Communication apparatus

• US 8,451,888 B2
• Filed: 08/22/2005
• Issued: 05/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Component Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Component Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Inventors: Kurashima, Shigemi, Yanagi, Masahiro, Inoue, Hiroto, Uchiyama, Takuya, Arita, Takashi, Iwata, Hideki
• Primary Examiner(s): Vlahos, Sophia
• Application Number:
  US11/207,849
• Publication Number:
  US 20060045177A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,836 Days
• Field of Search: 375/256, 375/261, 375/295, 375/130, 375/240, 375/309, 375140-141, 375/146, 375/219, 375/242, 375/316, 375/340, 375/349, 375/353, 375/373, 375376-377, 375/135, 375/136, 375/147, 375/216, 375/239, 375/259, 375/260, 375/267, 375/131, 455/102, 455/522, 455/91, 370/213
• US Class Current: 375/239
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 7/04 Position modulation, i.e. PPM
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 9/04 of position-modulated pulses

Abstract

An impulse communication apparatus includes an impulse train generating part generating an impulse train from one modulated pulse by on-off keying, and an impulse train sending part sending the impulse train generated by the impulse train generating part.

Claims

1. An impulse communication apparatus comprising:

a modulated pulse generating part generating a modulated pulse by performing a pulse position modulation operation to data;

an impulse train generating part generating an impulse train from the modulated pulse by on-off keying; and

an impulse train sending part sending the impulse train generated by the impulse train generating part, wherein the impulse train generating part includes;

a first part that generates a pulse;

a second part that performs an AND operation on the modulated pulse and the pulse generated by the first part to generate another pulse, a period of the pulse generated by the first part being shorter than a pulse width of the modulated pulse; and

a third part generating the impulse train, the pulse width of the impulse train being narrower than the pulse width of the another pulse and one pulse of the impulse train corresponding to one pulse of the another pulse, at a timing defined by the another pulse, an impulse of the impulse train being in synchronism with either the rising edge of the another pulse or a falling edge of the another pulse, wherein the third part comprises a step recovery diode, and

wherein the pulse has multiple sets of a high level and a low level during one high level or low level of the modulated pulse.

2. The impulse communication apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the impulse train generating part selects a period of the impulse train based on a communication channel used.

3. The impulse communication apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the impulse train generating part selects a pulse width of the impulse train based on a communication channel used.

4. The impulse communication apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the impulse train generating part selects a period of the impulse train at random.

5. The impulse communication apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a delay circuit that delays the modulated pulse by multiple delay times to generate a train of pulses, wherein the impulse train generating part performs the on-off keying for the train of pulses from the delay circuit and generates the impulse train.

6. The impulse communication apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the delay circuit includes delay elements associated with the multiple delay times.

7. The impulse communication apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the multiple delay times have a relationship of monotonous increase or decrease.

8. The impulse communication apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein differences among the multiple delay times are random.

9. An impulse communication system comprising:

a transmitting apparatus that transmits an impulse train; and

a receiving apparatus that receives the impulse train transmitted from the transmitting apparatus, wherein the transmitting apparatus includes;

a modulated pulse generating part generating a modulated pulse by performing a pulse position modulation operation to data;

an impulse train generating part generating the impulse train from the modulated pulse by on-off keying; and

an impulse train sending part sending the impulse train generated by the impulse train generating part, wherein the impulse train generating part includes;

a first part that generates a pulse;

a second part that performs an AND operation on the modulated pulse and the pulse generated by the first part to generate another pulse, a period of the pulse generated by the first part being shorter than a pulse width of the modulated pulse; and

a third part generating the impulse train, the pulse width of the impulse train being narrower than the pulse width of the another pulse and one pulse of the impulse train corresponding to one pulse of the another pulse, at a timing defined by the another pulse, an impulse of the impulse train being in synchronism with either the rising edge of the another pulse or a falling edge of the another pulse, wherein the third part comprises a step recovery diode, and

wherein the pulse has multiple sets of a high level and a low level during one high level or low level of the modulated pulse, and

wherein the receiving apparatus includes;

an impulse train receiving part that receives the impulse train obtained by performing on-off keying on the modulated pulse; and

an impulse train detector that detects the impulse train received by the impulse train receiving part.

10. The impulse communication system as claimed in claim 9, further comprising a part that identifies a communication channel by referring to the impulse train received by the impulse train receiving part.

11. The impulse communication system as claimed in claim 9, further comprising a part that identifies a communication channel on the basis of a period of the impulse train received by the impulse train receiving part.

12. The impulse communication system as claimed in claim 9, further comprising a part that identifies a communication channel on the basis of the number of impulses of the impulse train.

13. The impulse communication system as claimed in claim 9, wherein:

the impulse train receiving part receives the impulse train obtained by the on-off keying for a train of pulses generated by delaying the modulated pulse by first multiple delay times;

the impulse train receiving part comprises a delay/combine part that delays the impulse train by second multiple delay times and combines delayed impulse trains; and

the detector part detects a combined impulse train from the delay/combine part.

14. The impulse communication system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the second multiple delay times includes a maximum delay time that is a maximum time of the first multiple delay times, and the second multiple delay times further includes delay times obtained by subtracting remaining delay times of the first multiple delay times from the maximum delay time.

15. The impulse communication system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the detector part includes a low-pass filter filtering the impulse train, and a peak detecting part that detects a peak of an output signal of the low-pass filter.

16. The impulse communication system as claimed in claim 15, wherein the low-pass filter has a cutoff frequency equal to a reciprocal of the first multiple delay times.