EP1384302A1 - Offset pathway arrangements for energy conditioning - Google Patents

Offset pathway arrangements for energy conditioning

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EP1384302A1
EP1384302A1 EP02725478A EP02725478A EP1384302A1 EP 1384302 A1 EP1384302 A1 EP 1384302A1 EP 02725478 A EP02725478 A EP 02725478A EP 02725478 A EP02725478 A EP 02725478A EP 1384302 A1 EP1384302 A1 EP 1384302A1
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energy pathway
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Anthony A. Anthony, Jr.
William M. Anthony
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X2Y Attenuators LLC
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H02GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02HEMERGENCY PROTECTIVE CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS
    • H02H9/00Emergency protective circuit arrangements for limiting excess current or voltage without disconnection
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01GCAPACITORS; CAPACITORS, RECTIFIERS, DETECTORS, SWITCHING DEVICES, LIGHT-SENSITIVE OR TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE DEVICES OF THE ELECTROLYTIC TYPE
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    • H01G4/35Feed-through capacitors or anti-noise capacitors
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01GCAPACITORS; CAPACITORS, RECTIFIERS, DETECTORS, SWITCHING DEVICES, LIGHT-SENSITIVE OR TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE DEVICES OF THE ELECTROLYTIC TYPE
    • H01G4/00Fixed capacitors; Processes of their manufacture
    • H01G4/38Multiple capacitors, i.e. structural combinations of fixed capacitors
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01GCAPACITORS; CAPACITORS, RECTIFIERS, DETECTORS, SWITCHING DEVICES, LIGHT-SENSITIVE OR TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE DEVICES OF THE ELECTROLYTIC TYPE
    • H01G4/00Fixed capacitors; Processes of their manufacture
    • H01G4/40Structural combinations of fixed capacitors with other electric elements, the structure mainly consisting of a capacitor, e.g. RC combinations

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  • This application relates to a predetermined, substantially symmetrically balanced amalgam that uses complementary relative offset groupings of energy pathways, such as electrodes, for various energy portion propagations, which relative offset groupings can be practicable, in-turn, for multiple energy conditioning functions.
  • These arrangements and/or at least select variants thereof can be operable as discrete or non-discrete embodiments practicable and/or operable for sustaining electrically opposing and/or complementary energy portion confluences, which energy portion confluences, in accordance with the amalgam, undergo portions of energy conditioning as a portion of an energized circuit.
  • Differential and common mode noise energy can be generated by, and may propagate along and/or around, energy pathways, cables, circuit board tracks or traces, high-speed transmission lines, and/or bus line pathways.
  • these energy conductors may act as, for example, an antenna radiating energy fields.
  • This antenna-analogous performance may exacerbate the noise byproduct problem in that, at higher frequencies, propagating energy portions utilizing prior art passive devices may experience increased levels of energy parasitic interference, such as various capacitive and/or inductive parasitics.
  • FIG. 1 is a exploded view of a mmimum stacking sequence of an exemplary embodiment of a shielding electrode architecture having bypass electrodes with optional outer "-IM" shielding electrodes, in accordance at least one embodiment of a number of possible exemplary embodiments of the energy pathway arrangement;
  • FIG. 2 is a exploded view of a stacking sequence of at least one exemplary embodiment of a shielding electrode architecture having bypass electrodes shown without any optional final sandwiching outer "-IM" shielding electrodes in accordance with at least one embodiment of a number of possible exemplary embodiments of the energy pathway arrangement;
  • FIG. 3A is an exploded view of an exemplary embodiment of an amalgamated shielding structure having grouped, shielding structures, portions of which can be designated as 900"X", and which further may include paired shielding electrode containers, portions of which can be designated as 800"X".
  • Center axis 999 is depicted, as can be lines 999B and 999C, each of which represents a cross-section, in accordance with at least one embodiment of a number of possible exemplary embodiments of the energy pathway arrangement;
  • FIG. 3B is a 999B cross-section view of a portion of an exemplary embodiment of a multiple energy pathway arrangement, in accordance with the exemplary embodiment of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3C is a 999C cross-section view of a portion of an exemplary embodiment of a multiple energy pathway arrangement, in accordance with the exemplary embodiment of FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 4A is a semi-transparent, top plan view of at least one embodiment of a number of 85 possible embodiments of the energy pathway arrangement
  • FIG. 4B is a "999B" cross-section view of at least one embodiment of a number of possible exemplary embodiments of the energy pathway arrangement with various selected areas of predetermined energy portion interactions as illustrated in FIG. 4A;
  • FIG. 4C is a "999C" cross-section view of at least one embodiment of a number of 90 possible embodiments of the energy pathway arrangement with various selected areas of predetermined energy portion interactions as illustrated in FIG. 4A;
  • FIG. 5A is a semi-transparent, top plan view of at least one embodiment of a number of possible embodiments of the energy pathway arrangement
  • FIG. 5B is a "999B" cross-section view of at least one embodiment of a number of 95 possible embodiments of the energy pathway arrangement with various selected areas of predetermined energy portion interactions as illustrated in FIG. 5A;
  • FIG. 5C is a "999C" cross-section view of at least one embodiment of a number of possible embodiments of the energy pathway arrangement with various selected areas of predetermined energy portion interactions as illustrated in FIG. 5A;
  • FIG. 6A is a semi-transparent, top plan view of at least one embodiment of a number of possible embodiments of the energy pathway arrangement;
  • FIG. 6B is a "999B" cross-section view of at least one embodiment of a number of possible embodiments of the energy pathway arrangement with various selected areas of predetermined energy portion interactions as illustrated in FIG. 6A;
  • FIG. 6C is a "999C" cross-section view of at least one embodiment of a number of possible embodiments of the energy pathway arrangement with various selected areas of predetermined energy portion interactions as illustrated in FIG. 6A;
  • FIG. 7A is a semi-transparent, top plan view of at least one embodiment of a number of possible embodiments of the energy pathway arrangement
  • FIG. 7B is a "999B" cross-section view of at least one embodiment of a number of possible embodiments of the energy pathway arrangement with various selected areas of predetermined energy portion interactions as illustrated in FIG. 7A;
  • FIG. 7C is a "999C" cross-section view of at least one embodiment of a number of possible embodiments of the energy pathway arrangement with various selected areas of 115 predetermined energy portion interactions as illustrated in FIG. 7A;
  • FIG. 8A is a semi-transparent, top plan view of at least one embodiment of a number of possible embodiments of the energy pathway arrangement
  • FIG. 8B is a "999B" cross-section view of at least one embodiment of a number of possible embodiments of the energy pathway arrangement with various selected areas of 120 predetermined energy portion interactions as illustrated in FIG. 8A;
  • FIG. 8C is a "999C" cross-section view of at least one embodiment of a number of possible embodiments of the energy pathway arrangement with various selected areas of predetermined energy portion interactions as illustrated in FIG. 8A;
  • FIG. 9A shows a top plan with offsets view of a portion of a typical shielding energy 125 pathway depicting a typical 'spilt' electrode configuration
  • FIG. 9B shows a portion of a side plan view depicting FIG. 9A;
  • an "energy pathway”, in accordance with at least 160 one embodiment of a number of possible embodiments of an energy pathway arrangement, may be at least one, or a number, of conductive material portions, each one operable for sustained propagation of energy portions.
