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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2013
Vladimir Rozenblit, Houston, TX (US);
Vadim Buryakovsky, Houston, TX (US);
Lawrence Chang-yung Wang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yevgeniy Filipp Fiterman, Houston, TX (US);
Vladimir Rozenblit, Houston, TX (US);
Vadim Buryakovsky, Houston, TX (US);
Lawrence Chang-Yung Wang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yevgeniy Filipp Fiterman, Houston, TX (US);
R&B Industrial Supply Co., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A drilling system that may include a drilling element for drilling a hole in a geological formation; a sensor module arranged to collect information about the drilling; a transmitter that is arranged to receive the information from the sensor module, amplify the information by a super-capacitor amplifier to provide amplified information and to provide the amplified information to a first element and to a second element of an antenna, the first and second elements of the antenna are located at two opposite sides of a band gap; wherein the antenna is arranged to transmit the amplified information via the geological formation; wherein the super-capacitor amplifier comprises a plurality of switched capacitor converters, each switched capacitor converter comprises a plurality of converter stages, each converter stage comprises capacitors and switches that are arranged to perform a current amplification of an input signal; wherein each converter stage is arranged to operate with alternating charge cycles and discharge cycles.