US2213938A - Multiplex signaling with phase discrimination - Google Patents

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US2213938A
US2213938A US221298A US22129838A US2213938A US 2213938 A US2213938 A US 2213938A US 221298 A US221298 A US 221298A US 22129838 A US22129838 A US 22129838A US 2213938 A US2213938 A US 2213938A
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  • the present invention relates to multiplex transmission and reception of signals such as speech, television or other type, on a time division or phase relation basis.
  • the general object of the invention is to obtain satisfactory quality and sufficiently low level of cross-talk without the necessity of transmitting a wider band of frequencies than is required in other types of multiplex transmission.
  • time division multiplex has been simplicity of terminal apparatus, notably omission of the relatively expensive filters of the ordinary multiplex system.
  • the line or other medium could be apportioned exclusively to -each signal in succession for a brief interval of time by synchronously operating switches at the two ends of the system.
  • Prior workers in the art have suggested various types of switching mechanisms for doing this, and it has been realized that the sampling rate should be high compared to the highest signal frequency to be sent.
  • the present invention is based on a different concept from having the line exclusively devoted to individual signals in individual times.l According to this concept, components of all signals may be present on the line at times other than particular intervals and can in fact be present at all times. In any one switching interval, however, all signal components except those contributing to the receptionof one signal add vectorially to zero in the ideal case because of the phase and amplitude relations produced by the particular frequency-time function or switching function used for 'sampling at both the transmitter and receiver.
  • the signal from each channel appears on the line as N side-bands of the various harmonics of the switching function.
  • the receiving process in a channel consists'of recovery of the desired signal from these side-bands and rejection, from the channel of the signals from the other channels. It may be thought of as a demodulation with harmonic carriers having a specified phase relation such that the components detected from the various side-bands add in phase for the desired signal and form a closed polygon giving zero resultant for the signal from any other channel.
  • the recovered component from any one side-band in any one channel is the resultant sum of the vector which would be attained if the requirement as to attenuation and phase vwere met and a small component resulting from this difference between the actual and prescribed characteristics.
  • Fig. 1 is a simplified diagram of a multiplex system suitable for an odd number of channels in accordance with the invention
  • Y Fig. 4 is a similar diagram of a system suitable for an even number of channels according to the invention.
  • Figs. 2, 3, 5 and 6 are diagrams illustrating time and frequency relations to be referred to in the description of the respective systems.
  • the main line I is connected at each end to the rotating arms of the distributors 2 and 3, the segments of which are connected to individual lines such as telephone lines 11,12 ZN at the transmitter alldl'1,l2 Z'N .at the receiver.
  • Each terminal line includes a low-pass filter LPF as shown to limit the band of signal waves to some definite upper frequency @02W such as 3,000 cycles per second, for example ⁇
  • LPF low-pass filter
  • the distributors are maintained in synchronism and phase by any suitable method.
  • the distributors may be of the electronic type disclosed in U. S. patent application Serial No. 192,471 of P. Mertz filed February 25, 1938 and synchronized in the manner there disclosed. For simplicity they are shown, however, as of mechanical type.
  • the line includes a low-pass filter LPFi, and if desired, a second and similar filter LPFz for .limiting the utilized total band to substantially the product of the number'of channels by the band width of one channel.
  • Equalizers 6 and 'l equalize the line to flat attenuation and linear phase shift throughout the used band.
  • the rotation speed is such that the highest frequency signal component is sampled atleast twice per cycle or q2wa.
  • the switching function for ideally zero crosstalk assuming uniform transmission over the utilized band is (for the ith channel) Where h. is the highest harmonic used, the higher 'ones being suppressed by the line filter.
  • 0n is an arbitrary component of the phase angle of the nth harmonic, which may have any value for a given harmonic provided that it does not change for the different values of 7'.
  • a. is a constant which determines the amplitude of the output wave.
  • Fig. 3 As a result of using this type of switching function groups of side-band frequencies are produced as indicated in Fig. 3 based upon carrier frequencies harmonically related.
  • the lowermost side-band is at speech frequency and may extend from zero frequency to wo/21r cycles. This may be viewed as having zero frequency carrier.
  • This gure indicates the preferred phase shift characteristic (linear) throughout the used band, and the cut-off of the line lters LPFi and LPFz.
  • These filters are preferably designed to introduce large' attenuation to the lower. side-band of the first harmonic above the used band and to all higher frequencies without cutting down the highest utilized side-band.
  • the band width interval since it allows a region in which attenuation and phase are immaterial and thus simplies the equalization problem.
  • the switching arrangement appropriate for an even number of channels differs from that of an odd number in that the direction of current flow must be reversed at alternate contacts between a given signal circuit and the multiplex path.
  • the proper switching function has odd harmonics of half the switching frequency.
