Communication controller in a home bus system

• US 4,896,349 A
• Filed: 03/25/1988
• Issued: 01/23/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kubo, Seiichi, Nakatani, Naofumi
• Primary Examiner(s): George, Keith E.
• Application Number:
  US07/175,669
• Time in Patent Office: 669 Days
• Field of Search: 379/90, 379/106, 379/107, 379/338, 379/402, 379/443, 375/36, 333/119, 336/182, 336/183, 307/11, 307/12, 307/45, 307/155
• US Class Current: 379/106.03
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2803 Home automation networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2838 Distribution of signals within a home automation network, e.g. involving splitting/multiplexing signals to/from different paths adaptations of television systems for transmission by electric cable for domestic distribution H04N7/106; hybrid transport H04L12/6418; home network arrangements specially adapted for distribution of digital video signals H04N7/24

Abstract

A communication controller in a home bus system comprises a single pulse transformer having two secondary windings connected respectively to a coaxial cable and a pair of wires, to which a personal computer, a television receiver, a sensor, etc. are connected. The controller is provided for transmitting a communication packet to the coaxial cable or the pair of wires and the system automatically transmits the communication packet from the pair of wires to the coaxial cable or vice versa.

Claims

1. A bus system comprising:

a pulse transformer including a primary winding and plural secondary windings being wound on a common core, said plural secondary windings being wound bifilarily for obtaining good coupling,

plural kinds of information transmission medium connected, respectively, to said plural secondary windings of said pulse transformer, said plural kinds of information transmission medium including a coaxial cable and a pair of wires,

plural communication apparatuses connected to said plural kinds of information transmission medium,

electric domestic devices respectively connected to different ones of said plural communication apparatuses, and

control means connected to a primary winding of said pulse transformer for monitoring said plural kinds of information transmission medium, said control means facilitating sending and receiving operations of communication packets between said plural communication apparatuses, respectively connected to different ones of said coaxial cable and pair of wires, through said secondary windings.

2. A bus system in accordance with claim 1, further comprising

a personal computer and a television are connected to said communication apparatuses connected to said coaxial cable, and

a sensor and a meter connected to respective ones of said plural communication apparatuses connected to said kinds of information transmission medium.

3. A bus system in accordance with claim 1, wherein

a direct current resistance of each of said plural secondary windings of said pulse transformer being smaller than that of said primary winding of said pulse transformer.

4. A bus system in accordance with claim 1, wherein turn ratio of said primary winding and each of said plural secondary windings of said pulse transformer is 1:

1.

5. A bus system comprising:

a pulse transformer comprising a primary winding and two secondary windings being wound on a common core, said two secondary windings being wound bifilarly for obtaining good coupling,

a coaxial cable connected to one of said two secondary windings,

a pair of wires connected to the other one of said two secondary windings,

control means connected to a primary winding of said pulse transformer and to a subscriber telephone line for monitoring said coaxial cable and said pair of wires and for carrying out receiving and sending operations of communication packets between communication apparatuses,

a picture display apparatus connected to said coaxial cable through a communication apparatus, and

a sensor and a meter each connected to said pair of wires through a corresponding communication apparatus.

6. A bus system in accordance with claim 5, wherein

a direct current resistance of each of said two secondary windings of said pulse transformer is smaller than that of said primary winding of said pulse transformer.

7. A bus system in accordance with claim 6, wherein

turn ratio of said primary winding and each of said two secondary windings of said pulse transformer is 1:

1.