Compensating Conductive Circuit

• US 20110036617A1
• Filed: 08/03/2007
• Published: 02/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Leonid Kokurin
• Original Assignee: Leonid Kokurin
• Inventors: Kokurin, Leonid
• Application Number:
  US11/833,617
• Publication Number:
  US 20110036617A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 174/250
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 3/28 Reducing interference caused by currents induced in cable sheathing or armouring
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/0228 Compensation of cross-talk by a mutually correlated lay-out of printed circuit traces, e.g. for compensation of cross-talk in mounted connectors balanced signal pairs H05K1/0245
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/0242 Structural details of individual signal conductors, e.g. related to the skin effect
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/025 Impedance arrangements, e.g. impedance matching, reduction of parasitic impedance H05K1/024 and H05K1/0243 take precedence; for semiconductor devices H01L23/66
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/09781 Dummy conductors, i.e. not used for normal transport of current; Dummy electrodes of components

Abstract

A audio, video, and digital signal compensating conductive circuit consisting of one or more main electric conductor(s) and one or more non-terminated compensating conductor(s) to enhance transmission performance of an electrical signal. One embodiment is an electric cable comprising a one or more of said compensating conductive circuits. Another embodiment is a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) that has a plurality of said electric wires embedded in the CB. Said compensating conductive circuit has at least one main electric conductor, having purpose of carrying electric current between the signal source and the load, and at least one non-terminated compensating electric conductor, one end of said non-terminated compensating electric conductor is connected to said main electric conductor, while the other end of said non-terminated compensating electric conductor is unconnected.

Claims

1. A compensating conductive circuit comprising:

an electric conductor having a length LH connected from a signal source S to a load L;

a first non-terminated compensating electric conductor connected to the source S; and

a second non-terminated compensating electric conductor connected to the electric conductor at about a half-way point between the soruce S and the load L.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a second non-terminated compensating electric conductor connected to the electric conductor at about a half way point between S and L.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a second non-terminated compensating electric conductor connected to L, and wherein each of the first and second non-terminated compensating electric conductors have a length of about one half LH.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first non-terminated compensating electric conductor has a shape about straight and laid out along a direction toward said load L and having a length about the same as said length LH.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first non-terminated compensating electric conductor is laid out in an arbitrary way with respect to the electric conductor, and has a length about the same as said length LH.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first non-terminated compensating electric conductor is laid out about parallel to the electric conductor, and has a length about the same as said length LH.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first non-terminated compensating electric conductor is wound around the electric conductor, and has a length greater than LH.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the electric conductor is wound around the first non-terminated compensating electric conductor, and LH is longer than a length of the non-terminated compensating electric conductor.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the non-terminated compensating electric conductor further comprises a dielectric core.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a second electric conductor connected from L to S and a second non-terminated compensating electric conductor connected to S.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the first non-terminated compensating electric conductor is wrapped around the second electric conductor, and the second non-terminated compensating electric conductor is wrapped around the first electric conductor.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the first and second non-terminated compensating electric conductors are wrapped around their respective first and second electric conductors.

14. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the electric conductor and the first non-terminated compensating electric conductor are part of a printed circuit board.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the electric conductor and the non-terminated compensating electric conductor are located on an outside surface of the printed circuit board.

16. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the electric conductor and the non-terminated compensating electric conductor are located on an internal layer of the printed circuit board.

11. A compensating conductive circuit comprising:

a first and a second electric conductor connected between a signal source S and a load L; and

a first non-terminated compensating electric conductor connected to L.

17. A compensating electric circuit comprising:

a signal source S and a load L;

a first and a second coaxial cable each having a central conductor with a surrounding insulator and an outer conductor with external insulation;

wherein the first coaxial cable is a non-terminated compensating electric conductor;

wherein one end of S is common connected to a respective end of each of the central conductors of the first and second coaxial cables;

wherein the opposite end of S is common connected to the outer conductors of both the first and the second coaxial cable at their same respective end; and

wherein L is connected between the central conductor and the outer conductor of an opposite end of the second coaxial cable.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein a primary circuit is completed by connecting L across the central conductor and the outer conductor at one end of the second coaxial cable and connecting S across the central conductor and the outer conductor at the opposite end of the second coaxial cable.

19. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein one end of the first coaxial cable forms a non-terminated compensating electric conductor having its central conductor and its outer conductor connected to respective sides of S at one end and having its opposite end non-terminated.