Method for Operation of Multi-Layer Wire Structure for High Efficiency Wireless Communication

• US 20130068499A1
• Filed: 09/15/2011
• Published: 03/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nucurrent, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Nucurrent, Inc.
• Inventors: Singh, Vinit, Frysz, Christine A.
• Application Number:
  US13/233,707
• Publication Number:
  US 20130068499A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 174/113.R
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 5/00 Coils superconducting coils H01F6/06; fixed inductances of the signal type H01F17/00

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 of operating a wire structure comprising a plurality of conductors, each conductor having a conductor length, a conductor height, a conductor depth and a conductor surface having a skin depth and a plurality of insulators, each insulator positioned between each conductors;

the method comprising the step of;

propagating an electrical signal through the skin depth of the conductor surface.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the plurality of conductors comprises a first conductor and a second conductor separated by a first insulator wherein the first conductor is connected to the second conductor 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, a rivet, and the like.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the plurality of conductors comprises a plurality of conductor layers.

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

6. The method of claim 1 wherein when an electrical signal is propagated through the skin depth of the conductor surface, the electrical resistance within the wire structure is reduced.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of conductors is in a parallel orientation.

8. The method of claim 4 wherein the number of the plurality of conductor layers is less than or equal to the total number of layers and are connected electrically in parallel.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the plurality of conductive layers connected electrically in parallel is connected electrically in series with one or more of a second plurality of conductive layers connected electrically in parallel.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the electrical signal is provided within a first operating frequency ranging from about 100 kHz to about 3 MHz.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the electrical signal is provided within a first operating frequency ranging from about 3 MHz to about 10 GHz.

12. The method of claim 10 wherein the first operating frequency is in a first operating frequency band ranging from about 100 kHz to about 3 MHz.

13. The method of claim 11 wherein the first operating frequency is in a first operating frequency band ranging from about 3 MHz to about 10 GHz.

14. The method of claim 1 wherein the wire structure has a quality factor greater than 100.

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

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

17. The method of claim 1 wherein the wire structure has a cross-sectional structural shape comprising 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.

18. The method of claim 1 wherein the plurality of conductors is formed from an electrically conductive material.

19. The method of claim 18 wherein the electrically conductive material to comprises at least one copper, titanium, platinum, platinum/iridium alloys, tantalum, niobium, zirconium, hafnium, nitinol, Co—

Cr—

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

20. The method of claim 1 wherein the insulator is formed from an electrically insulative material.

21. The method of claim 20 wherein the electrically insulative material comprises at least one of air, Styrofoam, silicon dioxide, a suitable biocompatible ceramic or any similar dielectric with a low permittivity, a non-conductive dielectric with a high permittivity, and a ferrite material.