Method for operating a radio remote control system

• US 6,980,121 B2
• Filed: 11/26/2001
• Issued: 12/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Integrated Electronic Systems !Systems Consulting GmbH
• Original Assignee: Integrated Electronic Systems !Systems Consulting GmbH
• Inventors: Haug, Thomas, Bredow, Wolfgang, Burchard, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Holloway, III, Edwin C.
• Application Number:
  US09/991,869
• Publication Number:
  US 20020063634A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,492 Days
• Field of Search: 340/825.69, 340/825.72, 340/825.21, 340/573.1, 340/542, 340/5.64, 318/16, 455/99, 341/173, 341/176
• US Class Current: 340/12.5
• CPC Class Codes: B66C 13/40 Applications of devices for transmitting control pulses; Applications of remote control devices control in general G05
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/91 Remote control based on location and proximity

Abstract

A method for operating a radio remote control system having a transmitting unit and a receiving unit, composed of: following the termination of a radio connection between the transmitting unit and the receiving unit, modifying at least one transmitting or receiving parameter of the transmitting unit or the receiving unit with respect to a standard value in such a way that the establishment of a new radio connection is only possible if the distance between the transmitting unit and the receiving unit does not exceed a predetermined value; and following the establishment of a new radio contact with the modified parameter in effect, resetting the respective parameter to the standard value.

Claims

1. A method for operating a radio remote control system having a transmitting unit and a receiving unit, comprising:

following the termination of a radio connection between the transmitting unit and the receiving unit, modifying at least one transmitting or receiving parameter of the transmitting unit or the receiving unit with respect to a standard value in such a way that the establishment of a new radio connection is only possible if the distance between the transmitting unit and the receiving unit does not exceed a predetermined value;

for establishing a new radio connection, transmitting information composed of a sequence of packets each having a section with a defined bit pattern for testing purposes, comparing, in the receiving unit, the defined bit patterns with a stored bit pattern, and establishing the new radio connection and causing the receiving unit to generate a control signal only if the comparing step indicates correspondence between the defined bit pattern and the stored bit pattern; and

following the establishment of the new radio connection with the modified parameter in effect, resetting the respective parameter to the standard value.

2. The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein one of said steps of modifying and resetting takes place in response to correspondence or noncorrespondence of the received bit sequence with the stored bit sequence.

3. The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the at least one parameter is the transmitting output of the transmitting unit or the receiving sensitivity of the receiving unit.

4. The method in accordance with claim 3, wherein the parameter is the amplification of an amplification stage of the transmitting unit.

5. The method in accordance with claim 3, wherein the parameter is the receiving sensitivity of the receiving unit and said steps of modifying and resetting comprise switching a switchable attenuation member of the receiving unit.

6. The method in accordance with claim 5, wherein said step of modifying comprises reducing the transmission output of the transmitting unit or the receiving sensitivity of the receiving unit when the transmitting output of the transmitting unit during an existing radio connection falls below a first switching threshold (S1) over a defined period of time.

7. The method in accordance with claim 5, wherein said step of resetting comprising restoring the transmission output of the transmitting unit or the receiving sensitivity of the receiving unit to the standard value when the power of a signal received by the receiving unit from the transmitting unit exceeds a second switching threshold (S2).

8. The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein said remote control system is part of an industrial device.