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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 1980
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bruce N Lenderking, Glen Burnie, MD (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ; H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
307204 ; 250551 ; 250552 ; 307D / ; 307311 ;
Abstract
In a system wherein a single input signal is transmitted via a plurality of output signal channels for various signal processing and control functions, optical isolating circuits in combination with current limiting resistors provide operational isolation among the respective output signal transmitting channels such that a component failure in one channel will not adversely affect the operation of the remaining channels.