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

• US 7,433,168 B2
• Filed: 10/17/2001
• Issued: 10/07/2008
• 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:
  US10/399,590
• Publication Number:
  US 20040085699A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,547 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: 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 (800e) 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 (855) and other predetermined elements that result in an electrode architecture practicable to provide multiple energy conditioning functions.

Claims

1. An amalgam assembly comprising:

at least two circuits, and each circuit of the two circuits respectively having;

at least a source of energy and an energy-utilizing load;

a first conductor operable as a conductively coupled energy source path from a first source of energy of the circuit to the energy-utilizing load of the circuit;

a second conductor operable as a conductively coupled energy return path from a first energy-utilizing load of the circuit to the source of energy of the circuit;

a third conductor operable as a conductively coupled energy source path from a second source of energy of the circuit to the energy-utilizing load of the circuit;

a second conductor operable as a conductively coupled energy return path from a second energy-utilizing load of the circuit to the source of energy of the circuit;

a conductive area that is conductively isolated from any one conductor of the amalgam; and

an amalgam including;

a plurality of electrodes conductively coupled to one another;

a first set of electrodes conductively isolated from one another;

a second set of electrodes conductively isolated from one another;

the first and the second set of electrodes and the plurality of electrodes are spaced apart from one another by at least a material;

the first and the second set of electrodes and the plurality of electrodes are conductively isolated from one another;

a first and a second electrode of the plurality of electrodes sandwich the first set of electrodes, and the second and a third electrode of the plurality of electrodes sandwich the second set of electrodes;

each electrode of the first set of electrodes is disposed relative to a corresponding electrode of the second set of electrodes in an opposite orientation position, respectively; and

wherein a first electrode of the first set of electrodes is conductively coupled to the first conductor, and a first electrode of the second set of electrodes is conductively coupled to the second conductor, and a second electrode of the first set of electrodes is conductively coupled to the third conductor, and a second electrode of the second set of electrodes is conductively coupled to the fourth conductor; and

the plurality of shielding electrodes is conductively coupled to the conductive area.