Receiver and electronic apparatus including receiver

• US 20050191966A1
• Filed: 02/17/2005
• Published: 09/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Katsuta, Yoshinori
• Application Number:
  US11/059,632
• Publication Number:
  US 20050191966A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/68
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0418 Sharing hardware components like housing, antenna, receiver or signal transmission line with other vehicle systems like keyless entry or brake control units
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/30 for homodyne or synchrodyne receivers demodulator circuits H03D1/22

Abstract

The receiver includes an antenna for receiving a radio wave transmitted from a communication target, a demodulator extracting a baseband signal from the radio wave received by the antenna, and a filter device for low-pass filtering the baseband signal extracted by the demodulator. The filter device is configured to vary a cut-off frequency thereof in accordance with a command signal received from outside the receiver.

Claims

1. A receiver comprising:

an antenna receiving a radio wave transmitted from a communication target;

a demodulator extracting a baseband signal from said radio wave received by said antenna; and

a filter device low-pass filtering said baseband signal extracted by said demodulator, said filter device being configured to vary a cut-off frequency thereof in accordance with a command signal received from outside said receiver.

2. A receiver according to claim 1, wherein said filter device includes a plurality of low-pass filters having different cut-off frequencies, and a selector switch that selects one of said plurality of said low-pass filters in accordance with said command signal.

3. A receiver according to claim 1, further comprising a waveform-shaping circuit for shaping a waveform of said baseband signal low-pass filtered by said filter device.

4. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a receiver including;

an antenna receiving a radio wave transmitted from a communication target;

a demodulator extracting a baseband signal from said radio wave received by said antenna; and

a filter device low-pass filtering said baseband signal extracted by said demodulator, said filter device being configured to vary a cut-off frequency thereof in accordance with a command signal received from outside said receiver;

and

a control device outputting said command signal to said receiver in order that said receiver receives, on an alternating basis, different kinds of radio waves, which have the same frequency band, are modulated by the same modulation scheme, and are different in a baseband-signal frequency, for obtaining information contained in said different kinds of said radio waves.

5. An electronic apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said filter device includes a plurality of low-pass filters having different cut-off frequencies, and a selector switch that selects one of said plurality of said low-pass filters in accordance with said command signal.

6. An electronic apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said receiver further includes a waveform-shaping circuit for shaping a waveform of said baseband signal low-pass filtered by said filter device.

7. An electronic apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said electronic apparatus is of vehicle-installed type, said communication target is a portable device carried by a user of a vehicle, and said different kinds of said radio waves includes at least two of a radio wave for a remote keyless entry system transmitted from said portable device, a radio wave for smart keyless entry system transmitted from said portable device, and a radio wave for a tire air pressure monitoring system transmitted from a sensor installed in each of wheels of said vehicle.