A tracking system comprising: a transmitter configured to steer an RF beam across a detection range, a passive RFID tag configured to be enabled for locating substantially when located in the center of the RF beam of the transmitter, and an RFID reader configured to detect the tag 104 once enable.

An antenna arrangement for transmitting energy is described. The antenna arrangement includes a planar array of two or more rectangular loop antennas, adapted to transmit energy at low frequencies via non-radiative resonant coupling and at high frequencies via radiative coupling. The low frequencies correspond to a wavelength with half of the wavelength being larger than the longest rectangular loop antenna dimension and the high frequencies correspond to a wavelength with half of the wavelength being approximately equal the longest rectangular loop antenna dimension. The antenna arrangement also includes a feeding network connected to the planar array, which includes a phase shifting means for providing a phase difference between signals at the high frequencies to be transmitted by different rectangular loop antennas of the planar array, whereby the amount of phase difference is related to the distance of the rectangular loop antennas to a focal point in the near-field of the planar array. The antenna arrangement also includes means adapted for distributing the signals applied to the feeding network.

A wireless power transfer system may include a transmitter transducer assembly, a signal generator and one or more power receivers. The transmitter transducer assembly may include at least one transmitter transducer. The signal generator may be operationally configured to generate an alternating current transmission signal. The one or more power receivers may be electrically connected to one or more respective loads. Each of the one or more power receivers may include a receiver transducer assembly. The receiver transducer assembly may include at least one receiver transducer. Each receiver transducer of the at least one receiver transducer may receive a time varying electromagnetic flux of the electromagnetic field transmitted from the transmitter transducer assembly and produce a second power signal. The power processor may convert the second power signal to a third power signal appropriate for the respective one or more loads.

Provided is an energy harvesting device, including a solar cell including at least one active layer for receiving a first range of electromagnetic frequencies, at least one layer including antenna structures for receiving RF energy and formed on a first side of the solar cell, and at least one semiconductor for absorbing IR energy, and formed on a second side of the solar cell opposite the first side.

A system includes an interface assembly and electronic circuitry. The interface assembly is configured to receive DC power and a self-clocking differential signal comprising a data signal encoded with a clock signal at a clock frequency. The electronic circuitry is configured to recover, from the self-clocking differential signal, the data signal and the clock signal at the clock frequency, and to generate, based on the recovered clock signal at the clock frequency, a synthesized clock signal at a carrier frequency. The electronic circuitry is also configured to use the synthesized clock signal to wirelessly transmit, to an implantable stimulator implanted within a recipient, AC power based on the DC power and forward telemetry data based on the recovered data signal. Corresponding systems, methods, and devices are also disclosed.

An RF energy transmitting apparatus with positioning and polarization tracing function is used for an RF energy harvesting apparatus. The RF energy transmitting apparatus includes a power radar transmitter and a radar controller. The power radar transmitter receives a power source signal and emits an electromagnetic source wave. The radar controller is electrically connected to power radar transmitter and receives a reflected harmonic wave. The power radar transmitter emits the electromagnetic source wave to scan a space. The RF energy harvesting apparatus generates and emits the reflected harmonic wave. The radar controller determines a position and a polarization angle of the RF energy harvesting apparatus after receiving the reflected harmonic wave and to adjust a polarization angle of the power radar transmitter to be within a predetermined angle range with respect to the polarization angle of the reflected harmonic wave sent from the RF energy harvesting apparatus.

A measurement system includes a stator-side unit and a rotor-side unit installed on the rotary machine. The stator-side unit includes a stator-side antenna, an oscillation unit that oscillates a microwave signal and outputs the oscillated microwave signal to the stator-side antenna, and a reception unit that demodulates the microwave signal and outputs a desired signal. The rotor-side unit includes a sensor, a rotor-side antenna that receives a microwave transmitted by the stator-side antenna and outputs the microwave signal, a power conversion unit that converts the received microwave signal into predetermined DC power and outputs the DC power, and a modulation unit that modulates a rotor output signal or a multiplication rotor output signal obtained by frequency multiplication of the rotor output signal, according to the output signal of the sensor, using the DC power output of the power conversion unit, and outputs the modulated rotor signal to the rotor-side antenna.

The present technology is directed to a system and method for implementing passive power harvesting from ambient electromagnetic emissions with a smart rectenna that incorporates automatic frequency response tuning features. The disclosed system incorporates a tunable High Pass Filter and voltage multiplier rectifier with a front-end ultra wide band antenna unit. The frequency response of tunable components can be actively adjusted to match the frequency band containing most of the energy in the incident electromagnetic emission. A look up table is used for determining the appropriate biasing levels of the tunable components for each frequency in a frequency band of interest. By tuning a frequency response of impedance matching, filtering and rectifying components to correspond to a frequency region of maximum power spectral density in the incident energy signal, the system facilitates the scavenging of ambient electromagnetic energy from the spectral region with the highest power spectral density.

A cartridge memory is a cartridge memory used in a magnetic tape cartridge, including: an antenna unit; a storage unit that stores data; and a control unit that reads the data from the storage unit in response to a request from a recording/reproduction apparatus, adds an error correction code to the data, and transmits the obtained data via the antenna unit.

An RFID module is disposed at a position where the RFID module is electromagnetically coupled to the conductor. An RFIC receives power induced by receiving an electromagnetic wave for power reception to output a transmission signal. A power reception coupling unit is electromagnetically coupled to the conductor to receive power. A transmission coupling unit is electromagnetically coupled to the conductor to output a transmission signal to the conductor.