Line security device
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    发明授权
    Line security device 失效
    线路安全设备

    公开(公告)号:US4039759A

    公开(公告)日:1977-08-02

    申请号:US586614

    申请日:1975-06-13

    Inventor: James H. Taylor

    CPC classification number: H04M1/70 H04M1/738

    Abstract: A line security device adapted for use in a conventional telephone instrument including a Zener diode tied by its cathode to the high, or the Tip, lead within the instrument, the anode of the Zener diode controlling, across a resistor, the base of a first NPN-PNP transistor pair which, in the manner of a silicon controlled rectifier, or SCR, controls the all or nothing conduction of a second composite pair. The controlling base of the first pair is tied across a capacitor to the low, or Ring, lead of the instrument and the emitter of the PNP transistor thereof drives the base of the second composite pair which is in circuit with the high, or Tip, signal lead. The Zener diode is selected to break down on high line signal levels corresponding to the instances when the instrument is off the line, e.g., prior to the closure of the hook switch of the instrument, and will not pass the lower line to turn on the first transistor pair once another instrument is connected across the line. The configuration of the second composite pair thus provides an all or nothing switch in the instrument circuit including at its output regenerative feedback to maintain the first pair latched on. To preclude various noise spikes from appearing at the receiver, the receiver circuit includes a PNP transistor emitter connected and base biased to the Tip lead output of the second composite pair and further controlled at the base by the output of the first pair.

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