Amalgam of shielding and shielded energy pathways and other elements for single or multiple circuitries with common reference node

• US 7,224,564 B2
• Filed: 05/31/2005
• Issued: 05/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: X2Y Attenuators, LLC
• Original Assignee: X2Y Attenuators, LLC
• Inventors: Anthony, William M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Jackson; Stephen W.
• Application Number:
  US11/139,526
• Publication Number:
  US 20050248900A1
• Time in Patent Office: 728 Days
• Field of Search: 361/118
• US Class Current: 361/118
• CPC Class Codes: H01G 4/35 Feed-through capacitors or anti-noise capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 9/00 Screening of apparatus or components against electric or magnetic fields devices for absorbing radiation from an antenna H01Q17/00
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 9/0066 Constructional details of transient suppressor

Abstract

A predetermined single electrode shielding set for groupings of complementary electrodes that are operable to shield and that together are selectively formed or amalgamated into a predetermined sequential combination of commonly configured energy pathways operable for shielding various paired complementary electrodes and other predetermined elements that result in an electrode architecture practicable to provide multiple energy conditioning functions.

Claims

1. An energy conditioner structure, comprising:

a first energy pathway formed from electrically conductive material;

a second energy pathway formed from electrically conductive material;

a third energy pathway formed from electrically conductive material;

a fourth energy pathway formed from electrically conductive material;

a shielding structure formed from electrically conductive material;

wherein said shielding structure includes material interposed between each one of said first energy pathway, said second energy pathway, said third energy pathway, and said fourth energy pathway; and

wherein each one of said first energy pathway, said second energy pathway, said third energy pathway, said fourth energy pathway, and said shielding structure are conductively isolated from one another inside said energy conditioner.

2. The conditioner of claim 1

wherein said energy conditioner has an energy conditioner outer surface;

wherein said first energy pathway has at least a first energy pathway contact portion forming part of said energy conditioner outer surface;

wherein said second energy pathway has at least a second energy pathway contact portion forming part of said energy conditioner outer surface;

wherein said third energy pathway has at least a third energy pathway contact portion forming part of said energy conditioner outer surface;

wherein said fourth energy pathway has at least a fourth energy pathway contact portion forming part of said energy conditioner outer surface;

wherein said shielding structure has at least a first shielding structure contact portion forming part of said energy conditioner outer surface; and

wherein each one of said first energy pathway contact portion, said second energy pathway contact portion, said third energy pathway contact portion, said fourth energy pathway contact portion, and said first energy pathway contact portion are conductively isolated from one another.

3. The structure of claim 1 wherein each one of said first energy pathway, said second energy pathway, said third energy pathway, said fourth energy pathway have substantially the same size as one another.

4. The structure of claim 1 further comprising dielectric material interposed between at least two of said first energy pathway, said second energy pathway, said third energy pathway, said fourth energy pathway and said shielding structure.

5. The structure of claim 1 wherein said a first energy pathway formed from electrically conductive material consists of at least two parallel layers of electrically conductive material that are not in the same plane as one another.

6. The structure of claim 1 wherein said shielding structure provides a Faraday cage effect.

7. The conditioner of claim 1 wherein said material interposed has a generally annular shape.

8. A circuit including the structure of claim 1 further comprising a first conductive pathway connecting said conditioner to a first source of electrical power, a second conductive pathway connecting said conditioner to a second source of electrical power.

9. The circuit of claim 8 further comprising a first load powered by said first source of electrical power and a second load powered by said second source of electrical power.

10. The structure of claim 1 wherein said first energy pathway, said second energy pathway, said third energy pathway, said fourth energy pathway, and said shielding structure define a stack of conductive layers.

11. The structure of claim 10 wherein a total number of layers in said stack of conductive layers is an odd number.

12. The conditioner of claim 10 wherein said stack of layers defines a central layer, and said central layer is part of said shielding structure.

13. The structure of claim 1 wherein a layer forming said shielding structure has a large surface area than any layer forming part of said first energy pathway, said second energy pathway, said third energy pathway, and said fourth energy pathway.

14. The structure of claim 10 wherein a layer forming said shielding structure extends further in the plane defined by the major surface of each one of said conductive layers along two opposite directions than any layer of said first energy pathway, said second energy pathway, said third energy pathway, and said fourth energy pathway.

15. The conditioner of claim 10 wherein a layer forming said shielding structure extends further, in the plane defined by the major surface of each one of said stack of conductive layers, along two opposite directions and a direction perpendicular to said two opposite directions than any layer of said first energy pathway, said second energy pathway, said third energy pathway, and said fourth energy pathway.

16. An electrical circuit comprising a first source of electrical power, a first load, a second source of electrical power, a second load, and an energy conditioner of claim 1.

17. The method of claim 1 wherein said material interposed between each one of said first energy pathway, said second energy pathway, said third energy pathway, and said fourth energy pathway that forms part of said shielding structure defines at least one shielding structure layer;

wherein said first energy pathway extends in a pathway plane and has a first energy pathway surface area in said pathway plane;

wherein said at least one shielding structure layer extends parallel to said pathway plane and has an at least one shielding structure layer surface area in said pathway plane; and

wherein said at least one shielding structure layer surface area is large than said first energy pathway surface area.

18. A method for making an energy conditioner structure, comprising:

providing a first energy pathway formed from electrically conductive material;

providing a second energy pathway formed from electrically conductive material;

providing a third energy pathway formed from electrically conductive material;

providing a fourth energy pathway formed from electrically conductive material;

providing a shielding structure formed from electrically conductive material;

wherein said shielding structure includes material interposed between each one of said first energy pathway, said second energy pathway, said third energy pathway, and said fourth energy pathway; and

wherein each one of said first energy pathway, said second energy pathway, said third energy pathway, said fourth energy pathway, and said shielding structure are conductively isolated from one another inside said energy conditioner.

19. A method for using an energy conditioner structure, wherein said structure comprises:

a first energy pathway formed from electrically conductive material;

a second energy pathway formed from electrically conductive material;

a third energy pathway formed from electrically conductive material;

a fourth energy pathway formed from electrically conductive material;

a shielding structure formed from electrically conductive material;

wherein said shielding structure includes material interposed between each one of said first energy pathway, said second energy pathway, said third energy pathway, and said fourth energy pathway; and

wherein each one of said first energy pathway, said second energy pathway, said third energy pathway, said fourth energy pathway, and said shielding structure are conductively isolated from one another inside said energy conditioner; and

wherein said method comprises connecting a first pair of the energy pathways of the first, second, third, and fourth energy pathways to a first circuit.

20. The method of claim 19 further comprising connecting a second pair of the first, second, third, and fourth energy pathways to a second circuit, wherein said second pair of energy pathways consists of members of the first, second, third, and fourth energy pathways that are different from the members of said first pair of energy pathways.