  • Energy pathways may be conducive, and/or conductive by way of physical make-up, to better propagate various electrical and/or energies, as compared to non- conductive or semi-conductive materials directly coupled and/or adjacent to the energy 165 pathways.
  • An energy pathway within at least one embodiment of a number of possible embodiments of an energy pathway arrangement may facilitate propagation of energy portions by allowing for various, simultaneous energy conditioning functions on those energy portions because of the orientation and positioning of the energy pathways within the energy pathway arrangement, 170 which in-turn allows for interaction of various energy portions with other propagating complementary energy portions.
  • An energy pathway may include an energy pathway portion, an entire energy pathway, an energy pathway, and/or a conductor, and/or an energy conductor, and/or an electrode, and/or at least one process-created conductor, and/or an electrode, and or a shielding.
  • a plurality of energy 175 pathways may include a plurality of each device or element discussed hereinabove with respect to energy pathway.
  • a type of energy pathway may include a shielding.
  • a shielding may include a shielding energy pathway, a shielding energy pathway portion, a shielded energy pathway portion, a shielded energy pathway, and/or shielded conductor, and/or shielded energy conductor, and/or 180 shielded electrode, and/or at least one process-created shielded energy pathway portion, and/or shielded conductor, and/or shielded energy conductor, and/or "shielded electrode".
  • a plurality of shieldings may include a plurality of the devices or elements discussed hereinabove with respect to shielding.
  • a type of energy pathway may be a conductor and/or an electrode.
  • an individual, or complementary positioned and or orientated conductor, and/or energy conductor, and/or electrode may, for example include a pairing of physically opposing, or oppositely orientated relative to one another, conductor, and/or electrodes, that may thereby be electrically complementary and/or electrically differential.
  • conductor(s) and/or electrode(s) may 190 include, for example, an individual conductive material portion, electrical wire, such as a resistive lead, conductive material portions, electrical plates, such as plates separated by at least one medium 801, and/or a separation portion, and the like, for example.
  • energy pathway arrangement may include at least a 195 shielding positioned at least a partially shield energy pathways, in part or in whole, and/or as a conductive shielding structure with respect to at least an isolated and/or conductively isolated pairing of at least two energy pathways, such as an electrode, such as complementary paired electrodes.
  • an AOC 813 may include at least a 200 portion of a predetermined and/or selected three-dimensional area within at least one embodiment of a number of possible embodiments of an energy pathway arrangement practicable for sustaining complementary energy portion confluences and/or interactions that may undergo energy conditioning.
  • an AOC 813 may be a result of a predetermined manufactured sequence of various selected and/or predetermined and/or arranged pairing of 205 energy pathways and a shielding, of which these pathways may allow predetermined energy conditioning functions, resulting from energy propagation, to occur or take place upon portions of complementary propagating energies pathed within an AOC 813.
  • ALI may include a portion of a predetermined and/or selected three-dimensional area of at least one embodiment of a number of possible embodiments of an
  • the ALI may be or include, for example, a space, an empty or non-electrical physical area, an insulating area, or another area type, such as an area created by an arrangement of the energy pathways, that results in such lacking at least a portion of an energy pathway arrangement that
  • ALI may be formed of, or may include, portions designated 806, 6400, 666 6300, and 6500, respectively, as these 6400, 806, 666, 6300, and 6500 areas may have lesser energy conditioning and/or balanced interaction, and/or confluence capability than a comparable AOC 813.
  • outer or external may include 220 locations up to, and/or beyond, the typical effective energy-conditioning range or influence, spacing or area, of an AOC 813, as defined hereinabove.
  • Outer or external as used generally herein, need not be separate of an AOC 813, and need not be contiguously apart from other elements included in an energy pathway arrangement and/or an AOC 813.
  • outer or external as used herein, may apply to all, or a majority, of the locations of electrode 225 extensions 79'X' with respect to AOC 813, irrespective of a contiguous relation to the main body portion 80 of that electrode.
  • the energy pathway arrangement upon placement into a circuit 230 arrangement(s), may allow for energy propagation within and/or along certain portions of energy pathways of the energy pathway arrangement, thereby allowing for the mutual interaction of oppositely moving portions of electrode-sourced magnetic fields produced by the propagation of energy field currents emanating outwardly from each of the complementary conductors.
  • This mutual cancellation may occur wherein certain electrodes can be partially or totally physically 235 shielded from other complementary electrodes, and can be placed within an influencing distance(s).
  • a substantial similarity in size and/or shape of the respective complementary electrodes, the spaced-apart relationship of the electrodes, the interpositioning of a shielding, as well as the conductively isolated relationship of the electrodes may contribute to this mutual cancellation effect.
  • the complementary electrodes may be substantially the same in size, shape, and/or position, and may be subjected to a plurality of shielding dynamics partially within a simultaneously operating shielding structure, in which electrostatic shielding may effect portions of energy propagating through or about the shielding
  • the electrostatic shielding may be mutually exclusive to each portion of the respective complementary conductor during the shielding
  • dynamic shielding additionally results from a specific, predetermined, relative positioning, internal to the energy pathway, which positioning results in an electrostatic shielding that is dependant upon a plurality of variables 255 including, but not limited to, predetermined physical placement and location of each of the respective complementary electrode portions through which energy propagates during energizing of the respective electrode portions.
