Method of operation of a multi-layer-multi-turn structure for high efficiency wireless communication

• US 9,232,893 B2
• Filed: 09/15/2011
• Issued: 01/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NuCurrent, Inc.
• Original Assignee: NuCurrent, Inc.
• Inventors: Singh, Vinit, Frysz, Christine A.
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, HOANGANH T
• Application Number:
  US13/233,538
• Publication Number:
  US 20130069843A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,580 Days
• Field of Search: 343/895, 343/866, 343/867, 343/741, 343/742
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0015 characterised by features of the telemetry system
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/36 Structural form of radiating elements, e.g. cone, spiral, umbrella; Particular materials used therewithH01Q1/08, H01Q1/14 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/38 formed by a conductive layer on an insulating support patch antennas H01Q9/0407; microstrip dipole antennas H01Q9/065; microstrip slot antennas H01Q13/106; transmission line microstrip antennas H01Q13/206; manufacturing reflecting surfaces using insulating material for supporting the reflecting surface H01Q15/142
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/00 Loop antennas with a substantially uniform current distribution around the loop and having a directional radiation pattern in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop

Abstract

A structure for wireless communication having a plurality of conductor layers, an insulator layer separating each of the conductor layers, and at least one connector connecting two of the conductor layers wherein an electrical resistance is reduced when an electrical signal is induced in the resonator at a predetermined frequency.

Claims

1. A method for operating a structure, the method comprising the following steps:

a) providing a plurality of first conductors, each conductor having a first conductor thickness and a first conductor skin depth residing within the first conductor thickness;

b) providing a plurality of first insulators, each of the first insulators positioned between each of the first conductors, wherein the plurality of first conductors and first insulators are arranged to form a first resonator, wherein each of the first conductors and insulators that form the first resonator has at least one turn; and

c) inducing a first electrical signal in at least one of the first plurality of conductors so that the first electrical signal propagates through first conductor skin depth, and wherein the first resonator resonates at a first operating frequency.

2. The method of claim 1 including providing the plurality of conductors comprising at least a first conductor layer and a second conductor layer separated by an insulator layer wherein the first conductor layer is connected to the second conductor layer by at least one connector.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the connector is at least one of a via, a solder, a tab, a wire, a pin, and a rivet.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the conductor comprises at least one of a conductive tape, a conductive ribbon, and a deposited metal.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the first electrical signal comprises at least one of an energy signal, a power signal, and a data signal.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the first electrical signal comprises at least one of an electrical current, an electrical voltage, and a digital data signal.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the first operating frequency ranges from about 100 kHz to about 3 MHz.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the first operating frequency is in a first operating frequency band having a first operating frequency band width that ranges from about 100 kHz to about 3 MHz.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the first electrical signal has a first electrical signal frequency ranging from about 3 MHz to about 10 GHz.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the first electrical signal frequency is in a first electrical signal frequency band having a first electrical signal frequency band width that ranges from about 3 MHz to about 10 GHz.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one of the plurality of first conductors has a first cross-sectional shape that comprises at least one of a circular cross-section, a rectangular cross-section, a square cross-section, a triangular cross-section, and an elliptical cross-section.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the first conductor skin depth has a range from about one-half of the first conductor thickness to about equal to the first conductor thickness.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein the first conductor thickness has a range from about the first conductor skin depth to about twice the first conductor skin depth.

14. The method of claim 1 wherein the first conductor thickness is greater than about twice the first conductor skin depth.

15. The method of claim 1 including inducing the first electrical signal so that the first resonator structure exhibits a first quality factor greater than 100.

16. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of:

d) providing a plurality of second of conductors, each of the second conductors having second conductor thickness, and a second conductor skin depth residing within the second conductor thickness;

e) providing a plurality of second insulators, each of the second insulators positioned between each of the second conductors, wherein the plurality of second conductors and second insulators are arranged to form a second resonator, wherein each of the second conductors and insulators that form the second resonator has at least one turn; and

f) propagating an electrical signal through the first conductor skin depth of at least one of the first conductors causes a second electrical signal to be induced through the second resonator body at a second operating frequency.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein at least one of the plurality of second conductors has a cross-sectional shape that comprises at least one of a circular cross-section, a rectangular cross-section, a square cross-section, a triangular cross-section, and an elliptical cross-section.

18. The method of claim 16 wherein the second electrical signal comprises at least one of an energy signal, a power signal, and a data signal.

19. The method of claim 16 wherein the second electrical signal is at least one of an electrical current, an electrical voltage, and a digital data signal.

20. The method of claim 16 wherein a first magnitude of the first electrical signal is about equal to a second magnitude of the second electrical signal.

21. The method of claim 16 wherein a first magnitude of the first electrical signal is not equal to a second magnitude of the second electrical signal.

22. The method of claim 16 wherein the second conductor skin depth is between about one-half of the second conductor thickness and about equal to the second conductor thickness.

23. The method of claim 16 wherein the second conductor thickness is between about equal the second conductor skin depth and about equal to twice the second conductor skin depth.

24. The method of claim 16 wherein the second conductor thickness is greater than about twice the second conductor skin depth.

25. The method of claim 16 wherein each of the plurality of first and second of conductors extend about parallel to an imaginary longitudinal axis that extends about perpendicular to the thickness of respective first and second conductors.

26. The method of claim 16 wherein the second resonator has a second structural shape that comprises at least one of a circular solenoidal configuration, a square solenoidal configuration, a circular spiral configuration, a square spiral configuration, a rectangular configuration, a triangular configuration, a circular spiral-solenoidal configuration, a square spiral-solenoidal configuration, and a conformal solenoid configuration.

27. The method of claim 16 wherein the second conductor is formed from a second electrically conductive material.

28. The method of claim 27 wherein the second electrically conductive material comprises at least one of copper, titanium, platinum and platinum/iridium alloys, tantalum, niobium, zirconium, hathium, nitinol, Co—

Cr—

Ni alloys, stainless steel, gold, a gold alloy, palladium, carbon, silver, a noble metal, and a biocompatible material.

29. The method of claim 16 wherein the second insulator is formed from a second electrically insulative material.

30. The method of claim 29 wherein the second electrically insulative material comprises at least one of air, polystyrene, silicon dioxide, a biocompatible ceramic, and a ferrite material.

31. The method of claim 16 wherein the second electrical signal operates at a second electrical signal frequency that ranges from about 100 kHz to about 3 MHz.

32. The method of claim 31 wherein the second electrical signal frequency is in a second electrical signal frequency band having a second electrical signal frequency band width that ranges from about 100 kHz to about 3 MHz.

33. The method of claim 16 wherein the second operating frequency ranges from about 3 MHz to about 10 GHz.

34. The method of claim 33 further wherein the second operating frequency is in a second operating frequency band having a second operating frequency band width that ranges from about 3 MHz to about 10 GHz.

35. The method of the claim 16 including inducing the second electrical signal so that the second resonator structure exhibits a second quality factor greater than 100.