US2470292A - Switching system - Google Patents
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- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
- H04M9/00—Arrangements for interconnection not involving centralised switching
- H04M9/001—Two-way communication systems between a limited number of parties
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- H04B1/00—Details of transmission systems, not covered by a single one of groups H04B3/00 - H04B13/00; Details of transmission systems not characterised by the medium used for transmission
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- This. invention relates to an electrical switch.- ing system and more particularly to an interlocking switching system'whichallows a circuit to be selectively completed through any one of a plu. rality of channels while prohibiting the possibility of its completion through more than one of such channels'at one time.
- Such a system is particularly useful in an aircraft radio receiving system in which there is incorporated a plurality of receiver channels and listening stations.
- Inmilitary and airline operations of large aircraft-it is necessary to make available to a number of; crew members'the: output of a plurality of radio receivers. It is customary to provide four listening stations andior military purposes a larger number may be required. It is desirable to provide facilities by which the crew member at each listening station may select any one of the receiver channels or any desired combination of a plurality of such channels for connection to his head phones.
- Any switching arrangement used should be simple of operation and lend itself to fool proof manipulation in the dark. Any system adopted should allow each crew member the full tional wiring and no switches on the mixing panel other than those utilized for conventional receiver channelselection and mixing purposes.
- t is still another object of this invention to provide a switching system which will permit the completion of a circuit through any one of a. plurality of available circuit branches while preventing the completion of a circuit through more than one of said branches at one time.
- the objects and advantages of the invention are obtained by the use, at each crew member's listening station, of a switching system comprising a double pole, double throw, switch in each of the receiver output circuits.
- the switches are so-v connected to each other and to the crew member's head phones, the latter connection being made through an emergency switch connection, that each switch when in its on position, connects its respective receiver channel to the crew members head phones and opens the switch interconnection leading to the next switch in the series of interconnected switches.
- no receiver channel can be connected to the crew members head phones unless all the switches in A, B and C, an amplifier I and a pair of head phones II.
- the receivers A, B and C are connected in parallel by the branch circuits I2, I3 and I4 across bus leads I5 and IS.
- the bus I5 is connected to amplifier I0 and the bus I6 is connected to the head phones II by conductor II.
- the other side of the head phones II is connected by conductor I8 to the output of amplifier I0.
- Located in the conductor I8 is a singlepole, double-throw switch 22 having to terminals 33 and 34.
- Located in the branch circuits I2, I3 and I4 are double-pole, double-throw switches I9, 20 and 2
- the head phone circuit is completed through the amplifier I0 and any of the receivers A, B and C which are, either by choice or inadvertence, connected into the circuit by means of'their respective switches I9, and 2 I.
- This enables the crew member using the head phones II to listen to any or all of the receivers A, B and C as desired.
- the tying together of their output transformers, with resultant cross talk as far as other crew members are concerned, is prevented by the provision of the attenuating resistors 23 in the receiver audio output circuits.
- Each of these resistors is of suificient value to reduce the signal by a substantial amount, say 25 db. Since tying together of two-receiver output transformers can occur only after signal attenuation in two of the resistors, any cross talk which occurs will be below the audible level.
- circuit arrangement and operation thus far described are those pertaining to the normal functioning of the receiving system. However, in the event the amplifier II] should cease to function, the crew member using headphones II and the portion of the circuit thus far described, would be isolated from radio reception.
- means are provided for selectively connecting any desired one of the receivers directly to the head phones, which means will now be described.
- Each switch comprises switch arms 24 and 25, front contacts 26 and 28 and a back con-- tact 27.
- the contacts 26 and 28 are connected to the respective branch circuit in which the switch is installed.
- the switch arm 25 is connected to the respective receiver in that branch circuit.
- the switch 22 is provided with a contact 33 forming a part of the emergency circuit.
- a conductor 32 connects the contact 33 with the switch arm 24 of the switch IS.
- the back contact 21 of switch I9 is connected by a lead 29 to the switch arm 24 of the switch 20.
