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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:
Jul. 11, 1989
Filed:
Oct. 03, 1985
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bruce W Watson, Norcross, GA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
375-8 ; 361413 ; 379 98 ; 364708 ;
Abstract
Expandable data modem for data transmission of digital data at certain defined data rates which includes a base for mounting those components of the modem which are data-rate independent and a sub-base for mounting all data-rate-dependent components, and a two-part plug-in connector for detachably plugging the sub-base into the base. In this way the modem can be expanded to higher data rates by simply replacing the sub-base with its data rate-dependent components instead of replacing the entire modem. In a preferred embodiment the base and the sub-base are two printed circuit boards joined by a card-edge connector.