Bus station and bus system

US6163578A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Jochen Seibold · Tübingen, DE
• Berthold Elbracht · Reutlingen, DE
• Peter Schaedler · Ludwigsburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 14, 1998
• Grant date: Dec 19, 2000
• Expiry date: Jan 14, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04B3/44
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A bus station and a bus system in which two bus stations are connected by at least one bus conductor. Messages are transmitted via a current flowing over the bus conductor. The bus station is supplied with operating current over the bus conductor. For this purpose, an energy storage device stores operating energy. In order to transmit messages, the bus station closes the switch and thus generates a current flow, which discharges the energy storage device of the bus station via the switch and resistor. The station transmits messages by causing the current to flow in the opposite direction by closing the switch. In order to prevent the energy storage device from discharging, the switch is opened.