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  • the present invention relates to an impedance matching device and more particularly to a balun for matching an unbalanced transmission line to either a balanced transmission line or a balanced antenna.
  • the present invention is of special use for the connection of a balanced antenna to the unbalanced input of a television receiver.
  • T.V. antennas use a hand wound balun transformer and a 75 ohm coax cable between the standard 300 ohm dipole antenna and 75 ohm tuner input.
  • the voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) of this interconnection should be less than 2 to 1 over a frequency range of 54 to 216 megahertz.
  • VSWR voltage standing wave ratio
  • transmission line baluns at frequencies where the electrical length is an odd multiple of a quarter wave length. In order to make these transmission line baluns wide band, they had to be coiled to isolate input from output at frequencies of other than odd multiples of quarter wave length. The necessity to coil the transmission line makes this type of arrangement impractical for T.V. applications.
  • the present invention provides a simple and economical transmission line balun for coupling an antenna to a television tuner input.
  • the subject transmission line balun includes a pair of flexible transmission lines formed by first and second circuits which are located on opposite sides of a flexible insulator substrate strip.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an example of a prior art balun transformer assembly
  • FIG. 2 is a shortened plan view of a first embodiment
  • FIG. 5 is a shortened plan view of a third embodiment of the subject transmission line balun.
  • balun transformer assembly 10 shown in FIG. 1, includes a handwound transformer 12 having a rather bulky and heavy ferrite core 14.
  • a coaxial cable 16 is used to connect the balun to a tuner (not shown).
  • Capristors '18 which include a parallel circuit of a resistor, a capacitor and a spark gap, are
  • the subject transmission line balun will be discussed with reference to a particular exemplary use, namely, for television receivers.
  • the embodiment shown in FIG. 2 includes a flexible substrate 20, such as Mylar, having one circuit 22 formed on one side and another circuit 24 formed on the opposite side thereof. Both circuits are preferably formed on the substrate in the same fashion by one of the well known techniques, such as etching or printing.
  • the one circuit 22 includes terminals 26, 28 and 30, and is preferably used as the ground line, while the other circuit 24 includes terminals 32, 34 and 36.
  • Thesecircuits form two transmission lines.
  • the first transmission line includes terminals 26, 30, 32 and 36.
  • the second transmission line includes terminals 28, 30, 34 and 36. Each of these lines has a characteristic impedance Z,,.
  • the lines are connected in parallel at terminals 30, 36 and connected in series at terminals 26, 28, 32, 34.
  • terminals 30, 36 are connected to a television tuner input having an impedance of Z
  • terminals 28, 32 areconnected to an antenna having an impedance of 2 Z both connections being made by means which are not shown.
  • the length of the transmission line formed as shown in FIG. 2 is such that at any operating frequency the electrical length is not equal to one half wave length. or multiple thereof. This may be accomplished by a straight section, as shown, or by meandering the lines (see FIG. 5) if a more compact form is required. The'reason for this length requirement will become obvious in the following discussion.
  • the subject balun is shown-with terminals 28, 32 connected to a 300 ohm balanced output from an antenna (not shown) and terminals 30, 36 connected to a ohm unbalanced tuner input (also not shown).
  • the circuit as seen from the antenna input end 28, 32, consists of conductors 38 and 40, which form a first transmission line 42 having a designed characteristic impedance Z, equal to 150 ohms, connected in series with conductors 44 and 46, which form a second transmission line 48 also having a designed characteristic impedance Z equal to 150 ohms.
  • Conductors 40 and 46 are connected together by conductor 50 to form a shorted transmission line 52 having a characteristic impedance Z,
  • the shorted transmission line 52 by way of terminals 26, 34, is in parallel with the second transmission line 48.
  • Z Z and Z are the impedances seen at the input to lines 42, 48 and 52 respectively.
  • the balun input impedance, Z,,., seen across antenna connections 28, 32 will be:
  • Z, should be equal to 300 ohms. This can be realized by making Z large compared to Z for then Z, equals Z equals Z, ohms, and
  • the input impedance, Z of the shorted transmission line 52 is:
  • I is the line electrical length
  • Z is the characteristic'impedanc'e of the line.
  • the line lengths and the characterisitc impedance, Z must be designed such that 2 does not appreciably shunt line 48 at any frequency within this 4 to 1 range.
  • the minimum value of Z, as observed at the frequency extremes of 54 and 216 megahertz will be +j.73 Z and -j.73 Z ohms respectively.
