PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15982483
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["250", "200000"]

Abstract:
The invention provides an improved method and apparatus, in general, for a use of a sheaf of unclad waveguide beam-makers to provide for a multi-stage forcedly-conveying waveguide effect of waveguide fibers in combination with the self-focusing waveguide effect of parabolic antennas, on the one hand, to absorb the ambient radiation, and in particular, for sunlight rays energy absorption to detect and transform the energy into either warmth, or electrical power, or mechanical thrust, and, on the other hand, to transmit the wave-energy through a homogeneous poorly-permeable medium.

Claim (Index 15):
A method for use of an improving shaped component for an antenna to focus wave energy when said antenna functioning in a mode being at least one of:\n a receiving mode for wave energy absorption, and a transmission mode for wave energy directional transportation; wherein a set of interrelated terms being defined as follows:\n (a) an angle of incidence is defined as an angle between a ray and a normal to a surface, wherein said angle of incidence which equals zero is further called \u201cthe zero angle of incidence\u201d; \n (b) a generalized waveguide effect is defined in a widen sense as superposition and thereby interference of wave beam portions in accordance with the Huygens-Fresnel principle of wave propagation thereby resulting in a tendency of wave beam propagation along and within a wave-conveying corridor; \n (c) a generalized unclad waveguide is defined as a certain spatial wave-conveying corridor having:\n a shape of an elongated pipe having a substantially long length and a cross-section having the maximal linear size being small with respect to the substantially long length such that the substantially long length is longer than the maximal cross-sectional size by a factor of at least 10, and wherein the substantially long length having the claimed sense is longer than 10 cm; \n wherein said elongated pipe comprising:\n a core, being transparent for said waves, wherein said transparent core is made from a material, having a refractive index, applicable to the ambient wave beams and being higher than the refractive index of the ambient medium; and \n a butt-end being at least one of an interface butt-end and an outlet butt-end, wherein said butt-end being transparent for said ambient wave beams; \n \n and \n an unclad transparent side shell bordering the elongated pipe along the elongated pipe substantially long length, wherein said unclad transparent side shell being characterized by jumping changes of said beam of rays interference map pattern, namely, said unclad transparent side shell, in turn, being defined as a spatial boundary separating a portion of medium, being subjected to the propagation of said beam of rays, from a portion of the medium, being free from the propagation of the beam of rays; wherein said unclad transparent side shell being at least one of:\n real solid walls being transparent for said ambient wave beam, \n imaginary walls of said certain spatial wave-conveying corridor being unclad, wherein said imaginary walls being formed by jumping changes of spatial physical parameters of medium of said certain spatial wave-conveying corridor with respect to ambient medium, and \n imaginary walls, formed by superposition of wave portions of said beam of rays causing constructive-destructive interference and thereby resulting in said jumping changes of said beam of rays interference map pattern; \n \n \n (d) a generalized unclad waveguide beam-maker is defined as the generalized unclad waveguide being supplied with a parabolic reflector, being at least one of interface and outlet and having an inner concave paraboloid arch-vault capable of reflection said rays, wherein the butt-end is located in the paraboloid's focus:\n to parallelize the rays released from the butt-end, and \n to direct the parallelized rays to an impacted surface at the zero angle of incidence, \n when the receiving-transmitting antenna functioning in a receiving mode; \n wherein the generalized unclad waveguide beam-maker is at least one of: \n an unclad wave-conveying corridor, called dielectric waveguide, comprising a dielectric core, being transparent for said electromagnetic radiation, having a refractive index being higher than the refractive index of ambient medium, and being supplied with said parabolic reflector of electromagnetic waves; \n an unclad wave-conveying corridor, called acoustic waveguide, comprising an elastic core, being transparent for said acoustic wave, having a refractive index being higher than the refractive index of ambient medium, and being supplied with said parabolic reflector of acoustic waves; and \n an imaginary bordered uniform wave-conveying corridor, called self-bordering elemental waveguide, comprising a portion of a parabolic reflector:\n to form a spatial boundary separating a portion of medium, being subjected to the propagation of said beam of rays along a sagittal axis perpendicular to the directrix of parabola associated with said parabolic reflector, from a portion of the medium, being free from the propagation of the beam of rays; and thereby \n to become capable of conveying the beam of rays through a homogeneous easily-permeable medium; \n \n \n (e) a sheaf of a big number N of the generalized unclad waveguide beam-makers is defined as a multiplicity of the big number N of the generalized unclad waveguide beam-makers, wherein the big number N is defined as at least 10, and wherein the generalized unclad waveguides are densely-arranged near to each other such that the average distance between the nearest generalized unclad waveguides is at most of one-tenth of the average length of the waveguides;\n wherein the sheaf of a big number N of the generalized unclad waveguide beam-makers is at least one of:\n a multiplicity of the big number N of the dielectric waveguide beam-makers bundled together; \n a multiplicity of the big number N of the elastic waveguide beam-makers bundled together; and \n an imaginary bordered complicated wave-conveying corridor comprising a multiplicity of the big number N of said generalized unclad waveguide beam-makers, wherein each of the generalized unclad waveguides being specified as said self-bordering elemental waveguide having said parabolic reflector portion, wherein the said self-bordering