Contact-less communication system
First Claim
1. Apparatus for contact-less communications system comprising:
- a separable transformer means including a primary upstream transformer half and a secondary upstream transformer half adapted for magnetic coupling, at least one of said halves having a core of ferrite material for operating at the maximum upstream bit rate;
a voltage rectifying means with input connected to the said secondary upstream transformer half for creating a constant DC voltage from the alternating voltage induced in the secondary upstream transformer half by the primary upstream transformer half and driving the power supply output;
a clock recovery circuit connected to the said secondary upstream transformer half;
a clock generation means;
an amplitude modulation means, which inputs are connected to the outputs of the clock generator and a n upstream data input, used to induce an amplitude modulated upstream data in the primary upstream transformer half, said data being sent through an inductive link set up by the primary and secondary upstream transformer halves;
a data recovery circuit connected to the said secondary upstream transformer half;
including an amplitude detector means for receiving the upstream data sent via the inductive link set up by the primary and secondary upstream transformer halves and driving an upstream data out;
a second contact-less communications means to provide a downstream data link;
a downstream phase modulation means with input connected to a downstream data in and controlled by the output of the clock recovery circuit, with its output connected to a primary downstream transformer half;
a downstream data recovery circuit including a downstream phase detector means connected to a secondary downstream transformer half and driving a downstream data out.
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Abstract
Apparatus for providing a contact-less, bi-directional communication link between a power supplying module (PS) and a power consuming module (PC) having two links, one (L1) used for power, clock, and upstream data transfer, the other (L2) used as downstream data link. PS contains a power supply circuit and PC contains a simple rectifier. The non-rectified output of L1 is used to provide the clock to PC. Amplitude variations of the signal driving L1 are detected and used in PC (upstream data link). Data is transmitted from PC to PS by tapping the non-rectified signal from the output of L1, passing it through a switch, which alternates its polarity before being fed into L2. The phase relationship between signals at the input of L1 and the output of L2 provides the means for the downstream data transfer.
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1. Apparatus for contact-less communications system comprising:
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a separable transformer means including a primary upstream transformer half and a secondary upstream transformer half adapted for magnetic coupling, at least one of said halves having a core of ferrite material for operating at the maximum upstream bit rate; a voltage rectifying means with input connected to the said secondary upstream transformer half for creating a constant DC voltage from the alternating voltage induced in the secondary upstream transformer half by the primary upstream transformer half and driving the power supply output; a clock recovery circuit connected to the said secondary upstream transformer half; a clock generation means; an amplitude modulation means, which inputs are connected to the outputs of the clock generator and a n upstream data input, used to induce an amplitude modulated upstream data in the primary upstream transformer half, said data being sent through an inductive link set up by the primary and secondary upstream transformer halves; a data recovery circuit connected to the said secondary upstream transformer half;
including an amplitude detector means for receiving the upstream data sent via the inductive link set up by the primary and secondary upstream transformer halves and driving an upstream data out;a second contact-less communications means to provide a downstream data link; a downstream phase modulation means with input connected to a downstream data in and controlled by the output of the clock recovery circuit, with its output connected to a primary downstream transformer half; a downstream data recovery circuit including a downstream phase detector means connected to a secondary downstream transformer half and driving a downstream data out. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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