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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2003
Leonard D. Cope, Jefferson, MD (US);
William O. Radtke, Ellicott City, MD (US);
James D. Mollenkopf, Fairfax, VA (US);
Leonard D. Cope, Jefferson, MD (US);
William O. Radtke, Ellicott City, MD (US);
James D. Mollenkopf, Fairfax, VA (US);
Current Technologies, LLC, Germantown, MD (US);
Abstract
The coupler of the present invention couples broadband RF signals to and from a power line conductor. The coupler of one embodiment that is for use with overhead power lines includes a length of URD MV cable with the neutral conductor removed and that is communicatively coupled to a MV power line at each end on opposite sides of a low pass filter. A radio frequency choke is communicatively coupled to URD MV cable between first and second coupling capacitors. The semi-conductive jacket of the URD cable may be coupled to ground via a low frequency conductive path.