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Segmented matrix type switching device with simplified control
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Inventors: Semur, Pierre; Tanguy, Jacques;
Assignee: Compagnie Industrielle des Telecommunications Cit-Alcatel (Paris, FR)
Primary Examiner: Brown; Thomas W.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Sughrue, Rothwell, Mion, Zinn and Macpeak
Low-level, wide-band signals e.g. for use in telephone transmission are switched in a matrix device. The overall matrix is subdivided into elementary matrices of smaller size and each inlet of the overall matrix is provided with a selector for selecting the appropriate elementary matrix which contains the desired cross-point. This subdivision is performed as is conventional to reduce interference and attenuation from echos generated in the unused portions of the matrix, but it has the drawback of increasing the complexity of switch control, two selectors and one cross-point needing activation in the place of a single cross-point. The present invention provides selectors which are sensitive to the conductive state of the cross-points to which they are directly connected to repeat the conductive condition to their respective inlet of the overall matrix, thereby simplifying switching control without sacrificing transmission characteristics. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION What is claimed is: 1.
A matrix-type switching device comprising: a switching matrix provided with row inlets and column inlets and having row and column conductors cut up into segments according to a grid defining a network of elementary matrices, one selector per row having one inlet connected to an inlet for the row in question and a number of outlets equal to the number of segments of the row in question, each connected to one of the ends of a different segment of the row in question, one selector per column having one inlet connected to the inlet of the column in question and a number of outlets equal to the number of segments of the column in question, each connected to one of the ends of a different segment of the column in question, a control circuit, elementary matrix switching points, having two states, blocked or conducting controlled by said control circuit and disposed in the elementary matrices at the intersections of the row segments and the column segments, and selector switching point means having two states, blocked or conducting, disposed in each selector, one per outlet, and connected between the inlet and the selector outlet in question, for repeating the conductive state, of any of the elementary matrix switching points to which the outlet in question is directly connected.
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A switching device according to claim 1 comprising: elementary matrix switching points which are identical to each other and each formed by two diodes connected in series and in opposite directions, selector switching points which are identical to each other and each formed of a diode connected in the same direction as the diode of each of the elementary matrix switching point to which it is directly connected, constant current sources which are blocked or not by said control circuit, each connected between earth and the point connecting the diodes of one switching point of the elementary matrix in a direction such that the said diodes pass the current supplied by the source in question, a resistance connected between the inlet of each selector and earth, and an isolating capacitor inserted before the inlet of the selector
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