Vehicle communication system for toll collection
First Claim
1. A vehicle communication system comprising:
- a plurality of antenna units each having a respective communication area, a group of said antenna units being set to the same frequency, transmitting interrogation signals in a common cycle to communicate with on-vehicle devices mounted on vehicles in said communication areas, and receiving response signals from said on-vehicle devices responsive thereto; and
communication control means for controlling at least two of said antenna units, set to the same frequency, whose communication areas do not overlap with each other, to perform communication so that reception of signals from said on-vehicle devices are performed in a common period, said at least two antenna units being immediately adjacent to one another to perform communications so that communication periods of the at least two antenna units, consisting of transmissions and subsequent receptions, do not overlap with one another.
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Abstract
To perform communication speedily and reliably at an increased frequency of communication occurrence when providing multiple antenna units which are set to the same frequency, each of antenna units having a gantry in a tollgate is set such that adjacent antenna units having the same frequency alternately perform communications. Each communication period is set to have a down link period in which an interrogation signal is transmitted and an up link period in which an unmodulated carrier wave is transmitted while a response signal is received. Upon receiving a signal, an on-vehicle device generates a response signal by using a control circuit and transmits the signal by reflection, and fixes a communication party for further communications. The communication cycles of adjacent antenna units are shifted from each other, thereby avoiding interference. The down link periods and the up link periods coincide between the antenna units whose communication areas are apart from each other, thereby avoiding interference.
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1. A vehicle communication system comprising:
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a plurality of antenna units each having a respective communication area, a group of said antenna units being set to the same frequency, transmitting interrogation signals in a common cycle to communicate with on-vehicle devices mounted on vehicles in said communication areas, and receiving response signals from said on-vehicle devices responsive thereto; and communication control means for controlling at least two of said antenna units, set to the same frequency, whose communication areas do not overlap with each other, to perform communication so that reception of signals from said on-vehicle devices are performed in a common period, said at least two antenna units being immediately adjacent to one another to perform communications so that communication periods of the at least two antenna units, consisting of transmissions and subsequent receptions, do not overlap with one another. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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