Telephone line interface circuit
AssigneeAlcatel Nederland B.V.
InventorsErnest H. Nordholt, Petrus A. M. Van der Cammen
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Abstract
The invention relates to a telephone line interface circuit for use in switching a call connection between subscriber telephone sets via a switching matrix. The interface circuit is provided with two terminals for connection to a telephone line of a subscriber and two terminals for connection to one side of a switching matrix. The circuit comprises a cascade circuit of a first and a second bidirectional amplifier which are connected to each other via a common point, acting as a one-to-N transformer for speech signals. Also included is a third and fourth bidirectional amplifier for providing direct voltage decoupling and impedance to thereby provide the telephone set with the required line voltage.
Claims11
Telephone line interface circuit for connecting a telephone set to a switching matrix, said interface circuit comprising two telephone set terminals for
- coupling the interface to the telephone set,
- two switching matrix terminals for coupling the interface to one side of the switching matrix,
- a first bidirectional amplifier having a first port coupled to the telephone set terminals,
- a second bidirectional amplifier having a second port coupled to the switching matrix terminals, said first and second bidirectional amplifiers being connected in series via a common port to thereby provide a one-to-N speech transformer between said first port and said second port, and
- a third bidirectional amplifier, one port of which is connected in parallel to said common port and the other port of which is terminated with a first impedance such that a direct-voltage decoupling is obtained between the telephone set terminals and the switching matrix terminals.
Telephone line interface circuit for connecting a first set to a second telephone set via a switching matrix and a second such interface circuit, the first telephone line interface circuit comprising
- two telephone set terminals for coupling the first interface circuit to the first telephone set,
- two switching matrix terminals for coupling the first interface circuit to a first side of the switching matrix,
- a first bidirectional amplifier having a first port coupled to the telephone set terminals and a second port coupled to the switching matrix terminals, such that when the second port of said first bidirectional amplifier is connected via the switching matrix to the second interface circuit comprising a second bidirectional amplifier substantially identical to the first bidirectional amplifier, there is provided a one-to-one speech transformer circuit between said first port and a corresponding first port said second bidirectional amplifier, and
- a third bidirectional amplifier, one port of which is connected in parallel to said second port and the other port is terminated with a first impedance such that a direct-voltage decoupling is obtained between the telephone set terminals and the switching matrix terminals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.