This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 201810374218.1, filed with the Chinese Patent Office on Apr. 24, 2018, and entitled “DIELECTRIC FILTER AND COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE”, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
This application relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a dielectric filter and a communications device.
With continuous development of communications technologies, a massive multiple-input multiple-output (massive (multiple-input multiple-output, MIMO)) system has an increasingly high requirement for a miniaturized on-board filter. The miniaturized on-board filter means that a miniaturized filter is directly welded on a circuit board to replace a larger cavity filter in a device, so that a size and a cost of the filter on the device can be reduced and a threshold of commercial use of the massive MIMO system can be lowered.
Currently, a most commonly used miniaturized filter that meets the foregoing requirements is a dielectric filter. The existing dielectric filter is formed by a coupling of several dielectric resonant cavities, in which each dielectric resonant cavity contains a dielectric resonator, so it can also be considered that the dielectric filter is formed by a coupling of several dielectric resonators. However, in such a dielectric filter, because of a coupling between every two dielectric resonators, an overall size of all dielectric resonators connected increases, and a magnetic field distribution area increases. As a result, a high-order harmonic wave frequency decreases and a remote suppression capability deteriorates. Consequently, specification requirements and user requirements cannot be met. Therefore, in practice, an additional low-pass filter needs to be added to work with the dielectric filter to meet a requirement of remote suppression capability.
In conclusion, the existing dielectric filter causes a decrease in a high-order harmonic wave frequency and causes a poor remote suppression capability, which cannot meet the specification requirements.
This application provides a dielectric filter and a communications device, to solve a problem in the prior art that a dielectric filter causes a decrease in a high-order harmonic wave frequency and a poor remote suppression capability, and specification requirements cannot be met.
According to a first aspect, this application provides a dielectric filter, including at least two dielectric resonators, where a first through-hole is disposed between at least one pair of adjacent dielectric resonators, and the first through-hole is configured to cut a magnetic field between the at least one pair of adjacent dielectric resonators. In this way, a magnetic field distribution in the dielectric filter may be cut via the first through-hole, so that a magnetic field distribution area is reduced, and the high-order harmonic wave frequency can be increased, thereby improving the remote suppression capability and meeting specification requirements. In addition, the dielectric filter provided in this application is easy to implement and has a simple structure. After the dielectric filter provided in this application meets the specification requirements, a low-pass filter does not need to be used, so that a cost and a loss can be reduced.
In a possible design, the first through-hole penetrates the dielectric filter, one opening of the first through-hole is located on a first surface, and the other opening is located on a second surface; and the first surface and the second surface are respectively side surfaces on two sides of an arrangement direction of the at least two resonators in the dielectric filter. In this way, the first through-hole in this design is relatively easy to implement and has a relatively simple structure, so that a magnetic field distribution in the dielectric filter can be easily cut, and a magnetic field distribution area is reduced, thereby improving the high-order harmonic wave frequency.
In a possible design, the first through-hole is in communication with a through-hole group, and the through-hole group includes one or more second through-holes; and openings of all second through-holes are located on a side surface close to the top or bottom of the at least two dielectric resonators in the dielectric filter. In this way, an effect of cutting the magnetic field may be better, and further, an effect of increasing the high-order harmonic wave frequency may be better.
In a possible design, at least one non-through hole is disposed on the first through-hole, and one non-through hole is in communication with one second through-hole. In this way, an effect of cutting the magnetic field may be better, and further, an effect of increasing the high-order harmonic wave frequency may be better.
In a possible design, an internal surface of the at least one second through-hole is coated with a first metallic material. In this way, performance of the dielectric filter may be better.
In a possible design, an internal surface of the at least a non-through hole is coated with a second metallic material. In this way, performance of the dielectric filter may be better.
In a possible design, an internal surface of the first through-hole is coated with a third metallic material. In this way, performance of the dielectric filter may be better.
In a possible design, the first metallic material, the second metallic material and the third metallic material may be completely the same, or may be completely different. The three types of metallic materials may be metals such as silver and copper.
In a possible design, the first through-hole is a straight-through hole, a bent-through hole, an irregular through-hole, or the like.
In a possible design, one or more first through-hole are disposed between the at least one pair of adjacent dielectric resonators. In this way, a quantity of first through-holes may be set to adapt to a requirement of the dielectric filter for the high-order harmonic wave frequency.
In a possible design, the dielectric filter may be, but is not limited to, a TEM-type dielectric filter, or the like.
According to a second aspect, this application provides a communications device, where the communications device includes the foregoing dielectric filter. The communications device may include but is not limited to a base station, a terminal device, or the like.
The following further describes in detail this application with reference to accompanying drawings.
