Energy pathway arrangement

• US 7,336,467 B2
• Filed: 11/29/2001
• Issued: 02/26/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Southern Water Services Limited (Greensand Holdings Ltd.), Hy-Ram Engineering Company Limited, X2Y Attenuators, LLC
• Original Assignee: X2Y Attenuators, LLC
• Inventors: Anthony, Anthony A., Anthony, William M., Muccioli, James P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Jackson; Stephen W.
• Application Number:
  US10/432,840
• Publication Number:
  US 20040105205A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,280 Days
• Field of Search: 361/111, 361/118
• US Class Current: 361/118
• CPC Class Codes: H01G 4/35 Feed-through capacitors or anti-noise capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: H01G 4/38 Multiple capacitors, i.e. structural combinations of fixed capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: H01G 4/40 Structural combinations of fixed capacitors with other electric elements, the structure mainly consisting of a capacitor, e.g. RC combinations
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 1/0007 of radio frequency interference filters
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 2001/0014 Capacitor filters, i.e. capacitors whose parasitic inductance is of relevance to consider it as filter
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 2001/0085 Multilayer, e.g. LTCC, HTCC, green sheets inside PCB filters H05K

Abstract

Compact and integral arrangements for an energy-conditioning arrangement having various predetermined energy pathways utilized in part for the purpose of conditioning energies of either one or multiple of circuitry that would otherwise detrimentally effect a predetermined application having a single or multiple, circuitry systems. Some energy-conditioning arrangement variants can be operable to provide multiple energy-conditioning operations.

Claims

1. An energy conditioning arrangement comprising:

a first plurality of energy pathways that are conductively coupled to one another;

a second plurality of energy pathways that are conductively coupled to one another;

a first plurality of shielding energy pathways that are conductively coupled to one another;

a second plurality of shielding energy pathways that are conductively coupled to one another;

wherein the first plurality of shielding energy pathways at least shields the first plurality of energy pathways from the second plurality of energy pathways;

wherein the second plurality of shielding energy pathways at least shields the second plurality of energy pathways from the first plurality of energy pathways; and

wherein the first and the second plurality of shielding energy pathways are conductively isolated from one another.

2. The arrangement of claim 1,

wherein any one energy pathway of the first plurality of shielding energy pathways is larger than any one energy pathway of the first and second plurality of energy pathways.

3. The arrangement of claim 1, further comprising a dielectric material, and wherein the first plurality of shielding energy pathways and the first plurality of energy pathways are spaced-apart from one another by at least the dielectric material.

4. The arrangement of claim 1 wherein said first plurality of energy pathways are co-planar with one another, and said second plurality of energy pathways are coplanar with one another.

5. The arrangement of claim 4, wherein the first and the second plurality of energy pathways are each shielded from one another by the first and the second plurality of shielding energy pathways.

6. The arrangement of claim 4 wherein the first and the second plurality of energy pathways are conductively isolated from one another in said arrangement.

7. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the number of shielding energy pathways of the first pluraliy of shielding energy pathways is an odd integer.

8. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein each energy pathway of said first plurality of energy pathways;

said second plurality of energy pathways;

said first plurality of shielding energy pathways; and

said second plurality of shielding energy pathways has a first extended portion that is not overlappling any portion of any energy pathway of any of the other pluralities.

9. The arrangement according to claim 8, wherein each energy pathway of each one of said first plurality of shielding energy pathways and said second plurality of shielding energy pathways has a second extended portion that is not overlappling any portion of any energy pathway of any of the other pluralities.

10. The arrangement of claim 1, further comprising a first material having a first electrical property and a second material having a second electrical property, and wherein at least some of said first material resides between at least two of the pathways, and at least some of said second material resides between at least two other of the pathways.

11. The arrangement of claim 1 wherein said first plurality of energy pathways have substantially the same size and shape as one another, said second plurality of energy pathways have substantially the same size and shape as one another, said first plurality of shielding energy pathways have substantially the same size and shape as one another, and said second plurality of shielding energy pathways have substantially the same size and shape as one another.

12. The arrangement of claim 1 in which at least a portion of the energy conditioning arrangement was made by a doping process.

13. The arrangement of claim 1 in which the energy conditioning arrangement is at least part of an energy-conditioning capacitive network.

14. The arrangement of claim 1 in which the energy conditioning arrangement has at least two isolated capacitive networks.

15. The arrangement of claim 1 as in which the energy conditioning arrangement has at least one bypass capacitor.

16. The arrangement of claim 1 in which the energy conditioning arrangement has at least one feedthru capacitor and at least one bypass capacitor.

17. The arrangement of claim 1 in which the energy conditioning arrangement has at least two isolated voltage dividers.

18. The arrangement of claim 1 in which the energy conditioning arrangement is a voltage divider.

19. The arrangement of claim 1 in which the energy conditioning arrangement is an energy conditioning arrangement selected from the group of energy conditioning arrangements consisting of a bypass energy conditioning arrangement, a feedthru energy conditioning arrangement, and a cross-over energy conditioning arrangement.

20. The arrangement of claim 1 in which the energy conditioning arrangement is coupled to a component selected from the group of components consisting of a substrate, a motor, and a circuit.

21. The arrangement of claim 1 in which the energy conditioning arrangement is annular shaped.

22. The arrangement of claim 1 in which the energy conditioning arrangement further comprises an annular shaped portion.

23. The arrangement of claim 1 in which the energy conditioning arrangement further defines at least one aperture.

24. The arrangement of claim 1 in which the energy conditioning arrangement is concurrently operable as a portion of a first circuit and as a portion of a second circuit.

25. The arrangement of claim 1 having on its exterior surface at least six external conductive contacts wherein each one of said at least six electrical contacts is conductively isolated in said energy conditioner arrangement from any other one of said at least six electrical contacts.

26. The arrangement of claim 1 in which the energy conditioning arrangement is operable as a portion of a sensor.

27. The arrangement of claim 1 in which the energy conditioning arrangement is operable as a portion of an operational amplifier.