Patent ID: 9472498
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: H01L,H04B

Claim Text:
1. An inter-substrate communication system, comprising: a plurality of substrates arranged in a stack; on at least a first one of the substrates, a plurality of inductive transmitting elements, wherein each of the transmitting elements transmits a signal in a corresponding separate channel from a set of channels during a different assigned time slot in a set of time slots, wherein each transmitting element is active in its assigned time slot and is inactive during other slots, and wherein each of the transmitting elements includes a transmitting coil or partial coil; and on at least a second of the substrates, an inductive receiving element inductively coupled to the inductive transmitting elements, wherein the inductive receiving element includes a receiving coil in physical opposition to all of the transmitting coils or partial coils, wherein an area of the receiving coil is larger than an area encompassing all of the transmitting coils or partial coils to facilitate signal coupling, and wherein the inductive receiving element is coupled to a de-multiplexer on the second substrate.