Various substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) filtering crossover systems are described. An example SIW filtering crossover system may include: a substrate; a top metal plate placed on top of the substrate; a bottom metal plate placed beneath the substrate; a plurality of metalized via-holes in the substrate connecting the top metal plate and the bottom metal plate; and a plurality of grounded-coplanar-waveguides (GCPWs) coupled to sidewalls of the crossover system, wherein each of the GCPWs connects the crossover system to a respective microstrip line for signal transmission between the respective microstrip line and the crossover system.

The present invention relates to a multi-mode resonator comprising: a housing in which a cavity corresponding to a substantially single accommodating space is arranged; and multiple resonance ribs which are arranged at a predetermined interval therebetween in the cavity, have lower ends fixed to a floor surface of the housing, have upper ends facing each other, and generate a resonance signal by multiple coupling therebetween.

The present invention relates to a multimode resonator comprising: a housing provided with a cavity substantially corresponding to one accommodation space; a plurality of resonance arms arranged at preset intervals from each other in the cavity and generating resonance signals by complex mutual coupling; and a plurality of resonance legs for respectively supporting the plurality of resonance arms.

A dual-mode filter with a cross iris is provided. The cross iris is adjustable, and the dual-mode filter includes at least one resonator at both sides of the cross iris. The dual-mode filter includes tuning screws located on the cross iris in line with vertical and horizontal slots, changing a coupling level of the vertical and horizontal slots and changing a bandwidth. Minor design or production based errors are fixed by configuring the dual-mode filter with desired technical parameters.

A filter manufacturing method and a filter manufactured by the filter manufacturing method are disclosed. The filter manufacturing method includes designating a use mode in a resonator to a first resonance mode, in response to designating to the first resonance mode, setting a band selected from a designated first frequency band to a passband in the resonator, switching the use mode in the resonator from the first resonance mode to a second resonator mode, in response to switching to the second resonance mode, setting a band selected from the first frequency band except for the passband to a stopband in the resonator, and manufacturing a primary filter including the resonator to which the passband and the stopband are set.

Various substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) filtering crossover systems are described. An example SIW filtering crossover system may include: a substrate; a top metal plate placed on top of the substrate; a bottom metal plate placed beneath the substrate; a plurality of metalized via-holes in the substrate connecting the top metal plate and the bottom metal plate; and a plurality of grounded-coplanar-waveguides (GCPWs) coupled to sidewalls of the crossover system, wherein each of the GCPWs connects the crossover system to a respective microstrip line for signal transmission between the respective microstrip line and the crossover system.

An apparatus, system and method for dispensing underfill to components on a printed circuit board. The apparatus, system and method may include an underfill chamber having an input through which the printed circuit board is received; at least one dispensing robot capable of dispensing the underfill to the components; a lower heater suitable to substantially evenly heat at least half of or the entirety of an underside of the printed circuit board once the printed circuit board is within the underfill chamber; and an overhead heater capable of heating up to half of a topside of the printed circuit board once the printed circuit board is within the underfill chamber.

A polarized waveguide filter is formed in which the polarized waveguide filter includes a first rectangular waveguide; a second rectangular waveguide; and a rectangular cavity resonator that has a first edge surface connected to an electromagnetic wave exit plane of the first rectangular waveguide via a coupling unit, and has a second edge surface facing the first edge surface and connected to an electromagnetic wave incident plane of the second rectangular waveguide via a coupling unit, and excites each of a TE10 mode and a TE20 mode of an electromagnetic wave, and the rectangular cavity resonator has two first wall surfaces and two second wall surfaces narrower in area than the first wall surfaces, and a protrusion that shifts a resonance frequency of the TE10 mode and a resonance frequency of the TE20 mode by respective amounts different from each other is provided on at least one of the two first wall surfaces, in such a way as to protrude outward from the rectangular cavity resonator.

A dual-mode dielectric resonator using two dissimilar modes is described, the dissimilar modes supported by a ridge waveguide resonator and a ¼-wavelength (¼λ) metalized cylindrical resonator within a single, metal-coated dielectric block. Each ridge waveguide resonator and cylindrical resonator form a dual-mode resonator pair. Coupling control posts set between the ridge waveguide resonator and cylindrical resonator can adjust their coupling. Multiple pairs of ridge waveguide/cylindrical resonators are fabricated in the same dielectric block to form a coupled resonator bandpass filter, including an 8-pole or 10-pole dielectric resonator filter, for 5G or other applications. Transmission zeros can be introduced by a metalized blind hole extending vertically between two ridge waveguide resonators or a microstrip extending between two dual-mode resonator pairs between which there exists no partial-width or full-width dielectric window.

A bandpass filter has a plurality of resonant cavities. The plurality of resonant cavities are arranged into a sequence of adjacent resonant cavities. Each resonant cavity is configured to define the same fundamental resonant frequency. The filter includes a plurality of coupling irises, with one of the coupling irises positioned between each pair of adjacent resonant cavities. Each resonant cavity includes a plurality of cavity sections. Each resonant cavity includes a capacitive iris positioned coupling the cavity sections to one another. The frequency of secondary resonance modes varies amongst the resonant cavities in the plurality of resonant cavities.