Abstract:
An antenna to transmit a wave signal may include a transmission line to transmit the wave signal, a plurality of first transmitting conductors connected to the transmission line. The first transmitting conductors may be substantially perpendicular to the transmission line and the first transmitting conductors may be substantially the same length.

Description:
PRIORITY 
       [0001]    The present invention claims priority under 35 USC section 119 based on a provisional application with a Ser. No. 61/963,087 which was filed on Nov. 22, 2013 
     
    
     FIELD OF THE INVENTION 
       [0002]    The invention relates to an antenna system that is utilizing parallel RF feeding of the radiating elements resulting in highly directional radiation pattern usable for wireless high power energy transport and for highly directional point to point communication. 
       BACKGROUND 
       [0003]    Before the electrical wire grid was popularized and established, intense interest was deployed toward the development of wireless transport of electrical energy over long distance. As of today all efforts to transport high electric power met with little success. However, the transport of low power RF waves used in communication systems has evolved with great success. 
         [0004]    The first well-known antenna experiment was conducted by the German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-1894). In 1887, he built a system to produce and detect radio waves. The original intention of his experiment was to demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic radiation. A few years later Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), an Italian inventor, developed and commercialized wireless technology by introducing a radiotelegraph system. His famous experiment was the transatlantic transmission from Poldhu, UK to St Johns, Newfoundland in Canada in 1901. 
         [0005]    Today, booming development of wireless communication technologies rapidly raise demands for antennas in the multibillion market, and current applications including, at least, mobile phones, portable computers, Global Positioning Systems, digital TV and many other applications. All these electronic devices rely on electrical energy to power their circuits, and most of them require a communication channel to exchange information with certain host devices, computers or systems. Currently, batteries and wireless technologies are utilized for these purposes. However, in many cases, these solutions are inadequate. For example, running out of battery power in a laptop or a cell phone when a recharging procedure is missed is an unpleasant, but common event. It would be highly desirable if, when a laptop, cell phone, media player or other electronic device is located within a “hot spot”, a wireless router will not only transmit/receive information, but also recharge these devices. With such technology, these personal devices will not need manual recharging, and their batteries can be made smaller since they are recharged more frequently. Such a wireless energy transfer technology could also be used in other consumer and industrial applications, such as transferring power from a solar panel, wind mill outside a residential house to the inside without a cable through the construction wall or roof, powering devices or systems inside a sealed, pressured, or vacuum container of either air or liquid, powering and guiding a robot or a vehicle wirelessly. With millions of operational wind mills and solar power generating plants, wireless transfer of electrical energy from the source to grid would create a very large market for specialized antenna system and contiguous radio frequency (RF) amplifiers. In the medical field, implanted microelectronic devices could perform a variety of therapeutic, prosthetic, and diagnostic functions. The deep brain simulation device, for example, could be used to treat Parkinson&#39;s disease and tumors. Currently, a complex surgical procedure is required to replace depleted battery. Wireless energy transfer technology can eliminate the need for these costly replacements. 
         [0006]    Therefore a need exists for method and design for energy distribution that is wire free but easy to deploy and configurable while may deliver sufficient power to be practical to power many household and industrial devices and to transport high power RF energy wirelessly from point to point. 
       SUMMARY 
       [0007]    The purpose of this application is to disclose a design of an anisotropic antenna producing quasi-collimated RF beam. With this antenna, uninterrupted point to point communication is feasible in addition to wireless transport of high power RF energy from point to point. 
         [0008]    It is an object of this invention to apply RF energy to antenna radiators at multiple points and in parallel. 
         [0009]    It is an object of this invention to deliver RF energy to antenna radiators at multiple points simultaneously by adjusting the physical lengths of RF energy delivery conductors. 
         [0010]    It is an object of this invention to synchronize RF energy delivery to antenna conductors by incorporating electronic delay lines into conductors. 
         [0011]    It is yet another object of this invention to connect RF power amplifiers directly to antenna radiators. 
         [0012]    It is an object of this invention to divide antenna radiators in segments with each segment being powered independently. 
         [0013]    It is an object of this invention to adjust separation distance of vertically spaced radiators for maximum efficiency. 
         [0014]    It is yet another object of this invention to adjust antenna radiators length for optimum effectiveness independent of radiating frequency. 
         [0015]    It is yet another object of this invention to apply RF signal to segmented Hertzian dipole in serial manner thus simulating travelling wave.
   An antenna to transmit a wave signal may include a transmission line to transmit the wave signal and a plurality of first transmitting conductors connected to the transmission line The first transmitting conductors may be substantially perpendicular to the transmission line, and the first transmitting conductors are substantially the same length.   The wave signal may be a square wave signal.   The first transmitting conductors may be continuous connected.   The first transmitting conductors may be discontinuous.   The antenna may include a plurality of second transmitting conductors.   The second transmission conductors may be parallel to the first transmitting conductors.   The second transmitting conductors may be continuously connected.   The second transmitting conductors may be discontinuous.   The first transmitting conductor may be fed at multiple points with parallel signal delivery   The first transmitting conductors and the second transmitting conductors are fed in parallel
       11) as in claim  5 , wherein the first transmitting conductors and the second transmitting conductors may be separated by a distance of d=λ/2.   
       The antenna includes a RF (radio frequency) amplifier may be connected to the first transmitting conductor.   The amplifier may include a synchronizing element connected to the RF amplifier to provide simultaneous signal delivery to the first transmitting conductors   The inverting and non inverting signals generated by the RF amplifier may be fed into the synchronizing element.   The antenna may include a processor to generate non-parallel delivery of the RF signal to the first transmitting conductors may be controlled by the processor and the analog signal may be digitized.   The Digitized signal may be applied progressively from the center and sequentially applied incrementally from the antenna center toward the ends of the antenna to eliminate reflected parasite signals.
 
