Scalar Wave Beam Antenna for Penetrating Wireless Energy Transfer
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current wireless energy transmission technologies, such as radio frequencies and ultrasonic waves, are inefficient and unable to penetrate objects and walls, limiting their effectiveness for powering devices and communication over long distances without wired connections.
Innovation Solution
Generation and transmission of scalar/longitudinal electromagnetic waves using a center-axis focused 180-degree out-of-phase collinear transverse wave summation, enhanced by a parabolic reflector and loop-style co-fed element, allowing energy to penetrate through metals, liquids, and objects, and converted into electrical power or used for communication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Use of energy by moving object
If radio frequency electromagnetic waves are used for wireless energy transmission, then energy can be transmitted through the air, but the transmission is inefficient and cannot penetrate objects and walls
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the fundamental parameter of electromagnetic wave propagation from transverse waves to scalar longitudinal waves. This parameter change enables the waves to penetrate objects and walls effectively while maintaining transmission efficiency through the air, resolving the contradiction between transmission efficiency and penetration capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The transmitting antenna is segmented into multiple collinear dipole elements arranged in a specific configuration. This segmentation allows the generation of scalar longitudinal waves through controlled interference patterns, enabling both efficient air transmission and object penetration that single-element antennas cannot achieve.
2Reliability
If ultrasonic waves or infrared light are used instead of radio frequencies, then some transmission concerns are addressed, but object and wall penetrating abilities are lost and media converter circuitry is required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and eliminates the need for media converter circuitry by directly generating and transmitting scalar longitudinal electromagnetic waves that can penetrate objects and walls. This removes the complex conversion stages required by ultrasonic or infrared methods, simplifying the system while maintaining reliable transmission.
3Use of energy by moving object
If inductive and capacitive coupling methods are used, then energy transfer can occur, but only over very short distances such as inches
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from near-field inductive/capacitive coupling to far-field scalar wave propagation. This dimensional change in the electromagnetic field approach enables energy transmission over long distances through the air while maintaining the ability to transfer energy effectively, overcoming the short-distance limitation of traditional coupling methods.
4Ease of operation
If standard transverse radio frequency waves are used, then wireless transmission is achieved, but penetration through objects and walls is minimal
Solution Approach 1:
The patent fundamentally changes the wave propagation parameter from transverse to scalar longitudinal waves. This parameter change maintains the ease of wireless transmission operation while dramatically improving penetration ability through objects and walls, resolving the contradiction between operational simplicity and penetration reliability.
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
Enables efficient energy transfer through objects and walls, powering devices, charging batteries, and facilitating long-distance communication, including military applications, with enhanced penetrating capabilities and synergy between scalar and transverse waves.
Implementation Method 1
electromagnetic energy at far-field distances through the air and penetrating through objects and medium by a scalar electromagnetic wave propagation beam
Implementation Method 2
center axis focused 180 degree out of phase collinear transverse waves summating to axial longitudinal, scalar waves
Implementation Method 3
In one method a parabolic reflector is used with an axially positioned feed element such that the reflected transverse waves are of such a nature
Implementation Method 4
the feed element within the parabolic reflector is supplemented by a loop style co-fed element which generates electromagnetic waves inducing active resonance in suspended rings (loops), resulting in further focused and concentrated electromagnetic radio frequency fields
Implementation Method 5
The penetrating longitudinal wave is similarly enhanced after passing through an object in its path by transverse waves also generated by the apparatus diffracting around the object
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AI summary
Systems and methods are presented for wireless energy transfer by scalar-longitudinal electromagnetic propagating waves. The scalar wave beam antenna is further enhanced with additional active and parasitic resonant elements for increasing the penetrating and far field distance transfer of energy. A receiving antenna module is designed for effective capture of longitudinal and transverse waves. Presented are uses for this system to illuminate areas without the need for wires, powering electronic devices, charging batteries remotely, new style communications, and military applications.