Telephonic communications – Diagnostic testing – malfunction indication – or electrical... – Using portable test set
Patent
1991-10-04
1993-03-09
Schreyer, Stafford D.
Telephonic communications
Diagnostic testing, malfunction indication, or electrical...
Using portable test set
379457, 324555, H04M 326
Patent
active
051931087
ABSTRACT:
A handheld, battery-powered telecommunications test set which combines the function of tone generator and inductive input probe along with functions such as resistance measurement and continuity/discontinuity. The inductive input is coupled to one input of a differential amplifier, which is susceptible to oscillations caused by leakage currents in the circuits performing other functions. During operation of the inductive input monitor probe, some of these circuits are inactivated, but may still have some leakage current that could flow through them, causing oscillation. Additional circuit elements are added to provide a low resistance pathway to a second input of the differential amplifier to shunt leakage currents from the inactive circuit to the differential amplifier such that the leakage current are converted from a differential signal to a common mode signal and are not amplified. The instrument provides high impedance inputs on circuits which are active when the monitor probe is also active to reduce the leakage currents into the active circuits to an acceptable level.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3870836 (1975-03-01), Kusama
patent: 4292480 (1981-09-01), Sweatt
patent: 4600810 (1986-07-01), Feldman et al.
Leviton Manufacturing Co. Inc.
Schreyer Stafford D.
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