US 12,334,619 B2
Flexible surface wave generator applicable to curved surfaces, and system and method for surface wave communication using same
Woo Seong Shim, Daejeon (KR); Bu Young Kim, Daejeon (KR); and Jin Woo Kong, Incheon (KR)
Assigned to Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology, Busan (KR); and Sunny Wave Tech Co., Ltd., Ulsan (KR)
Filed by Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology, Busan (KR); and Sunny Wave Tech Co., Ltd., Ulsan (KR)
Filed on Oct. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/488,329.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0138499 (KR), filed on Oct. 25, 2022; and application No. 10-2023-0113908 (KR), filed on Aug. 29, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0136695 A1, Apr. 25, 2024
Prior Publication US 2024/0234998 A9, Jul. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. H04B 3/00 (2006.01); H01P 3/16 (2006.01); H04B 3/52 (2006.01)
CPC H01P 3/16 (2013.01) [H04B 3/52 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A flexible surface wave generator, wherein surface wave communication enables wireless communication even in an environment where a conventional flat surface wave generator is difficult to be applied since surface wave communication is possible by being tightly attached to even a curved surface or a structure having curvature other than a flat surface, the flexible surface wave generator comprising:
a first dielectric material famed with a predetermined size and thickness using a flexible material;
a second dielectric material that is formed with a predetermined size and thickness using a flexible material, and is placed below the first dielectric material;
a radiator body that is formed with a predetermined size and thickness using a flexible material, that is placed between the first dielectric material and the second dielectric material, and that radiates an electromagnetic field when an external signal is received; and
a surface wave generator member that is formed not only with a predetermined size and thickness using a flexible material but also with a predetermined pattern in order to transmit a surface wave signal of a predetermined frequency from the electromagnetic field generated by the radiator body and is placed below the second dielectric material.