Patents involving antenna and aerials, mainly for transmitting...

[pinestone]

Antenna length is not the issue. We're not trying to tune in a 'signal', but to capture the near-field energy (magnetic) that contains the power...and yes, a portion of emanated energy is captured and eventually 'grounded' through the device.

When you wrap wire around a power line, you're effectively making a transformer, not a receiver.
That's coupled-field induction.

A fluorescent tube near a Tesla coil is lit by the magnetic field exciting the gas. You can do the same thing with any transmitter- a CB or ham radio will light up a florescent tube if there is a high reflection ratio on the antenna lead (SWR)

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_wave_ratio

My circuit increases  susceptibility by way of phase addition- by using the back emf of collapsing fields around a series of coils. 

Yea, other search engines may be a better choice for the time being. The US patent office is overloaded with people doing bulk data mining & they are upgrading their computer system to improve their speed.

[the_big_m_in_ok]

#6,377,157
A 3-dimensional transformer. Way different.




#5,500,632
Unusually wound audio transformer.




#5,051,710
Fig. 1 & 2 are most pertinent.  A toroid with in-line capacitors.  Different.




#4,811,477
Method of winding toroid transformers.  Multi-conductor with unusual coil winding orientations.




#2,680,218
Figs. 3 & 4 have unusual bifilar windings.

--Lee

[sparks]

@Pinestone


     I did a cb next to a flurescent and found that if you drop the end of the antennae  (length of copper wire)  into a glass of water set next to the bulb  it lights very easily with no dark zones.  If the antennae end had an alligator clip on it the water made no difference.
What is going on here?  The transmitter runs alot cooler also.  Standing waves not a nice thing to do to the finals.

[pinestone]

@Pinestone


     I did a cb next to a flurescent and found that if you drop the end of the antennae  (length of copper wire)  into a glass of water set next to the bulb  it lights very easily with no dark zones.  If the antennae end had an alligator clip on it the water made no difference.
What is going on here?  The transmitter runs alot cooler also.  Standing waves not a nice thing to do to the finals.

Tap water is conductive. Putting the wire in it was changing the inductance.

Cut off a length of the wire that is the same length as your alligator clip
and try it with the clip on.

I bet the light gets bright again.

[the_big_m_in_ok]

the_big_m_in_ok said:

Re-edit:
Here you go with an easy one:  Plauson's #1,540,998 has a circular setup mounted on suspended balloons.  It probably wouldn't work, especialy on a gusty day, but I'm sure he thought it was a good idea.
--Lee

This one might also be similar?

#2,561,537
Several coils are paralleled with ferrite rods slid into them.  They might also be wired in series.




More:
#6,121,857
This is the closest one yet.   Howeve, Jerry, your application is something unknown to the patents' inventors.




#5,483,208
You might remember these kinds of gang chokes had several air core coils on one form in a radio about 40-60 yrs ago.




#5,032,808
Similar to #4,641,115 without the resistors.




#4,641,115
An RF choke with 2 resistors between 2 coils.



NOTE:
#2,335,163  in a previous post appears to be a typo?  I see it as non-electrical now, and that was the number when I saw it first.

--Lee