Pat.#5594456: Gas tube RF antenna
INVENTORS: Norris; Elwood G., Poway, CA
  O'Bryant; David W., Sandy, UT
ASSIGNEES: Patriot Scientific Corporation, Poway, CA
ISSUED:  Jan. 14, 1997
FILED: Sep. 7 , 1994
ABSTRACT: An antenna device for transmitting a short pulse duration signal of predetermined radio frequency that eliminates a trailing antenna resonance signal. The device includes a gas filled tube; a voltage source for developing an electrically conductive path along a length of the tube corresponding to a resonant wavelength multiple of the predetermined radio frequency; and a signal transmission source coupled to the tube for supplying a radio frequency signal to the conductive path for antenna transmission. A method for transmitting a short pulse signal without a trailing residual signal is also provided..