US 12,348,281 B2
Systems and methods for co-transmission of discrete power and data
Sudip K. Mazumder, Chicago, IL (US); and Ankit Gupta, Chicago, IL (US)
Assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (US)
Filed by THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Urbana, IL (US)
Filed on Feb. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/666,111.
Application 17/666,111 is a division of application No. 16/247,505, filed on Jan. 14, 2019, granted, now 11,245,437.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/616,501, filed on Jan. 12, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0158690 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. H04B 3/54 (2006.01); H02M 3/335 (2006.01); H04L 25/49 (2006.01)
CPC H04B 3/542 (2013.01) [H04L 25/4902 (2013.01); H02M 3/33507 (2013.01); H04B 3/548 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
one or more energy sources configured to supply one or more power signals in a first waveform;
one or more power transmitting nodes configured to code the one or more power signals in the first waveform into one or more discrete power packets having an arbitrary amplitude and wave shape determined according to a load requirement;
one or more power receiving nodes configured to decode the one or more discrete power packets;
one or more energy loads configured to receive at least a segment of the one or more power signals in the first waveform based on the one or more discrete power packets received by the one or more power receiving nodes;
a common high-frequency channel configured to convey the one or more discrete power packets from the one or more power transmitting nodes to the one or more power receiving nodes, and further configured to convey one or more data packets from one or more data transmitting nodes to one or more data receiving nodes; and
a plurality of switches, each coupling and decoupling from the common high-frequency channel a respective one of the one or more power transmitting nodes, power receiving nodes, data transmitting nodes, and data receiving nodes,
wherein:
the one or more power transmitting nodes and the one or more power receiving nodes, when coupled to the common high-frequency channel by respective power switches of the plurality of switches during a first time period based on an active period of a duty cycle for the one or more power transmitting nodes and the one or more power receiving nodes, comprise a first network, and wherein the one or more data transmitting nodes and the one or more data receiving nodes, when coupled to the common high-frequency channel by respective data switches of the plurality of switches during a second time period based on an inactive period of the duty cycle such that the first time period and the second time period do not overlap, comprise a second network, and
the system is configured such that the first network and the second network are mutually exclusive.