Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Portable deployable underground communication systems, devices and methods
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Application No.: US15877281Application Date: 2018-01-22
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Publication No.: US10554288B2Publication Date: 2020-02-04
- Inventor: Charles L. Gandy , Clinton Blake Hope , Edward Francis Adams , Donald Gregory Lariviere , Houstin L. Lichtenwalner
- Applicant: Applied Minds, LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Burbank
- Assignee: Applied Minds, LLC
- Current Assignee: Applied Minds, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Burbank
- Agency: Perkins Coie LLP
- Agent Michael A. Glenn
- Main IPC: H04B7/145
- IPC: H04B7/145 ; H04L29/08

Abstract:
Disclosed are passive reflector radio communications systems, such as for UHF frequencies or greater than UHF frequencies, and related deployment systems and devices that provide underground communications. Embodiments of the system include reflector elements to provide passive radio communications, structural frameworks to support and orient the reflector elements, methods for calculating reflector size, shape, and position corresponding to a desired wavelength, and deployment methods and devices to install the communication system at a desired location. The passive reflectors can be placed in a folded or otherwise compact mode, for transport into underground tunnels. Once at the desired installation location, the system can be installed, with the reflectors positioned appropriately for the radio frequencies used at the location. Some of the embodiments include any of vertical or horizontal foldable reflector poles, reflective sheets, reflective mesh sheets and/or ropes, inflatable reflective pucks, and rapid deployment systems and methods.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180159614A1 PORTABLE DEPLOYABLE UNDERGROUND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS Public/Granted day:2018-06-07
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