US 12,148,975 B2
Coupler module
Daisuke Tokuda, Kyoto (JP); Hiromichi Kitajima, Kyoto (JP); and Hisanori Murase, Kyoto (JP)
Assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Kyoto (JP)
Filed by Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Kyoto (JP)
Filed on Apr. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/227,813.
Application 17/227,813 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2019/049153, filed on Dec. 16, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-236106 (JP), filed on Dec. 18, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0234247 A1, Jul. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. H01P 5/18 (2006.01)
CPC H01P 5/18 (2013.01) 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A coupler module having a first component and a second component mounted on a substrate,
wherein the first component includes a directional coupler having a main line and an auxiliary line,
wherein the second component includes an external circuit for processing a signal flowing into the main line or the auxiliary line, and a plurality of first signal terminals being input and output terminals of the external circuit for the signal, and
wherein, when viewed in plan view, the plurality of first signal terminals are arranged in a first portion, the first portion being one of two divided portions of the second component and being farther from the first component, wherein the plurality of first signal terminals are connected to a top surface of the substrate,
wherein, when viewed in plan view, the second component has a rectangular shape having a long side belonging to the first portion, and at least two of the plurality of first signal terminals are arranged at two end portions of the long side.