The present invention is directed to electrical circuits. In a specific embodiment, a first interface circuit is coupled to a first plurality of ports for processing signals at a first frequency range, and a second interface circuit is coupled to a second plurality of ports for processing signals at a second frequency range. The first interface circuit is coupled to a timing channel circuit. The second interface circuit is coupled to an energy channel circuit. There are other embodiments as well.

A filter device includes a first filter including a first inductor, a second filter including a second inductor, a third filter including a third inductor, and a fourth filter including a fourth inductor. The first to fourth inductors are arranged in a manner that an opening of the first inductor and an opening of the third inductor face each other, an opening of the second inductor and an opening of the fourth inductor face each other, the opening of the first inductor and the opening of the second inductor do not face each other, and the opening of the third inductor and the opening of the fourth inductor do not face each other.

A diplexer includes a multilayer substrate, first, second, and third terminals, and a ground terminal provided on the multilayer substrate. The first filter is between the first terminal and the second terminal, the second filter is between the first terminal and the third terminal. An interlayer spacing of the multilayer substrate includes a first filter ground electrode, a second filter ground electrode, and a shield ground electrode shielding between the first filter and the second filter. The ground terminal includes a first filter ground terminal connected to the first filter ground electrode, a second filter ground terminal connected to the second filter ground electrode, and a shield ground terminal connected to the shield ground electrode.

A phase shifter includes a transformer connected between a first port and a second port and including a first coil and a second coil that is magnetically coupled to the first coil, the transformer including a parasitic inductance component; and an impedance adjustment circuit including a reactance element that suppresses a deviation in impedance due to the parasitic inductance component of the transformer. A coupling coefficient between the first coil and the second coil of the transformer and a value of the reactance element of the impedance adjustment circuit are determined such that a phase-shift amount changes in accordance with a frequency band.

A tunable dual-band resonator and a tunable dual-band band-pass filter using the tunable dual-band resonator. The dual-band resonator is structured such that a stub is added to each half-wavelength resonator provided with half-wavelength resonator protrusions (capacity-component adjust parts). The dual-band resonator is made up of an odd-number mode resonator in a shape including a ground conductor disposed on the back surface of a dielectric body, and a strip conductor disposed on the top surface thereof, and an even-number mode resonator in such a shape as to be formed when the stub is connected to an end face on the opposite side of the open-end of the strip, characterized in that a dielectric rod having a circular cross section is provided in the space above the respective stubs and another dielectric rod having a circular cross section is provided in the space above the half-wavelength resonator protrusions.

A filter circuit is provided having multipath interference mitigation. The filter includes a signal path extending from an input to an output. The signal path includes a conductive path and a ground. A pass band filter is disposed along the signal path between the input and the output. The pass band filter passes a first frequency spectrum in a provider bandwidth, and attenuates a second frequency spectrum in a home network bandwidth. The filter circuit further includes a multipath interference mitigation leg operatively branched from the signal path. The multipath interference mitigation leg increases a return loss of the home network bandwidth. A frequency response of the filter circuit is characterized by an insertion loss characteristic between the input and the output being less than 3 dB in the provider bandwidth, and more than 20 dB in the home network bandwidth.

A multilayer LC filter includes a multilayer body in which insulator layers, a ground electrode, capacitor electrodes, a planar electrode, and via electrodes includes open-side via electrodes connecting the capacitor electrodes and the planar electrode and short-circuit side via electrodes connecting the planar electrode and the ground electrode, an inductor is provided by a conductive path extending from the capacitor electrodes to the ground electrode through the open-side via electrodes, the planar electrode, and the short-circuit side via electrodes, a capacitor is provided by capacitance generated between the ground electrode and the capacitor electrodes, the inductor and the capacitor are connected in parallel to define LC resonators, and it is assumed that the short-circuit side via electrodes of all of the LC resonators in the multilayer body are made common.

A variable filter for an RF circuit has a signal loop comprising a signal input port and a signal output port, and a plurality of circuit elements connected within the signal loop. The plurality of circuit elements comprise a multi-pole resonator comprising a plurality of frequency tunable resonators and an adjustable scaling block that applies a gain factor. Adjacent frequency tunable resonators within the multi-pole resonator are reciprocally coupled. A controller is connected to tune the multi-pole resonator and to adjust the gain factor of the adjustable scaling block such that the signal loop generates a desired bandpass response.

A filter device includes a dielectric, first and second electrodes in the dielectric and connected to a ground terminal, and first to third resonators. The first and second resonators are between the first and second electrodes. The first resonator is connected to an input terminal, and the second resonator is connected to an output terminal. The third resonator is between the first and second resonators. The first resonator includes a first plate conductor connected to the input terminal and the ground terminal. The second resonator includes a second plate conductor connected to the output terminal and the ground terminal. The first and second plate conductors extend in the dielectric in an X-axis direction. The first to third resonators are arranged in a Y-axis direction. The third resonator includes a capacitor electrode opposite to the second electrode, and an inductor via connected to the capacitor electrode and the first electrode.

Described embodiments include a circuit having a quadrature phase generator circuit having differential generator inputs, in-phase differential generator outputs and quadrature-phase differential generator outputs. A first frequency multiplier circuit has first differential multiplier inputs and a first multiplier output, wherein the first differential multiplier inputs are coupled to the in-phase differential generator outputs. A second frequency multiplier circuit has second differential multiplier inputs and a second multiplier output. The second multiplier differential inputs are coupled to the quadrature-phase differential generator outputs. A transformer includes a primary inductor and a secondary inductor, wherein the primary inductor is coupled between the first and second multiplier outputs, and the second inductor is coupled between an output voltage terminal and a ground terminal.