Signal transmission circuit

• US 6,671,501 B1
• Filed: 04/28/2000
• Issued: 12/30/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Polytrax Information Technology AG
• Original Assignee: Polytrax Information Technology AG
• Inventors: Dalichau, Harald
• Primary Examiner(s): Trost, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): D AGOSTA, STEPHEN M
• Application Number:
  US09/561,827
• Time in Patent Office: 1,341 Days
• Field of Search: 455/120, 340/310.01, 375/222, 336/145, 336/148, 336/173, 336/182, 379/93
• US Class Current: 455/120
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2203/5425 improving S/N by matching impedance, noise reduction, gain control
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2203/5445 Local network
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2203/5483 using coupling circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 3/56 Circuits for coupling, blocking, or by-passing of signals

Abstract

The present circuit serves for the transmission of information signals over the general electricity supply mains. It has a transducer (13) for the galvanic separation of the mains voltage. The mains side winding (L1) of the transducer is connected in series with a capacitor (C1) in order to separate the mains frequency from the frequency of the information signal. It is loosely coupled with the windings (L2, L3) of the transducer, being galvanically separated from the mains with a coupling degree between 0.8 and 0.98, whereby the transducer obtains a desired mains side stray inductance. The circuit is dimensioned so that it has a low impedance at the mains, when it is sending, and a high impedance, when it is receiving, that it provides a high level of the reception signal at the application side terminal and that it has a broadband balanced frequency response, which is largely independent of fluctuations of the mains impedance within a broad frequency range.

Claims

1. A transmission circuit for transmitting signals of an application circuit within a predetermined frequency range over electricity supply mains, comprising:

an application side terminal for connecting to an application circuit;

a mains side terminal for connecting to the electricity supply mains; and

an inductive transducer for transmitting the signals between the mains side terminal and the application side terminal with the terminals being galvanically separated, the inductive transducer having a first winding connected to the mains side terminal and a second winding connected to the application side terminal, the first and second windings loosely coupled at a coupling rate of between 0.8 and 0.98, the inductive transducer having such a stray inductance on the side connected with the mains side terminal that a level of the signals output to the electricity supply mains in the predetermined frequency range is substantially independent of fluctuations of impedance of the electricity supply mains.

2. The transmission circuit of claim 1, wherein between the inductive transducer and the mains side terminal, a first capacitance is connected in series with the first winding, and the stray inductance of the inductive transducer measured at the first winding and the first capacitance are dimensioned, so that for all mains impedances of interest virtually constant transfer characteristics result.

3. The transmission circuit of claim 2, wherein a structural volume of the first capacitance is approximately equal to a structural volume of the inductive transducer.

4. The transmission circuit of claim 1, wherein internal resistance of the first winding is lower than 1Ω

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5. The transmission circuit of claim 4, wherein internal resistance of the first winding is lower than 0.1Ω

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6. The transmission circuit of claim 1, wherein the first and second windings are loosely coupled at a coupling rate of between 0.88 and 0.96.