Device for exchanging radio signals provided with time markers for synchronizing clocks
First Claim
1. Apparatus for exchanging radio signals provided with time markers comprising radio transmission means having a generator to generate a transmission signal, comprising a carrier and a repetitive time marker, reception means having a reception processing circuit for processing a received signal, said received signal comprising a carrier and a repetitive time marker, the radio transmission and reception means transmitting and receiving, respectively, the same carrier frequency signal, and sequencing means to define separate time segments with substantially random successive positions to control the transmission and reception means enabling transmission only during said time segments, and enabling reception outside the segments, whereby the time markers may be processed without any recurrent effect of the transmission signal masking the reception of the received signal.
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Abstract
Radio transmission of chronometric information. A device comprising an antenna (A1, A2) to which there are coupled on one hand a generator (G1, G2) generating a signal to be sent (e1, e2) and a reception processing circuit (C1, C2), capable of processing a received signal (r1, e2) where the signals exchanged have the same carrier frequency. Separate time segments are generated with successive random positions. Transmission is enabled only during these time segments, whilst reception is enabled only outside these segments, making it possible to use the time markers of the signals without any effect of recurrent masking of the reception signal by the transmission signal.
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21 Claims
- 1. Apparatus for exchanging radio signals provided with time markers comprising radio transmission means having a generator to generate a transmission signal, comprising a carrier and a repetitive time marker, reception means having a reception processing circuit for processing a received signal, said received signal comprising a carrier and a repetitive time marker, the radio transmission and reception means transmitting and receiving, respectively, the same carrier frequency signal, and sequencing means to define separate time segments with substantially random successive positions to control the transmission and reception means enabling transmission only during said time segments, and enabling reception outside the segments, whereby the time markers may be processed without any recurrent effect of the transmission signal masking the reception of the received signal.
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21. Apparatus for the radio transfer of chronometric information comprising:
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(a) a plurality of separated radio stations;
(b) each station having means for transmitting radio signals and means for receiving return signals from another of said radio stations, of the same frequency as said radio signals and having at least one antenna for transmitting the signals from the transmitting means and for conveying return signals from said another radio station to the receiving means;
(c) wherein said transmitting and receiving means of each radio station exchange signals having a common carrier frequency between said stations; and
(d) said transmitting and receiving means having sequencing means enabled to define separate time segments with successive random positions, and to enable transmission of said transmission signals during said segments and reception of said return signals outside said segments.
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