  • Z is designed to be much larger than 2,, say [000 ohms, we would expect the balun to perform with a low value of voltage standing wave ratio from 54 to 216 megahertz.
  • a sample line constructed with these design criteria did, in fact, operate from 34 megahertz to 248 megahertz with a voltage standing wave ratio less than 1.5 to I. This is well within the TV. receiver voltage standing wave ratio requirement of 2 to 1 over the frequency range of 54 to 216 megahertz.
  • Further voltage standing wave ratio improvement can be realized by increasing the loss in the medium which the energy in line 52 propagates. This is accomplished by alternate plating of copper and permalloy, each to a thickness greater than a skin depth at the lowest frequency, on conductors 40, 46 and folding the lines such that the permalloy surfaces are adjacent.
  • the advantage of this provided that high enough loss at the lowest frequency of interest is realized, is that reflections due to the short will not appear at the input and Z, of line 52 will be equal to Z and not a function of serted into television receivers of different sizes and simply stretched or compressed as needed to make the requisite antenna to tuner connections.
  • a capristor may be used in conjunction with the present invention either as separate components or, when conditions such as space and component values permit, they can a be deposited directly on the flexible substrate. All of the portions of a capristor can be fabricated on a flexible substrate, such as Mylar, by known techniques.
  • the second embodiment of the subject transmission line balun differs from the first embodiment in that the first circuit 22 is formed with a pair of single conductors rather than split conductors.
  • the split conductor first embodiment provides improved shielding and is prefered when this is a criteria in addition to a low voltage standing wave ratio.
  • the first circuit 22 is formed with a pair of single conductors rather than split conductors.
  • the split conductor first embodiment provides improved shielding and is prefered when this is a criteria in addition to a low voltage standing wave ratio.
  • the split conductor first embodiment provides improved shielding and is prefered when this is a criteria in addition to a low voltage standing wave ratio.
  • single conductor second embodiment provides the desired good impedance matching.
  • the third embodiment shown in FlG. 5 uses split conductors for the first circuit 22 and also has both circuits folded upon themselves to shorten the overall length of the transmission line balun.
  • a further modification (not shown) of this folded embodiment has the two conduc tors of the second circuit 24 following meandering paths extending substantially normal to each other.
  • An improved transmission line balun for providing an impedance transition over a desired operatingrange of frequencies comprising in combination:
  • first circuit formed on a first side of said substrate extending from one end of said substrate to the opposite end thereof, said first circuit including two conductors connected together adjacent one end of said substrate; and second circuit formed on the second side of said substrate extending from one end of said substrate to the opposite end thereof, said second circuit including first and second conductors each of which is so positioned as to lie parallel to a respective conductor of said first circuit and being connected together adjacent said one end of said substrate, said conductors of said first and second circuits forming a pair of transmission lines, said first and second circuits having an electrical length which is not equal to one half wave length or multiple thereof at any operating frequency.
  • each of the conductors of said second circuit are split into two parallel portions so positioned on said substrate that the respective conductors of said first circuit fall between the parallel portions of said second circuit.
  • balun is preformed into an accordian configuration hereby it may be stretched and com pressed as needed in order to effect the desired connectrons.
  • each of said circuits is formed by alternate plating of copper and permalloy each to a thickness greater than a skin depth at the lowest operating frequency

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A flexible printed transmission line balun is disclosed to replace the coaxial cable and relatively expensive hand wound balun coil currently used in T.V. receivers. The present transmission line balun includes a first circuit disposed on one side of a flexible insulator substrate and a second circuit disposed on the opposite side of the substrate. Both circuits are formed on the substrate by conventional means which include etching and printing techniques.

