AIRCRAFT COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARTUS, AIRCRAFT, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH AIRCRAFT COMMUNICATION PROGRAM IS STORED AND AIRCRAFT COMMUNICATION METHOD

• US 20140099986A1
• Filed: 10/01/2013
• Published: 04/10/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Inventors: KIKUCHI, Shota, MIYANISHI, Ippei
• Granted Patent: US 9,408,045 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/518
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/18506 Communications with or from aircraft, i.e. aeronautical mobile service
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management

Abstract

When information sharing is performed among multiple aircrafts, the number of times of communication for the information sharing is reduced. An onboard terminal 30 is a communication control apparatus 20 of an aircraft 10 which performs transmission and reception of information with a consort aircraft. When performing information sharing between two or more consort aircrafts, the onboard terminal 30 performs transmission and reception of information with a predetermined consort aircraft and thereafter performs transmission and reception of information including information transmitted from the predetermined consort aircraft, with another consort aircraft. The onboard terminal 30 performs information sharing with the consort aircrafts in accordance with a routing table showing order of aircrafts 10 to perform transmission and reception of information.

Claims

1. An aircraft communication control apparatus performing transmission and reception of information with a consort aircraft, wherein, in a case of performing information sharing with two or more consort aircrafts, the aircraft communication control apparatus performs transmission and reception of information with a predetermined consort aircraft and thereafter performs transmission and reception of information including information transmitted from the predetermined consort aircraft, with another consort aircraft.

2. The aircraft communication control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when a number of the aircrafts is an even number, the aircrafts are divided into two groups, and information sharing between the groups is performed after information sharing is performed in each of the groups.

3. The aircraft communication control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the number of the aircrafts is an odd number, the aircrafts are divided into a first group that does not include a surplus aircraft and a second group that includes the surplus aircraft, and information sharing is performed between the first and second groups after information sharing in the first group is completed.

4. The aircraft communication control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, at the same time as information sharing is performed between consort aircrafts, information sharing is performed between the aircraft itself and another consort aircraft.

5. The aircraft communication control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the communication control apparatus performs information sharing with the consort aircrafts in accordance with table information showing order of aircrafts to perform transmission and reception of information.

6. The aircraft communication control apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the table information is generated by each of the aircrafts.

7. An aircraft comprising a communication control apparatus according to claim 1.

8. A computer-readable recording medium in which an aircraft communication control program for performing transmission and reception of information with a consort aircraft is stored, the program being for causing a computer to execute function of, in a case of performing information sharing with two or more consort aircrafts, performing transmission and reception of information with a predetermined consort aircraft and thereafter performing transmission and reception of information including information transmitted from the predetermined consort aircraft, with another consort aircraft.

9. An aircraft communication method for performing transmission and reception of information with a consort aircraft, wherein, in a case of performing information sharing with two or more consort aircrafts, transmission and reception of information is performed with a predetermined consort aircraft and thereafter transmission and reception of information including information transmitted from the predetermined consort aircraft is performed with another consort aircraft.