Patent ID: 6667671
Filing Date: 2003-12-23
Classification: H01P

Abstract:
A waveguide switch comprising:waveguide terminal pairs; an electrically conducting movable element including a septum; and a stator having a gap, the stator further having waveguide paths between the waveguide terminal pairs, the waveguide paths being formed as a contoured non-planar bend, the septum being situated in the gap of the stator and extending in at least one of the waveguide paths, each of the waveguide paths being switchable to conducting or nonconducting via the septum for high-frequency waves, the at least one waveguide path switching to nonconducting, in parallel to an E plane, dividing the waveguide path into two partial waveguides, the two partial waveguides running in parallel with one another and, in comparison with a switched-to-conducting state of the waveguide path, having smaller cut-off wavelengths.