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Fritz et al. Nov. 5, 1974 [54] TRANSMISSION LINE BALUN 3,222,602 aasszzjbgi fit al. 33243721;
,41 00 war v [75] Inventors: ggm'g wgg g gfif i 3,764,727 10/1973 Balde 333/84 M x Harrisburg, both of Pa. P E P l L G l 73 Assignee: AMP Incorporated, Harrisburg, Pa. xammer ens er [22] Filed: Aug. 8, 1973 [57] ABSTRACT [21] Appl. No.: 386,812 A flexible printed transmission line balun is disclosed to replace the coaxial cable and relatively expensive hand wound balun coil currently used in T.V. receiv- [58] Fie'ld 4/68p5 F 117 FF ers. The present transmission line balun includes a 174/1 17 6533 84 84 M 5 first circuit disposed on one side of a flexible insulator 1 7 substrate and a second circuit disposed on the opposite side of the substrate. Both circuits are formed on the substrate by conventional means which include [56] g gif 'fzl etching and printing techniques. 3,432,775 3/l969 Duttamel 333/11 12 Claims, 5 Drawing Figures 32 A I ll l Z1 26 ro 42 Zo=l50n Zin=300n Z 52 Zout=75n 46 l 28 3O 2 34 48 Zo=|50n TRANSMISSION LINE BALUN BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. The Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an impedance matching device and more particularly to a balun for matching an unbalanced transmission line to either a balanced transmission line or a balanced antenna. The present invention is of special use for the connection of a balanced antenna to the unbalanced input of a television receiver.
2. The Prior Art Most of the present T.V. antennas use a hand wound balun transformer and a 75 ohm coax cable between the standard 300 ohm dipole antenna and 75 ohm tuner input. The voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) of this interconnection should be less than 2 to 1 over a frequency range of 54 to 216 megahertz. It has been known to employ transmission line baluns at frequencies where the electrical length is an odd multiple of a quarter wave length. In order to make these transmission line baluns wide band, they had to be coiled to isolate input from output at frequencies of other than odd multiples of quarter wave length. The necessity to coil the transmission line makes this type of arrangement impractical for T.V. applications.
A representative example of the prior art is U.S. Pat.
no. 2,865,006 which discloses, with reference to FIG. 5, an impedance matching transformer for coupling a 300 ohm antenna line to a 75 ohm input. While this is electrically similar to the results achieved by the present invention, the patented device requires the use of a ferrite core which is both bulky and heavy. Further examples of such prior art devices may be found in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,025,480 and 3,686,594.
There are many prior art devices which have the form of a strip line and are used to replace rather bulky transformers, couplers, etc. Examples of such known strip line devices may be found in U.S. Pat. Nos; 3,516,024; 3,626,332; 3,678,418 and 3,729,694. Pat. No. 3,678,418 is of particular interest since it discloses a printed circuit balun in which first and second circuits are formed on opposite sides of a dielectric substrate. However, the geometry of the two circuits is rather complex and bulky.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a simple and economical transmission line balun for coupling an antenna to a television tuner input. The subject transmission line balun includes a pair of flexible transmission lines formed by first and second circuits which are located on opposite sides of a flexible insulator substrate strip.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to teach a method for connecting a dipole antenna to a television input tuner without requiring bulky and ex- It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a transmission line balun which may be readily and economically produced.
The means for accomplishing the foregoing and other objects of the invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art from the following description taken with reference to the accompanying drawings.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an example of a prior art balun transformer assembly;
FIG. 2 is a shortened plan view of a first embodiment FIG. 5 is a shortened plan view of a third embodiment of the subject transmission line balun.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT The example of a known balun transformer assembly 10, shown in FIG. 1, includes a handwound transformer 12 having a rather bulky and heavy ferrite core 14. A coaxial cable 16 is used to connect the balun to a tuner (not shown). Capristors '18, which include a parallel circuit of a resistor, a capacitor and a spark gap, are
also included in this assembly.
The subject transmission line balun will be discussed with reference to a particular exemplary use, namely, for television receivers. The embodiment shown in FIG. 2 includes a flexible substrate 20, such as Mylar, having one circuit 22 formed on one side and another circuit 24 formed on the opposite side thereof. Both circuits are preferably formed on the substrate in the same fashion by one of the well known techniques, such as etching or printing. The one circuit 22 includes terminals 26, 28 and 30, and is preferably used as the ground line, while the other circuit 24 includes terminals 32, 34 and 36. Thesecircuits form two transmission lines. The first transmission line includes terminals 26, 30, 32 and 36. The second transmission line includes terminals 28, 30, 34 and 36. Each of these lines has a characteristic impedance Z,,. When the subject balun is used with a balanced source or load of impedance 2 Z,,, the lines are connected in parallel at terminals 30, 36 and connected in series at terminals 26, 28, 32, 34. In the particular use cited, terminals 30, 36 are connected to a television tuner input having an impedance of Z,,/2 and terminals 28, 32 areconnected to an antenna having an impedance of 2 Z both connections being made by means which are not shown. The length of the transmission line formed as shown in FIG. 2 is such that at any operating frequency the electrical length is not equal to one half wave length. or multiple thereof. This may be accomplished by a straight section, as shown, or by meandering the lines (see FIG. 5) if a more compact form is required. The'reason for this length requirement will become obvious in the following discussion.