  • the predetermined amalgamation of selected electrodes and/or shielding may be formed, at least in part, using a sequential manufacturing operation, such as that used to form a multi-functional energy-conditioner.
  • the shielding dynamic operations discussed hereinabove may be predicated, at least in-part, on a predetermined positioning of a first of the respective complementary electrodes relative to a second of the respective complementary electrodes, wherein the first of the complementary electrodes and the second can be complements to one another, and thereby form "paired mates”. Additionally, the shielding operations may be predicated on a relative
  • At least the complementary energy conditioning functions and electrostatic shielding dynamics discussed herein may operate on various energy portions propagating in various directions along various predetermined energy pathways within an AOC 813, and may operate simultaneously with circuit operation of an energy pathway arrangement
  • a sub-combination of electromagnetically/electrostatically actuated impedance states may develop along or within a portion of an energy pathway arrangement, 275 and/or along or within a closely coupled, predetermined external conductive portion that is coupled conductively to the shielding energy pathways, to thereby form a predetermined energy conditioning circuit.
  • These electromagnetically/electrostatically actuated impedance states may develop, for example, because of the energization of the paired, energy pathways.
  • each shielding may include a main body portion 81.
  • Main body portions 81 may collectively and conductively couple to one another, and at the same time may substantially immure and shield the main body portions 80 of the electrode(s).
  • the collective shielding main body portions 81 may only partially immure and/or shield the electrode main-body portion 80s.
  • a balanced, symmetrical, energy pathway arrangement may be resultant.
  • Manufacturable balanced and/or symmetrical physical 290 arrangements of energy pathways wherein dynamic energy propagations and/or interactions or pairings or match-ups of various dynamic quantities, such as complementary energy propagations or quantities, cannot be simultaneously measured and/or may operate at less than a fundamental limit of accuracy of typical testing equipment, may result.
  • portions of these complementary energy quantities interact simultaneously within a range of space, such as
  • a measurement capability, or a desired result, such as an electrical enhancement or characteristic variation, may be obtained due to a predetermined arrangement of elements that 300 maintains a complementary balance, symmetry relative to a fixed or imaginary point or center reference axis and/or point 999
  • the extent to which the measurement can be obtained may be controllable, and thereby, the electrical characteristics, or the effect on electrical characteristics, may be controllable, by predetermining the desired measurability, or behavior, or enhancement to be
  • a desired electrical characteristic and/or variance may be predetermined for subjecting to a desired enhancement by varying at least a portion of the complementary balance, size, shape, and/or symmetry of at least one energy pathway pairing, as set forth herein below with respect to at least one embodiment of a number
  • variables such as the extent of energy interactions, mutual energy propagation timings, or interferences may be controllable by exerting control over tolerances within the energy pathway arrangement. These tolerances may be controllable, for example, by manually controlling a manufacture process, or by computer tolerance control, such as 315 semiconductor process control.
  • the energy pathways of an exemplary embodiment may be formed using manufacturing processes, such as passive device processes, apparent to those skilled in the art, the tolerances of which processes will be apparent to those skilled in the art.
  • Mutual energy portion propagation timings or measurements may thereby be cancelled or suppressed by the formation of the energy pathway arrangement of an exemplary embodiment, in 320 accordance with the ordinary understanding of those terms in the art.
  • At least one predetermined manufacturing process can be utilized to create an energy pathway arrangement resulting in a sequentially positioned arrangement of relatively positioned groupings of electrodes in an amalgamated electronic structure having balanced groupings of predetermined energy pathways.
  • 325 pathways may include a predetermined electrode architecture having a stacked hierarchy of electrodes, symmetrical and complementary in number, and positioned complementary to one another and/or substantially equidistant on each side of a centrally positioned shielding, wherein each shielding energy pathway may provide at least a portion of a symmetrical balancing point for the overall electrode hierarchy.
  • the energy pathway is symmetrically divided into a predetermined complementary physical format that may include a reverse-mirror image positioning of paired differential and/or complementary sized and/or shaped electrodes, sandwiching at least one interposing shielding.
  • This illustrative embodiment may be termed a symmetrical
  • 335 complementary energy pathway arrangement may include, for example, a reflected, or a rotated, translation of the embodiment discussed immediately hereinabove.
  • the energy pathway arrangement may additionally include conductive structures, electrode portions, electrode termination elements, or conductive portions, such as those that can be practicable for attachment of the elements of the energy pathway arrangement to an external
  • the energy pathway arrangement may be made operable, such as for a predetermined effect, such as an incoming external energy conditioning, by combination with, and/or and conductive coupling to, at least one predetermined external device, circuit, or circuit portion.
  • a predetermined effect such as an incoming external energy conditioning
  • predetermined conductive coupling of at least a portion of an energy pathway arrangement to at least one predetermined external device, circuit, or circuit portion may be made operable, such as for a predetermined effect, such as an incoming external energy conditioning, by combination with, and/or and conductive coupling to, at least one predetermined external device, circuit, or circuit portion.
  • At least one external device, circuit, or circuit portion may allow for a specifically attainable energy conditioning function to be applied to at least one energy portion propagating to, from, and/or through the external device, circuit, or circuit portion and the at least a portion of the at least one energy pathway.
  • Such at least one energy portion may include complementary energies, electrically opposite, and/or electrically polar opposite energy portions.
  • the energy 350 pathway arrangement may be operable as a discrete component.
  • each electrode may be, for example, a substrate, a deposit, an etching, a resultant of, for example a doping process
  • the shielding may be, for example, an electrode substrate, a deposit, an etching, a resultant of, for example, a doping process
  • may 355 have, for example, resistive properties.
  • shielding may be operable for at least two energy conditioning functions simultaneously, such as, for example, providing a circuit with a low impedance energy pathway, and/or common voltage reference, and/or an image plane function, and/or an energy
  • a shielding energy pathway such as 400 of FIG. 3 A, serves as at least a shielding and isolating at least partially physically interposed barrier operable for shielding electrostatically.
  • a shielding energy pathway sandwiches at least a portion of each of the same-sized, complementary electrodes of a complementary electrode pairing.
  • 365 complementary electrodes may allow for, for example, economical construction of many possible variants of at least one embodiment of a number of possible embodiments of an energy pathway arrangement.
