Systems and methods for using a railroad rail as radiating element for transmitting wireless communications signals
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Dec 8, 2020
Grant Date -
Mar 15, 2018
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Nov 19, 2017
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Apr 24, 2014
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Abstract
A railroad communication system includes a radio transmitter for generating radio communications signals and a length of railroad rail coupled to the radio transmitter. The length of rail is disposed on a set of nonconductive railroad ties to form a transmission line for radiating the radio communications signals to a radio receiver in a vicinity of the length of railroad rail.
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- 2017 Application Filing Year
- B61L Class
- 294 Applications Filed
- 220 Patents Issued To-Date
- 74.83 % Issued To-Date
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- 2 Citation Count
- B61L Class
- 56.86 % this patent is cited more than
- 5 Age
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