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US00 7567154B2 ° az United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 7,567,154 B2 Elmore (45) Date of Patent: Jul. 28, 2009 (54) SURFACE WAVE…
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US 7,567,154 B2 1 SURFACE WAVE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM OVER A SINGLE CONDUCTOR HAVING E-FIELDS TERMINATING ALONG THE CONDUCTOR CROSS REFERENCES…
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US 7,567,154 B2 3 electric power grid. This described replacing one of the exist- ing power conductors with a special fabricated conductor,…
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US 7,567,154 B2 5 FIG. 5C is a schematic view showing a “reverse-horn” type mode converter with a flare half-angle between 90 and 180…
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US 7,567,154 B2 7 is very nearly unity. In the region far from the launchers where E-field lines terminate only on the SWTL, the line is…
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US 7,567,154 B2 9 at this frequency is poor, but the plot of GAmax 92 shows the relatively constant underlying SWTL attenuation achievable…
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US 7,567,154 B2 11 “Reverse Horn” Mode Converter with Flare Half-Angle between 90 degrees and 180 degrees: Mode converters with flare…
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U.S. Patent Jul. 28, 2009 Sheet 1 of 12 US 7,567,154 B2 32 FIG. 2A FIG. 2B
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US 7,567,154 B2 13 to reduce the sudden discontinuity of line impedance and increase symmetry of the E-fields in the region close to the…
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US 7,567,154 B2 15 provide power distribution wherein power from two different SWTLs is combined as shown in FIG. 9B. FIG. 10 shows one…
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US 7,567,154 B2 17 wherein the transmitted wave is of frequency less than 5 GHz; wherein in regions removed from said first and second…
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U.S. Patent Jul. 28, 2009 Sheet 3 of 12 US 7,567,154 B2 ® 30 or FIG. 5A i 36 8 % a Impedance Maiching FIG. 5C
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U.S. Patent Jul. 28, 2009 Sheet 6 of 12 US 7,567,154 B2 10 FIG. 8B
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