  • close positioning of internal, parallel complementary energy pathways of at least one embodiment of a number of possible embodiments of an energy pathway arrangement may allow for development of a low impedance energy pathway or
  • a portion of at least a third energy pathway found within at least one embodiment of a number of possible embodiments of an energy pathway arrangement may be near, or indirectly
  • a first and a second energy pathway can be at least each respective of at least a pairing of differential and/or complementary energy pathways
  • 380 and/or power/return pathways, simultaneously at least a third energy pathway may be physically and conductively separated from the first and a second energy pathway by at least portions of a medium 801 and/or material portions 801.
  • At least a third energy pathway may be utilized for conductive 385 coupling to predetermined portions of circuitries and/or bus lines, and/or an isolated ground and/or isolated conductive area and/or external conductive area (all not shown), for example, rather than utilizing, for example, at least first and second predetermined portions of circuitries and/or bus lines, operable electrically isolated from direct physical coupling to one another, thus providing for a means of broad-band frequency bypassing and/or decoupling.
  • This energy pathway arrangement can thus minimize, suppress, decouple, filter, or otherwise modify wanted or unwanted electrical or electromagnetic emissions, for example, such as those resulting from differential and common mode currents, by placement in combination with externally coupled and positioned circuit portions or devices. Further, the energy pathway arrangement can provide balancing in that the shielding energy pathway may include a
  • 395 conductive shielding structure formed from an odd integer number of superposed, shielding electrodes, wherein the total shielding structure exerts a balancing effect on the paired, complementary electrodes adjacent to the shielding energy pathway.
  • 400 degrees of smoothing and/or energy conditioning operations can be a function of predetermined contrasts of energy conditioning desired, due to various and respective predetermined arrangements of main body complementary electrode portions 80s verses each other collectively, as well as a pairing and/or verses main body shielding electrode portions 81s. These desired function(s) may be due, in part, to other relationships, such as various and respective relative size
  • an energy pathway arrangement may be placed into a circuit, device, or circuit portion, and may be energized to provide electromagnetic interference (EMI) filtering, such as simultaneous
  • EMI electromagnetic interference
  • the predetermined frequency range may be broad, or narrow, as selected, and is dependent on the electrode, and/or medium 801, and/or shielding selection, and or the element placement selection, as will be apparent to those skilled in the art.
  • a simultaneous, differential mode and common mode filtering function can be utilized with at least one embodiment of a
  • the predetermined positional shifting of paired, multi-layered offset electrodes of an exemplary embodiment may be, for example, configured in a substantially bypassed, or a feed- 425 thru configuration, and may be formed as portions of single chips, or multi-terminal or multipoint electrode chip array assemblies, for example, and, as set forth herein, can be physically shielded, in whole or in-part, from each other, nearby and/or adjacent offset electrode.
  • the energy pathway of an exemplary embodiment may include a passive, superimposed, shielding and electrode architecture in at least one predetermined arrangement for 430 relatively broad-frequency energy transmissions without degradation, or failure, such as, for example, at energization.
  • material 801 having predetermined desirable conditioning properties, may be interposed and non-conductively coupled to a substantial
  • These materials 801 may be oriented in a generally enveloping and adjoining relationship with respect to the electrodes, for example. Materials 801 may not have uniform properties throughout each material 801, or as between materials 801, and non-uniformities may vary the electrical properties of all, or a portion, of the energy pathway arrangement. Materials 801, or
  • insulators including air, semi-insulators, dielectrics, including high K constant and low K constant dielectrics, capacitive materials, inductive materials, ferro-magnetic material, ferrites, shales, metal oxides, varistors, laminates, chemically doped materials, multi-layered materials, semiconductor materials, such as silicon, germanium, gallium-arsenate and gallium arsenide, or compounds or combinations of these and other
  • material 801 will include insulating properties, such as, for example, an X7R, MOV, or COG material 801.
  • insulating properties such as, for example, an X7R, MOV, or COG material 801.
  • material 801 may not necessarily, at first, be practicable or operable for receiving electrode material deposits, but may later be made operable for receipt of such, such as wherein electrode 799, or energy pathway 460 material 799 is partially derived from, or partially or wholly created by, a process that includes at least a portion of material 801 that has been chemically altered, manipulated, doped, or processed with catalysts, from an original state of semi-conductivity or non-conductivity, to a state of conductivity.
  • an energy pathway such as a conductor and/or a flexible conductive material
  • a conductor and/or a flexible conductive material may be selected from Ag, Ag/Pd, Cu, Ni, Pt, Au, Pd and/or other metals, and/or conductively made materials, and/or combinations thereof, and these conductors may be combined with resistive materials, such as a metal oxide, such as ruthenium oxide, which resistive materials may be diluted with a suitable dilution, to form 470 energy pathways.
  • energy pathways may include, and/or be formed by, substances and processes used to create conductive materials, such as Mylar films or printed circuit board materials, doping of polysilicon, sintered polycrystalline, metals, polysilicon silicates, or polysilicon suicides, for example.
  • various hybrid polymer films, plasma-treated surfaces, vacuum-deposits, metalized thin films, foil capacitors, PP and PPT for passive devices, 475 radiation-curable acrylate polymers having plasma-treated surface(s), such as taught in U.S. Patent No. 6,214,422, which is incorporated herein by reference, may be used to form energy pathways. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art the energy pathways may not have uniform properties throughout, and may not have consistent properties as between energy pathways.
  • a thin film passive device may be formed in accordance with at least one embodiment of a number of possible embodiments of an energy pathway arrangement, using multilayer passive components, such as those having energy densities of at least 0.5 J/cm.sup.3, wherein there can be at least three pluralities of interleaved, vacuum-deposited metal electrode layers, wherein each electrode layer is separated by deposited, or vacuum-deposited, cured or
  • 485 radiation-cured, polymer dielectric portions formed by first depositing a monomer layer, and by radiation-curing the monomer layer, to define the electrode active region.
  • These interleaved metal electrode layer pluralities may be terminated at each respective outer perimeter edge portion by single layer or multilayer, sputtered or soldered, material portion or conductive material coated termination portion. Formation of this device may include a continuous, one-step
  • each electrode may be formed by metal evaporation.
