摘要 |
A ring-configured network of multiple inter-communicating data stations in which each data station includes a fault sensing circuit, a test-pulse generating circuit and a switching circuit as well as a transmitter circuit and a receiver circuit, and the test pulse generating circuit responds to a sensed fault to transmit, sequentially, in opposite directions along the ring, test signals which, in combination with the fault sensing circuit, indicate the direction of any fault and terminate the line in the direction of the fault at the characteristic impedance of the line. Thus, normal communications can continue between the stations despite the fault.
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