This paper presents a method to seamlessly extend the coverage of energy supply field for wireless sensor networks in order to free sensors from wires and batteries, where the multi-point scheme is employed to overcome path-loss attenuation, while the carrier shift diversity is introduced to mitigate the effect of interference between multiple wave sources. As we focus on the energy transmission part, sensor or communication schemes are out of scope of this paper. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed wireless energy transmission, this paper conducts indoor experiments in which we compare the power distribution and the coverage performance of different energy transmission schemes including conventional single-point, simple multi-point and our proposed multi-point scheme. To easily observe the effect of the standing-wave caused by multipath and interference between multiple wave sources, 3D measurements are performed in an empty room. The results of our experiments together with those of a simulation that assumes a similar antenna setting in free space environment show that the coverage of single-point and multi-point wireless energy transmission without carrier shift diversity are limited by path-loss, standing-wave created by multipath and interference between multiple wave sources. On the other hand, the proposed scheme can overcome power attenuation due to the path-loss as well as the effect of standing-wave created by multipath and interference between multiple wave sources.

This paper concerns the study on the Ku band multi-beam direct radiating array antenna technology, which provides frequency reuse and reconfigurable multi-beam capabilities in satellite communication system. The study consists of two dimensional pattern synthesis, beam forming network analysis and design, and fabrication and measurement of an experimental model. The measurement results have shown that the experimental model with 64 array elements including 14 dummy elements has a low loss of less than 2 dB in average and high sidelobe and polarization isolation of more than 27 dB and 29 dB, respectively, over 1 GHz bandwidth in the Ku band. As a result of careful evaluation, it has been confirmed that the design method established here is valid and useful for multi-beam direct radiating array antenna design.