elemental waveguides being divided between at least two groups associated with at least two groups of said parabolic reflector portions, correspondingly, wherein said at least two groups of the parabolic reflector portions differing in position of focal points of parabolas associated with said at least two groups of the parabolic reflector portions, correspondingly, to provide a spatial modulation of said beam of rays and, in turn, to provide an enhanced self-focusing waveguide effect, namely:\n to provide anti-phase superposition resulting in destructive interference and thereby resulting in inter-compensation of wave portions being scattered and thereby reached a point outside the imaginary bordered complicated wave-conveying corridor, thereby \n to provide conditions for: \n \u2003an effective suppression of the scattering of said propagating wave, and thereby \n \u2003a conservation the propagating wave energy within the imaginary bordered complicated wave-conveying corridor, \n and thus, \n to make the imaginary bordered complicated wave-conveying corridor be capable of conveying the beam of rays through a homogeneous poorly-permeable medium; \n \n \n \n (f) an improving shaped component for an antenna is defined as a component comprising:\n a surface at least one of:\n being subjected to impact by said conveyed wave beam, further called an impacted surface, when said antenna operating in a receiving mode; and \n emitting said conveyed wave beam, further called an emitting surface, when said antenna operating in a transmitting mode; \n \n and \n said sheaf of a big number N of said generalized unclad waveguide beam-makers to be submerged in ambient medium and oriented to provide that at least one of:\n each of the interface butt-ends of the big number N of said generalized unclad waveguides being supplied with said interface parabolic reflector becoming faced to at least one of:\n said impacted surface, and \n said emitting surface; \n \n and \n each of the outlet butt-ends of the big number N of said generalized unclad waveguides being supplied with said outlet parabolic reflector becoming faced away from at least one of:\n said impacted surface, and \n said emitting surface; \n \n \n \n wherein said method comprising conceptual implementation steps, namely:\n when said antenna, being wide-directional, operating in the receiving mode, exposition of said sheaf of a big number N of said generalized unclad waveguide beam-makers as a whole to ambient wave beams, yet to be subjected to the generalized waveguide effect, at an arbitrary angle of incidence to allow for a penetration of said ambient wave beams into said sheaf of a big number N of said generalized unclad waveguide beam-makers across unclad transparent side shells of said generalized unclad waveguides and through said generalized unclad waveguides thereby subjecting said ambient wave beams to partial refraction within each said generalized unclad waveguide so resulting in scattering a portion of wave energy, brought by said ambient wave beams, among the multiplicity of said generalized unclad waveguides multi-stage repeatedly, to provide that each of said generalized unclad waveguides of said sheaf entrapping at least a sub-portion of the wave energy portion, brought by said ambient wave beams, due to the effect of total internal reflection, thereby in the final analysis, providing conditions to redirect and convey the sub-portions of the wave energy portion, brought by the ambient wave beams becoming reincarnated into conveyed wave beams, to said at least one interface butt-end faced to said impacted surface due to the generalized waveguide effect; \n thereby, resulting in:\n scattering a portion of wave energy, brought by said ambient wave beams, among the multiplicity of said waveguides multi-stage repeatedly, \n catching the ambient wave beams, penetrated into said cores of said generalized unclad waveguides through said unclad side shells of the elongated pipes, by the sheaf of generalized unclad waveguide beam-makers due to at least one of:\n the phenomenon of partial internal reflection, and \n the phenomenon of total internal reflection, \n \n both occurred within the generalized unclad waveguides to provide that each of said generalized unclad waveguides entrapping at least a sub-portion of the wave energy portion, brought by said ambient wave beams, due to the effect of total internal reflection and the waveguide effect; thereby, in the final analysis; \n providing conditions to redirect and convey the sub-portions of the wave energy portion, brought by the ambient wave beams, to said interface butt-end located in the focus of parabola of said reflecting arch-vault faced to said impacted surface; \n parallelizing the conveyed wave beams as a result of reflection of waves, released through the interface butt-end, from a reflecting arch-vault; \n directing of the parallelized ambient wave beams to the impacted surface of the wave beams detecting antenna at the zero angle of incidence, wherein the directing is at least one of:\n along a line of sight, \n by a use of a focusing or defocusing mirror, and \n by a use of a focusing or defocusing lens; \n \n and \n absorbing the wave beams energy and thereby detecting the wave beams, released from the interface butt-end, by a detector of wave beams; \n \n and \n when said antenna, being narrow-directional and being submerged in said homogeneous poorly-permeable medium to operate in the transmitting mode, \n orientation of said sheaf of the big number N of said generalized unclad waveguide beam-makers, wherein each of said generalized unclad waveguide beam-makers, having said portion of said parabolic reflector, comprising the outlet butt-end located in the focus of said outlet parabolic reflector having arch-vault faced away from said emitting surface to direct and convey emitted wave beams to a receiving antenna due to the enhanced self-focusing waveguide effect.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12882884', '13214786', '15867048', '14678835', '11678651']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6985665685123859
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4767168798459147
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6763815996457387
- Mean Citation Score: 186.146606
- Max Citation Score: 194.72464
- Similarity Product: 152.79555730054855

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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