The space wave generated by vertically stacked antenna may be in the direction perpendicular to the lines of force thus forming the anisotropic
   
 
     
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         [0032]      FIG. 1  illustrates an anisotropic antenna; 
           [0033]      FIG. 2  illustrates a transmission line; 
           [0034]      FIG. 3  illustrates a full-wave dipole antenna; 
           [0035]      FIG. 4  illustrates a dipole antenna which is fed in parallel; 
           [0036]      FIG. 5  illustrates a dipole antenna with segmented conductors; 
           [0037]      FIG. 6  illustrates a transmission line, antenna radiators and conductors; 
           [0038]      FIG. 7  illustrates a system as in  FIG. 6  where the incoming signal is fed into complementary amplifiers; 
           [0039]      FIG. 8  illustrates a segmented Herzian dipole antenna; 
           [0040]      FIG. 9  illustrates the anisotropic character of the antenna; 
       
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
       [0041]      FIG. 1A  frequent question about the anisotropic antenna is “how does it radiate?” A qualitative understanding of the radiation mechanism may be obtained by considering a square wave pulse train  100  applied to a two wire transmission line at points X &amp; Y, consisting of conductors XK  110  &amp; YL  120  as shown in  FIG. 1 . The movement of the charges creates a traveling wave current of magnitude I 0 /2 along each of the wires together with positive lines of force  130  and negative lines of force  140 . The square waves travel down the transmission line at a velocity of propagation determined by the line characteristics. The reflected traveling square wave, when combined with the incident traveling wave, forms in each wire a substantially pure standing wave pattern of square waves. In a two wire symmetrical transmission line, the current in a half-period of one wire is of the same magnitude but 180° out-of-phase from that in the corresponding half-period of the other wire. If the spacing for distance between the two conductors XY or KT, is very small, the fields radiated by the current of each wire are essentially cancelled by those of the other. The net result is an almost ideal non-radiating transmission line. 
         [0042]      FIG. 2  shows the transmission line to flare (bend to an angled/inclined extension) at points K &amp; L. In flared sections  210  &amp;  220 , the current is unaltered with positive lines of force  240  and  230  stretched, extending between the flared sections  210 ,  220 ). However in flared sections  210  &amp;  220 , the electric fields and currents no longer cancel each other out and result in the conversion from the traveling wave to the space wave. The positive lines of force  250  and negative lines of force  260  are joined and travel/extend outward in direction  270  from the ends of the flared sections  210 ,  220 . 
         [0043]      FIG. 3  shows the full-wave dipole antenna. The flared arms  320  &amp;  330  of the transmission line  310  are positioned 90° or substantially at 90° from the transmission line  310 . This antenna is called a standing wave antenna. The square wave signal is applied at points X&amp;Y  300  and it travels to the ends where it is reflected back resulting with the voltage amplitude doubling at the ends M &amp; N. The lines of force  350  are almost circular, however there is a fringing effect near the ends of antenna wires  320  &amp;  330 . The electric lines of force become crowded toward the ends and bulge out as illustrated by  340 . The maximum radiation pattern of antenna is in the direction  360 . According to Schelkunoff, the bulging end effect is only in the immediate vicinity of the ends and may be represented, therefore, by a lumped capacitance at the ends, added to the cap capacitance. The end effects effectively lengthen the antenna. The effective extension in the length of each arm may be calculated and it is described in antenna textbooks. 
         [0044]      FIG. 4  illustrates a dipole antenna which is fed in parallel. Square wave signal  400  applied to transmission line  410  &amp;  420  at points X &amp; Y travels along transmission line until it reaches the end points K &amp; L where the transmission line  410  &amp;  420  is split into 4+4 conductors of equal length. Equal conductor distances Ke, Kf, Kg, KM and Kh, Ki, Kj &amp; KN respectively guarantee equal signal time arrival to dipole antenna arms  430  &amp;  440 . The established lines of force  470  are similar to lines of force shown in  FIG. 3  with crowded lines of force  450  &amp;  460 . However the end effects lengthening the antenna are not as pronounced. The maximum radiation pattern of antenna is in the direction  480 . 
         [0045]      FIG. 5  depictes a dipole antenna with segmented conductors. Each half has three segments,  515 ,  520 ,  525 , &amp;  530 ,  535 ,  540 . Each segment if includes wire conductors of equal physical length to deliver traveling signal  500  simultaneously. The distances between segments  555  are identical preferably small. The two end effects shown as disconnected bulging lines of force  545  &amp;  550  can be represented by a lumped capacitance and they provide the need for lengthening the antenna. Finally, the converted traveling wave to space wave is shown by the direction arrow  565 . 
         [0046]      FIG. 6  RF signal  600  is applied to transmission line  615  &amp;  620  at points  605  &amp;  610  and travels until the RF signal  600  reaches points K  625  and L  660  where the RF signal  600  is branched out and delivered to antenna radiators  630  &amp;  635  via conductors  670  of substantial equal physical lengths. The traveling waves of opposite polarities radiating from conductors  630  &amp;  635  spread out in cylinder-like geometries having the antenna radiators at their centers. The times it takes these waves to reach distances r from the antenna sources are 
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         [0048]    All points at a distance r from the antenna have the same phase. The wave-length being given by 
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       c=velocity of light (=3×10 8  meters/sec)   f=frequency (cycles/sec)   T=1/f=period (sec)
 