  • Forming the metal layer on the polymer layer may be repeated to form the various pluralities of interleaved, vacuum-deposited metal electrodes separated by the vacuum-deposited, radiation- cured polymer dielectric portions.
  • the multilayer passive component may then be cut into a plurality of multilayer passive components, such as by cutting along a first direction to form a
  • Electrodes can be set into, or recessed into, the polymer layers along electrode edges orthogonal to an opposite electrode end not necessarily set into or recessed into the polymer layers, for example,
  • At least a first, a second, and a third shielding having substantially common shape and size, and each being conductively coupled to one another, sandwich at least a first and a second electrode of substantially common size and shape, wherein
  • the first electrode may be at least partially sandwiched between the first and the second shielding, and wherein the second electrode may be at least partially sandwiched between the second and the third shielding.
  • the first and the second electrode may be at least partially, or may be fully, isolated and shielded from one another, and may be disposed in a symmetrical and/or complementary arrangement relative to the other, wherein the first and the second
  • the 510 electrode may each have at least one corresponding, face to face electrode area substantially equal in size to another at least one corresponding area, and wherein, in addition, the first and the second electrode may each have at least one corresponding, non-face to face electrode area that may be substantially equal to another corresponding non-face to face area.
  • Any of the face-to- face areas, non face-to-face areas, the electrodes, and/or the shielding may be flexible, semi- 515 flexible, or rigid.
  • This energy pathway arrangement may then be coupled to a larger circuit arrangement, such as for testing or conditioning.
  • a circuit arrangement circuit may, for example, evidence voltage dividing and balancing of opposing pressures internally to the grouped, adjacent electrodes, and/or may allow for a minimized hysteresis or piezoelectric effect within the circuit
  • 530 may operate as an energy conditioner effective at up to 1000 Volts (V), with a capacitance in the nanoFarad (nF) to 1 -farad (F) range, dependant, at least in part, upon the overall size and the number of electrode pairs disposed between the shieldings.
  • other elements of the arrangement may be oriented in a generally parallel relationship with respect to one another, and/or certain elements may be 535 oriented in a perpendicular relationship.
  • the energy pathways may be horizontally positioned, or vertically positioned. All elements described herein may include, for example, non-insulated and conductive apertures, or conductive thru-vias, and yet still maintain a separate electrical relationship with an adjoining element or circuit.
  • Differential capacitive balance, or tolerance balancing, characteristics of an exemplary 540 embodiment may arise, and be controllable by variations in, element positioning, size, and separations, as well as attachment positioning, and may allow for an energy pathway arrangement, manufactured, for example, at 3% capacitive tolerance internally. Balancing is discussed further hereinbelow with respect to FIGs. 4-10. This internal balance may pass to an attached or coupled and energized circuit the correlated 3% capacitive tolerance.
  • Main-body portion 80 and 81, of complementary energy pathways and/or shielding energy pathways, respectively, may include,
  • Electrode lead portions 812"XX" and 79G may have the main-body portion 80 being at least partially, registered between a nearby or adjacent sandwiching, shielding energy pathways and/or the respective main body portion 81s.
  • FIG. 3A shows a portion of a cage-like electrode shield structure 400 that is similar to that of FIGs. 1-3, and a like-cross-sectioned 999 for similar like embodiments is depicted FIG. 3B and FIG. 3C.
  • FIG. 1 a centrally positioned and commonly shared shielding energy pathway 800/800-IM is shown deposed upon a portion 800-P, or portion of material 801, 560 having predetermined properties.
  • Energy pathway 800/800-IM, bypass electrodes 855BT and 855BB, respectively, deposed upon material portions 801 or plates of material 801 can be 855BT-P and 855BB-P, respectively.
  • Plates 855BT-P and 855BB-P may be at least a portion of material 801 having predetermined properties, disposed in a generally parallel sequential stack positioned to sandwich the shared centrally positioned shielding energy pathway 800/800-IM-P.
  • Shielding energy pathway 800/800-IM, and bypass energy pathways 855BT and 855BB may be disposed in a symmetrical, reversed mirrored relationship, and predicated upon a stacked sequential manufacturing operation, as set forth generally hereinabove. This positioning may result in a stacking of shielding energy pathways above and below bypass energy pathways 855BT and 855BB, and a centrally positioned pathway 800/800-IM, illustrated in FIGs. 1, 2, and 570 3C for example.
  • Positioned above and below by-pass pathways 855BT and 855BB may be a medium material 801.
  • Centrally positioned and shared shielding energy pathway 800/800-IM, and shielding energy pathways 815, 810, and the optional shielding energy pathways 855/855- IM and 850/850-BVI, and the differential bypass energy pathways 855BT and 855BB may each 575 include main body portions 81 and 80 generally separated by a parallel interposition or deposition of a material 801.
  • Each shielding energy pathway may be substantially aligned such that a superposed registration relationship results in common and shared perimeter edge alignments of substantially all of the shielding energy pathway edges 805.
  • the 805 edges may be located around the co- 580 planar perimeter of each shielding energy pathway, and may include a main portion 81 integral to each respective shielding energy pathway, and an contiguous extension, such as extension 79G as discussed hereinabove.
  • Contiguous electrode extensions 79G may be aligned portions of conductive material 799 formed contiguously with each shielding energy pathway 855/855-EVI, 845, 835, 825, 815,
  • each contiguous extension 79G may eventually be coupled to conductive portion 802B or 802A, respectively.
  • an interconnected shielding conductive structure including shielding energy pathways that at least share one
  • 590 common conductive coupling with one another either may be included in a wrap-around style as a conductive material portion 802 that extends at least 270 degrees to 360 degrees around the body of at least one embodiment of a number of possible embodiments of an energy pathway arrangement, to thereby provide multiple conductive coupling locals to portions of edging 805 of each shielding energy pathway 855/855-IM, 845, 835, 825, 815, 800/800-IM, 810, 820, 830, 840
  • portions 802A and 802B conductive material 802 for use with discrete embodiments, thereby eliminating two, 'non-wrap around portions' of the same conductive material 802, now designated as portions 802A and 802B, wherein conductive material portions such as 802A and 802B maybe conductively coupled to an externally located common energy pathway.
  • energy pathways may be offset by at least an average pre-determined distance 814 relative to a predetermined outer edge 817.
