Wireless apparatus having wake-up function

• US 20120235801A1
• Filed: 07/13/2011
• Published: 09/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Solum Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Cho, Han Jin, Lim, Joon Hyung, Kwon, Yong Il, Park, Tah Joon, Kim, Myeung Su, Hong, Gyung Hee
• Application Number:
  US13/067,989
• Publication Number:
  US 20120235801A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/16.1
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/12 Power saving techniques of remote control or controlled devices

Abstract

A wireless apparatus having a non-electric power-type wake-up function that operates a wake-up circuit waking-up a microprocessor for communications without power. There is provided a wireless apparatus having a wake-up function, including: a wake-up unit that has a rectifying circuit having elements configured as passive elements and rectifies preset first wireless signals to transmit wake-up signals; and a wireless communications unit that is woken-up by the wake-up signals from the wake-up unit to perform communications using preset second wireless signals, in a sleep mode.

Claims

1. A wireless apparatus having a wake-up function, comprising:

a wake-up unit including a rectifying circuit having elements configured as passive elements, the wake-up unit rectifying preset first wireless signals to transmit wake-up signals; and

a wireless communications unit woken-up by the wake-up signals from the wake-up unit to perform communications using preset second wireless signals, in a sleep mode.

2. The wireless apparatus having a wake-up function of claim 1, wherein the wake-up unit includes:

a rectifying unit that rectifies the first wireless signals; and

a detector unit that outputs the wake-up signals when the signals rectified from the rectifying unit satisfy a preset reference level.

3. The wireless apparatus having a wake-up function of claim 2, wherein the rectifying unit has at least one rectifier configured as passive elements, and

the at least one rectifier includes:

a first capacitor and a first diode that level-shift DC components of the first wireless signal; and

a second capacitor and a second diode that detect peak components of the level-shifted first wireless signal.

4. The wireless apparatus having a wake-up function of claim 3, wherein the first capacitor has one end and the other end, and the one end of the first capacitor receives the first wireless signals,

the second capacitor has one end and the other end, and the other end of the second capacitor is connected to a ground,

the second diode has an anode connected to the other end of the first capacitor and a cathode connected to the one end of the second capacitor, and

the first diode has a cathode connected to the other end of the first capacitor.

5. The wireless apparatus having a wake-up function of claim 4, wherein the rectifying unit has a plurality of rectifiers connected to each other in parallel,

each of the plurality of rectifiers includes the first and second capacitors and the first and second diodes, and

an anode of each first diode of the plurality of rectifiers is connected to a cathode of a second diode of the rectifier in a previous stage and an anode of the first diode of the rectifier in an initial stage is connected to a ground.

6. The wireless apparatus having a wake-up function of claim 3, wherein the first and second diodes are an N-type metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET).

7. The wireless apparatus having a wake-up function of claim 2, wherein the detector unit includes:

first and second inverters that are connected to each other in parallel to invert the rectified first wireless signals; and

an N-type transistor that is connected between the first inverter and the ground and is driven by being supplied with preset bias power.

8. The wireless apparatus having a wake-up function of claim 7, wherein the first and second inverters each include two metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors that are connected to each other in series and have different polarities.

9. The wireless apparatus having a wake-up function of claim 7, wherein the N-type transistor is an N-type metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor.

10. The wireless apparatus having a wake-up function of claim 2, wherein the wake-up unit further includes a protection unit that limits levels of the first wireless signals rectified from the rectifying unit.

11. The wireless apparatus having a wake-up function of claim 10, wherein the protection unit includes the N-type metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor conducted when the levels of the first wireless signals rectified from the rectifying unit are at a preset reference level or more.

12. The wireless apparatus having a wake-up function of claim 1, wherein the wireless communications unit includes:

a communications unit that performs wireless communications using the second wireless signals; and

a control unit that is woken-up in response to the wake-up signals to process information transmitted from the communications unit.

13. The wireless apparatus having a wake-up function of claim 1, wherein use frequency bands of the first wireless signals are different from use frequency bands of the second wireless signals.

14. The wireless apparatus having a wake-up function of claim 1, wherein the use frequency bands of the first wireless signals are equal to the use frequency bands of the second wireless signals.

15. The wireless apparatus having a wake-up function of claim 1, further comprising a display unit displaying the information from the wireless communications unit.

16. The wireless apparatus having a wake-up function of claim 1, further comprising a low-noise amplifier amplifying the first wireless signals and transferring the amplified first wireless signals to the wake-up unit.