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US 2020/0287264 A1Published application
Excitation and use of guided surface wave modes on lossy media
AssigneeCPG Technologies, LLC
InventorsJames F. Corum, Kenneth L. Corum
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Abstract
Disclosed are various embodiments for exciting a guided surface waveguide probe to create a plurality of resultant fields that are substantially mode-matched to a Zenneck surface wave mode of a surface of a lossy conducting medium and embodiments for receiving energy from a Zenneck surface wave launched on the lossy conducting medium.
Claims22
An apparatus, comprising:
- a receive circuit subjected to a Zenneck surface wave transmitted along a surface of at least a natural element of a terrestrial medium;
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- an impedance matching circuit coupling an electrical load to the receive circuit, the impedance matching circuit facilitating for a power transfer of energy received from the Zenneck surface wave by the receive circuit to the electrical load.
A system, comprising:
- a guided surface waveguide probe that generates a plurality of electromagnetic fields that are substantially mode-matched to a Zenneck surface wave mode of a surface of a terrestrial medium to launch a Zenneck surface wave, wherein the electromagnetic fields substantially synthesize a wave front incident at a complex Brewster angle of the terrestrial medium;
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- a receive circuit in the presence of the Zenneck surface wave, the receive circuit receiving energy from the Zenneck surface wave.
A method, comprising:
- generating a plurality of electromagnetic fields that are substantially mode-matched to a Zenneck surface wave mode of a surface of a terrestrial medium to launch a Zenneck surface wave, wherein the electromagnetic fields form a wave front incident at a complex Brewster angle of the terrestrial medium;
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- propagating the Zenneck surface wave along a surface of at least a natural element portion of the terrestrial medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.