Inductive modulator system

• US 4,902,987 A
• Filed: 04/21/1989
• Issued: 02/20/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Brooke Kaye-Bright
• Original Assignee: Eugene A. Albright
• Inventors: Albright, Eugene A.
• Primary Examiner(s): LaRoche, Eugene R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pascal, Robert J.
• Application Number:
  US07/341,769
• Time in Patent Office: 305 Days
• Field of Search: 332/17, 332/22, 332/41, 332/51 R
• US Class Current: 332/120
• CPC Class Codes: H03C 1/10 the element being a current-dependent inductor
• CPC Class Codes: H03C 1/60 with one sideband wholly or partially suppressed
• CPC Class Codes: H03C 3/18 the element being a current-dependent inductor

Abstract

A magnetic induction modulation and frequency multiplication system includes three toroidal coils physically mounted close to one another to provide magnetic flux coupling between them. One of the coils is supplied with a relatively high frequency carrier signal which has been shaped to eliminate one or the other of the positive or negative excursions thereof. A second coil is provided with an audio signal or other suitable input signal. The third coil constitutes the output coil and is utilized to provide signals to a transmitting circuit coupled to a transmitting antenna. The output signal from the third coil constitutes an amplitude modulated and phase/frequency modulated signal directly produced through the mutual inductive coupling of the three coils.

Claims

1. An inductive modulator system including in combination:

a source of carrier signals including a shaping circuit for supplying unidirectional pulses on the output of said source of carrier signals;

a source of information input signals;

a first coil connected to the output of said source of carrier signals;

a second coil connected to said source of information input signals and inductively coupled with said first coil; and

a third coil inductively coupled with said first and second coils for supplying an output signal therefrom.

2. The combination according to claim 1 wherein said first, second and third coils each are toroidal coils.

3. The combination according to claim 2 further including means coupled with said third coil for supplying signals to a transmitting antenna.

4. The combination according to claim 3 wherein said shaping circuit comprises half-wave rectifier means.

5. The combination according to claim 4 wherein the power level of said source of information input signals is greater than the power level of said source of carrier signals.

6. The combination according to claim 5 wherein each of said coils are oriented on a common axis.

7. The combination according to claim 6 wherein said power level of said source of information input signals is several times greater than the power level of said source of carrier signals.

8. The combination according to claim 7 wherein said source of information input signals is an audio signal input.

9. The combination according to claim 8 wherein said first, second and third coils are mounted on a common ferrite core.

10. The combination according to claim 1 wherein said first and third coils are on a first common axis and said second coil is located on an axis perpendicular to said first axis.

11. The combination according to claim 10 wherein said second axis intersects said first axis between said first and third coils.

12. The combination according to claim 11 further including first and second magnetic cores, wherein said first and third coils are mounted on said first core and said third coil is mounted on said second core.

13. The combination according to claim 12 wherein said first, second and third coils each are toroidal coils.

14. The combination according to claim 13 wherein the power level of said source of information input signals is greater than the power level of said source of carrier signals.

15. The combination according to claim 14 further including means coupled with said third coil for supplying signals to a transmitting antenna.

16. The combination according to claim 15 wherein said source of carrier signals further includes a shaping circuit for supplying unidirectional signal pulses to said first coil.

17. The combination according to claim 16 wherein said shaping circuit comprises half-wave rectifier means.

18. The combination according to claim 1 further including means coupled with said third coil for supplying signals to a transmitting antenna.

19. The combination according to claim 1 wherein said first, second and third coils are mounted on a common ferrite core.

20. The combination according to claim 1 wherein each of said coils are oriented on a common axis.

21. The combination according to claim 1 wherein said source of information input signals is an audio signal input.

22. A dual signal inductive modulator system including in combination:

a first source of carrier signals;

a first source of information input signals;

a first coil connected to said first source of carrier signals;

a second coil connected to said first source of information input signals and inductively coupled with said first coil;

a third coil inductively coupled with said first and second coils for supplying an output signal therefrom;

a second source of carrier signals;

a second source of information input signals;

a fourth coil connected to said second source of carrier signals;

a fifth coil connected to said second source of information input signals and inductively coupled with said fourth coil;

a sixth coil inductively coupled with said fourth and fifth coils for supplying an output signal therefrom; and

means for combining the output signals from said third and sixth coils to produce a composite output signal.

23. The combination according to claim 22 wherein said first, second and third coils are oriented on a first common axis and said fourth, fifth, and sixth coils are oriented on a second common axis.

24. The combination according to claim 23 wherein said first and second sources of information input signals are different channels of stereophonic audio signals.

25. The combination according to claim 24 further including a transmitting antenna, wherein said combining means supplies said composite output signals to said transmitting antenna.

26. The combination according to claim 25 wherein said first and second sources of carrier signals comprise first and second shaping circuits connected to a common carrier signal generator for supplying opposite polarity unidirectional signal pulses, respectively, to said first and fourth coils.

27. The combination according to claim 26 wherein said first and second shaping circuits each comprise half-wave rectifier means.

28. The combination according to claim 27 wherein the power level of said first and second sources of information input signals is greater than the power level of said first and second sources of carrier signals.

29. The combination according to claim 28 wherein said coils each are toroidal coils.

30. The combination according to claim 29 wherein said first, second and third coils are mounted on a first common ferrite core and said fourth, fifth and sixth coils are mounted on a second common ferrite core.

31. The combination according to claim 22 wherein said first and second sources of information input signals are different channels of stereophonic audio signals.

32. The combination according to claim 22 further including a transmitting antenna, wherein said combining means supplies said composite output signals to said transmitting antenna.

33. The combination according to claim 22 wherein the power level of said first and second sources of information input signals is greater than the power level of said first and second sources of carrier signals.

34. The combination according to claim 22 wherein said first and second sources of carrier signals comprise first and second shaping circuits connected to a common carrier signal generator for supplying opposite polarity unidirectional signal pulses, respectively, to said first and fourth coils.

35. The combination according to claim 37 wherein said first and second shaping circuits each comprise half-wave rectifier means.

36. The combination according to claim 35 wherein said first and second sources of information input signals are different channels of stereophonic audio signals.

37. The combination according to claim 22 wherein said coils each are toroidal coils.

38. The combination according to claim 22 wherein said first, second and third coils are mounted on a first common ferrite core and said fourth, fifth and sixth coils are mounted on a second common ferrite core.