Patent ID: 9703060
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G02B,H04Q

Claim:
1. A system for selectively transferring broad band signals on different individual ones of multiple input lines to selected individual ones of multiple output lines comprising: a distributed array of signal carrying lines disposed within a first plane and extending from closely proximate output points along an output axis and therefrom along the first plane at different diverging angles but substantially equidistant lengths to different terminal coupler positions in a second plane, the lines to said positions being substantially equally laterally spaced apart thereat within a total arc of less than 180 degrees in the second plane; an array of fixed terminal coupler elements, each disposed along an arc contiguous to the terminal coupler positions in the distributed array in the second plane and each configured to detachably receive an individual movable terminal element; a line transferring device disposed substantially adjacent and parallel to the second plane and movable both radially and circumferentially with respect to the lines in the distributed array to transfer a signal carrying line from its prior terminal coupler to a new available coupler location in the array; and a control and command system retaining data as to current active and available line addresses in the distributed array, and responsive to transfer requests for controlling the line transferring device.