A ceramic monoblock RF filter for the transmission of an RF signal comprising a block of dielectric material including opposed top and bottom surfaces, opposed longitudinal side surfaces, and opposed transverse side surfaces. A plurality of spaced apart through-hole resonators extend through the block and terminate in openings in the top and bottom surfaces of the block. A second plurality of grounded RF signal blocking through-holes extend through the block and terminate in respective openings in the top and bottom surfaces of the block. The grounded through-holes are located and positioned in a relationship off-set and on opposite sides of the first plurality of through-hole resonators for blocking the coupling of the RF signal between RF signal input/outputs and selected ones of the first plurality of resonators and also between non-adjacent ones of the first plurality of resonators.

There is provided a method, including obtaining information indicating at least one reference characteristic; obtaining input data, the input data relating to the output of the tunable filter; determining, based on the input data, at least one characteristic of the tunable filter; upon detecting that the at least one determined characteristic does not match with the at least one reference characteristic, determining tuning instructions for the tunable filter; and applying the tuning instructions in adjusting the tunable filter.

The present application provides a dielectric resonator, a dielectric filter, a base station and a method for fabricating the dielectric resonator or the dielectric filter. The dielectric resonator includes: a solid dielectric resonator body, a blind hole located on one side of the solid dielectric resonator body, a metalized layer covering both a surface of the solid dielectric resonator body and a surface of the blind hole, and a demetallized notch located at the metalized layer on the surface of the blind hole. The dielectric resonator provided in the present application can implement tuning of the dielectric resonator, and reduce impact on the resonance frequency of the dielectric resonator after the dielectric resonator is tuned, where the impact caused by that the demetallized notch is covered by a metal material in an assembly process of the dielectric resonator, and signal energy that is leaked from the notch is reduced.

The present application is directed to a filter and methods of making the same. The filter includes a block of dielectric material with a top surface including a patterned region, a bottom surface, and side surfaces. The filter also includes a through-hole extending through the block from the top surface to the bottom surface. The through-hole is partially surrounded by the patterned region. The filter also includes a wall extending from the top surface, the wall having an inner surface, an outer surface, and a roof. The bottom surface, side surfaces, outer surface, and roof have a first coating of silver and glass frit. The patterned region, through-hole and inner surface have a second coating of silver and glass frit. The glass frit in the first coating is at least 0.5% greater than the glass frit in the second coating. The application is also directed to a system including a printed circuit board and a filter.

Embodiments of this application disclose a dielectric filter and a communication device. In one example, the dielectric filter includes: a first dielectric block and a second dielectric block that are stacked up, where a first surface of the first dielectric block is opposite to a second surface of the second dielectric block; a first blind hole, a first through hole, and two or more resonance through holes whose openings are located on the first surface of the first dielectric block, and a second through hole whose opening is located on the second surface of the second dielectric block. A metal layer on the first surface of the first dielectric block is connected to a metal layer on the second surface of the second dielectric block.

A dielectric resonator includes a dielectric block, an external conductor, and wall-surface conductors. The dielectric block has a rectangular parallelepiped shape including a first surface and a second surface opposed to each other. The dielectric block includes a through hole extending from the first surface to the second surface. The external conductor is disposed on an outer surface of the dielectric block. The wall-surface conductors are disposed on a wall surface defining the through hole. The wall-surface conductor includes a first portion of the through hole adjacent to the first surface and a second portion of the through hole adjacent to the second surface. The first and second portions of the wall-surface conductors are separated by a separation distance.

There is provided a method, including obtaining information indicating at least one reference characteristic; obtaining input data, the input data relating to the output of the tunable filter; determining, based on the input data, at least one characteristic of the tunable filter; upon detecting that the at least one determined characteristic does not match with the at least one reference characteristic, determining tuning instructions for the tunable filter; and applying the tuning instructions in adjusting the tunable filter.

Provided is a multi-resonator bandpass filter, which comprises a block, an input electrode, and an output electrode. The block comprises an open surface, a short-circuited surface, and a top surface. Multiple of resonant holes are penetrated through the block. The open surface is provided with a first hollowed-out region; the top surface is provided with two second hollowed-out region; the input electrode and the output electrode are disposed on the two second hollowed-out region, respectively. The block flintier comprises a ground metal layer and a resonant coating layer. Each of the resonant holes is coaxially provided with a first groove and a second groove in the direction from the open surface to the short-circuited surface. The first groove is a rectangular shape in the cross-section parallel to the open surface, and the second groove is substantially a round shape in the cross-section parallel to the open surface.

A duplexer includes a 90 hybrid connected to an antenna terminal, a 90 hybrid connected to a terminating resistor, a transmission-side filter connected to the 90 hybrid connected to the antenna terminal, and notch filters connected to both of the 90 hybrids and mutually having the same filter characteristics, where each of the notch filters is a band elimination filter configured to reflect a radio frequency signal of a transmission band and allow a radio frequency signal of a band other than the transmission band to pass through.

An electronic device may include a housing, a first printed circuit board (PCB) carried by the housing and radio frequency (RF) circuitry on the PCB, and an RF filter module carried by the PCB. The RF filter module may include a second PCB carried by the first PCB, a plurality of first coaxial resonators arranged in side-by-side relation on the second PCB, and at least one second coaxial resonator stacked on the plurality of first coaxial resonators, and interconnect circuitry coupling the plurality of first coaxial resonators and the at least one second coaxial resonator to the second PCB.