Two to four wire hybrid circuit arrangement for a pulse code modulated time multiplex telecommunication system

A two to four-wire hybrid circuit arrangement for a pulse code modulated time multiplex telecommunications system coupling a two-wire extension line to a four-wire transmission line having a receiving and a transmitting branch, said branches including a receiver filter and a transmitter filter with low-pass characteristics respectively, said circuit arrangement comprising in combination:

• (a) a transformer with four partial windings, each of the first and the second partial winding being equally designed and connected to a respective wire of the extension line, the third and the fourth partial winding being connected in series via a connector tap and being coupled to the receiving branch and the transmitting branch of the transmission line, respectively, said connector tap being connected to ground;
• (b) a power supply bridge having a resultant supply resistor and a supply capacitor inserted between said first and said second partial winding;
• said transformer and said supply bridge providing an input impedance on the two-wire extension line independent of the total transformer inductance and the supply capacitor's capacitance and being designed such that the total inductance of said first and said second windings equals the capacitance of said capacitor times the squared value of the resistance of said ohmic supply resistor;
• (c) an ohmic load resistor arranged in the hybrid circuit arrangement connected to the receiving branch of the transmission line;
• said load resistor forming the terminating resistance at the four-wire side and having a resistance determined by the following equation:
• R.sub.A =R.sub.S (w.sub.3 /(w.sub.1 +w.sub.2)).sup.2 -R.sub.w3
• for matching the effective impedance at the two-wire side, whereby:
• R.sub.A =the value of the load resistor;
• R.sub.s =the value of the resultant supply resistor;
• w.sub.n =the number of turns of n partial windings with n=1, 2, or 3;
• and
• R.sub.w3 =the value of the ohmic resistance of the third partial winding;
• and
• (d) a quadripole network provided for eliminating cross-coupling of unwanted signal portions from the receiving branch to the transmitting branch of the transmission line, having two network inputs and two network outputs, the first of the network inputs being connected to the fourth partial winding of the transformer, the first one of said network outputs being connected to the transmitter filter, the second network input being connected to the output of the receiver filter and the second output being connected to ground;
• said quadripole network being composed of first and second resistors each connected to a respective one of the network inputs, a third resistor connected between said second resistor and said second output, and a capacitor arranged to bridge both said first and second resistors at the side opposite the network inputs, wherein a connection between said first resistor associated with the first network input and the bridging capacitor forms the first network output;
• said first and second resistors and said bridging capacitor being designed such that an output signal of the receiver filter supplied to the quadripole network directly and via the magnetically coupled third and fourth partial winding of the transformer is superimposed to perform high cross-talk attenuation.