Wireless microphone having a charger circuit and a transmitter circuit that share a common conductor pair

• US 6,731,762 B1
• Filed: 03/17/2003
• Issued: 05/04/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kun-Tien Chiang
• Original Assignee: Kun-Tien Chiang
• Inventors: Chiang, Kun-Tien
• Primary Examiner(s): Mei, Xu
• Assistant Examiner(s): Michalski, Justin I.
• Application Number:
  US10/388,420
• Time in Patent Office: 414 Days
• Field of Search: 381/122, 381/91, 381/92, 381/111, 381/112, 381/113, 381/114, 381/115, 381/116, 381/117
• US Class Current: 381/92
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 9/08 Microphones

Abstract

A wireless microphone includes a circuit board mounted in a housing, and a common conductor pair mounted on the circuit board. Impedance coils and isolation capacitors are provided to interconnect a charger circuit and a transmitter circuit to the common conductor pair such that, when a direct current power signal is supplied to the common conductor pair, the power signal will be prevented from reaching the transmitter circuit and will be directed to the charger circuit and such that, when the transmitter circuit outputs a microphone pick-up signal for transmission, the microphone pick-up signal will be prevented from reaching the charger circuit and will be directed to the common conductor pair for wireless transmission thereby.

Claims

1. A wireless microphone comprising:

a housing;

a circuit board mounted in said housing;

a common conductor pair mounted on said circuit board, said common conductor pair including first and second conductors, each of which has a charging end and a connecting end;

a charger circuit having a grounded first power terminal and a second power terminal;

a transmitter circuit having a grounded first signal terminal and a second signal terminal;

a first impedance coil having a grounded first coil terminal and a second coil terminal connected to said connecting end of said first conductor;

a second impedance coil having a first coil terminal connected to said second power terminal, and a second coil terminal connected to said connecting end of said second conductor;

a first isolation capacitor having a first capacitor terminal connected to said second signal terminal, and a second capacitor terminal connected to said connecting end of said second conductor; and

at least a second isolation capacitor connected across said first and second conductors;

wherein, when a direct current power signal is supplied to said charging ends of said first and second conductors, the power signal will be prevented from reaching said transmitter circuit by said first isolation capacitor and will be directed to said charger circuit by said second impedance coil; and

wherein, when said transmitter circuit outputs a microphone pick-up signal for transmission, the microphone pick-up signal will be prevented from reaching said charger circuit by said first and second impedance coils and will be directed to said first and second conductors through said first and second isolation capacitors for wireless transmission by said first and second conductors.

2. The wireless microphone as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a connector mounted on said circuit board and accessible externally of said housing, said connector being connected electrically to said charging ends of said first and second conductors, and being adapted to be connected to an external direct current power source so as to be adapted to permit supply of the direct current power signal to said charging ends of said first and second conductors.

3. A wireless microphone comprising:

a housing;

a circuit board mounted in said housing, said circuit board having opposing first and second surfaces;

a common conductor pair mounted on said circuit board, said common conductor pair including first and second conductors, each of which has a charging end, a connecting end, and a wire portion between said charging and connecting ends, said wire portion of each of said first and second conductors being strung on said circuit board so as to form a plurality of parallel first wire segments on said first surface of said circuit board, and a plurality of parallel second wire segments on said second surface of said circuit board, adjacent ones of said first wire segments of said wire portion of each of said first and second conductors being interconnected by a respective one of said second wire segments, said first wire segments of said wire portions of said first and second conductors being alternately-disposed on said first surface of said circuit board, said second wire segments of said wire portions of said first and second conductors being alternately disposed on said second surface of said circuit board;

a charger circuit having a grounded first power terminal and a second power terminal;

a transmitter circuit having a grounded first signal terminal and a second signal terminal;

a first impedance coil having a grounded first coil terminal and a second coil terminal connected to said connecting end of said first conductor;

a second impedance coil having a first coil terminal connected to said second power terminal, and a second coil terminal connected to said connecting end of said second conductor;

a first isolation capacitor having a first capacitor terminal connected to said second signal terminal, and a second capacitor terminal connected to said connecting end of said second conductor; and

at least a second isolation capacitor connected across said first and second conductors;

wherein, when a direct current power signal is supplied to said charging ends of said first and second conductors, the power signal will be prevented from reaching said transmitter circuit by said first isolation capacitor and will be directed to said charger circuit by said second impedance coil;

wherein, when said transmitter circuit outputs a microphone pick-up signal for transmission, the microphone pick-up signal will be prevented from reaching said charger circuit by said first and second impedance coils and will be directed to said first and second conductors through said first and second isolation capacitors for wireless transmission by said wire portions of said first and second conductors.

4. The wireless microphone as claimed in claim 3, further comprising a connector mounted on said circuit board and accessible externally of said housing, said connector being connected electrically to said charging ends of said first and second conductors, and being adapted to be connected to an external direct current power source so as to be adapted to permit supply of the direct current power signal to said charging ends of said first and second conductors.