Device for transmitting electric energy to computers and data nets

• US 4,798,990 A
• Filed: 09/01/1987
• Issued: 01/17/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bengt Henoch
• Original Assignee: Bengt Henoch
• Inventors: Henoch, Bengt
• Primary Examiner(s): Budd, Mark O.
• Application Number:
  US07/091,868
• Time in Patent Office: 504 Days
• Field of Search: 310/311, 310/325, 310/321-323, 310/334, 333/236-239, 333/241, 333/242
• US Class Current: 310/334
• CPC Class Codes: H10N 30/40 with electrical input and electrical output, e.g. functioning as transformers

Abstract

A device for transmitting electric energy to electric equipment, primarily computers and data nets, which device is intended to be connected between a voltage source and the electric equipment. The invention is characterized in that it is provided with a generator (30,31) comprising a piezo-electric element, which generator is intended to be connected to said voltage source and to generate a high-frequency mechanical wave motion, that a bar-shaped transmission member (32) is provided to transmit said motion to a receiver (33-35), which transmission member comprises a non-magnetic and electrically insulating material, in which the mechanical wave motion can be conducted, that said receiver, which is intended to be connected to the electric equipment, is capable to convert said mechanical wave motion into an electrically varying voltage by means of a piezo-electric element (33), which is in mechanical connection with said transmission member.

Claims

1. A device for transmitting electric energy to electric equipment, primarily computers and data nets, which device is intended to be connected between a voltage source and the electric equipment, comprising a generator, which is intended to be connected to said voltage source and capable to generate a high-frequency mechanical wave motion and comprising a transmission member capable to transmit said motion to a receiver, which transmission member comprises a non-magnetic and electrically insulating material, in which the mechanical wave motion can be conducted, and said receiver, which is intended to be connected to the electric equipment, is capable to convert said mechanical wave motion into an electrically varying voltage, and said generator and said receiver each comprises piezo-electric element, which are in mechanical connection with said transmission member, characterized in that said transmission member (12;

32;

72;

110;

11) has the shape of a bar or corresponding continuous member, that the piezo-electric element (31;

33;

73) of the receiver (13;

14;

33-35;

73-75) is connected to the first end of the transmission member while the piezo-electric element (31;

71) of the generator (10;

11;

30;

31;

70;

71 ) is connected to the other, opposed end of the transmission member, that the piezo-electric element (31;

71) of the generator is capable to generate longitudinal waves in the transmission member (12;

32;

72;

110-111), that a bar-shaped element (36;

37;

76;

77) is located on the opposite side of each of the piezo-electric elements (31;

33;

71;

73) relative to the transmission member, which bar-shaped elements (36;

37;

76;

77) are capable to acoustically adapt the piezo-electric elements to the transmission number, that said electric equipment is surrounded by a shield such as a metal net or a metal wall to form a Faraday'"'"'s cage around the electric equipment through which shield the transmission member runs and that said piezo-electric elements consist of a flat, round element such as a disc or ring, provided with metal coats on its opposed side surfaces which coats constitute the two poles on the receiver side which coats are not in electrical contact with the Faraday'"'"'s cage.

2. A device as defined in claim 1, characterized in that the piezo-electric element (33;

73) of said receiver (13,14;

33-35;

73-75) is connected to a rectifier (55;

75) preferably via a transformer (34;

74).

3. A device as defined in claim 1, characterized in that said transmission member, which is in the form of a bar (32;

72;

151) or corresponding shape, is made of a solid and elastic material, preferably glass or porcelain.

4. A device as defined in claim 1, characterized in that said transmission member is in the form of a tube (110) of non-magnetic and electrically insulating material, which includes a fluid material (111), which is non-magnetic and electrically insulating and the piezo-electric element (31) of the generator is connected to one end of the tube (110), and the piezo-electric element (33) of the receiver is connected to the other end of the tube (110).

5. A device as defined in claim 3, characterized in that the piezo-electric element (31;

71) of said generator is arranged to be fed with a high-frequency voltage from a high-frequency generator (30;

-0).

6. A device as defined in claim 5, characterized in that the bar (72) at one end has a cross-section, the size of which differs from the cross-section of the bar at its other end, and that between the ends one or several intermediate longitudinal sections of the bar are located, the cross-section of which differs from the cross-section at the respective ends of the bar.

7. A device as defined in claim 5, characterized that said receiver (75-75) is divided into two or more receivers electrically insulated from each other, in that the receiver comprises two or more piezo-electric elements (73) electrically separated from each other, and that the bar (72) at its end located at the receiver is provided with two or more projections (80-82), each of which independently cooperates with an associated one of said electrically separated receiver piezo-electric elements (73) which are electrically insulated from each other.

8. A device as defined in claim 7, characterized in that one or more of said projections (80-82) comprise one or more longitudinal sections (83-88) with cross-sections of different size.

9. A device as defined in claim 6, characterized in that different longitudinal sections (83-88) consist of material with different acoustic properties.

10. A device as defined in claim 1, characterized in that said piezo-electric elements (31,33) consist of a disc or ring of a piezo-electric ceramic, which disc or ring on its opposed side surfaces is provided with metal coats.

11. A device as defined in claim 1, characterized in that said piezo-electric elements (71,73) consist of a piezo-electric plastic film, wich on its opposed side surfaces is provided with a metal coat.

12. A device as defined in claim 1, characterized in that said bar-shaped element (36,37;

76,77) has good acoustic transmission and a length, which corresponds to one-fourth of the wave length of the frequency, which is intended to be transmitted by means of said bar.

13. A device as defined in claim 1, characterized in that a shield (51;

112), such as a metal net or metal diaphragm, is arranged through the transmission member (32;

110,111 transversely to the propagation direction of the mechanical wave motion and located in a node formed where the transmission member is fed with the intended frequency of the generator (30,31), which shield (51;

112) is intended to be connected to an outer shield, which encloses the equipment to be protected, in order thereby to form a Faraday'"'"'s cage about the equipment.

14. A device as defined in claim 1, characterized in that to the receiver a sensor (60) is connected to sense current and voltage on the receiving end and to transmit this information via an optic fibre (61) to an adjusting means (62), which is arranged to adjust the frequency of the generator so that maximum efficiency degree is obtained at different electric loads of the receiver.