Patent GB-1249120-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to telecommunication systems
Inventor: GAUNT WILMER BARSEAU JR
IPC: H04B1/58
Filed: 1968-10-24
Abstract: 1,249,120. Communication systems; telephone systems; radio signalling. WESTERN ELECTRIC CO. Inc. 24 Oct., 1968 [26 Oct., 1967], No. 50519/68. Headings H4K, H4L and H4R. Each of a number of stations is connected to a common transmission network 4, Fig. 1, by which any of the stations can be interconnected, by a coupling circuit 3 which includes a modulator and a demodulator connected in a negative feedback loop. The arrangement allows communication in both directions on the lines 10 and 18 whilst preventing instability without the use of hybrid transformers &c. By an appropriate selection of circuit constants the coupling unit 5 can match lines 10 and 18 of different or similar impedances. Embodiments are described using frequency modulation or delta modulation in the modulator 14, with appropriate demodulators; a multiplex system with different pairs of stations communicating in frequency multiplex; conference circuits; and a telephone handset connected to a system via a radio link. Multiplex frequency modulation system, Fig. 4, in which a station 300 may communicate with a similar station via a common transmission line by setting in line register 340 a code which via d. to a converter 382 tunes the voltage controlled oscillator in the frequency modulator 318 to approximately the frequency of the station with whom communication is desired. The feedback loop including phase detector 330 &c. then locks the oscillator to the nearest harmonic of the source 342. Transmission then takes place with the signal from station 300 modulating the oscillaror in modulator 318 and reception occurring via the detector 320, the detector 320 providing negative feedback over the modulator during transmission and stabilizing the operation. In an alternative form, Fig. 2 (not shown), a four-wire connection exists over the transmission network and the detector detects the phase difference between the incoming and outgoing signals, the arrangement provides a negative feedback loop including both modulators. Delta modulation system, Fig. 6, in which each transmitter includes a limiting amplifier, e.g. 519, which produces an output dependent on the sign of the difference between the input signal and the signal fed back from the output via an integrator, e.g. 523, and the output signal is derived by sampling, in gate 521, the output from the limiting amplifier. A four-wire connection is provided through the transmission network and an inverter 553 ensures that the feedback over the complete system is negative. Telephone radio handset, Fig. 5, in which the transmitter 479 and receiver 486 are connected to a telephone system 40 via a radio link. The transmitter of the system uses a frequency modulator 419 comprising a voltage-variable oscillator whose frequency is synchronized to a crystal oscillator 430 via a feedback loop including detector 432. The modulators 419 and 490 also have their own negative feedback loops via the receive detectors 422 and 467, while feedback overall through the complete system stabilizes the mean frequency of the handset frequency modulated oscillator at that of the crystal oscillator.