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Method for manufacturing connecting device for randomly connecting a number of transmitters and receivers

US8151444B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Gerald Eckstein · Batesville, US
Oliver Freudenberg · Birkenfeld, DE
Alexander Frey · Munich, DE
Ingo Kühne · Birkenfeld, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 27, 2007
Grant date	Apr 10, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 23, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T29/49156
WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A connection device for random connection of a first member of first transmission/reception units with a second number of second transmission/reception units has a switching matrix that includes a third number of controllable micromechanical switching elements that are respectively activatable to establish a connection between one of the first transmission/reception units and one of the second transmission/reception units. A control circuit selectively activates the respective micromechanical switching elements to selectively establish respective connections between the first number of first transmission/reception units and the second number of transmission/reception units.

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