Wireless communication device and wireless communication system using the same

• US 10,153,802 B2
• Filed: 02/09/2018
• Issued: 12/11/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Takasaka, Tomokazu, Inagawa, Toshinori, Ippyo, Tatsuya
• Primary Examiner(s): Rego, Dominic E
• Application Number:
  US15/892,540
• Publication Number:
  US 20180287656A1
• Time in Patent Office: 305 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0067 with one or more circuit blocks in common for different bands
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/1081 Reduction of multipath noise by equalising H04B7/005
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/401 for selecting or indicating operating mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/12 Frequency diversity

Abstract

A wireless communication device including a first transceiver which performs communication by using each of a plurality of channels contained in a first frequency band, a second transceiver which performs communication by using each of a plurality of channels contained in a second frequency band that is higher than the first frequency band and separated from the first frequency band through a separation band having a predetermined frequency span, and a control device connected to the first transceiver and the second transceiver capable of communicating with the first transceiver and the second transceiver, selects one channel from the plurality of channels of the fist frequency band and one channel from the plurality of channels of the second frequency band to set a channel pair including a pair of channels, and causes the first transceiver and the second transceiver to communicate the same data by using the set channel pair.

Claims

1. A wireless communication device comprising:

a first transceiver configured to perform communication by using each of a plurality of channels contained in a first frequency band;

a second transceiver configured to perform communication by using each of a plurality of channels contained in a second frequency band that is higher than the first frequency band and separated from the first frequency band through a separation band having a predetermined frequency span; and

a control device that is connected to the first transceiver and the second transceiver so as to be capable of communicating with the first transceiver and the second transceiver, selects one channel from the plurality of channels of the fist frequency band and one channel from the plurality of channels of the second frequency band to set a channel pair including a pair of channels, and causes the first transceiver and the second transceiver to communicate identical data by using the set channel pair.

2. The wireless communication device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a first filter that is connected to the first transceiver and cuts frequency components of the second frequency band from frequency components passing through the first transceiver, and

a second filter that is connected to the second transceiver and cuts frequency components of the first frequency band from frequency components passing through the second transceiver.

3. The wireless communication device according to claim 2, wherein cut-off frequencies of the first filter and the second filter are located in the separation band.

4. The wireless communication device according to claim 1, wherein the first transceiver, the second transceiver and the control device are provided to a single board.

5. A wireless communication system including a plurality of wireless communication devices, each of the plurality of wireless communication devices comprising:

a first transceiver configured to perform communication by using each of a plurality of channels contained in a first frequency band;

a second transceiver configured to perform communication by using each of a plurality of channels contained in a second frequency band that is higher than the first frequency band and separated from the first frequency band through a separation band having a predetermined frequency span;

a first filter that is connected to the first transceiver and cuts frequency components of the second frequency band from frequency components passing through the first transceiver;

a second filter that is connected to the second transceiver and cuts frequency components of the first frequency band from frequency components passing through the second transceiver; and

a control device that is connected to the first transceiver and the second transceiver so as to be capable of communicating with the first transceiver and the second transceiver, selects one channel from the plurality of channels of the fist frequency band and one channel from the plurality of channels of the second frequency band to set a channel pair including a pair of channels, and causes the first transceiver and the second transceiver to communicate identical data by using the set channel pair, wherein one wireless communication device out of the plurality of wireless communication devices transmits the identical data to another wireless communication device out of the plurality of wireless communication devices by using the set channel pair, and the another wireless communication device receives the transmitted data by using either channel of the set channel pair.