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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 09, 1996
Duk Yong Kim, Hwansung-Kun, KR;
David H Kim, Santa Fe Springs, CA (US);
KMW USA, Inc., Santa Fe Springs, CA (US);
Abstract
A multipole multiposition microwave switch system 101 with a common redundancy is directed to a new and innovative RF switch that enables the integration of a plurality of high-power RF transmission line switches into one mechanical assembly while giving the system an ability to provide a redundant operation for each of the high-power RF transmission line switches. The invention combines the connectibility of, more particularly, three or more single-pole-double-throw �SPDT! switches and one single-pole-multiple-throw �SPMT! switch to form a single unit of multiple-pole-(multiple plus one)-throw �(N)P(N+1)T! multipole multiposition microwave switch system 101 with a common redundancy. The multipole multiposition microwave switch system 101 achieves the great number of redundancy by having each of the switching mechanisms, along with its input and output RF connectors, parallelly, radially, and commonly connected to the redundant RF connector 123. Because each set of the input and output connectors are commonly and parallelly connected to the redundant connector 123, the number of switches, along with their input and output RF connectors, which can be integrated with the redundant RF connector 123 are not numerically or physically limited. Therefore, this invention allows the packaging of any variety of multiple-pole-(multiple plus one)-throw �(N)P(N+1)T! multipole multiposition microwave switch system 101 with a common redundancy; such as 3P4T, 4P5T, 5P6T, 6P7T, 7T8P, and others with more switches.