Balanced high-frequency device and balance-characteristics improving method and balanced high-frequency circuit using the same

• US 6,900,705 B2
• Filed: 03/17/2003
• Issued: 05/31/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Skyworks Filter Solutions Japan Co., Ltd. (Skyworks Solutions Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakamura, Hiroyuki, Ishizaki, Toshio, Nakatani, Toshifumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Summons, Barbara
• Application Number:
  US10/390,287
• Publication Number:
  US 20030201846A1
• Time in Patent Office: 806 Days
• Field of Search: 333/25, 333/26, 333193-196, 330/275, 330/301, 330/116, 330/117
• US Class Current: 333/25
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 1/565 using inductive elements
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 2200/451 the amplifier being a radio frequency amplifier
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 3/245 with semiconductor devices only
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 3/45089 Non-folded cascode stages
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 11/32 Networks for transforming balanced signals into unbalanced signals and vice versa, e.g. baluns
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 7/42 Networks for transforming balanced signals into unbalanced signals and vice versa, e.g. baluns
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 7/425 Balance-balance networks
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 9/0028 using surface acoustic wave devices
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 9/0038 the balanced terminals being on the same side of the track
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 9/0042 the balanced terminals being on opposite sides of the track
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 9/14588 Horizontally-split transducers

Abstract

A balanced high-frequency device is constituted by a balanced device and a phase circuit. The input side of the balanced device is connected to an input terminal IN serving as an unbalanced input/output terminal and the output side of it is connected to output terminals OUT1 and OUT2 serving as balanced input/output terminals. Moreover, the phase circuit is connected between the output terminals.

Claims

1. A balanced high-frequency device comprising:

a balanced device having input terminals for inputting signals and output terminals for outputting signals; and

a phase circuit;

wherein;

at least said input terminals or said output terminals are balanced input terminals or balanced output terminals;

said phase circuit is a parallel resonant circuit which is electrically connected between said balanced input terminals or said balanced output terminals and which parallel-resonates at a predetermined frequency to a around plane to differential-mode signal components of said signals; and

said phase circuit reduces common-mode signal components of said signals.

2. A balanced high-frequency circuit comprising the balanced high-frequency device according to claim 1.

3. The balanced high-frequency circuit according to claim 2, in which

a transmitting filter and/or a receiving filter which constitute or constitutes said balanced high-frequency circuit use or uses said balanced high-frequency device

said balanced device is an surface acoustic wave filter,

said surface acoustic wave filter has a piezoelectric substrate and a plurality of IDT electrodes (inter-digital transducer electrodes) formed on said piezoelectric substrate, and

at least one of said IDT electrodes is connected to a balanced terminal or balanced output terminal.

4. The balanced high-frequency circuit according to claim 2, in which

a transmitting amplifier and/or a receiving amplifier which comprises said balanced high-frequency circuit use or uses the balanced high-frequency device and said balanced device is a semiconductor device.

5. The balanced high-frequency device according to claim 1, in which

said phase circuit includes a matching circuit to differential-mode signal components of said signals.

6. A balanced high-frequency circuit comprising:

a circuit substrate; and

balanced transmission lines set to said circuit substrate, in which

the phase circuit according to claim 1 is connected between said balanced transmission lines.

7. The balanced high-frequency device according to claim 1, in which

said balanced high frequency device is an surface acoustic wave filter,

said surface acoustic wave filter has a piezoelectric substrate and a plurality of IDT electrodes (inter-digital transducer electrodes) formed on said piezoelectric substrate, and

at least one of said IDT electrodes is connected to a balanced input terminal or balanced output terminal.

8. The balanced high-frequency device according to claim 7, in which

said surface acoustic wave filter is a longitudinally coupled-mode surface acoustic wave filter obtained by arranging at least first, second, and third IDT electrodes along the propagative direction of an elastic surface-wave,

said second and third IDT electrodes are arranged at the both sides of said first IDT electrode,

said first IDT electrode is the balanced type and one and the other electrode fingers constituting said first IDT electrode are respectively connected to a balanced input terminal or balanced output terminal.

