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US 7,741,921 B2Granted
Trigger-mode distributed wave oscillator system
AssigneeWaveworks, Inc.
InventorDamir Ismailov
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Abstract
A Trigger-Mode Distributed Wave Oscillator that provides accurate multiple phases of an oscillation and a method of use of the same. An auxiliary oscillator triggers an oscillation on independent conductor loops or rings forming a differential transmission medium for the oscillation wave. Once the oscillation wave is triggered, the auxiliary oscillator can be powered down to turn it off, and the wave can sustain itself indefinitely through active amplifying devices which can compensate for losses in the conductors.
Claims19
An electronic oscillator system comprising
- an electronic medium having one or more independent electrical conductors;
- one or more oscillation triggering circuitry, said triggering circuitry configured to inject oscillations into said electrical conductors;
- a plurality of cross-coupled amplifiers distributed along said electrical conductors;
- an oscillation detecting circuitry configured to detect said oscillations in said electrical conductors, wherein said oscillation detector is capable of restarting the triggering circuitry if any disturbances in the oscillations are detected;
- and
- wherein said oscillation triggering circuitry is capable of being turned-off without affecting the continuing oscillations indefinitely.
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A trigger-mode distributed wave oscillator comprising
- an electronic medium having at least two independent conductor loops performing the function of two identical transmission lines;
- at least one auxiliary oscillator, said auxiliary oscillator configured to trigger to inject into said independent electrical conductor loops opposite oscillation phases in order to enable each one of said independent electrical conductors to use the other as a booster to sustain said oscillation even after said auxiliary oscillator is turned-off;
- a finely distributed plurality of cross-coupled amplifiers distributed along said electrical conductors configured to amplify any weak oscillations due to losses in said conductors;
- a finely distributed plurality of varactors configured to vary the capacitance of said transmission lines in order to tune the frequency of traveling said distributed wave for phase-locked loop conditions;
- an oscillation detecting circuitry configured to detect said oscillation in said electrical conductors, wherein said oscillation detector is capable of restarting the auxiliary oscillator in order to re-trigger the oscillation if any disruptions in the oscillation are detected;
- and
- wherein said auxiliary oscillator is capable of being turned-off without affecting the continuing oscillation indefinitely.
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A method comprising
- providing a trigger-mode distributed wave oscillator system having at least two or more conducting transmission lines forming two or more independent loops, one or more auxiliary trigger oscillators, one or more oscillation detectors, a plurality of cross-coupled amplifiers and varactors distributed uniformly along said loops;
- powering-up said auxiliary trigger oscillators;
- triggering said auxiliary trigger oscillators to inject a plurality of phase oscillations at a triggering oscillation frequency into phase nodes along said independent loops;
- ramping up supply voltage for said cross-coupled amplifiers;
- detecting said phase oscillations in said oscillation detectors;
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- shutting down said auxiliary oscillators.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.