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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 1985
Filed:
Feb. 25, 1983
Terry A Heckenbach, Middlebury, IN (US);
Johnson Service Company, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Abstract
The invention facilitates the reception of bus-transmitted digital signals in the presence of electrical noise and includes a transmitter adapted to be coupled to a two wire communication bus. The transmitter has a controllable transistor for switching one wire of the bus between zero and reference voltages, thereby generating digital output signals. A receiver is coupled to the bus for receiving digital input signals which define a first wave form and are transitory between a first voltage and a second voltage. The receiver includes an R-C circuit for shaping the first wave form to a second wave form and a hysteresis switch for providing a first output condition when the second wave form transcends through a first intermediate voltage in a first transition direction. A second output condition is provided when the second wave form transcends through a second intermediate voltage in a second transition direction.