Wireless communication system capable of visually indicating failure of transmission and reception states

• US 20050082368A1
• Filed: 10/12/2004
• Published: 04/21/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Fumio
• Application Number:
  US10/964,279
• Publication Number:
  US 20050082368A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/451
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/06 Means for the lighting or illuminating of antennas, e.g. for purpose of warning
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/248 provided with an AC/DC converting device, e.g. rectennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/38 formed by a conductive layer on an insulating support patch antennas H01Q9/0407; microstrip dipole antennas H01Q9/065; microstrip slot antennas H01Q13/106; transmission line microstrip antennas H01Q13/206; manufacturing reflecting surfaces using insulating material for supporting the reflecting surface H01Q15/142
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 3/24 varying the orientation by switching energy from one active radiating element to another, e.g. for beam switching
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0466 Fault detection or indication H04B1/0483 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/18 Monitoring during normal operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/23 Indication means, e.g. displays, alarms, audible means

Abstract

According to the present invention, there is provided a wireless communication system with a simplified structure by which the occurrence of failure in a reception state or a transmission state is visually indicated. The wireless communication system comprises a transceiver body 1 having a transmitter 2 and a receiver 3, and an external antenna array 5 having an antenna element 7 and connected to the transceiver body 1. A light emitting diode (LED) 9e that emits light by a transmission signal transmitted from the transmitter 2 to the antenna element 7 and a reception signal supplied from the antenna element 7 to the receiver 3 is provided in the external antenna array 5, so that the LED 9e is visually perceived from the outside.

Claims

1. A wireless communication system comprising:

a transceiver body having a transmitter and a receiver; and

an external antenna array having an antenna element and connected to the transceiver body,

wherein a light emitting diode (LED) that emits light by a transmission signal transmitted from the transmitter to the antenna element and a reception signal supplied from the antenna element to the receiver is provided in the external antenna array, so that the LED is visually perceived from the outside.

2. The wireless communication system according to claim 1,

wherein the antenna array comprises a feeding line for connecting the antenna element to the transceiver body, and a closed loop circuit having the LED inserted thereto in series, the closed loop circuit being connected to the feeding line.

3. The wireless communication system according to claim 2,

wherein the closed loop circuit includes a connection line disposed parallel to the feeding line to be connected thereto, and resistors connected in series at both ends of the connection line, the LED being inserted between the two resistors.

4. The wireless communication system according to claim 2,

wherein a substrate on which the antenna element is mounted is accommodated in the external antenna array, and the feeding line and the closed loop circuit are disposed on the substrate.

5. The wireless communication system according to claim 2,

wherein a detecting diode is inserted into the closed loop circuit in series with the LED.