The radiating systems of antenna conductors and equipotential cylindrical surfaces emanating from antenna conductors are of great importance. After the square wave signal  600  applied to transmission line reaches the antenna conductors  630  &amp;  635 , cylindrical waves of opposite polarities reach the opposing antenna conductors at times equal to T/2 when the conductor separation distance d  675  equals to λ/2. At this time the current between elements  630  &amp;  635  starts to flow and the transition from traveling wave to space wave begins. The direction of emitting space wave leaving the antenna is shown as  645 .
       
 
         [0052]      FIG. 7  illustrates a more elaborate system, where the incoming signal  700  is fed into complementary amplifiers  710  &amp;  720 . Amplifier  710  is of inverting type and the complimentary amplifier  720  is non inverting. The complimentary signals from amplifiers  710  &amp;  720  enter controlling elements  760  &amp;  770  where the timing is adjusted such, that the signals enter the arrays are of RF amplifiers  750  &amp;  780  connected directly to antenna conductors  730  &amp;  740  separated by distance d  790 . The conversion process of traveling wave to space wave highlighted in this figure is identical to conversion process shown in  FIG. 6 . 
         [0053]      FIG. 8   FIG. 8  shows a segmented Herzian dipole antenna. There are two branches of the antenna: first branch is designated as  830  and the second branch is designated as  835 . Each antenna half has 5 segments. RF energy to each segment is supplied by amplifiers  840  &amp;  845  and each amplifier is connected to delay lines  820  &amp;  825 . The function of each delay line is to guarantee simultaneous signal deliveries to RF amplifiers and to antenna segments. Signal processor  815  is used to furnish two types of operating modes: one operating mode is delivering RF signals to antenna conductors in parallel and the second operating mode is delivering RF signal is serial per partes mode which may mean “in pieces, fragmented or portioned”. In the context it may mean a part of serial signal is giving instructions, another part of serial signal is giving information/data. 
         [0054]    The operating character of the antenna in this mode resembles closely the Herzian dipole antenna, where the RF signals are first applied in a first time period at the antenna center. The next step the RF signals are applied in a second time period to the adjacent segments, shown as  2  &amp;  7 , the next step the RF signal is applied in a third time period to segments  3  &amp;  8 , the next step the RF signal is applied in a fourth time period to segments  4  &amp;  9  and lastly the RF signals is applied in a fifth time period to segments  5  &amp;  10 . At this stage the process continues without signal reflections at both ends. There are two signal inputs  805  &amp;  810  used to control the operation. The signal designated  805  delivers analog information to the antenna and the digital control signals  810  is providing the modes of operation. 
         [0055]      FIG. 9  illustrates the anisotropic character of the antenna. A signal  900  (in this case a square wave signal) is applied to the inverting and the non inverting amplifiers  905  &amp;  910 . The square wave signal is shown as  960 . Outgoing signals from amplifiers  905  &amp;  910  are fed into timing adjusting elements  915  &amp;  920  which are connected to the RF amplifiers  925  &amp;  930 . The RF amplifiers  925  &amp;  930  are connected to antenna elements  935  &amp;  940 . The lines of force  945  are between the antenna elements  935  &amp;  940 . The preferred direction of radiation is highlighted as  950  &amp;  955 . The emission of space waves is other directions are minimal.