupled to the antenna, the transmitting and receiving paths operating in the 1 and 2 gigahertz ranges; and

a band-stop filter comprising;

a multilayered substrate having integrated structured metallization planes;

an input port and an output port;

first and second filter branches coupled in parallel between the input port and the output port;

a first subfilter arranged in the first filter branch, the first subfilter comprising a bandpass filter for a first passband in the 1 gigahertz range;

a second subfilter arranged in the second filter branch, the second subfilter comprising a high-pass filter having a second passband in the 2 gigahertz range, the second passband being established above the first passband, wherein the bandpass filter and the high-pass filter are constructed from inductor and capacitor elements that are at least partly integrated in the multilayered substrate;

a transverse branch connected to ground in the first filter branch; and

a resonator arranged in the transverse branch;

wherein the wireless communication device is designed to receive DVB-H signals for filtering out interference signals lying in a DVB-H frequency range from the transmitting path.

20. The wireless communication device as claimed in claim 19, further comprising a bridging circuit that bridges the band-stop filter if a DVB-H mode is not activated in the wireless communication device.