A new concept of changing inductance values has been proposed, where a part of meander inductor is short circuited to reduce effective line length. Microwave characteristics of the short-circuited meander inductors and the meander inductor without the short circuit have been designed and fabricated on resin circuit boards. The reduction of inductance values by 40% has been successfully realized for the microwave frequency range from 0.5 GHz to 5 GHz for both designed and measured results. Using the proposed structure, low pass filters having two different cut-off frequencies have been designed and tested. Measured cut-off frequency changed 3.0 GHz to 4.2 GHz.