Wireless electrical device using open-circuit elements having no electrical connections
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1. A wireless electrical device, comprising:
- an electrical conductor having first and second ends and shaped to define a single spiral between said first and second ends for storage of an electric field and a magnetic field, said first and second ends remaining electrically unconnected at all times such that said electrical conductor so-shaped defines an unconnected open-circuit having inductance and capacitance wherein, in the presence of a time-varying magnetic field, said electrical conductor so-shaped resonates to generate harmonic electric and magnetic field responses, each of which has a frequency, amplitude and bandwidth associated therewith; and
at least one electrode spaced apart from said electrical conductor at a location lying within at least said magnetic field response so-generated, wherein each electrode from said at least one electrode has a length-to-width aspect ratio such that a linear movement of electric charges is generated in said each electrode, said each electrode remaining electrically unconnected at all times.
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A wireless electrical device includes an electrically unconnected electrical conductor and at least one electrically unconnected electrode spaced apart from the electrical conductor. The electrical conductor is shaped for storage of an electric field and a magnetic field. In the presence of a time-varying magnetic field, the electrical conductor so-shaped resonates to generate harmonic electric and magnetic field responses. Each electrode is at a location lying within the magnetic field response so-generated and is constructed such that a linear movement of electric charges is generated in each electrode due to the magnetic field response so-generated.
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32 Claims
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1. A wireless electrical device, comprising:
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an electrical conductor having first and second ends and shaped to define a single spiral between said first and second ends for storage of an electric field and a magnetic field, said first and second ends remaining electrically unconnected at all times such that said electrical conductor so-shaped defines an unconnected open-circuit having inductance and capacitance wherein, in the presence of a time-varying magnetic field, said electrical conductor so-shaped resonates to generate harmonic electric and magnetic field responses, each of which has a frequency, amplitude and bandwidth associated therewith; and at least one electrode spaced apart from said electrical conductor at a location lying within at least said magnetic field response so-generated, wherein each electrode from said at least one electrode has a length-to-width aspect ratio such that a linear movement of electric charges is generated in said each electrode, said each electrode remaining electrically unconnected at all times. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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6. A wireless electrical device as in claim therein said trace is non-uniform in width.
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14. A wireless electrical device, comprising:
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an electrical conductor in the form of a thin-film trace, said electrical conductor having first and second ends and shaped to form a single spiral between said first and second ends for storage of an electric field and a magnetic field, said first and second ends remaining electrically unconnected at all times such that said electrical conductor so-shaped defines an unconnected open-circuit having inductance and capacitance wherein, in the presence of a time-varying magnetic field, said electrical conductor so-shaped resonates to generate harmonic electric and magnetic field responses, each of which has a frequency, amplitude and bandwidth associated therewith; and at least one electrode spaced apart from said electrical conductor at a location lying within at least said magnetic field response so-generated, wherein each electrode from said at least one electrode has a length-to-width aspect ratio such that a linear movement of electric charges is generated in said each electrode, said each electrode remaining electrically unconnected at all times. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A wireless electrical device, comprising:
- an electrical, conductor having first and second ends and shaped to form a single spiral between said first and second ends for storage of an electric field and a magnetic field, said first and second ends remaining electrically unconnected at all times such that said electrical conductor so-shaped defines an unconnected open-circuit having inductance and capacitance wherein, in the presence of a time-varying magnetic field, said electrical conductor so-shaped resonates to generate harmonic electric and magnetic field responses, each of which has a frequency, amplitude and bandwidth associated therewith;
at least one electrode spaced apart from said electrical conductor at a location lying within at least said magnetic field response so-generated, wherein each electrode from said at least one electrode has a length-to-width aspect ratio such that a linear movement of electric charges is generated in said each electrode, said each said electrode remaining electrically unconnected at all times; and
a magnetic, field response recorder for wirelessly transmitting said time-varying magnetic field to said electrical conductor and for wirelessly detecting at least one of said frequency, amplitude and bandwidth associated with said magnetic field response so-generated. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
- an electrical, conductor having first and second ends and shaped to form a single spiral between said first and second ends for storage of an electric field and a magnetic field, said first and second ends remaining electrically unconnected at all times such that said electrical conductor so-shaped defines an unconnected open-circuit having inductance and capacitance wherein, in the presence of a time-varying magnetic field, said electrical conductor so-shaped resonates to generate harmonic electric and magnetic field responses, each of which has a frequency, amplitude and bandwidth associated therewith;
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