Referring now to the schematic diagram of FIG. 3, the subject balun is shown-with terminals 28, 32 connected to a 300 ohm balanced output from an antenna (not shown) and terminals 30, 36 connected to a ohm unbalanced tuner input (also not shown). The circuit, as seen from the antenna input end 28, 32,, consists of conductors 38 and 40, which form a first transmission line 42 having a designed characteristic impedance Z, equal to 150 ohms, connected in series with conductors 44 and 46, which form a second transmission line 48 also having a designed characteristic impedance Z equal to 150 ohms. Conductors 40 and 46 are connected together by conductor 50 to form a shorted transmission line 52 having a characteristic impedance Z,, The shorted transmission line 52, by way of terminals 26, 34, is in parallel with the second transmission line 48. Z Z and Z, are the impedances seen at the input to lines 42, 48 and 52 respectively. The balun input impedance, Z,,., seen across antenna connections 28, 32 will be:
Ideally, for proper matching of the 300 ohm antenna, Z,,, should be equal to 300 ohms. This can be realized by making Z large compared to Z for then Z, equals Z equals Z, ohms, and
The input impedance, Z of the shorted transmission line 52 is:
where A is wavelength,
I is the line electrical length, and
Z is the characteristic'impedanc'e of the line.
When I is equal to zero, a half wave length or any multiple of a half wavelength, Z will be zero and transmission line 48 will be shorted at its input regardless of the value of Z,, This will result in a large mismatch and, therefore, we see the reason for the requirement that the line lengths must not be equal to any multiple of one-half wavelength for any frequency within the desired operating range.
For the balun to present a reasonable match to the antenna from 54 to 2 l 6 megahertz, the line lengths and the characterisitc impedance, Z,, must be designed such that 2 does not appreciably shunt line 48 at any frequency within this 4 to 1 range. As an example, ifthe lines are one-tenth of a wavelength long at the lower frequency, the minimum value of Z, as observed at the frequency extremes of 54 and 216 megahertz will be +j.73 Z and -j.73 Z ohms respectively. Accordingly, if Z is designed to be much larger than 2,, say [000 ohms, we would expect the balun to perform with a low value of voltage standing wave ratio from 54 to 216 megahertz. A sample line constructed with these design criteria did, in fact, operate from 34 megahertz to 248 megahertz with a voltage standing wave ratio less than 1.5 to I. This is well within the TV. receiver voltage standing wave ratio requirement of 2 to 1 over the frequency range of 54 to 216 megahertz.
Further voltage standing wave ratio improvement can be realized by increasing the loss in the medium which the energy in line 52 propagates. This is accomplished by alternate plating of copper and permalloy, each to a thickness greater than a skin depth at the lowest frequency, on conductors 40, 46 and folding the lines such that the permalloy surfaces are adjacent. The advantage of this, provided that high enough loss at the lowest frequency of interest is realized, is that reflections due to the short will not appear at the input and Z, of line 52 will be equal to Z and not a function of serted into television receivers of different sizes and simply stretched or compressed as needed to make the requisite antenna to tuner connections.
Capristors, such as those shown in FIG. 1 and including a spark gap, a capacitor and a resistor in parallel,
may be used in conjunction with the present invention either as separate components or, when conditions such as space and component values permit, they can a be deposited directly on the flexible substrate. All of the portions of a capristor can be fabricated on a flexible substrate, such as Mylar, by known techniques.
The second embodiment of the subject transmission line balun, see FIG. 4, differs from the first embodiment in that the first circuit 22 is formed with a pair of single conductors rather than split conductors. The split conductor first embodiment provides improved shielding and is prefered when this is a criteria in addition to a low voltage standing wave ratio. However, the
single conductor second embodiment provides the desired good impedance matching.
The third embodiment shown in FlG. 5 uses split conductors for the first circuit 22 and also has both circuits folded upon themselves to shorten the overall length of the transmission line balun. A further modification (not shown) of this folded embodiment has the two conduc tors of the second circuit 24 following meandering paths extending substantially normal to each other.
