Abstract: A receiver for call signals, designed to actuate an electro-acoustic transducer such as a ringer in response to incoming alternating voltages of low amplitude and relatively high frequency (e.g. 400 to 450 Hz) or high amplitude and relatively low frequency (e.g. 20 t0 50 Hz), includes a detector for the high-frequency signal and an integrating threshold circuit for the low-frequency signal connected in parallel across a transmission line. The detector is preceded by a phase-locking circuit including a local oscillator of variable frequency adapted to latch on to the high-frequency signal. The presence of either type of call signal activates, through the detector or the threshold circuit, a binary pulse counter stepped by the squared output of the local oscillator to generate a low-frequency square wave subharmonically related to the oscillator frequency which periodically unblocks a gate circuit for the passage of the oscillator output to operate the transducer.

Abstract: An electroacoustic transducer, such as a microphone or a telephone receiver, comprises a thermoplastic body with a central plateau surrounded by an annular recess from which an elastic ring projects slightly above the plateau to support a membrane in the form of sheet-metal foil carrying a piezoceramic layer. The body is overlain by a thermoplastic cover which has apertures for the passage of sound waves and is formed with an internal annular rib registering with the elastic ring to clamp the rim of the membrane therebetween. The body, the cover and a thermoplastic base are joined together by ultrasonic welding.

Abstract: A two-wire line is connected via a resistive hybrid circuit to a high-impedance output of a transmitter amplifier, carrying outgoing voice signals originating at a microphone, and to a high-impedance input of a receiver amplifier, carrying incoming voice signals destined for an earphone. A biasing network, connected across the line in parallel with the hybrid circuit, includes a pair of cascaded complementary transistors whose collectors are interconnected through a low-ohmic voltage divider supplying operating voltage, balanced with reference to the line voltage, to the transmitter ampllifier and delivering a similarly balanced reference voltage to the receiver amplifier.

Abstract: A coupling circuit for a telecommunication system comprises a resistance bridge whose four arms consist each of two identical halves in series with each other, the resistive halves of one pair of opposite arms being of relatively high magnitude while the resistive halves of the other pair of opposite arms are of relatively low magnitude. A two-wire line is connected across a first bridge diagonal while a matching load impedance is connected across the other diagonal. A signal-transmitting circuit, including a microphone, is connected across the midpoints of the low-resistance arms whereas a signal-receiving circuit, including an earphone, is connected across the midpoints of the high-resistance arms.

Abstract: In order to enable the transmission of digital pulses under the control of a pushbutton-type call-number selector from a dial-equipped subscriber station, the output leads of a keyboard are connected on the one hand to a circulating memory, working into a pulse generator, and on the other hand to a timing network which responds to the depression of any pushbutton on the keyboard with emission of an enabling pulse making the memory receptive to the selected code combination. The timing network includes a delay network which briefly retards the enabling pulse to prevent the storage of spurious signals in response to transient energization of an output lead of the keyboard.