Wireless communication system

• US 10,326,499 B2
• Filed: 01/08/2018
• Issued: 06/18/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Yukimasa, Koji, Eguchi, Tadashi, Asai, Hitoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Pablo N
• Application Number:
  US15/865,112
• Publication Number:
  US 20180198490A1
• Time in Patent Office: 526 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/48 Earthing means; Earth screens; Counterpoises
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/22 Capacitive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/24 Inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0865 Independent weighting, i.e. weights based on own antenna reception parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/085 Arrangements for reducing interference in line transmission systems, e.g. by differential transmission
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

A wireless communication system includes a first communication apparatus including a first antenna and a second antenna, a second communication apparatus including a third antenna and a fourth antenna, a first communication control unit that controls wireless communication based on electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling between the first antenna and the third antenna, and a second communication control unit that controls wireless communication based on electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling between the second antenna and the fourth antenna.

Claims

1. A wireless communication system comprising:

a first communication apparatus including a first antenna and a second antenna;

a second communication apparatus including a third antenna and a fourth antenna;

a first communication control unit configured to control wireless communication based on electromagnetic field coupling between the first antenna and the third antenna;

a second communication control unit configured to control wireless communication based on electromagnetic field coupling between the second antenna and the fourth antenna; and

a movement control unit configured to move at least one of the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus relatively to the other while maintaining a state in which a strength of an electromagnetic signal transmitted from the first antenna to the second antenna is weaker than a strength of an electromagnetic signal transmitted from the first antenna to the third antenna.

2. The wireless communication system according to claim 1,

wherein an area of a portion of the first antenna facing the third antenna is larger than an area of a portion of the first antenna facing the second antenna,

wherein the second antenna and the third antenna are shorter than the first antenna.

3. The wireless communication system according to claim 2,

wherein the first antenna and the second antenna are positioned on a surface of a first plate-like member, and

wherein the third antenna and the fourth antenna are positioned on a surface of a second plate-like member facing the first plate-like member.

4. The wireless communication system according to claim 3, wherein the movement control unit is configured to move one or more of the first plate-like member and the second plate-like member in a predetermined movement direction substantially parallel with the surface of the first plate-like member and the surface of the second plate-like member,

wherein the second antenna and the third antenna are shorter in length in the predetermined movement direction than the first antenna.

5. The wireless communication system according to claim 3, wherein the movement control unit is configured to rotationally move one or more of the first plate-like member and the second plate-like member around a predetermined axis substantially perpendicular to the surface of the first plate-like member and the surface of the second plate-like member,

the first antenna has a ring shape centered on the predetermined axis, and

the second antenna and the third antenna each have an arc shape from a viewpoint of a direction of the predetermined axis.

6. The wireless communication system according to claim 2, wherein the movement control unit is configured to rotationally move at least one of a first cylindrical member extending around a predetermined axis serving as a central axis thereof and a second cylindrical member with a central axis substantially coinciding with a central axis of the first cylindrical member and a different diameter from the first cylindrical member, around the predetermined axis,

the first antenna and the second antenna are positioned on a surface of the first cylindrical member,

the third antenna and the fourth antenna are positioned on a surface of the second cylindrical member,

the first antenna has a ring shape centered on the predetermined axis, and

the second antenna and the third antenna each have an arc shape from a viewpoint of a direction of the predetermined axis.

7. The wireless communication system according to claim 1,

wherein the first antenna is positioned on a surface of a first member,

wherein the second antenna is positioned on an opposite side of the surface of the first member from the first antenna, and

wherein the third antenna is positioned on a same side of the surface of the first member as the first antenna.

8. The wireless communication system according to claim 7,

wherein the first member is a plate-like member, and

wherein the second antenna is positioned on an opposite surface of the first member on which the first antenna is positioned.

9. The wireless communication system according to claim 8, wherein the movement control unit is configured to move the first member in a predetermined movement direction substantially parallel with the surface of the first member.

10. The wireless communication system according to claim 7, wherein the movement control unit is configured to rotationally move the first member around a predetermined axis,

the first member is a cylindrical member extending around the predetermined axis serving as a central axis thereof,

the first antenna is positioned on an inner surface of the first member,

the second antenna is positioned on an outer surface of the first member, and

the third antenna is positioned on a surface of a cylindrical second member with a central axis substantially coinciding with that of the first member and a different diameter from the first member.

11. The wireless communication system according to claim 1, further comprising a conductor overlapping the first antenna and the second antenna from a viewpoint of a specific direction substantially perpendicular to a plane on which the first antenna and the second antenna are positioned.

12. The wireless communication system according to claim 11,

wherein the first antenna and the second antenna are positioned on a surface of a first plate-like member, and

wherein the third antenna and the fourth antenna are positioned on a surface of a second plate-like member facing the first plate-like member.

13. The wireless communication system according to claim 12, wherein the movement control unit is configured to move one or more of the first plate-like member and the second plate-like member in a predetermined movement direction substantially parallel with the surface of the first plate-like member and the surface of the second plate-like member.

14. The wireless communication system according to claim 12, wherein the movement control unit is configured to rotationally move one or more of the first plate-like member and the second plate-like member around a predetermined axis substantially perpendicular to the surface of the first plate-like member and the surface of the second plate-like member.

15. The wireless communication system according to claim 12, wherein the conductor is positioned on an opposite surface of the first plate-like member on which the first antenna and the second antenna are positioned.

16. The wireless communication system according to claim 11, wherein the conductor includes a slit at a position between the first antenna and the second antenna from the viewpoint of the specific direction.

17. The wireless communication system according to claim 1, further comprising a conductor configured to serve as an electric ground positioned between the first antenna and the second antenna.

18. The wireless communication system according to claim 1, wherein a distance between the first antenna and the third antenna is shorter than a distance between the first antenna and the second antenna.

19. The wireless communication system according to claim 1,

wherein the first communication control unit controls the wireless communication by differential transmission of a baseband method between the first antenna and the third antenna, and

wherein the second communication control unit controls the wireless communication by the differential transmission of the baseband method between the second antenna and the fourth antenna.

20. The wireless communication system according to claim 1, further comprising a support unit configured to support the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus such that the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus is able to be moved relatively to each other by the movement control unit while maintaining the state.