Recording/playback apparatus with electric wave transmission

• US 6,950,067 B2
• Filed: 10/29/2002
• Issued: 09/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ota, Shuichi, Kaneko, Masayasu, Katoku, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Dinh, Trinh Vo
• Application Number:
  US10/282,016
• Publication Number:
  US 20030067413A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,064 Days
• Field of Search: H01/Q00.1/24, H04/B00.7/00, 343/700.R, 343/702, 343/895, 343/745, 343/853, 343/860, 360/55, 360/132, 360/137, 455/500, 455/524, 455/39, 455/57.1, 455/126
• US Class Current: 343/702
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/045 the record carrier being of the non-contact type, e.g. RFID, and being specially adapted for attachment to a disc, e.g. a CD or DVD
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 15/07 on containers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 15/67584 outside the apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 23/08714 Auxiliary features sensing such features G11B15/06
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/165 incorporating printed inductors

Abstract

A recording/playback apparatus which accommodates in a cassette shell a recording medium and which performs recording and/or playback with respect to the recording medium cassette provided with a cassette-side antenna connected to an in-cassette memory recording information regarding recording contents or the like. The apparatus includes a recording/playback mechanism portion performing recording and/or playback with respect to a recording medium cassette, a cassette holding member which holds the recording medium cassette, which moves between a recording/playback position near the recording/playback apparatus where recording and/or playback is conducted with respect to the recording medium cassette and a cassette passing position spaced apart from the recording/playback mechanism portion where the passing of the recording medium cassette is effected, and at least the portion of which opposed to the cassette-side antenna is formed of a metal, a cassette passing member which moves between a holding position where the recording medium cassette is held by the cassette holding member and an eject position where the recording medium cassette is inserted and detached in a direction crossing the movement path of the cassette holding member, and an apparatus side antenna for effecting communication through the in-cassette memory and the cassette-side antenna, wherein an electric wave transmission portion is formed in the portion of the cassette holding member opposed to the cassette-side antenna, and wherein the apparatus-side antenna is arranged in correspondence with the electric wave transmission portion.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus which performs data transmission/reception with another communication apparatus,

the apparatus comprising setting means for setting an antenna resonance frequency, detection means for detecting the transmission/reception state, and changing means for changing the resonance frequency of an antenna set by the setting means in accordance with the detection result of the detection means, wherein the detection means transmits transmission requirement of predetermined data to the another communication apparatus, and detects the transmission/reception state on basis of whether the predetermined data has been received from the another communication apparatus or not.

2. A communication system, comprising:

a first communication device; and

a second communication device,

wherein the first communication device comprises an antenna, setting means for setting a resonance frequency of the antenna, detection means for detecting a transmission/reception state of the first communication device, and changing means for changing the resonance frequency of the antenna based on the detection result of the detection means, and

wherein the detection means of the first communication device transmits an instruction to the second communication device to send predetermined data back to the first communication device, and detects the transmission/reception state of the first communication device based on whether the predetermined data has been received from the second communication device.

3. A communication device that communicates data with other communication devices, the communication device comprising:

an antenna;

setting means for setting a resonance frequency of the antenna;

detection means for detecting a transmission/reception state; and

changing means for changing the resonance frequency of the antenna based on a detection result of the detection means,

wherein the detection means transmits an instruction to one of the other communication devices send predetermined data, and detects the transmission/reception state based on whether the predetermined data has been received from the one of the other communication devices.