9. The balanced high-frequency device according to claim 7, in which

said surface acoustic wave filter is a longitudinally coupled-mode surface acoustic wave filter obtained by arranging at least first, second, and third IDT electrodes along the propagative direction of an elastic surface-wave,

said second and third IDT electrodes are arranged at the both sides of said first IDT electrode,

said first IDT electrode is constituted by a plurality of divided IDT electrodes, and

at least two of said divided IDT electrodes are respectively connected to a balanced input terminal or a balanced output terminal.

10. The balanced high-frequency device according to claim 7, in which

said surface acoustic wave filter is a longitudinally coupled mode surface acoustic wave filter obtained by arranging at least first, second, and third IDT electrodes along the propagative direction of an elastic surface-wave,

said second and third IDT electrodes are arranged at the both sides of said first IDT electrode,

said second IDT electrode is connected to one of balanced input terminals or one of balanced output terminals,

said third IDT electrode is connected to the other of said balanced input terminals or the other of said balanced output terminals.

11. The balanced high-frequency device according to claim 1, in which

said phase circuit includes at least three impedance elements, and

impedances of common-mode signal components of said signals to a ground plane is set lower than the impedance of differential-mode signal components of said signals to a ground plane for impedances of said balanced input terminals or balanced output terminals with a ground plane.

12. The balanced high-frequency device according to claim 11, in which

a first impedance element is connected between one of said balanced input terminals or one of said balanced output terminals and a ground plane,

a second impedance element is connected between the other of said balanced input terminals or the other of said balanced output terminals and a ground plane,

a third impedance element is connected between said balanced input terminals or said balanced output terminals, and

imaginary parts of impedances of said first and second impedance elements are different from the imaginary part of the impedance of said third impedance element in polarity.

13. The balanced high-frequency device according to claim 12, in which

(a) said first impedance element and said third impedance element and

(b) said second impedance element and said third impedance element respectively form a parallel resonant circuit to a ground plane at a predetermined frequency for differential-mode signal components of said signals.

14. The balanced high-frequency device according to claim 12, in which

the impedance between one of said balanced input terminals or one of said, balanced output terminals and a ground plane and the impedance between the other of said balanced input terminals or the other of said balanced output terminals and a ground plane are respectively substantially equal to or less than 2×

Z0 when assuming a characteristic impedance as Z0.

15. The balanced high-frequency device according to claim 14, in which

impedances of the common-mode signal components of said signal to a ground plane is substantially equal to or less than 0.5×

Z0 when assuming a characteristic impedance as Z0.

16. The balanced high-frequency device according to claim 11, in which

a first impedance element and a second impedance element are connected between balanced input terminals or balanced output terminals in series,

the portion between said first impedance element and said second impedance element are grounded through a third impedance element, and

imaginary parts of impedances of said first and second impedance elements are different from the imaginary part of the impedance of said third impedance element in polarity.

17. The balanced high-frequency device according to claim 16, characterized in that

said first impedance element and said third impedance element on one hand and said second impedance element and said third impedance element on the other respectively form a series resonant circuit to a ground plane at a predetermined frequency about common-mode signal components of said signals.

18. The balanced high-frequency device according to claim 1, in which

said balanced device is a semiconductor device.

19. The balanced high-frequency device according to claim 18, in which

said semiconductor device is an amplifier constituted by a plurality of transistors.

20. A phase circuit comprising:

a phase-circuit section having an output terminal electrically parallel connected between balanced input terminals or balanced output terminals of a balanced device which has input terminals for inputting signals and output terminals for outputting signals and in which at least said input terminals or said output terminals are said balanced input terminals or said balanced output terminals to reduce common-mode signal components of said signals,

wherein said phase-circuit section is a parallel resonant circuit which parallel-resonates at a predetermined frequency to a around plane to differential-mode signal components of said signals.