Wireless communication device

• US 10,091,742 B2
• Filed: 01/08/2015
• Issued: 10/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Nakano, Hisao
• Primary Examiner(s): Alam, Fayyaz
• Application Number:
  US15/524,590
• Publication Number:
  US 20180249425A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,363 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/04 Circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/04 using association of physical positions and logical data in a dedicated environment, e.g. buildings or vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/08 Closed loop power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/24 using SIR [Signal to Interference Ratio] or other wireless path parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/243 taking into account interferences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/245 taking into account received signal strength
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/10 Small scale networks; Flat hierarchical networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

The wireless communication device includes: a wireless communication unit issuing a request to increase or decrease transmission power to another device in such a way that a received signal strength of a radio wave transmitted from another device falls within a predetermined range, and performing a transmission power control of a wireless communication device in response to a request to increase or decrease transmission power from another device. Further, the wireless communication device includes: a control unit performing a control of decreasing the received signal strength of each of the wireless communication device and another device, when a communication state satisfies a condition for increasing the transmission power, to cause the wireless communication unit of the wireless communication device to issue the request to increase the transmission power to another device, and also cause another device to issue the request to increase the transmission power to the wireless communication device.

Claims

1. A wireless communication device at this end that communicates with a wireless communication device at another end, the wireless communication device at this end comprising:

a wireless communication unit issuing a transmission power control request to increase or decrease transmission power to the wireless communication device at another end in such a way that a received signal strength of a radio wave transmitted from the wireless communication device at another end and received by the wireless communication device at this end falls within a predetermined range, and performing a transmission power control of the wireless communication device at this end in response to a request to increase or decrease transmission power from the wireless communication device at another end; and

a control unit performing a control of decreasing the received signal strength of each of the wireless communication device at this end and the wireless communication device at another end, when a communication state satisfies a condition for increasing the transmission power, to cause the wireless communication unit of the wireless communication device at this end to issue the transmission power control request to increase the transmission power to the wireless communication device at another end, and also cause the wireless communication unit of the wireless communication device at another end to issue the transmission power control request to increase the transmission power to the wireless communication device at this end.

2. The wireless communication device according to claim 1, wherein the condition is that a current time is within a time period before communication of data packet is started.

3. The wireless communication device according to claim 1, wherein the condition is that a ratio of a reception power of a desired wave to a reception power of a disturbing wave is lower than or equal to a reference value.

4. The wireless communication device according to claim 1, wherein the condition is that a current time is within a time period before a lapse of a predetermined time after a ratio of a reception power of a desired wave to a reception power of a disturbing wave becomes lower than or equal to a reference value.

5. The wireless communication device according to claim 1, wherein the condition is that a current time is a time of communicating a control packet after communication of data packet is started.

6. The wireless communication device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit degrades antenna characteristics of the wireless communication device at this end to decrease both the received signal strength of the wireless communication device at this end, and the received signal strength of the wireless communication device at another end.

7. The wireless communication device according to claim 6, wherein the wireless communication device at this end includes a plurality of antennas having different characteristics, and the control unit switches among the plurality of antennas.

8. The wireless communication device according to claim 6, wherein the control unit changes the antenna characteristics by using a single antenna.

9. The wireless communication device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit changes a frequency band which the wireless communication unit of the wireless communication device at this end uses for communication, to decrease the received signal strength of each of the wireless communication device at this end and the wireless communication device at another end.

10. The wireless communication device according to claim 1, wherein the wireless communication device performs wireless communications based on Bluetooth.