  • the energy pathways 855BT and 855BB may be offset an additional distance 806 from the outer edge 805 of the aligned edges of the shielding energy pathways, such that a portion of an outer edge 803 of either energy pathway 855BT and
  • 855BB can be overlapped by a portion of an edge 805 alignment of superposed shielding energy
  • energy pathway 855BT and 855BB may include a conductive area operable for energy portion propagation less than the area operable for energy portion propagation, or the conductive area operable for energy portion propagations, of any given shielding area operable for energy portion propagations.
  • any one of the sandwiching shielding energy pathways may posses a total top and bottom conductive area sum greater than
  • each of the differential electrodes may be smaller in overall size relative to each of the superposed shieldings, the differential electrodes may be offset within the superimposed shielding, thereby creating an area 806 of gap. Thereby, at least one portion each of at least two superposed shielding energy pathways may not have directly blocked, by electrodes, a line of sight between these at least two shielding energy pathways.
  • single cage-like structure 800E mirrors single cage-like structure 800D, except that differential electrode 855BB may be oppositely positioned to differential electrode 855BT.
  • Energy pathway lead portions 79'X', 812'X' and or 798'X' are preferably conductive. These electrode lead portions 79'X' can be positioned in relative, complementary paired 640 relationships on differing side portions sides of the energy conditioner body, and can be isolated by a larger shielding electrode 8"XX".
  • Differential electrodes grouping of 885BT, 865BT, 855BB, 875BB and differential electrodes grouping of 875BT, 855BT, 865BB, 885BB can be within a predetermined sequence, and 3 dimensional positioning scheme, within the common conductive, cage-like shielding 645 structure, as shown in FIG. 3A.
  • structures 800C, 800D, 800E, 800F, and 800G for example as shown in FIG. 3A when taken individually, include six shieldings 825, 815, 800/800-IM, 810, 820, 830, and, when operable as shielding structures 900A, 900B, 900C, the six shieldings 825, 815, 800/800- , 810, 820, 830 can be in a predetermined interweaved, overlapping manner such that 650 the operable shielding structure 900A utilizes shielding 800/800-M, 810, 820, while operable shielding structure 900B utilizes shielding 815, 800/800-LM, 810, and while operable shielding structure 900B utilizes shielding 810, 820, 830.
  • shielding 810 can be utilized by all three operable shielding structures 900"X". Together, 800E and 800F create a single and larger common conductive cage-like electrode shield structure 900A that acts as a 655 paired shielded conductive container, and 800E and 800F also make up portions of 900C and 900B, respectively.
  • Each container 800"X" may include an equal number of same sized, differential electrodes that are not necessarily physically opposing, within larger structure 900"X". Each container 800"X” may be oriented in a generally homogenous physical and electrically parallel 660 and common manner. Larger, cage-like conductive shielding structure 900A, with co-acting 800E and 800F individual shield-like conductive structures, when energized, and attached to the same external common conductive path area (not shown) by conductive material portions 802A and 802B, such as by reflux solder conductive epoxies, adhesives, and the like, as will be apparent to those skilled in the art.
  • the central shielding energy pathway 800/800-IM with respect to the interposition between the differential electrodes 855BT and 855BB, within the outer two additional sandwiching shielding energy pathways 815 and 810, forms an un-energized, cagelike electrode shield structure 900B.
  • the central shielding energy pathway 800/800-IM may thereby be used simultaneously, by both differential electrodes 855BT and 855BB, but produce
  • the offset distance and area 806 enables the shielding energy pathway 800/800-EVI to extend beyond the alignment of energy pathways 855BT and 855BB, in order to provide a shield against portions of energy flux fields which might have extended beyond the edge 803 of the energy pathways 855BT and 855BB, were it not for the electrostatic shielding effect of the energized faraday-like cage systems resulting in
  • the horizontal 806 area may be, for example, approximately between 0 to 25+, or more, times the vertical distance between the energy pathways 855BT or 855BB and the shielding energy pathway 800/800-EVI.
  • This offset distance 806 can be optimized for a particular 680 application, but all distances of overlap 806 among each respective pathway are ideally approximately the same, on average. Minor size differences can be unimportant in area 806 between pathways, as long as electrostatic shielding of FIG. 2, for example, is not entirely compromised.
  • the energy pathway 855BT and 855BB may have one, or a plurality of, portions 812, which extend beyond the edge 805 of the superposed shielding 800/800-IM, 810 and 815, by extensions 812A and 812B.
  • extensions 812A and 812B can be, in-turn, conductively coupled to material 890A and 890B, which enables the by-pass energy pathways 855BT and 855BB to be electrically coupled to externally located, 690 differential energy pathways on either side electrically of shielding pathway 800/800-IM.
  • the multi-layer components may include at least one material 890A and/or 890B, and a plurality of electrical terminal portions 802A, 802B, wherein each material 890A or 890B may be conductively coupled to at least the first electrode, or the second electrode, respectively as shown in FIG. 2.
  • multi-layer components may be arranged to define a decoupling 695 capacitor for a multiprocessing unit, a connector assembly, a bypass and decoupling capacitor, a bypass capacitor array, or a feed-thru capacitor array, due to the fact that at least three elements can be providing simultaneous cancellation and/or suppression and/or other energy conditioning functions, such as simultaneous, common mode and differential mode filtering.
  • a cage-like effect, or electrostatic shielding effect wherein electrically 700 charged containment of internally generated energy parasitics, occurs to shield from the respectively paired, complementary energy pathway main-body portion 80s.
  • Partial electrostatic shielding provides a protection to prevent escaping of a portion of internally generated energy parasitics to a nearby mated, complementary conductive energy pathway.
  • Electrostatic shielding function also aids in a minimization of energy parasitics attributed to the energized 705 complementary energy pathways by at least substantially immuring, or substantially physical shielding, of a balanced and/or proportional symmetrically matched insetting of predetermined complementary energy pathways within a predetermined area
  • H-field field flux propagates by Ampere's law along a transmission pathway, trace, line or conductor or conductive layer portion.
  • an energy-in pathway and an energy-return pathway can be brought very close to each other, almost directly adjacent and parallel with minimal separation by only at least two portions of material 801 and a shielding
  • Certain shielding energy pathways can be 730 additionally placed shielding energy pathways located outside of, and sandwiching in close proximity the balance of, the energy pathways of at least one embodiment of a number of possible embodiments of an energy pathway arrangement .