Embodiments of this application provide a dielectric filter and a communications device, to solve a problem in the prior art that a dielectric filter causes a decrease in a high-order harmonic wave frequency and a poor remote suppression capability, and specification requirements cannot be met.
In the description of this application, terms such as “first” and “second” are merely used for distinction and description, and shall not be understood as an indication or implication of relative importance or an indication or implication of an order.
It is well known that, in systems such as a communications system, a communications device such as a base station and a terminal device includes a filter. Currently, a dielectric filter is usually used to meet the requirements of low-cost and miniaturization. The dielectric filter includes at least two dielectric resonators, and the at least two dielectric resonators are in a sequential coupling arrangement. In practice, because of a coupling between the at least two dielectric resonators in the dielectric filter, a magnetic field in the dielectric filter is distributed in a range including all the dielectric resonators, which causes a decrease in a high-order harmonic wave frequency and deteriorates a remote suppression capability. Currently, in specific implementation, an additional low-pass filter is added to work with the dielectric filter, to meet a requirement for the high-order harmonic wave frequency. Based on this, a dielectric filter and a communications device are designed in the embodiments of this application, so that a magnetic field generated in the designed dielectric filter is cut, thereby improving a high-order harmonic wave frequency and a remote suppression capability. Further, the base station and the terminal device that include the designed dielectric filter can better meet user requirements in a communication process, thereby improving user experience. In addition, the dielectric filter designed in the embodiments of this application is easy to implement and has a simple structure, and therefore has strong practicability. In this way, the additional low-pass filter is no longer required. Only the dielectric filter provided by the embodiments of this application is used, thereby reducing costs.
To describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of this application more clearly, the following describes in detail, with reference to the accompanying drawings, the dielectric filter and the communications device provided in the embodiments of this application.
This embodiment of this application provides a dielectric filter. As shown in a schematic structural diagram of the dielectric filter shown in
It should be noted that, in the dielectric filter shown in
Specifically, the first through-hole is disposed between the at least one pair of adjacent dielectric resonators, so that the first through-hole cuts a magnetic field generated between the pair of adjacent dielectric resonators. For example,
In an optional implementation, the first through-hole penetrates the dielectric filter, one opening of the first through-hole is located on a first surface and the other opening is located on a second surface; and the first surface and the second surface are respectively side surfaces on two sides of an arrangement direction of the at least two resonators in the dielectric filter. In this way, the first through-hole can cut a magnetic field between the pair of adjacent dielectric resonators.
For example, the first through-hole 1 in
It should be noted that
It should be noted that the foregoing listed existence forms of the dielectric filter are regular polyhedrons. In practice, the dielectric filter may also be irregular polyhedrons, that is, a quantity of side surfaces of the first side is different from a quantity of side surfaces of the second side, or a side surface is concave or convex, and the like. However, it only needs to be ensured that the two openings are located on any side surfaces of the two sides of the arrangement direction of the at least two dielectric resonators. Specifically, details are not listed one by one herein this application.
In an optional implementation, one or more first through-holes are disposed between at least one pair of adjacent dielectric resonators.
In the optional implementation, the first through-hole may be but is not limited to a straight-through hole, a bent-through hole, an irregular through-hole, or the like. In an optional implementation, when there are a plurality of first through-holes between the pair of adjacent dielectric resonators, some of the plurality of first through-holes may be straight-through holes, some may be bent-through holes, some may be irregular through-holes, or the like. Alternatively, all of the plurality of first through-holes may be straight-through holes, bent-through holes, irregular through-holes, or the like. This is not limited in this application.
In a possible implementation, the first through-hole is in communication with a through-hole group, and the through-hole group includes one or more second through-holes; and openings of all the second through-holes are located on a side surface close to the top or bottom of the at least two dielectric resonators in the dielectric filter. For example, in the schematic structural diagram of the dielectric filter shown in
In an optional implementation, when there are a plurality of first through-holes between a pair of adjacent dielectric resonators, each first through-hole may be in communication with a through-hole group, that is, each first through-hole may be in communication with at least one second through-hole. For example,
In an optional implementation, when there are a plurality of first through-holes between a pair of adjacent dielectric resonators, a connection relationship between the plurality of first through-holes and at least one second through-hole may alternatively be shown in
In an optional implementation, when there are a plurality of first through-holes between a pair of adjacent dielectric filters, some first through-holes in the plurality of first through-holes may be in communication with a through-hole group, and the remaining first through-holes are not in communication with a through-hole group. In another optional implementation, when a first through-hole is disposed between a plurality of pairs of adjacent dielectric resonators, first through-holes between some pairs of adjacent dielectric resonators may be in communication with a through-hole group, and first through-holes of the other several pairs of adjacent dielectric resonators are not in communication with a through-hole group. This is not limited in this application.
