Roadside transmitter

• US 6,397,067 B1
• Filed: 02/28/2001
• Issued: 05/28/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Keiji, Maehata, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Hunter, Daniel
• Assistant Examiner(s): LE, LANA N
• Application Number:
  US09/763,887
• Time in Patent Office: 454 Days
• Field of Search: 455/561,562,446,71,63 342/175,357,358
• US Class Current: 455/446
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/01 Reducing phase shift
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/12 Frequency diversity
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/26 at least one of which is mobile
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/0035 detecting errors in frequency or phase

Abstract

In a communication system between a road and a vehicle, communicating between a plurality of road communication stations arranged in a cell and a vehicle-mounted mobile station within the cell, a vehicle-mounted transmitting equipment, in which communication is not interrupted even when a received frequency varies due to the Doppler effect and which performs stable communication, is realized. A transmitting antenna 36a having a directivity in the running direction of the vehicle and a transmitting antenna 36b having a directivity opposite to the running direction of the vehicle are arranged. An offset for increasing a frequency is provided for a radio wave emitted from the antenna 36a while an offset for lowering a frequency is provided for a radio wave emitted from the antenna 36b. The variation in the received frequency depending on the Doppler shift is reduced for the vehicle-mounted receiving device to facilitate automatic frequency control (AFC), thereby reducing degradation in the quality of data after demodulation.

Claims

1. A road transmission equipment used for a communication system between a road and a vehicle, which communicates between a road communication station arranged in a cell and a vehicle-mounted mobile station within the cell, comprising:

a first transmitting antenna having a directivity in a running direction of a vehicle, a second transmitting antenna having a directivity in the opposite direction to the running direction of the vehicle, a first transmitting section and a second transmitting section respectively connected to the first transmitting antenna and the second transmitting antenna to output signals of the same frequency, and a frequency correction section, wherein;

the frequency correction section provides the first transmitting section with a positive frequency offset for increasing the frequency of a signal supplied to the first transmitting antenna, and

provides the second transmitting section with a negative frequency offset for lowering the frequency of a signal supplied to the second transmitting antenna.

2. A road transmission equipment as set forth in claim 1, wherein the amounts of the positive frequency offset and the negative frequency offset provided by the frequency correction section are equal to each other.

3. A road transmission equipment as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a speed detection means for detecting the speed of the vehicle running in the cell, wherein

the frequency correction section sets the amount of the frequency offset based on the detected speed of the vehicle.

4. A road transmission equipment as set forth in claim 1, wherein

the amount of the frequency offset provided by the frequency correction section is set to a fixed value on the assumption that the vehicle is subjected to constant Doppler shift.

5. A road transmission equipment according to any of claims 1 to 4, wherein each of the first transmitting section and the second transmitting section transmits an orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) modulated radio wave.