Communication System

• US 20180205415A1
• Filed: 09/19/2016
• Published: 07/19/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
• Original Assignee: Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
• Inventors: Bien, Franklin Don
• Granted Patent: US 10,484,049 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B63B 71/00 Designing vessels; Predicting their performance
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 14/00 Transmission systems not characterised by the medium used for transmission details thereof H04B1/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/48 Transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A ship network communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention that enables data transmission and reception wirelessly in a ship regardless of the thickness of a bulkhead comprises: a first communication device, attached to a first bulkhead from among a plurality of bulkheads dividing a hull into a plurality of spaces, to receive transmission data transmitted from a transmitting terminal; and a second communication device, attached to a second bulkhead from among the bulkheads, to receive the transmission data from a first Ethernet communication module through near field communication and to transfer the received transmission data to a receiving terminal, wherein the first communication device and the second communication device perform near field communication using the first bulkhead and the second bulkhead as a communication medium.

Claims

1. A signal transmission and reception apparatus that performs communication by inducing an electromagnetic field in a conductive object and by using the object as a medium, the apparatus comprising:

an external communication module configured to exchange data with an external communication terminal using at least one first communication scheme of a wired communication and a wireless communication; and

a magnetic field communication module configured to induce the electromagnetic field within the object and to carry the data in the induced electromagnetic field as a signal and thereby transmit the data.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the magnetic field communication module comprises a plurality of coils associated with a magnetic resonance scheme.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the plurality of coils comprises nine coils that are provided in a 3-by-3 matrix form.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the conductive object comprises a metal bulkhead, and

the magnetic field communication module is supplied with power and induces the electromagnetic field in an inside of the metal bulkhead and a counterpart device, and carries, in the electromagnetic field, the data that is provided in an electrical signal form from the external communication module and thereby transmits the data.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the conductive object comprises a plurality of metal bulkheads that is physically separate from each other and in contact with each other, and

the magnetic field communication module is supplied with the power and induces the electromagnetic field in the plurality of metal bulkheads and the counterpart device, and carries the data in the electromagnetic field and thereby transmits the data.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the external communication module comprises an Ethernet communication module, and

the Ethernet communication module converts the data to an electrical signal form using one of a frequency shift keying (FSK) modulation scheme and a phase shift keying (PSK) modulation scheme, and provides the data to the magnetic field communication module.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the magnetic field communication module modulates the data provided from the external communication module through a phase modulation (PM) scheme and carries the data in the induced electromagnetic field and thereby transmits the data.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein, in response to receiving a signal transmitted from a counterpart terminal from the conductive object, the magnetic field communication module modulates the data through a PM scheme and transmits the data to the external communication module.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the magnetic field communication module has a resonant frequency capable of being adjusted to be different based on a material and a thickness of the object.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein, when the signal transmission and reception apparatus communicates with a counterpart device, the magnetic field communication module is not provided at a location at which the signal transmission and reception apparatus faces the counterpart device based on the conductive object.