Drilling system having a super-capacitor amplifier and a method for transmitting signals

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9631484
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13769328

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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.

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R&B INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY COHOUSTON TX

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Buryakovsky, Vadim Houston, US 5 29
Fiterman, Yevgeniy Filipp Houston, US 1 8
Rozenblit, Vladimir Houston, US 4 21
Wang, Lawrence Chang-Yung Mountain View, US 4 16

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