  • Fig. 4 shows an arrangement generally similar to that of Fig. 1 but adapted for an even number of channels.
  • the main line I terminates at opposite ends in slip rings Il), II and I4, I5 of distributors I2 and I3, the segments of the distributors being connected to the low frequency signal lines at respective stations.
  • two rotating arms, I6, II or I8, I9 are used on each distributor, one effectively connected to each side of the main line via the slip rings.4 This arrangement gives a reversal of the line connection at each half cycle.
  • the switching plan for the case of N even channels (Fig. 4) is indicated in Fig. 5.
  • the reversal at each half revolution results in zero direct current.
  • the lowest harmonic indicated (see Fig. 6) is q/41r cycles per second.
  • the other harmonics are odd multiples of q/41r.
  • each of the harmonics is accompanied by upper and lower side-bands of all of the messages.
  • the line is equalized if necessary to at attenuation and linear phase shift by the equalizers 20, 2I shown in Fig. 4.
  • the low-pass lters in the main line are preferably designed to have sharp cut-off as explained in connection with Fig. 3.
  • This wave contains odd harmonics of q/2 (rafound to be N/2 where h is the highest harmonic' used.
  • the lowest harmonic selected may be of the form TN+1, where r is zero or an integer.
  • the more preferable range may be used.
  • the low-pass filters LPFi and LPFz would then be replaced by band-pass filters to suppress all of the side-bands except those based on the On account of the diniculty of providing requisite sharpness of cut-off in such a lter, advantage may be taken of the principle of design disclosed in Nyquist patent 1,748,186 dated February 25, 1930, according to which the cut-off is made gradual and at such a rate that the resulting distortion of the wanted frequencies near the edge of the band is compensated by frequencies lying on the other side of the desired limiting frequency of the selected band.
  • the character of the sampling impulse should be such as to produce the requisite number of harmonics of equal amplitude.
  • the switching .plans diaaaiaeas grammed in Figs. 2 and 5 indicate that the impulse is preceded and followed by an idle period. In other words, the period of actual contact with a particular channel segment is short compared to the time allotted to that channel. This may not be a necessary condition since the only requisite is the production of the necessary number of harmonics of sufficiently nearly equal amplitude. The use of short impulses is one way of meeting the requirement, however.
  • the relation between length of impulse and amplitude of harmonics is indicated by the following. If the ratio of the length of the impulse to the time allotted to the switching of one channel is the mth harmonic is 4 decibels less in amplitude pulse is equal to the duration of the switching time allowed one channel,
  • the sixth harmonic is 4 decibels smaller ln amplitude than the fundamental. If the impulse is only half as long,
  • the manner in which the signals are separated may be illustrated by a simple example.
  • rier of frequency 3p will be modulated by the same four signals in successive phases of 0, 135 degrees, 270 degrees and 405 degrees.
  • the side-bands representing the first signal are in effect demodulated to yield maximum signal.
  • the side-bands representing the second signal are demodulated to yield four signal frequency components of phases, +45 degrees, -45 degrees, ⁇ +135 degrees and 135 degrees, which give a resultant of zero.
  • the third and fourth signals are reduced to zero also.
  • the four vectors representing recovered signal add arithmetically.
  • a multiplex signaling system comprising at Similarly, the careach of two communicating stations a plurality A of separate signal circuits, a multiplex transmission path terminating at said stations, means at each station operating cyclically in synchronism with each other for establishing in rapid succession signal transmitting relationship between each of said signal circuits at such station and said transmission path, said means operating at such rate that the frequency of establishment of transmitting relationship between any one signal circuit and said path is at least as high as twice the highest frequency of the signal, such means including means operating to restrict the duration of establishment of any single such transmitting relationship to a small fraction of the interval existing between the establishment of one such relationship for one signal circuit and the establishment of the next following such relationship for the next signal circuit at the same station, whereby the waves transmitted over said path comprise signal side-bands based upon frequencies which are harmonics of the said frequency of establishment of said transmitting relationships, and means to restrict the frequency band transmitted over said path to substantially the product of the number of said signal circuits at each station by the width of one side-band, the value of said fraction bearing a
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US2586825A (en) * 1948-01-16 1952-02-26 Int Standard Electric Corp Signal compression and expansion arrangements in electric communication systems
US2587734A (en) * 1947-12-22 1952-03-04 Meguer V Kalfaian Modulator tube and circuits
US2624797A (en) * 1945-10-12 1953-01-06 Pye Ltd Television system
US2720557A (en) * 1948-12-24 1955-10-11 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Time division pulse code modulation system employing continuous coding tube

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US2624797A (en) * 1945-10-12 1953-01-06 Pye Ltd Television system
US2587734A (en) * 1947-12-22 1952-03-04 Meguer V Kalfaian Modulator tube and circuits
US2586825A (en) * 1948-01-16 1952-02-26 Int Standard Electric Corp Signal compression and expansion arrangements in electric communication systems
US2720557A (en) * 1948-12-24 1955-10-11 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Time division pulse code modulation system employing continuous coding tube

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