Dielectric Transmission Medium Connector Guided Wave
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing demand for higher bandwidth in communication networks due to widespread use of smartphones and data-intensive services poses challenges for traditional wireless infrastructure, particularly in providing efficient and reliable data access across smaller areas.
Innovation Solution
A guided wave communication system that utilizes electromagnetic waves bound to transmission media such as wires or dielectric materials, allowing for efficient data transmission without the need for electrical return paths, and employs couplers to launch and extract guided waves at millimeter-wave frequencies.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional wireless infrastructure is used to provide broadband access, then coverage area can be extended, but bandwidth capability and data transmission efficiency deteriorate due to increasing demand from smartphones and data-intensive services
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional electrical signal transmission through conductors with electromagnetic wave propagation along dielectric transmission media. This substitution eliminates the need for electrical return paths and enables millimeter-wave frequency operation, significantly improving bandwidth capability while reducing propagation loss through the use of guided wave modes that are bound to the dielectric surface.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the operating frequency parameter to millimeter-wave ranges and transitions from conventional electrical transmission to electromagnetic wave guidance. By operating at higher frequencies with guided wave modes, the system achieves enhanced bandwidth capability and improved transmission efficiency, directly addressing the increasing demand from data-intensive services.
2Reliability
If electrical return paths are required for data transmission, then signal stability can be maintained, but device complexity and infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and eliminates the electrical return path requirement from the transmission system. By using electromagnetic waves bound to dielectric transmission media, the system maintains signal stability through the guided wave modes while removing the complex infrastructure of paired conductors and electrical circuit completion requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The dielectric transmission medium serves as an intermediary that guides electromagnetic waves without requiring electrical circuit completion. The dielectric material binds the electromagnetic waves to its surface, providing signal stability and guidance while eliminating the need for electrical return paths, thus reducing infrastructure complexity.
3Productivity
If higher bandwidth capability is implemented to address increased data demand, then data transmission efficiency improves, but propagation loss and signal attenuation worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent substitutes conventional electrical signal transmission with electromagnetic wave propagation at millimeter-wave frequencies guided by dielectric media. This substitution enables higher bandwidth operation with reduced signal attenuation, as the guided wave modes are bound to the dielectric surface and experience lower loss compared to traditional electrical transmission at equivalent data rates.
Solution Approach 2:
By changing the transmission mechanism to electromagnetic wave guidance and operating at millimeter-wave frequencies, the patent achieves higher data transmission efficiency. The guided wave modes provide controlled propagation with reduced attenuation, allowing efficient high-bandwidth transmission over practical distances.
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 reliable and efficient data transmission with reduced propagation loss, supporting long-distance communication along transmission media with minimal infrastructure requirements, thus addressing the bandwidth demands in urban and suburban areas.
Implementation Method 1
A dielectric transmission medium includes 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 dielectric core. The dielectric cladding is flexible and supports the dielectric core
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a connector that includes a first port configured to receive electromagnetic waves guided by a first dielectric core of a first transmission medium. A waveguide is configured to guide the electromagnetic waves from the first port to a second port. The second port is configured to transmit the electromagnetic waves to a second dielectric core of a second transmission medium. Other embodiments are disclosed.