DEVICE FOR CONVERTING AN ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTO DC VOLTAGE

• US 20100141051A1
• Filed: 05/11/2007
• Published: 06/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, École centrale de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
• Original Assignee: Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, École centrale de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
• Inventors: Vollaire, Christian
• Application Number:
  US12/300,600
• Publication Number:
  US 20100141051A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 307/151
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/248 provided with an AC/DC converting device, e.g. rectennas
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/20 using microwaves or radio frequency waves
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/27 characterised by the type of receiving antennas, e.g. rectennas
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/40 using two or more transmitting or receiving devices H02J50/50 takes precedence

Abstract

The invention relates to a device (1) for converting an electromagnetic wave (11) into a DC voltage, comprising: —at least one antenna (3) suitable for converting said electromagnetic wave (11) into an input electrical signal;—a first filter (4) suitable for filtering said input electrical signal and generating a filtered signal;—a full-wave rectifier (5) suitable for rectifying said filtered signal and generating an output voltage;—a second filter (6) suitable for filtering said output voltage so as to generate said DC voltage, in which the first filter (4) and the second filter (6) are arranged so as to comply with a concatenation of current and voltage sources through the rectifier (5).

Claims

1. A device for converting an electromagnetic wave into a DC voltage, comprising:

at least one antenna able to convert the said electromagnetic wave into an input electrical signal;

a first filter able to filter the said input electrical signal and generate a filtered signal;

a full-wave rectifier able to rectify the said filtered signal and generate an output voltage;

a second filter able to filter the said output voltage so as to generate the said DC voltage,

in which the first filter and the second filter are arranged so as to respect a concatenation of these sources in terms of current and voltage through the rectifier.

2. A device according to claim 1, in which the rectifier is a direct rectifier and in which the first filter is a voltage generator seen from the rectifier and the second filter is a current generator seen from the rectifier.

3. A device according to claim 1, in which the rectifier is a direct rectifier, and in which the first filter is a current generator seen from the rectifier and the second filter is a voltage generator seen from the rectifier.

4. A device according to claims 1, 2, or 3, in which the electromagnetic wave is a wave in the microwave range and in which the antenna is arranged to convert the microwave wave.

5. A device according to claims 1, 2, or 3, in which the rectifier is solely composed of switching diodes.

6. Electrical equipment comprising a device for converting an electromagnetic wave into a DC voltage according to any one of the preceding claims, and a load, the said load able to be supplied by the said DC voltage, and the said first filter, the said rectifier, the said second filter and the said load form a returned assembly connected to the said antenna, the said returned assembly having a returned impedance, the said antenna having an antenna impedance, the said returned assembly being sized so that the said returned impedance is equal to the said antenna impedance.