Modular ferrite switch for constructing switch networks

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9166267-B2
Application number	US-201313923497-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 21, 2013
Priority date	Apr 29, 2013
Publication date	Oct 20, 2015
Grant date	Oct 20, 2015

Abstract

Systems and methods for a modular ferrite switch for constructing switch networks are provided. In one implementation, a circulator redundancy network comprises multiple inputs; multiple outputs; and multiple circulator modules that connect the inputs to the outputs. A circulator module includes at least one module input connected to at least one input; at least one module output, where the number of module outputs equals the number of module inputs; multiple interconnection ports, configured to connect the circulator module to other circulator modules; and multiple circulators that route received signals between the at least one input, the at least one output, and the interconnection ports. Further, multiple interconnects connect the plurality of circulator modules to one another at the interconnection ports; and a circulator switch controller controls the direction of circulation for the plurality of circulators.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A circulator redundancy network, the circulator redundancy network comprising:
a plurality of inputs;
a plurality of outputs;
a plurality of circulator modules configured to connect the plurality of inputs to the plurality of outputs, wherein a circulator module in the plurality of circulator modules comprises:
at least one module input connected to at least one input in the plurality of inputs;
at least one module output, wherein the number of module…

Assignees

• Honeywell Int Inc

Inventors

• Kroening Adam M
• Vaughn Todd

Classifications

• H04B7/18515

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01P1/39

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04B1/18

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01P1/38 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04B1/0458 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic