Energy conditioner with tied through electrodes

• US 8,014,119 B2
• Filed: 02/21/2011
• Issued: 09/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2005
• 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:
  US13/031,328
• Publication Number:
  US 20110141653A1
• Time in Patent Office: 197 Days
• Field of Search: 361/118
• US Class Current: 361/118
• CPC Class Codes: H01G 4/005 Electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H01G 4/228 Terminals

Abstract

The application discloses energy conditioners that include A, B, and G master electrodes in which the A and B electrodes include main body electrodes with conductive paths that cross inside the energy conditioner and which has A and B tabs at one end of the main body electrodes conductively tied together and A and B tabs at another end of the main body electrodes conductively tied together, and the application also discloses novel assemblies of mounting, contacting, integrating those energy conditioners with conductive connection structures.

Claims

1. An energy conditioner comprising:

a plurality of electrodes, including at least a first electrode having a first main-body electrode portion, a second electrode having a second main-body electrode portion, a third electrode having a third main-body electrode portion, a fourth electrode having a fourth main-body electrode portion and a fifth electrode having a fifth main-body electrode portion;

wherein said first main-body electrode portion, said second main-body electrode portion, said third main-body electrode portion, said fourth main-body electrode portion and said fifth main-body electrode portion each further comprises at least two electrode tab portions;

wherein said first main-body electrode portion, said third main-body electrode portion and said fifth main-body electrode portion are substantially the same size;

wherein said second main-body electrode portion and said fourth main-body electrode portion are substantially the same size;

wherein said third main-body electrode portion is larger than said second main-body electrode portion;

wherein said third main-body electrode portion is stacked in-between said second main-body electrode portion and said fourth main-body electrode portion, and wherein said third electrode main-body electrode portion at least shields said second main-body electrode portion from said fourth main-body electrode portion;

wherein said second main-body electrode portion, said third main-body electrode portion and said fourth main-body electrode portion are stacked in-between said first main-body electrode portion and said fifth main-body electrode portion;

wherein said first main-body electrode portion, said third main-body electrode portion and said fifth main-body electrode portion are operable together to shield said second main-body electrode portion and said fourth main-body electrode portion from any other main-body electrode portion of said plurality of electrodes;

a plurality of conductive material portions including at least a first conductive material portion, a second conductive material portion, a third conductive material portion and a fourth conductive material portion;

wherein a first electrode tab portion of said at least two electrode tab portions of said second main-body electrode portion of said second electrode is adjacent a first electrode tab portion of said at least two electrode tab portions of said fourth main-body electrode portion of said fourth electrode, and wherein said first electrode tab portion of said second electrode is conductively connected to said first electrode tab portion of said fourth electrode by said first conductive material portion;

wherein a second electrode tab portion of said at least two electrode tab portions of said second main-body electrode portion of said second electrode is adjacent a second electrode tab portion of said at least two electrode tab portions of said fourth main-body electrode portion of said fourth electrode, and wherein said second electrode tab portion of said second electrode is conductively connected to said second electrode tab portion of said fourth electrode by said second conductive material portion;

wherein a first electrode tab portion of said at least two electrode tab portions of said first main-body electrode portion of said first electrode, a first electrode tab portion of said at least two electrode tab portions of said third main-body electrode portion of said third electrode and a first electrode tab portion of said at least two electrode tab portions of said fifth main-body electrode portion of said fifth electrode are conductively connected together by said third conductive material portion;

wherein a second electrode tab portion of said at least two electrode tab portions of said first main-body electrode portion of said first electrode, a second electrode tab portion of said at least two electrode tab portions of said third main-body electrode portion of said third electrode and a second electrode tab portion of said at least two electrode tab portions of said fifth main-body electrode portion of said fifth electrode are conductively connected together by said fourth conductive material portion;

wherein said first electrode tab portion of said second electrode is located on an opposite side of said second main-body electrode portion from said second electrode tab portion of said second electrode, and wherein said first electrode tab portion of said second electrode is offset relative to said second electrode tab portion of said second electrode; and

wherein said first electrode tab portion of said fourth electrode and said second electrode tab portion of said fourth electrode are on opposite sides of said fourth main-body electrode portion, and wherein said first electrode tab portion of said fourth electrode is offset relative to said second electrode tab portion of said fourth electrode.

2. The energy conditioner of claim 1, wherein a dielectric material separates said first main-body electrode portion, said second main-body electrode portion, said third main-body electrode portion, said fourth main-body electrode portion and said fifth main-body electrode portion from one another, and wherein said dielectric material covers said first main-body electrode portion, said second main-body electrode portion, said third main-body electrode portion, said fourth main-body electrode portion and said fifth main-body electrode portion.

3. The energy conditioner of claim 2, wherein said second main-body electrode portion and said fourth main-body electrode portion are operable as shielded main-body electrode portions when said energy conditioner is energized.

4. A circuit that includes the energy conditioner of claim 2.

13. The energy conditioner of claim 3, wherein said second electrode is operable for energy to transverse a first cross-over pathway from said first electrode tab portion of said second electrode to said second electrode tab portion of said second electrode when said energy conditioner is energized;

and

wherein said fourth electrode is operable for energy to transverse a second cross-over pathway from said first electrode tab portion of said fourth electrode to said second electrode tab portion of said fourth electrode when said energy conditioner is energized.

14. The energy conditioner of claim 2, wherein said second electrode and said fourth electrode are operable together as a first energy pathway to a semiconductor chip;

and

wherein said first electrode, said third electrode and said fifth electrode are operable together as a second energy pathway from said semiconductor chip.

15. The energy conditioner of claim 2, wherein said second electrode and said fourth electrode are operable together as a first energy pathway from a semiconductor chip;

and

wherein said first electrode, said third electrode and said fifth electrode are operable together as a second energy pathway to said semiconductor chip.

5. An energy conditioner comprising:

at least a plurality of conductive pathways, including a first, a second, a third, a fourth and a fifth conductive pathway;

wherein said first conductive pathway has a first main-body electrode with at least two opposing tab portions;

wherein said second conductive pathway has a second main-body electrode with at least two opposing tab portions;

wherein said third conductive pathway has a third main-body electrode with at least two opposing tab portions;

wherein said fourth conductive pathway has a fourth main-body electrode with at least two opposing tab portions; and

wherein said fifth conductive pathway has a fifth main-body electrode with at least two opposing tab portions;

wherein said first main-body electrode, said third main-body electrode, and said fifth main-body electrode are substantially the same size and shape, and wherein said second main-body electrode and said fourth main-body electrode are substantially the same size and shape;

wherein said first main-body electrode, said third main-body electrode, and said fifth main-body electrode are each larger than said second main-body electrode, and wherein said first main-body electrode, said third main-body electrode, and said fifth main-body electrode are each larger than said fourth main-body electrode;

wherein said third main-body electrode is stacked in-between said second main-body electrode and said fourth main-body electrode, and wherein said second main-body electrode, said third main-body electrode and said fourth main-body electrode are stacked in-between said first main-body electrode and said fifth main-body electrode;

wherein a dielectric material separates and conductively isolates each of said first, second, third, fourth and fifth main-body electrodes from one another;

wherein a perimeter portion of said second main-body electrode and a perimeter portion of said fourth main-body electrode are in stacked alignment with one another;

wherein said at least two opposing tab portions of said second main-body electrode are non-overlapped with said at least two opposing tab portions of said fourth main-body electrode;

wherein a first tab of said at least two opposing tab portions of said first conductive pathway, a first tab of said at least two opposing tab portions of said third conductive pathway, and a first tab of said at least two opposing tab portions of said fifth conductive pathway are conductively connected to one another by a first conductive material portion;

wherein a second tab of said at least two opposing tab portions of said first conductive pathway, a second tab of said at least two opposing tab portions of said third conductive pathway, and a second tab of said at least two opposing tab portions of said fifth conductive pathway are conductively connected to one another by a second conductive material portion;

wherein a first tab of said at least two opposing tab portions of said second conductive pathway and a first tab of said at least two opposing tab portions of said fourth conductive pathway are conductively connected to one another by a third conductive material portion; and

wherein a second tab of said at least two opposing tab portions of said second conductive pathway and a second tab of said at least two opposing tab portions of said fourth conductive pathway are conductively connected to one another by a fourth conductive material portion.

6. The energy conditioner of claim 5, wherein a portion of said first conductive material portion and a portion of said second conductive material portion each conductively connect said first conductive pathway, said third conductive pathway, and said fifth conductive pathway to one another beyond a perimeter of said dielectric material.

7. The energy conditioner of claim 6, wherein said first tab of said at least two opposing tab portions of said second conductive pathway and said first tab of said at least two opposing tab portions of said fourth conductive pathway are conductively connected to one another by a portion of said third conductive material portion located beyond said perimeter of said dielectric material.

8. The energy conditioner of claim 7, wherein a perimeter portion of said first main-body electrode, a perimeter portion of said third main-body electrode, and a perimeter portion of said fifth main-body electrode are in stacked alignment with one another.

9. The energy conditioner of claim 8, wherein said second conductive pathway and said fourth conductive pathway are operable together as a first energy pathway to a semiconductor chip;

and

wherein said first conductive pathway, said third conductive pathway and said fifth conductive pathway are operable together as a second energy pathway from said semiconductor chip.

10. The energy conditioner of claim 8, wherein said second conductive pathway and said fourth conductive pathway are operable together as a first energy pathway from a semiconductor chip;

and

wherein said first conductive pathway, said third conductive pathway and said fifth conductive pathway are operable together as a second energy pathway to said semiconductor chip.

11. A circuit that includes the energy conditioner and said semiconductor chip of claim 9.

12. A circuit that includes the energy conditioner and said semiconductor chip of claim 10.