WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20130027275A1
• Filed: 07/23/2012
• Published: 01/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Mochizuki, Hiroki, Odoko, Kazuhiro
• Application Number:
  US13/555,521
• Publication Number:
  US 20130027275A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 343/882
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/087 Extensible roll- up aerials
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/1214 through a wall
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 13/203 Leaky coaxial lines

Abstract

A wireless communication system comprises a tower-shaped antenna including a leaky coaxial cable that leaks electric wave. The tower-shaped antenna is selectively changed from a protruding state in which the antenna is protruded from an installed surface to a housed state in which the antenna is housed in the installed surface, and vice versa.

Claims

1. A wireless communication system, comprising:

a tower-shaped antenna having a service area, the tower-shaped antenna, including a leaky coaxial cable that leaks electric wave, which is changed from a protruding state in which the antenna is protruded from an installed surface to a housed state in which the antenna is housed in the installed surface, and vice versa.

2. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a controller configured to control the protruding and housing of the antenna.

3. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a human body sensor configured to detect whether or not a person exists within the service area of the antenna, wherein

the controller makes the antenna in the protruding state if the human body r sensor detects a person and makes the antenna in the housed state if the human body sensor does not detect a person.

4. The system according to claim 3, further comprising:

a manipulator configured to set the protruding position of the antenna;

wherein

the controller protrudes the antenna to the protruding position set by the manipulator if the human body sensor detects a person and houses the antenna if the human body sensor does not detect a person.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein

the antenna moves vertically through the installed surface so as to be in the protruding state and moves vertically towards the installed surface so as to be in the housed state.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein

the antenna is raised up from the installed surface so as to be in the protruding state and laid down on the installed surface so as to be in the housed state.