Wireless connectors
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorsDouglas B. Gundel, Zulfiqar A. Khan, Alexander W. Barr, Steven A. Neu
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Abstract
A wireless connector is disclosed that includes a first communication device configured to wirelessly transmit, by radiative coupling, a modulated signal including a carrier signal modulated with a digital signal. The wireless connector also includes a second communication device configured to receive the modulated signal. The first and second communication devices are coupled to one another through at least one wired connection that carries a signal used to demodulate the modulated signal.
Claims11
A wireless connector comprising:
- a first communication device configured to wirelessly transmit, by radiative coupling, a modulated signal comprising a carrier signal modulated with a digital signal;
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- a second communication device configured to receive the modulated signal, the first and second communication devices coupled through at least one wired connection that carries a signal used to demodulate the modulated signal.
A wireless transceiver system, comprising:
- a first printed circuit board (PCB) comprising a first transceiver assembly disposed thereon, the first transceiver assembly comprising:
- a first modulator for modulating a first carrier signal with a first digital signal to generate a first modulated carrier signal;
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- a first transmitter for wirelessly transmitting the first modulated carrier signal;
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- a second PCB comprising a second transceiver assembly disposed thereon, the second transceiver assembly comprising:
- a first receiver for wirelessly receiving the wirelessly transmitted first modulated carrier signal;
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- a first demodulator for demodulating the received first modulated carrier signal to extract the first digital signal,
- wherein the first transceiver assembly and the second transceiver assembly are connected through at least one wired connection that carries a signal used in demodulating the received first modulated carrier signal.
An electronic system comprising:
- a plurality of printed circuit boards (PCBs) disposed within a housing of the electronic system, each PCB comprising a plurality of transceivers configured to wirelessly transmit and receive modulated carrier signals;
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- each transceiver in the system is configured to receive signals transmitted by every other transceiver in the system.
An electronic system comprising:
- a housing with multiple sections within the housing;
- a plurality of transceivers arranged within each of the multiple sections, the plurality of transceivers disposed on one or more printed circuit boards (PCBs), each of the transceivers of the plurality of transceivers configured to transmit and receive modulated carrier signals modulated by digital data through space within the housing, wherein each of the plurality of transceivers arranged with-in each section is configured to receive modulated carrier signals transmitted by each of the other transceivers of the plurality of transceivers;
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- at least one structure disposed within the housing configured to substantially isolate signals transmitted by the plurality of transceivers in one of the multiple sections from signals transmitted by the plurality of transceivers in another one of the multiple sections.
An electronic system comprising:
- a plurality of printed circuit boards (PCBs), each PCB comprising a first transceiver configured to wirelessly transmit a first carrier signal modulated by a first signal;
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- a cable spaced apart from each PCB in the plurality of PCBs and comprising a plurality of spaced apart radiation points disposed thereon, each radiation point being adapted to wirelessly transmit a second carrier signal modulated by a second digital signal and to receive the first carrier signal modulated by the first digital signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.