Circuit employing capacitor charging and discharging through transmission line providing opposite-polarity pulses for triggering bistable means

• US 3,187,260 A
• Filed: 04/19/1963
• Issued: 06/01/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Donald E. Dove
• Original Assignee: Donald E. Dove
• Inventors: Dove, Donald E.
• Application Number:
  US04/274,152
• Time in Patent Office: 774 Days
• US Class Current: 327/178
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 3/012 Modifications of generator to improve response time or to decrease power consumption
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 3/013 Modifications of generator to prevent operation by noise or interference
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 3/288 using additional transistors in the input circuit H03K3/289 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 3/57 the switching device being a semiconductor device
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 5/01 Shaping pulses discrimination against noise or interference H03K5/125
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 5/02 by amplifying H03K5/04 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/493 by transition coding, i.e. the time-position or direction of a transition being encoded before transmission

Claims

1. IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, GENERATING MEANS SUPPLYING SIGNALS CARRYING INFORMATION, CAPACITIVE TRANSLATING MEANS FOR RECEIVING SAID SIGNALS AND FOR TRANSLATING THEM INTO POLARIZED PULSES, AN ELECTRIC CIRCUIT COUPLED AT ONE END TO SAID CAPACITIVE TRANSLATING MEANS FOR TRANSMITTAL OF SAID PULSES, IMPEDANCE MISMATCHING MEANS FOR TERMINATING SAID CIRCUIT, AND A BISTABLE MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID CIRCUIT AT THE OTHER END THEREOF FOR RECONSTITUTING SAID SIGNALS, SAID PULSES COMPRISING A SET AND RESET TRIGGER FOR SAID BISTABLE MEANS.