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 1):
An improving shaped component for an antenna,\n wherein a set of interrelated terms being defined as follows:\n (a) a wave, called also a propagating wave, is defined as an oscillation accompanied by a transfer of energy that travels through a medium being at least one of vacuum and matter; said propagating wave is at least one of:\n an electromagnetic wave, being at least one of a radio frequency electromagnetic wave and an electromagnetic radiation as sunlight, wherein said sunlight is at least one of infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light; and \n an acoustic wave, being at least one of hearable sound and ultrasound; \n wherein accompanying terms are specified as follows: \n a wave-front is defined as a surface of an equal phase; \n a plane wave is defined as a wave whose wave-fronts are portions of parallel planes; \n a ray is defined as said plane wave propagating in a certain direction; \n a radiation defined as said wave composed of said rays; \n a beam of said rays is defined as a beam composed of rays propagating in parallel; \n \n (b) an ambient wave beam is defined as at least one of:\n a direct wave, emitted by a source of radiation and reaching said improving shaped component on a line of sight; \n a reflected wave, emitted by said source of radiation, reflected from reflective surroundings, and then reaching said improving shaped component; and \n a scattered wave, originally emitted by said source of radiation, then being subjected to scattering in ambient medium, and then partially reaching said improving shaped component; \n \n (c) a homogeneous medium is defined as medium, characterized by uniformity of spatial physical parameters: density, elasticity, viscosity, dielectric constant, and electrical conductivity; wherein said medium being subjected to penetration of said propagating wave, and wherein said uniformity is defined with respect to said propagating wave; namely, said uniformity is defined as a condition wherein said medium having heterogeneousness of a linear size being much smaller than the wavelength of the propagating wave; wherein said homogeneous medium is further called at least one of:\n a dielectric medium, when said wave is said electromagnetic wave and wherein said medium is primarily characterized by a uniform dielectric constant and negligible electrical conductivity; \n a conductive medium, when said wave is said electromagnetic wave and wherein said medium is primarily characterized by a uniform dielectric constant and uniform electrical conductivity; and \n an elastic medium, when said wave is said acoustic wave and wherein said medium is primarily characterized by a uniform density, uniform elasticity, and uniform viscosity; \n wherein a homogeneous easily-permeable medium is defined as the homogeneous medium being at least one of: \n said dielectric medium having heterogeneousness of a linear size being smaller than one-tenth of the wavelength of the propagating wave; and \n an elastic medium, having a negligible viscosity; \n wherein a homogeneous poorly-permeable medium is defined as the homogeneous medium being at least one of: \n said dielectric medium having heterogeneousness of a linear size being smaller than the wavelength of the propagating wave and bigger than one-tenth of the wavelength of the propagating wave; \n said conductive medium; and \n said elastic medium; \n \n (d) an angle of incidence is defined as an angle between said 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 (e) 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 (f) 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, having a concave profile of parabola in a sectional plane and being capable of reflection of 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 said 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 said 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 said 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 said 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 said homogeneous easily-permeable medium; \n \n \n (g) a conveyed wave beam is defined as said beam of rays, propagating within said generalized unclad waveguide; \n (h) a forcedly-conveying waveguide effect is defined as a phenomenon of said wave propagation along a zig-zag path between two boundaries within the generalized unclad waveguide due to the phenomenon of total internal reflection in accordance with the Huygens-Fresnel principle; \n (i) a self-focusing waveguide effect is defined for said generalized wave, being reflected from said parabolic reflector, as a phenomenon of said reflected wave propagation along a sagittal axis perpendicular to a directrix of parabola associated with said parabolic reflector in accordance with the Huygens-Fresnel principle; \n (j) 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, namely, the generalized waveguide effect is further specified as at least one of:\n the forcedly-conveying waveguide effect, wherein the wave-conveying corridor being formed by a spatial boundary separating different materials, to provide for conditions of a total internal reflection of said conveyed wave beam; and \n the self-focusing waveguide effect, wherein the wave-conveying corridor being imaginary bordered by jumping changes of said beam of rays interference map pattern, namely, the wave-conveying corridor being formed by a spatial imaginary unclad transparent side shell separating between two portions of medium:\n conveying, being subjected to the propagation of said conveyed wave beam, and \n ambient, being free from the propagation of the wave beam; \n \n and \n \n (k) 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 \u2003to 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 \u2003to 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 \u2003and thus, \n \u2003to make the imaginary bordered complicated wave-conveying corridor be capable of conveying the beam of rays through said homogeneous poorly-permeable medium; \n \n \n wherein the claimed improving shaped component for said antenna comprising:\n a surface being at least one of:\n an impacted surface, being subjected to impact by said conveyed wave beam when said antenna operating in a receiving mode; and \n an emitting surface, emitting said conveyed wave beam 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 at least one of:\n directly, and \n indirectly, using at least one intermediate reflector; \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 wherein:\n when said antenna, being wide-directional, operating in the receiving mode, said sheaf of a big number N of said generalized unclad waveguide beam-makers as a whole being exposed to said ambient wave beams, yet to be subjected to the forcedly-conveying 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 waveguides across said 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,\n which is brought by the ambient wave beams becoming reincarnated into a multiplicity of the big number N of conveyed sub-beams propagating within the multiplicity of the big number N of the generalized unclad waveguides, correspondingly, along zig-zag paths to said interface butt-ends of said waveguides due to the generalized waveguide effect, \n \n to said interface butt-end supplied with said interface parabolic reflector faced to said impacted surface; \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 each of said sheaf of a big number N of said generalized unclad waveguide beam-makers comprising said outlet parabolic reflector faced away from said emitting surface.

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): 0.6965334438774662
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4862197154152091
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6755020710312405
- Mean Citation Score: 186.146606
- Max Citation Score: 194.72464
- Similarity Product: 139.33432351055146

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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