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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2009
Filed:
May. 09, 2005
Applicant:
Bernd Elend, Hamburg, DE;
Inventor:
Bernd Elend, Hamburg, DE;
Assignee:
NXP B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
To provide a method of operating a shielded connection where signals are exchanged between two nodes () on a communications network over a connecting line () and the connecting line () has a shield (), by which method can be established that the shield () is in a proper state, it is proposed that when a signal is transmitted from a first node () over the connecting line () to a neighboring node a current (I) is drawn into the shield () and when operation is taking place in other ways the shield () is set to a bias voltage (U). A suitably arranged communications network is also specified.