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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2020
Arris Enterprises Llc, Suwanee, GA (US);
David B. Bowler, Doylestown, PA (US);
Shaoting Gu, Acton, MA (US);
Xinfa Ma, Acton, MA (US);
Clarke V. Greene, Middletown, CT (US);
David Grubb, III, Doylestown, PA (US);
Samuel Francois, Boston, MA (US);
Lawrence M. Hrivnak, Lowell, MA (US);
Bruce C. Pratt, Bedford, NH (US);
Theodore A. Colarusso, Madbury, NH (US);
Thomas F. Kister, Chalfont, PA (US);
Robert Noonan, Wauconda, IL (US);
Vincent T. Lucarini, North Andover, MA (US);
David F. Hubbell, Stratham, NH (US);
ARRIS Enterprises LLC, Suwanee, GA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a device communicably coupled to a power transmission line and capable of launching transverse electromagnetic waves onto the transmission line. The waves propagate data received from a data source connected to the device through a center conductor surrounded by a shield conductor. The device may include a reflector and a coupler adjacent to each other, the reflector electrically connected to the shield conductor and the coupler electrically connected to the center conductor at an unshielded connection point, wherein time-varying E-fields between the reflector and coupler are caused by the data received from the data source, and induce a transverse magnetic wave that propagates longitudinally along the surface of the transmission line.