Electronic voice circuit configuration

• US 5,940,498 A
• Filed: 06/16/1997
• Issued: 08/17/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Bardl, Artur
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, N.
• Assistant Examiner(s): HSIEH, SHIH WEN
• Application Number:
  US08/876,742
• Time in Patent Office: 792 Days
• Field of Search: 379/387, 379/389, 379/390, 379/391, 379/394, 379/395, 379/399, 379/402, 379/413
• US Class Current: 379/394
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/08 with current supply sources at the substations generating ringing current H04M19/04

Abstract

An electronic voice circuit configuration can be connected through a first and a second line terminal to a telephone line. The electronic voice circuit configuration has a calling part, a transmitting device, a receiver device, a symmetrical modulator circuit with voltage stabilization, a symmetrical equipment impedance device with a device for symmetry control and direct-current limiting, and a symmetrical control device.

Claims

1. An electronic voice circuit configuration, comprising:

first and second line terminals to be connected to a telephone line;

a calling part connected to said line terminals;

a modulator circuit having an input side connected to said line terminals and having an output side;

first, second and third nodes connected to said output side of said modulator circuit;

a transmitting device connected to said modulator circuit for transmitting signals;

a receiving device connected to said modulator circuit for receiving signals;

an equipment impedance device having an input side coupled through said first, second and third nodes to said modulator circuit and having an output side;

fourth, fifth and sixth nodes connected to said output side of said equipment impedance device; and

a control device connected through said fourth, fifth and sixth nodes to said output side of said equipment impedance device;

said first and fourth nodes and said first line terminal carrying potentials forming a positive line path, and said second and fifth nodes and said second line terminal carrying potentials forming a negative line path;

said third node carrying a first mid-potential and said sixth node carrying a second mid-potential; and

the potentials at said first and second nodes being symmetrical with respect to the first mid-potential, and the potentials at said fourth and fifth nodes being symmetrical with respect to the second mid-potential.

2. The electronic voice circuit according to claim 1, wherein the second mid-potential is a reference ground potential.

3. The electronic voice circuit according to claim 1, wherein said symmetrical modulator circuit includes a device for voltage stabilization, modulator devices each disposed in a respective one of said positive and negative line paths for voltage stabilization, and a switching apparatus interconnecting said modulator devices, said switching apparatus having an output connected to said third node for carrying the first mid-potential.

4. The electronic voice circuit according to claim 1, wherein said equipment impedance device has an equipment resistance split half on said positive line path and half on said negative line path.

5. The electronic voice circuit according to claim 4, wherein said symmetrical equipment impedance device includes a symmetrical voltage divider disposed between said fourth and fifth nodes with a base point connected to said sixth node.

6. The electronic voice circuit according to claim 4, wherein said equipment impedance device includes a control amplifier device compensating for tolerances between the first and second mid-voltages, the potential of said fourth node in each case matching the potential of said fifth node.

7. The electronic voice circuit according to claim 4, wherein said symmetrical equipment impedance device includes flow-control devices each disposed in a respective one of said positive and negative line paths for direct-current limiting.

8. The electronic voice circuit according to claim 7, wherein each of said flow-control devices includes first and second current mirrors having an input and an output and mutually reversed transformation ratios, each of said flow-control devices includes a flow-control transistor having a base terminal and having a collector current driving the input of said first current mirror, and the output of said second current mirror driving the base terminal of said flow-control transistor.

9. The electronic voice circuit according to claim 4, wherein said equipment impedance device includes a voltage limiting device, a device for short-circuiting AC signals, a device for protection against high frequencies, and a voltage stabilization device for said control device.

10. The electronic voice circuit according to claim 4, wherein said equipment impedance device includes a voltage limiting device.

11. The electronic voice circuit according to claim 4, wherein said equipment impedance device includes a device for short-circuiting AC signals.

12. The electronic voice circuit according to claim 4, wherein said equipment impedance device includes a device for protection against high frequencies.

13. The electronic voice circuit according to claim 4, wherein said equipment impedance device includes a voltage stabilization device for said control device.

14. The electronic voice circuit according to claim 1, including a configuration having a hybrid function and separating the received signal from the transmitted signal for feeding to said receiving device.

15. The electronic voice circuit according to claim 1, wherein said calling part has a device for call identification and call disconnection, a DC/DC converter for impedance transformation and an apparatus for calling voltage rectification, and said calling part provides control signals for call identification and call disconnection, as well as a first control potential and a second control potential matched to a symmetry of said modulator circuit, of said equipment impedance device and of said control device.