Surface acoustic wave filter having unidirectional and bidirectional transducers

• US 6,127,904 A
• Filed: 11/30/1998
• Issued: 10/03/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NGK Insulators Limited
• Original Assignee: NGK Insulators Limited
• Inventors: Tanaka, Mitsuhiro, Sugiyama, Masahiko, Nomoto, Susumu, Suzuki, Kenji
• Primary Examiner(s): Pascal, Robert
• Assistant Examiner(s): Summons, Barbara
• Application Number:
  US09/201,872
• Time in Patent Office: 673 Days
• Field of Search: 333/193-196, 310/313 R, 310/313 B, 310/313 C, 310/313 D
• US Class Current: 333/193
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 9/0042 the balanced terminals being on opposite sides of the track
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 9/02779 Continuous surface reflective arrays
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 9/0285 of triple transit echo
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 9/14505 Unidirectional SAW transducers
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 9/1452 by finger overlap length, apodisation
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 9/14552 comprising split fingers
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 9/6426 Combinations of the characteristics of different transducers
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 9/643 the transfer characteristic being determined by reflective or coupling array characteristics

Abstract

A surface acoustic wave filter device suitable for CDMA communication system includes a piezoelectric substrate, and a unidirectional input side transducer and a bidirectional output side transducer are formed on the substrate. The filter device has satisfactory filtering characteristics in terms of insertion loss, frequency characteristic, T.T.E. attenuation level, group delay time, etc.

Claims

1. A surface acoustic wave filter device comprising:

a piezoelectric substrate;

an input side transducer formed on said substrate, for exciting a surface acoustic wave;

an output side transducer formed on said substrate, for receiving and converting the surface acoustic wave excited by said input side transducer;

one of said transducers comprising a unidirectional transducer and the other of said transducers comprising a bidirectional transducer,

wherein said unidirectional transducer comprises at least one electrode comprising a plurality of sets of first and second electrode fingers, said sets of electrode fingers being periodically arranged at a pitch λ

which is the propagation wavelength of said surface acoustic wave, said first electrode finger having a width λ

/8, said second electrode finger having a width 3λ

/8, and said first and second electrode fingers being spaced from each other at a center distance 3λ

/8;

wherein said bidirectional transducer comprises electrode fingers of a split-structure, said electrode fingers of the bidirectional transducer each having a width λ

/8; and

wherein said unidirectional transducer comprises a normal electrode and said bidirectional transducer comprises a weighted electrode.

2. A surface acoustic wave filter device comprising:

a piezoelectric substrate;

an input side transducer formed on said substrate, for exciting a surface acoustic wave;

an output side transducer formed on said substrate, for receiving and converting the surface acoustic wave excited by said input side transducer;

one of said transducers comprising a unidirectional transducer and the other of said transducers comprising a bidirectional transducer,

wherein said unidirectional transducer comprises a first electrode which comprises a plurality of sets of first and second electrode fingers, which sets are periodically arranged at a predetermined pitch, said first and second electrode fingers of each set having a width λ

/4 as measured in the propagation direction of the surface acoustic wave, where λ

is the propagation wavelength of said surface acoustic wave, and one of said set of electrode finders is spaced from the other by a center distance λ

;

a second electrode comprising a plurality of electrode fingers each arranged between the first and second electrode fingers of each set of said first electrode, and having a width λ

/4; and

at least one floating electrode arranged between opposite first and second electrode fingers of adjacent sets of said first electrode and having a width λ

/4; and

wherein said bidirectional transducer comprises electrode fingers of a split-structure, said electrode fingers of the bidirectional transducer each having a width λ

/8.

3. A surface acoustic wave filter device comprising:

A) a piezoelectric substrate;

B) an input side transducer formed on said substrate, for exciting a surface acoustic wave; and

C) an output side transducer formed on said substrate, for receiving and converting the surface acoustic wave excited by said input side transducer;

D) one of said transducers comprising a unidirectional transducer and the other of said transducers comprising a bidirectional transducer, wherein said unidirectional transducer comprises;

i) a first electrode comprising a plurality of sets of electrode fingers arranged at a predetermined pitch, each of said sets of the first electrode comprising first, second, third and fourth electrode fingers each having a width λ

/8 as measured in the propagation direction of the surface acoustic wave, where λ

is the propagation wavelength of said surface acoustic wave, said first and second electrode fingers of each set being spaced from each other by a center distance λ

/4, said second and third electrode fingers of each set being spaced from each other by a center distance 3λ

/4, and said third and fourth electrode fingers of each set being spaced from each other by a center distance λ

/4;

ii) a second electrode comprising a plurality of sets of electrode fingers arranged at a predetermined pitch, each of said sets of the second electrode comprising fifth and sixth electrode fingers each having a width λ

/8 as measured in the propagation direction of the surface acoustic wave, said fifth and sixth electrode fingers of each set being spaced from each other by a center distance λ

/4 and arranged between the second and third electrode fingers of an adjacent set of the first electrode; and

iii) at least one floating electrode having a width λ

/4 as measured in the propagation direction of the surface acoustic wave and arranged between neighboring sets of electrode fingers of the first electrode.