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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2021
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
Methods and systems capable of launching signal-carrying transverse electromagnetic waves onto a transmission line in the higher voltage region of the transmission distribution network. Such methods and systems may include a surface wave launcher located in the higher voltage region, a network unit located in a lower voltage region, and an arrester separating the surface wave launcher and the network unit, the arrester preventing voltage from arcing over from the higher voltage region to the lower voltage region where the arrester provides the signal to the surface wave launcher.