Power divider

• US 3,091,743 A
• Filed: 01/04/1960
• Issued: 05/28/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ernest J. Wilkinson
• Original Assignee: Ernest J. Wilkinson
• Inventors: Wilkinson, Ernest J.
• Application Number:
  US04/000,433
• Time in Patent Office: 1,240 Days
• US Class Current: 333/127
• CPC Class Codes: H01P 5/16 Conjugate devices, i.e. devices having at least one port decoupled from one other port
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 7/48 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

Claims

1. A MICROWAVE POWER DIVIDER COMPRISING, A PLURALITY OF TWO-CONDUCTOR TRANSMISSION LINES EACH APPROXIMATELY A QUARTER-WAVELENGTH LONG AT THE FREQUENCY OF OPERATION AND EACH HAVING THE SAME CHARACTERISTIC IMPEDANCE, MEANS CONNECTING LIKE CONDUCTORS OF SAID TRANSMISSION LINES TOGETHER AT ONE END THEREOF, MEANS FOR COUPLING AN INPUT SIGNAL TO SAID ONE END OF SAID TRANSMISSION LINES, A LIKE PLURALITY OF RESISTORS EACH HAVING A RESISTANCE EQUAL TO THE QUOTIENT OF SAID CHARACTERISTIC IMPEDANCE DIVIDED BY THE SQUARE ROOT OF THE NUMBER OF TRANSMISSION LINES, MEANS CONNECTING ONE TERMINAL OF SAID RESISTORS TO THE OTHER END OF CORRESPONDING ONES OF SAID LIKE CONDUCTORS, MEANS CONNECTING THE OTHER TERMINALS OF SAID RESISTORS TOGETHER AT AN OTHERWISE UNCONNECTED TERMINAL, AND A LIKE PLURALITY OF OUTPUT TERMINALS CONNECTED TO SAID OTHER END OF CORRESPONDING ONES OF SAID LIKE CONDUCTORS.