The present invention as has been described with reference to a single embodiment which should be considered as illustrative only and not restrictive. Many modifications and variations may be made to the subject invention without departing from the spirit or'essential characteristics thereof.
What is claimed is:
1. An improved transmission line balun for providing an impedance transition over a desired operatingrange of frequencies comprising in combination:
-a flexible substrate having two substantially parallel spaced side portions;
a first circuit formed on a first side of said substrate extending from one end of said substrate to the opposite end thereof, said first circuit including two conductors connected together adjacent one end of said substrate; and second circuit formed on the second side of said substrate extending from one end of said substrate to the opposite end thereof, said second circuit including first and second conductors each of which is so positioned as to lie parallel to a respective conductor of said first circuit and being connected together adjacent said one end of said substrate, said conductors of said first and second circuits forming a pair of transmission lines, said first and second circuits having an electrical length which is not equal to one half wave length or multiple thereof at any operating frequency.
2. An improved transmission line balun according to claim 1 wherein said substrate is formed of Mylar.
3. An improved transmission line balun according to claim 1 wherein said first and second circuits are substantially rectilinear.
4. An improved transmission line balun according to claim 1 wherein the two conductors of said first circuit are parallel.
5. An improved transmission line balun according to claim 1 wherein each of the conductors of said second circuit are split into two parallel portions so positioned on said substrate that the respective conductors of said first circuit fall between the parallel portions of said second circuit.
6. An improved transmission line balun according to claim 1 wherein said first and second circuits follow a meandering course on said substrate.
7. An improved transmission line balun according to claim 1 wherein said balun is preformed into an accordian configuration hereby it may be stretched and com pressed as needed in order to effect the desired connectrons.
8. An improved transmission line balun according to claim 1 wherein the flexible substrate is Mylar, and the operating frequency range is 54 to 216 megahertz and the length of the circuits is 21 inches.
9. An improved transmission line balun according to claim 1 wherein each of said circuits is formed by alternate plating of copper and permalloy each to a thickness greater than a skin depth at the lowest operating frequency, and
folding the balun such that the permalloy surfaces are adjacent. 4
10. An improved transmission line balun according to claim 1 wherein one of said circuits is a ground circurt.
11. An improved transmission line balun according said substrate along with said circuits.

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1. An improved transmission line balun for providing an impedance transition over a desired operating range of frequencies comprising in combination: a flexible substrate having two substantially parallel spaced side portions; a first circuit formed on a first side of said substrate extending from one end of said substrate to the opposite end thereof, said first circuit including two conductors connected together adjacent one end of said substrate; and a second circuit formed on the second side of said substrate extending from one end of said substrate to the opposite end thereof, said second circuit including first and second conductors each of which is so positioned as to lie parallel to a respective conductor of said first circuit and being connected together adjacent said one end of said substrate, said conductors of said first and second circuits forming a pair of transmission lines, said first and second circuits having an electrical length which is not equal to one half wave length or multiple thereof at any operating frequency.
2. An improved transmission line balun according to claim 1 wherein said substrate is formed of Mylar.
3. An improved transmission line balun according to claim 1 wherein said first and second circuits are substantially rectilinear.
4. An improved transmission line balun according to claim 1 wherein the two conductors of said first circuit are parallel.
5. An improved transmission line balun according to claim 1 wherein each of the conductors of said second circuit are split into two parallel portions so positioned on said substrate that the respective conductors of said first circuit fall between the parallel portions of said second circuit.
6. An improved transmission line balun according to claim 1 wherein said first and second circuits follow a meandering course on said substrate.
7. An improved transmission line balun according to claim 1 wherein said balun is preformed into an accordian configuration hereby it may be stretched and compressed as needed in order to effect the desired connections.
8. An improved transmission line balun according to claim 1 wherein the flexible substrate is Mylar, and the operating frequency range is 54 to 216 megahertz and the length of the circuits is 21 inches.
9. An improved transmission line balun according to claim 1 wherein each of said circuits is formed by alternate plating of copper and permalloy each to a thickness greater than a skin depth at the lowest operating frequency, and folding the balun such that the permalloy surfaces are adjacent.
10. An improved transmission line balun according to claim 1 wherein one of said circuits is a ground circuit.
11. An improved transmission line balun according to claim 1 further comprising capristor means connected in series with each of said transmission lines.
12. An improved transmission line balun according to claim 11 wherein said capristor means are formed on said substrate along with said circuits.
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