Ball and Socket Dielectric Transmission Medium for Guided Wave Propagation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current communication networks face challenges in providing high bandwidth and efficient data transmission, especially with the increasing demand from smartphones and portable devices, as traditional wireless infrastructure struggles to maintain signal strength and reduce propagation losses over long distances without requiring separate electrical return paths.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a guided wave communication system that uses electromagnetic waves bound to transmission media like wires or dielectric materials, allowing for the propagation of signals without a separate electrical return path, utilizing couplers and transceivers to launch and extract guided electromagnetic waves at millimeter-wave frequencies, and employing dielectric cores and claddings to minimize loss and maximize signal strength.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional wireless infrastructure is used to provide broadband access, then wireless coverage can be achieved, but signal strength degrades and propagation losses increase over long distances
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces dielectric members as intermediary structures to guide electromagnetic waves. These dielectric members act as mediators between the signal source and destination, channeling the electromagnetic energy along defined paths to reduce dispersion and propagation losses that occur in traditional wireless transmission through free space.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional electrical conductors with dielectric members that guide electromagnetic waves. This substitution eliminates the need for separate electrical return paths required by conventional conductive systems, simplifying the transmission structure while maintaining signal integrity over long distances.
2Productivity
If more bandwidth is provided to address increased data demand, then network capacity increases, but infrastructure complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The dielectric member structures serve multiple functions simultaneously: they guide electromagnetic waves, provide mechanical support, and can be deployed in various configurations (single members, bundles, different geometries) to serve different bandwidth requirements. This multi-functionality allows the same basic infrastructure type to scale with network capacity demands without proportionally increasing complexity.
3Reliability
If separate electrical return paths are used for signal transmission, then signal integrity is maintained, but the transmission medium becomes more complex and requires more space
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and eliminates the separate electrical return path from the transmission system. By using dielectric members to guide electromagnetic waves, the system removes the need for paired conductors or separate ground paths, simplifying the transmission medium structure while maintaining signal integrity through the dielectric-guided wave propagation.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution enables efficient data transmission with reduced propagation losses and increased bandwidth, allowing signals to travel long distances with minimal degradation, while eliminating the need for separate electrical return paths, thus enhancing network capacity and reliability.
Implementation Method 1
a dielectric core comprising a plurality of rigid dielectric members configured to propagate guided electromagnetic waves
Implementation Method 2
A dielectric cladding is disposed on at least a portion of an outer surface of the first dielectric core
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a transmission medium that includes a dielectric core comprising a plurality of rigid dielectric members configured to propagate guided electromagnetic waves. A dielectric cladding is disposed on at least a portion of an outer surface of the first dielectric core. Other embodiments are disclosed.