Multiply-Connected Power Processing Circuit for Anomaly Filtering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Power distribution systems, such as the North American grid, face anomalies like transients, harmonics, blackouts, and voltage fluctuations that degrade power quality, particularly affecting sensitive electrical loads like large server banks used by online merchants.
Innovation Solution
A power multiplier system utilizing a multiply-connected, velocity-inhibiting circuit with lumped elements and directional couplers to amplify power at lower frequencies, enabling compact and efficient power multiplication, and a power processor that filters out anomalies to provide clean power.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional power distribution systems are used, then power can be delivered to loads, but power quality deteriorates due to transients, harmonics, blackouts, and voltage fluctuations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a multiply-connected power processor as an intermediary device between the power source and sensitive electrical loads. This processor includes multiple interconnected circuits (such as ring-shaped or mesh-configured LC circuits) that act as filters to remove transients, harmonics, and other anomalies from the power signal before it reaches the load, thereby improving power quality without requiring changes to the existing power distribution infrastructure
Solution Approach 2:
The power processor is divided into multiple segmented circuits connected in a multiply-connected configuration (e.g., multiple rings or mesh structures). Each segment or circuit path can independently process different frequency components or types of power anomalies, allowing for targeted filtering of specific harmful factors while maintaining overall system reliability
2Power
If power multipliers are used to amplify power at low frequencies, then power amplification is achieved, but the size and cost of the system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from conventional linear or simple ring configurations to multiply-connected two-dimensional or three-dimensional circuit topologies (such as mesh networks or multi-ring structures). This dimensional change allows for more efficient power multiplication at low frequencies by creating multiple parallel paths for energy circulation and reinforcement, achieving the same power amplification effect in a more compact footprint
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple circuit paths and resonant structures are merged into a single integrated multiply-connected power processor. The interconnected circuits work together synergistically, with each circuit contributing to the overall power multiplication effect, thereby achieving high power amplification in a compact unified structure rather than requiring separate large-scale components
Data Source
AI summary
Various power processing systems are described that employ a multiply-connected velocity inhibiting circuit. At least one delay active circuit and at least one variable capacitance are configured to cause an alternating current (AC) power signal to propagate in a single direction in the multiply-connected velocity inhibiting circuit.