The disclosure describes a multi-section directional coupler comprising: a plurality of conductive lines, each conductive line comprises a plurality of line sections; a plurality of coupled line sections, each coupled line section comprises a first line section of a first conductive line and a second line section of a second conductive line, the coupled line sections comprise different coupling strength values, the coupled line sections facilitate signal coupling; and at least one grounded conductive coupling reduction structure arranged adjacent to a selected coupled line section and operable to reduce a coupling value between a respective line section of the first conductive line and a respective line section of the second conductive line of the selected coupled line section. The selected coupled line section comprises a smaller coupling strength value than another one of the coupled line sections. Methods of manufacturing and operating the multi-section directional coupler are also provided.

A surface mountable coupler may include a monolithic base substrate having a first surface, a second surface, a length in an X-direction, and a width in a Y-direction that is perpendicular to the X-direction. A plurality of ports may be formed over the first surface of the monolithic base substrate including a coupling port, an input port, and an output port. The coupler may include a first thin film inductor and a second thin film inductor that is inductively coupled with the first thin film inductor and electrically connected between the input and output ports. A thin film circuit may electrically connect the first thin film inductor with the coupling port. The thin film circuit may include at least one thin film component.

The invention proposes a four-port coupler using micro-strip line in combination with ultra-wide-band compensation circuits. It can be applied for communication systems or information machine systems. The main feature of the invention is the structure and the distribution of the components in the compensation circuit to reduce the size of the coupler. The proposed coupler includes: microstrip directional coupler and compensation circuits, in which the microstrip directional coupler consists of one main line and two secondary transmission lines; the main transmission line has two ports: input and output ports; each secondary is connected to a load and a compensation circuit. The compensation circuit is composed of a low-pass filter and two parallel attenuation regulator circuits.

A coupling device includes a plurality of couplers, a first coupled output port and a second coupled output port, wherein the plurality of couplers comprise a first coupler and a second coupler that are adjacent one another, and each of the first coupler and the second coupler comprises a main line and a subline, and for each of the first coupler and the second coupler: the subline includes a first section, a second section, and a third section, wherein the second section of the subline of the first coupler has a common segment with the first section of the subline of the second coupler.

The invention relates to a directional coupler comprising a non-straight main conductor line for receiving a high power signal and at least one coupling element. The main conductor line is arranged to run in a plane P.sub.0. The at least one coupling element is arranged sectionally parallel to the main conductor line. Further, the invention relates to a method for measuring RF voltage and/or RF power using a directional coupler. The method comprises the steps of combining the measured signals of the directional coupler and the measured voltage and current values of the VI sensor unit. In case, one of the measured signals has a low or zero level the sensitivity of the measuring of RF voltage and/or RF power is increased.

An on-chip directional coupler includes a first linear conductive trace, a second linear conductive trace, and a conductive loop. The first linear conductive trace including an end and a coupled port. The second linear conductive trace is spaced apart from and parallel to the first linear conductive trace. The second linear conductive trace includes an end and an isolated port. The conductive loop includes a first end conductively coupled to the end of the first linear conductive trace, and a second end conductively coupled to the end of the second linear conductive trace.

According to some aspects of this disclosure a radio frequency signal coupler is provided. The radio frequency coupler includes an input port, an output port, a main transmission line extending between the input port and the output port, a coupled transmission line electromagnetically coupled to the main transmission line, at least one coupled port coupled to the coupled transmission line, and a plurality of termination ports connected to the coupled transmission line, each termination port of the plurality of termination ports being connected to the coupled transmission line at a different location to provide a plurality of coupling factors corresponding to a plurality of signal frequencies.

This invention relates to an antenna system comprising two identical mutually radiation coupled antennas arranged symmetrically with respect to one another, said antennas having a respective antenna connection gate and a network, which is connected at the input side to the antenna connection gates and which is formed from dummy elements, and having a respective antenna path to a network connection gate, said antenna paths being identical to one another and being separately associated with an antenna.

The present disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate after a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long-term evolution (LTE). The present disclosure relates to an antenna device, and the antenna device may include an antenna board including a plurality of antenna elements and a coupler for extracting part of a signal transmitted to the plurality of the antenna elements, and a calibration board disposed under the antenna board, and including a correction circuit for correcting an error using the part of the signal extracted by the coupler, the coupler may include a first transmission line connected with the plurality of the antenna elements, and a second transmission line disposed to be capacitively connected with the first transmission line, and the second transmission line may include a third transmission line and a fourth transmission line spaced apart from each other to be parallel to the first transmission line based on the first transmission line, and a fifth transmission line disposed to connect with the third transmission line and the fourth transmission line with respective terminal ends, and to surround a via hole penetrating the antenna board in a vertical direction.

Examples of the disclosure include a coupler comprising an input port, an output port, a coupled port, an isolated port, a main line coupled between the input port and the output port, a coupled line coupled between the coupled port and isolated port, and one or more elements switchably coupled between the coupled port and the isolated port, the one or more elements including at least one of an inductive, capacitive, or resistive element.