The first through-hole is in communication with the through-hole via the through-hole group, so that a magnetic field cutting capability is stronger than that when only the first through-hole is disposed, and the high-order harmonic wave frequency can be further increased.
In a possible design, at least one non-through hole is disposed on a first through-hole, and a non-through hole is in communication with a second through-hole. For example, in a schematic structural diagram of a dielectric filter shown in
In an optional implementation, when a through-hole group in communication with a first through-hole includes a plurality of second through-holes, a quantity of at least one non-through hole disposed on the first through-hole may be less than or equal to a quantity of the plurality of second through-holes. To be specific, when the quantity of the at least one non-through hole is equal to the quantity of the second through-holes, each second through-hole in the plurality of second through-holes is in communication with one non-through hole; when the quantity of the at least one non-through hole is less than the quantity of the second through-holes, each second through-hole of some (a quantity of these second through-holes is equal to a quantity of non-through holes) of the plurality of second through-holes is separately in communication with a non-through hole, and the other second through-holes are not in communication with a non-through hole.
In an optional implementation, when there are a plurality of first through-holes between at least one pair of adjacent dielectric resonators, and at least one second through-hole is in communication with each of the plurality of first through-holes, a relationship among the first through-holes, the second through-holes, and the non-through holes may be as shown in schematic diagrams of the dielectric filter shown in
In an optional implementation, each non-through hole in communication with a second through-hole may be considered as a case in which the second through-hole continues to penetrate the first through-hole after being connected to the first through-hole but does not reach a side surface of the dielectric filter, that is, the non-through hole may be considered as a part of the second through-hole.
In an optional implementation, the at least one first through-hole, the at least one second through-hole, and the at least one non-through hole may be coated with metal materials. The metal materials may be the same or may be different from each other. This is not limited in this application. Optionally, the metal materials may be silver, copper, or the like.
In an optional implementation, the dielectric filter may be a TEM-type dielectric filter. For example,
It should be noted that in the schematic diagram of the dielectric filter shown in the embodiments of this application, the first through-hole, the second through-hole, and the non-through hole are all shown in circular holes as an example. It should be understood that this is merely an example. Optionally, the first through-hole, the second through-hole, and the non-through hole may all be square holes, step holes, irregular holes, or the like. This is not limited in this application. The step holes are formed by cascading holes with different diameters. It should be understood that, in the schematic diagram of the dielectric filter shown in the embodiments of this application, circular holes in the first through-hole, the second through-hole, and the non-through hole may be replaced with holes of any shapes such as square holes, step holes, and irregular shape holes. Details are not shown in this application.
Similarly, it should be noted that the dielectric resonators in the dielectric filter shown in the embodiments of this application are all shown as cylinders, and this is merely an example. The dielectric resonators are not limited to be cylinders, and may be in any other shape.
According to the dielectric filter provided in the embodiments of this application, because a first through-hole is disposed between at least one pair of adjacent dielectric resonators to cut a magnetic field between the adjacent dielectric resonators, a high-order harmonic frequency and a remote suppression capability can be improved. Therefore, the dielectric filter provided in the embodiments of this application meets the specification requirements, and no additional low-pass filter needs to be used to work with the dielectric filter to meet the specification requirements. In this way, unnecessary loss can be avoided, and costs can be reduced. The dielectric filter structure designed by the embodiments of this application is simple and easy to implement, so it is very practical.
Based on the foregoing embodiments, this embodiment of this application also provides a communications device, where the communications device includes the dielectric filter described in the foregoing embodiments. For a detailed description of the dielectric filter, refer to the foregoing embodiments. Details are not described herein again. In an optional implementation, the communications device may be but is not limited to a base station, a terminal device, or the like.
Based on the foregoing embodiments, the high-order harmonic wave frequencies corresponding to the dielectric filter (a communications device) shown in
Table 1 briefly describes the high-order harmonic wave frequency corresponding to the existing dielectric filter, the dielectric filter provided by the embodiment of this application shown in
Further, it may be further learned from Table 1 that the high-order harmonic wave frequency generated by using the dielectric filter provided by the embodiment of this application shown in
Although some preferred embodiments of the present application have been described, a person skilled in the art can make changes and modifications to these embodiments once they learn the basic inventive concept. Therefore, the following claims are intended to be construed as to cover the preferred embodiments and all changes and modifications falling within the scope of this application.
Obviously, a person skilled in the art can make various modifications and variations to embodiments of this application without departing from the scope of this application. This application is intended to cover these modifications and variations provided that they fall within the scope of protection defined by the following claims and their equivalent technologies.
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