Abstract:
A surface-acoustic-wave filter for a channel selection tuning system of a television receiver includes at least two comb filter elements, each of which comprises an input transducer provided on a piezoelectric substrate and adapted to convert an input electrical signal into an elastic surface wave, and first and second output transducers disposed on the substrate for receiving the elastic surface wave propagating in the same direction from the input transducer. The first and second output transducers are positioned from the input transducer with different distances. The transducers of the two comb filter elements are so designed that the respective comb filter elements respond to frequencies of different program channel bands over for example VHF and UHF bands. The distances of the first and the second output transducers from the input transducer in the wave propagating direction are so predetermined that reciprocal of the difference in delay time between the electrical signals derived from the first and second output transducers is equal to a divisor of an interchannel frequency difference in the corresponding channel band.
Abstract:
A surface acoustic wave device, a method for manufacturing the same and a manufacturing equipment therefor are disclosed. In the surface acoustic wave device having functional elements such as input and output interdigital electrodes of Al, Al-Si alloy or Al-Cu-Si alloy thin film strips and a grating type reflector, arranged on a piezoelectric substrate and any other bus conductors arranged on the same substrate, at least a portion of the functional elements and the bus conductors having a high frequency metal strip having a line width of no more than 2 .mu.m, at least the metal strip having the width of no more than 2 .mu.m has a film thickness of no less than 0.25 .mu.m at least a portion thereof but no more than an upper limit of an effective film thickness determined by a required characteristic of the surface acoustic wave device, whereby a transfer characteristic of the surface acoustic wave device is compensated and controlled, for example, a reflection efficiency of a grating type reflector is improved or a loss due to a D.C. resistance of the input and output electrodes is reduced.
Abstract:
In a preferred embodiment, a surface acoustic wave device comprises a piezoelectric substrate, a first electrode formed on the substrate and acting to convert an electrical signal into a surface acoustic wave, and second and third electrodes formed on the substrate and acting to convert the surface acoustic wave into an electrical signal. The second and third electrodes are disposed at different distances from the first electrode and connected electrically with each other. Electrode fingers of the second electrode are arranged in a relationship of the opposite polarity with respect to those of the third electrode so as to cause peaks in the constant frequency interval multi-peak frequency characteristics of the device acting as a filter to take place at frequencies which are (integer+1/2) times the constant frequency interval .DELTA.f. In another preferred embodiment, a plurality of surface acoustic wave device units are formed on a common piezoelectric substrate. Respective units include a set of first, second and third electrodes and operate at different frequency bands which partly overlap. The distance between the first electrode and the second electrode or the third electrode is determined in the respective units such that the delay time due to the propagation of the surface acoustic wave between the input and output electrodes is equal in the respective units and the output voltage of the output electrode is in phase in the respective units, thereby providing accurate peak frequencies over the whole frequency band at which the surface acoustic wave device operates.
Abstract:
A structure of a spectrum spreading communication device which solves the problem with the conventional spectrum spreading communication using Barker codes, etc., and limits the rise of the side-lobe of a correctional signal independently of the order of information codes by use of a code sequence having a code length of at least 14. The spectrum spreading communication device uses a pseudo-noise code having code length of at least 14 and a self-correlation side-lobe of not greater than 3 as a pseudo-noise code of a direct spreading communication device which uses the pseudo-noise codes whose polarities are inverted so as to deal with also digital information. Thus, even when the pseudo-noise code length is 14 or more, the side-lobe of the correction coefficient can be restricted. Accordingly, the error rate of the spectrum spreading communication device is reduced and the processing gain is improved.
Abstract:
A SAW device having a piezoelectric substrate and interleaved metal electrodes formed on the substrate, in which the formation of the electrodes on the substrate is carried out by sputtering. Further, the metal electrodes may contain an additive of Cu, Ti, Zn, Mg, Fe, Ni, Cr, Ga, Ge, Sn, Pd or Ta. The resulting SAW device is capable of dealing with high frequency electric signals of a larger amplitude, or higher power electric signals, as compared with the conventional SAW device.
Abstract:
In a SAW device comprising a piezoelectric substrate and at least one set of metallic electrodes formed on the piezoelectric substrate, at least one set of the electrodes have a laminated structure comprised of a layer of an aluminum film added with an impurity at a concentration of 6 wt. % or less and another layer of a film of pure aluminum or aluminum added with an impurity at a concentration of 0.4 wt. % or less. The SAW device having the laminated structure of electrodes can handle high frequency electric signals of higher power and/or larger amplitudes.
Abstract:
In an apparatus for descrambling a scrambled television signal, an elastic surface wave filter is used. This elastic surface wave filter has an interdigital electrode having an electrode pattern similar to at least portion of the waveforms of a luminance signal section of the scrambled television signal to be input. The elastic surface wave filter generates a response pulse only when the waveforms which are analogous to the electrode pattern of the interdigital electrode of the scrambled television signal were input, thereby descrambling the television signal using this response pulse.
Abstract:
When SAW filter is used as a receiving filter of an antenna duplexer filter in a cellular radio equipment, since a transmitting signal of an out-band frequency has a large power for the SAW filter, the large power can leak into the SAW filter to generate inter-modulation disturbances in the SAW filter. Since the inter-modulation disturbances are generated when the transmission power density of the surface acoustic wave is made too large, input converters are divided, and the divided converters are disposed in the direction perpendicular to the propagation direction of the surface acoustic wave to lower the transmission power density. Since the divided converters are connected in series, reduction in the impedence together with increase of the aperture length can be compensated.
Abstract:
A surface acoustic wave (SAW) device comprises a piezo-electric surface acoustic substrate, and plural sets of input/output interdigital electrodes disposed on the substrate. A phase shifter is provided between a sending electrode and a reflecting electrode included in the input or output interdigital electrodes for producing an electrical phase difference to implement a unidirectional electrode. The sending electrode and the reflecting electrode are mutually connected through the phase shifter including two pure reactance elements serially connected between the sending and the reflecting electrodes and a pure reactance element connected to the junction between the two serially connected reactance elements so as to form a T-circuit. When the two serially connected pure reactance elements are selected equal to each other, the operating frequency band is broadened. The phase shifter includes no ohmic resistance and thus is lossless.
Abstract:
An elastic surface wave device that has good frequency characteristics and no unwanted signals, and is highly suited for mass production, comprising a piezoelectric substrate, at least one pair of transmitting and receiving electrodes on the surface of said substrate, and elastic surface wave absorbers formed by curing a composition, the main component of which is a resin curable by ultraviolet radiation, disposed on at least part of the zone on said piezoelectric substrate that propagates unwanted elastic surface waves.