  • outer shielding energy pathways can be designated as -IMO-'X'.
  • inner shielding energy 735 pathways can be designated as -IMI-'X', with the exception of 8"XX"/8"XX"-IM-C, and may be optional.
  • outer and inner shielding energy pathways may also be conductively coupled to the other shielding energy pathways and one another, to center shielding energy pathway designated 8"XX"/8"XX"-IM, and to almost any other members of the plurality of shielding energy pathways in a final static form of at least one embodiment.
  • a spacing separation distance that could be filled using portions 745 of 801 material can be designated 806, 814, 814A, 814B, , 814C, 814D, 814E, 814F and can be normally final to a device-relevant configuration.
  • Separation or spacing distances 806, 814, 814A, 814B, 814C, 814D, 814E, 814F, 814E may be generally a portion of three dimensional separation distance or proximity of spacing found between nearly adjacent or nearby stacked energy pathway materialss formed to.
  • shielding energy pathway 825 may include not only a portion of complementary energy pathway 865BT, but at least a portion of material 801 or equivalent, in order to aid in the support of energy pathways and the separation or spacing functions desired.
  • spacing 666 designates an area that can be
  • a multi-layer component of an energy pathway arrangement may include at least three common-sized and superposed, shielding electrodes that are conductively coupled to each other and that can be formed upon support material having predetermined
  • At least a first electrode and at least a second electrode can be formed in a predetermined manner upon the support material having predetermined properties, and the first electrode can be then stacked between at least two common-sized electrodes of the at least three common-sized electrodes.
  • the second electrode can be stacked between at least two common- sized electrodes of the at least three common-sized electrodes, and thereby the first electrode and
  • the second electrode sandwich the one centered common-sized electrode of the three common- sized electrodes, while the first electrode and the second electrode may be substantially equally offset relative to the three common-sized electrodes, such as by a predetermined distance, and the support material may isolates the three common-sized electrodes from the first and the second electrodes, thereby preventing a direct conduction coupling between the first and the 770 second electrodes and the at least three common-sized electrodes
  • the first electrode can be stacked between at least two common-sized electrodes of the at least three common-sized electrodes
  • the second electrode can be stacked between at least two common-sized electrodes of the at least three common-sized electrodes, and thereby the first and second electrodes sandwich at least a portion of the at least one centered common- 775 sized electrode of the at least three common-sized electrodes, such that the first electrode and the second electrode may be substantially equally offset relative to the at least one centered common-sized electrode, to prevent a direct electrical coupling between these electrodes to form a non-discrete or discrete energy conditioning electrode structure.
  • elements 780 may be varied, dependant upon the electrical application.
  • the elements of an exemplary embodiment may be so-varied wherein a ⁇ angements of energy pathways forms at least two predetermined conductive shielding containers, which subsequently create at least one larger, at least partial faraday cage-like shield structure, which in turn provides shielding functions simultaneously under certain conditions, such as at energization, for portions of 785 complementary paired differential electrodes that operate with the disclosed principals in either a discrete or non-discreet variant, such as in combination with at least one energized circuit portion.
  • FIG. 4A, 4B, and 4C An embodiment of a typical energy pathway arrangement is shown in Figures 4A, 4B, and 4C as a complementary, symmetrically balanced energy pathway arrangement.
  • a plurality of consecutively superposed energy pathways 815, 855BT, 800/800-EVI, 855BT, and 810 are shown.
  • These energy pathways may be composed of a material 801 having varistor material properties, or predominately ferromagnetic material properties, or predominately dielectric material properties, for example, and may be spaced-apart as shown by 806, 814, 814A, 814C, 814D, 814E, 814F.
  • Each subsequent energy pathway is superposed upon 795 the previous energy pathway, such as, for example, wherein the third pathway 800/800-EVI is positioned above the second pathway 855BB.
  • the first energy pathway 815 may be conductively coupled to both the third pathway 800/800-EVI and the fifth pathway 810, thereby creating a set of shields.
  • Each pathway of the set of shields may be substantially the same size.
  • the set of electrodes 800 includes a second energy pathway 855BT at least partially conductively isolated from the fourth energy pathway 855BT.
  • the electrodes have similar conductive areas 80 arranged facing each other. Each electrode is substantially the same size and is smaller than each shield.
  • an example of a multi-layer component as described could also include at least one or more electrode coupling material portions, such as 890A and 890B, used for external
  • coupling material portions such as 802A and 802B, 890A and 890B, can be substituted by almost any methodology of 'liaison', or direct coupling conductive elements, for circuit connection.
  • coupling conductive elements are shown as via hole conductors, such as via hole conductor 888A, coupled conductively by common
  • 810 conductive coupling processes known in that art, to at least first electrode plurality of 885BT, 865BT, 855BB, 875BB, and via hole conductor 888B is additionally coupled conductively to at least second electrode plurality of 875BT, 855BT, 865BB, 885BB, while via hole conductor 777A and via hole conductor 777B for example, can be both conductively coupled to 845, 835, 825, 815, 800/800-EVI, 810, 820, 830, 840, respectively to be eventually coupled conductively
  • FIGS. 4A-4C can be also operable as at least bypass propagation mode 855BT, 855BB energy pathway a ⁇ angements, wherein the first, the third, and the fifth pathway 815, 800/800-EVI, 810 can be operable as shielding of a portion of at least the second energy pathway and the fourth energy pathway 855BT, 855BB, and wherein the 820 plurality of pathways 815, 855BT, 800/800-EVI, 855BB, 810 may also operable together as a portion of a capacitive network.
  • the energy pathway a ⁇ angement is practicable for simultaneous common mode and differential mode filtering with a surge protection function.
  • At least one shield, as shown by example 800/800-EVI, of the plurality of shields 815, 800/800-EVI, 810 may be operable for receiving a voltage bias and/or a voltage divider, and a line-to-line capacitance 825 value of approximately half of the line-to-ground capacitance value.
  • the energy conditioner of FIGS. 4A-4C may include at least two outer, superposed electrodes coupled to the plurality of shields, which shields maybe made from a material having dielectric, varistor, or ferrite properties, and which superposed electrodes may be operable as a voltage divider.