- the back contact 2'! of the switch 20 is connected to the switch arm 24 of the switch 2
- may extend from the back contact 21 of the I9, 20 and 2
- the switch 20 is shown in the on position, establishing a circuit including the receiver B. Placing the switch 20 in the on posi tion breaks the interconnection between switches 20 and 2 I, thus rendering it impossible to connect receiver C into the circuit by placing switch 2
- a wave signal translating system a plurality of receivers; signal reproducing means; an amplifier in series with said signal reproducing means; said receivers being connected in parallel across said signal reproducing means and said amplifier; an on-off switch in each of said parallel. branches; means for disconnecting said signal reproducing means from said amplifier and connecting it to a selected one of said receiver connections; said means comprising series interconnections between said signal reproducing means and said on-off switches, said interconnectlng means being so connected to said switches that each switch in its on position interrupts the series inter-connection between said signal reproducing means and said parallel branches more remote therefrom in said series.
- an electrical circuit comprising a plurality of branches, a circuit portion having a connection to each of said branches, means for selectively establishing a second connection between said portion and one of said branches; said means comprising a plural position switch in each of said branches, said circuit portion being connected to one of said switches and said switches being interconnected to constitute with said circuit portion a series of circuit elements, each of said switches when in one position completing its branch circuit, connecting thereto the next preceding element of said series, and interrupting the interconnection with the followin element.
- each of said switches when in a second position interrupting its branch circuit and the connection of said preceding element thereto and establishing a connection between the elements of said series adjacent thereto.
- an interlocking switching system comprising: a double-pole, double throw switch in each of said branches, connecting means including said switches comprising a series circuit, each of said switches in one position completing the circuit of its respective branch, connecting the portion of said series circuit on one side thereof to said branch and interrupting the other portion of said series circuit; said switch in its other position interrupting its parallel branch, disconnecting said series circuit therefrom and completing said series circuit through said switch.
- a wave signal translating system a plurality of receivers; signal reproducing means; an amplifier in series with said signal reproducing means; said receivers being connected in parallel across said signal reproducing means and said amplifier; an attenuating impedance in series with each of said receivers; a switching means between each of said receivers and its respective series connected impedance; means disconnecting said signal reproducing means from said amplifier and connecting it to one of said switching means; each of said switching means comprising movable and fixed contacts, a connection between each pair of adjacent switching means, each of said connections extending from a fixed contact of one of said switching means to a movable contact of the other of the pair, whereby said signal reproducing means and said switching means constitute a series of circuit elements, each of said switching means when in one position completing its branch circuit, connecting thereto the next preceding element of said series and inter rupting the interconnection between adjacent elements of said series; each of said switching means when in a second position interrupting its branch circuit and the connection of the preceding element of said series thereto and establishing
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NL71860D NL71860C (it) | 1946-03-27 | ||
US65757846 US2470292A (en) | 1946-03-27 | 1946-03-27 | Switching system |
GB604847A GB640157A (en) | 1946-03-27 | 1947-03-03 | Switching system |
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US65757846 US2470292A (en) | 1946-03-27 | 1946-03-27 | Switching system |
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Cited By (2)
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US3054858A (en) * | 1959-05-12 | 1962-09-18 | Ar & T Electronics Inc | Signal distribution arrangement for closed-circuit communications systems |
US4355419A (en) * | 1979-05-14 | 1982-10-19 | Nippon Electric Co., Ltd. | Radio signal receiving system having means for selectively combining signals from a plurality of receiving sections |
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JPS58219820A (ja) * | 1982-06-14 | 1983-12-21 | Pioneer Electronic Corp | 回路機器の制御システム |
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US1658825A (en) * | 1926-01-20 | 1928-02-14 | Donald L Wolf | Radio central-station system |
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US1658825A (en) * | 1926-01-20 | 1928-02-14 | Donald L Wolf | Radio central-station system |
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US3054858A (en) * | 1959-05-12 | 1962-09-18 | Ar & T Electronics Inc | Signal distribution arrangement for closed-circuit communications systems |
US4355419A (en) * | 1979-05-14 | 1982-10-19 | Nippon Electric Co., Ltd. | Radio signal receiving system having means for selectively combining signals from a plurality of receiving sections |
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