This paper presents a method for extracting the coupling matrix and the unloaded Q from the measured (or electromagnetic simulated) S-parameters of a narrow band cross-coupled resonator bandpass filter with losses. The Cauchy method is applied to determine the characteristic polynomials of the S-parameters of a filter in the normalized low-pass frequency domain. A five-parameter optimization me...

STUDY OBJECTIVE A disposable barrier filter (Pall Biomedical, United Kingdom) was developed to prevent the contamination of lung function equipment in clinical use. The aims of this study were to examine its resistance characteristics and to determine the effect of the filter on clinical measurements of lung function. MEASUREMENTS Twenty-one randomly selected patients and four normal subjects...

an air filter is a significant element of any mechanical ventilation system. however, the importance and performance evaluation of air filters have not been well publicized and related scientific reports are scarce. in this study, a transportable, off-line, air filter-testing unit (the unit) was designed and utilized to simulate the filter housing of a mechanical ventilation system. the unit wa...

In recent years, the Takagi–Sugeno (T–S) fuzzy model has been commonly used for the approximation of nonlinear systems. Using the T-S fuzzy model, nonlinear systems can be converted into linear time-varying systems, which can reduce approximation errors compared with the conventional Taylor approximation. In this paper, we propose a new nonlinear filter with a finite impulse response (FIR) stru...

This paper presents a single current controlled current conveyor trans-conductance amplifier (CCCCTA)based multi-input single output (MISO) voltage-mode universal biquad filter. The proposed filter employs only single CCCCTA, two capacitors and one permanently grounded resistor. The proposed filter realizes all the standard filter functions i.e. low pass (LP), band pass (BP) and high pass (HP),...