Transmitter for radio remote control system for model drive unit

• US 4,760,392 A
• Filed: 01/23/1987
• Issued: 07/26/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Futaba Denshi Kogyo KK
• Original Assignee: Futaba Denshi Kogyo KK
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Michio, Sekiya, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Weldon, Ulysses
• Application Number:
  US07/006,160
• Time in Patent Office: 550 Days
• Field of Search: 367/197-199, 340/825.69, 340/825.72, 340/543, 455/603, 455/34, 455/12, 455/8, 455/17, 370/104, 370/80
• US Class Current: 340/9.1
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 30/04 using wireless transmission
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 15/12 the signals being represented by pulse characteristics in transmission link

Abstract

A transmitter for a radio remote control system for a model drive unit such as a model plane capable of eliminating a necessity of corresponding a plurality of controlled objects to one transmission section while replacing them one by one, as well as eliminating a necessity of switching between wiring connections in the transmission section even when the transmission section is commonly used in view of a custom of control varied depending upon a state, to thereby facilitate the operation of changing channel allocation without malfunction. The transmitter is so constructed that an offset value is computed for every channel depending on set self-addresses and connection addresses and stored for every channel and an execution address is computed depending on a channel address value representing each channel and the offset value of each channel and supplied to a multiplexer to cause it to change an order of selection of control voltages, so that an order of alternative supply of each control voltage to a time slot allocated to each channel or an order of allocation of each control voltage to each channel may be changed.

Claims

1. A transmitter for a radio remote control system for a model drive unit, comprising:

a plurality of control levers arranged corresponding to channels;

a control signal generating means for generating control signals depending on displacement of said control levers in a predetermined order including a control voltage generating circuit for generating a control voltage depending on displacement of each of said control levers and an analog-digital converter for generating said control voltage in the form of a control voltage code obtained by converting said control voltage into a parallel digital signal;

a transmission means for transmitting a signal associated with each of said control signals;

a channel setting means for setting self-channels and connection channels; and

a change means for changing said order of generating said control signals depending on said self-channels and connection channels set by said channel setting means.

2. A transmitter as defined in claim 1 wherein said control signal generating means includes a parallel-serial conversion circuit for converting said control voltage code generated from said analog-digital converter into a serial transmission code.

3. A transmitter as defined in claim 2, wherein said change means includes an address counter which steps every time when said parallel-serial conversion circuit generates said transmission code, to thereby generate a channel address code therefrom.

4. A transmitter as defined in claim 3, wherein said control signal generating means includes a multiplexer which alternatively selects said control voltages of said control voltage generating circuit in response to an execution address code associated with said channel address code and supply it to said parallel-serial conversion circuit.

5. A transmitter as defined in claim 1, wherein said change means includes an offset value operation means for computing an offset value for each of said self-channels depending on said set self-channels and connection channels.

6. A transmitter as defined in claim 5, wherein said change means includes an offset memory means which readably stores therein an offset valueof a self-address for each channel address, and reads and outputs therefrom said offset value of said self-address in response to a channel address code representing said channel address coinciding with said self-address.

7. A transmitter as defined in claim 6, wherein said change means includes an execution address operation means which computes an execution address depending on said channel address represented by said channel address code and said offset value read and output from said offset memory means and supplies an execution address code representing said execution address to said control signal generating means.