  • These two outer, superposed electrodes will, in an typical embodiment, be 830 conductively coupled to another element, such as a substrate, a motor, and a circuit, for energized operations, for performing simultaneous, common mode and differential mode filtering for a circuit assembly serving an energy-utilizing load.
  • energy conditioners of FIGS. 4A-4C operate to prevent the escape
  • the energy conditioner of FIGS. 4A-4C can be operable as a portion of a sensor, or portion of an operational amplifier circuit assembly, either as a discrete or non-discrete component.
  • This circuit assembly configuration will also thereby create increased capacitance values.
  • a common conductive shield structure may be utilized. Any outer conductive elements used for circuit attachment are not shown herein.
  • utilizing materials having predetermined properties 801 categorized primarily for a certain electrical 850 conditioning function or results is contemplated by the applicant. This includes a layered application that uses non-discreet capacitive or inductive structure or electrode within a manufactured non-discrete integrated circuit die, for example, a super capacitor application, or a nano-sized energy-conditioning structure.
  • the discrete energy pathway arrangement may be operable to have material portions 801 made of a resin material.
  • 855 of discrete energy pathway arrangement might involve a firing or a heating process to raise a temperature of at least a portion of the energy pathway arrangement by at least 15 degrees Celsius within a 30-minute period, or by using photolithography.
  • FIGs. 5A, 6A, 7A, and 8A show a plurality of shields 845, 835, 825, 815, 800/800-EVI, 810, 820, 830, 840 of substantially similar size and shape.
  • the plurality includes at least a first, a
  • the first electrode 855BB and the second electrode 855BT can be disposed substantially isolated and shielded from each other, in a symmetrical and mutually complementary orientation.
  • the first electrode and the second electrode each have at least one co ⁇ esponding face-to-face electrode portion 813E that is equal in size. The non-face to face
  • Each electrode can have a face-to-face electrode area, and/or propagation area 813E, that is substantially equally proportional in size to its non-face-to-face area 6400, 6500.
  • the face-to-face areas of the complementary electrodes may, in an embodiment, only be partially superimposed, as illustrated. Further, the electrodes in the
  • a shielding energy pathway of at least one embodiment of a number of possible embodiments of an energy pathway arrangement is shown in Figure 9A and 9B, and is illustrative of at least one embodiment operable with various split, energy pathway 875 configurations.
  • a split energy pathway 855/855-EVIO-l and 855/855-IMO-2 functions similarly to an 855/855-IMO, non-split energy pathway. All energy pathways, shields or electrodes, may include split energy pathway configurations, with the exception of any predetermined 800/800- IM centrally positioned, shielding energy pathway.
  • a split configuration of a corresponding superposed, closely spaced pair of 855/855-EVIO-l and 855/855-EVIO-2 pathways may include a
  • 885 pathways can be beneficial in some configurations as this allows for an increase in a total energy pathway propagation area over that of a non-split energy pathway.
  • split energy pathway construction may substantially increase the relative cu ⁇ ent carrying ability of such a configured energy pathway, as compared to non-split energy pathways, thereby allowing not only an increase in overall current handling ability versus a non-split configuration, but also allowing for a reduction in overall size of a comparable component of the same capacitance.
  • each respective differential conductive energy pathway pair may utilize a zero voltage reference image node created along at least a portion of the internal shielding energy pathways. Energy conditioning functions to some degree may always occur, but may be optimal in predetermined areas whereat a portion of the circuit receiving a shielding is within the
  • a physical shielding cage-like effect, or electrostatic shielding effect having electrically charged containment of immured portions of internally generated energy parasitics shielded from at least partially shielded, energy pathways may provide at least some physical shielding protection from externally generated energy parasitics coupling to the same for at least 905 a partially shielded, energy pathway.
  • predetermined arrangements of selective interpositiing of conductive material 799 with portions of material having predetermined properties 801 allows for embodiments operable for a very small distance of separation of oppositely charged active conductive energy pathways.
  • a relative balanced and complementary-symmetrical arrangement with respect to the 910 center shield 8"XX", or shield 800/800-IM, is utilized as the arrangement fulcrum of balanced reciprocal conductive portions.
  • paired and shifted energy pathways can be relative in balance and complementary-symmetrical and/or reciprocal positioning with respect to a predetermined, central energy pathway, such as shielding energy pathway 800/800-EVI.
  • An embodiment may include relatively shifted, balanced, complementary, and symmetrical arrangement of 930 predetermined shields and electrodes complementarily sandwiching a centrally positioned shield, such as 800/800-EVI, for example.
  • a shifted energy pathway arrangement may include a multiplicity of layers including those a ⁇ anged having a shielding energy pathway,
  • each of these multiplicity of layers is centered about, and complementary about, a predetermined, centrally located, shielding energy pathway, and the multiplicity is centered about a predetermined center shielding energy pathway. Complementarity and balance can be maintained about the predetermined center shielding
  • 940 energy pathway although individual shielding energy pathways, and/or energy pathways, may be shifted to create discrete offset or shifted complementary energy pathways in predetermined arrangement that maintains overall balance and symmetry between a predetermined matched, energy pathway pair. Further, this shifting of complementary energy pathways may expose at least one complementary energy pathway, at least in part, outside the perimeter of the superposed
  • a given electrode may be shifted 5 points to the left. This shifting must be accounted for in the matched pairs about a center shield, and, consequently, either an adjacent matched pair electrode of opposing polarity may be shifted 5 points, or 5 adjacent electrodes of
  • opposite polarity may each shift 1 point, thereby maintaining balance and complementarity.
  • a shield is shifted to a greater degree over an electrode of a given polarity, and an electrode having opposite polarity is shifted in an opposite manner to maintain balance and complementarity.
  • energy pathways may remain within the perimeter of the superposed shielding energy pathways, and nonetheless be shifted thereunder.
  • electrostatic shielding may occur upon energization and/or predetermined attachments or couplings of various energy pathways into various predetermined circuit portion configurations.
  • a resistor/voltage divider network can be normally constructed using a ratio of various integrated circuit resistors. However, various integrated circuit resistors may be replaced by the
  • unwanted energy parasitics originating from either, or both, of the paired and oppositely co-acting, differential electrodes may be at least partially minimized or

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