Steering communication device, steered-object communication device and steering communication system

• US 9,180,903 B2
• Filed: 11/05/2012
• Issued: 11/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Futaba Corporation
• Original Assignee: Futaba Corporation
• Inventors: Tanaka, Masahiro, Koike, Yasutaka, Saegusa, Masahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Tarcza, Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lee, Tyler J
• Application Number:
  US13/668,966
• Publication Number:
  US 20130138266A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,100 Days
• Field of Search: 701/2, 701/23, 701/24, 701/29.1, 701 305- 311, 701/41, 701/44, 701120-122, 700/3, 700/17, 700/20, 700/248, 370229-235, 455/85, 340/310.11, 340/426.13, 340/426.14, 340/426.15, 340/426.16, 340/426.17, 340/426.24, 340/815.6, 34087001-87015, 340/901, 340/945, 340971-980, 341/176
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 30/04 using wireless transmission
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/20 Binding and programming of remote control devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/22 Parsing or analysis of headers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/00 Synchronisation arrangements

Abstract

The present invention provides a steering communication system being able to individually obtain a telemetry data from a steered-object communication devices mounted on the steered-object. An arbitrary identification number assigned to a plurality of steered-object communication devices mounted on a steered-object at the time of pairing-setup is associated with the equipment ID of a pairing object. When performing transmission request of a telemetry data, a steering signal adding the transmission request information and the own identification number is transmitted. The steered-object communication device judges signal classification of the inputted control signal. When the steering signal adding transmission request information and the own identification number is inputted, the steered-object communication device transmits a telemetry data signal adding the telemetry data as an answer signal to a steering communication device.

Claims

1. A steering communication device steering a steered-object in communication with a plurality of steered-object communication devices mounted on the steered-object, each of the steered-object communication devices further in communication with a corresponding sensor, and each having an arbitrary identification number respectively assigned to identify the corresponding steered-object communication device, the steering communication device comprising:

a steering-side control unit configured to transmit a pairing-setup signal along with the identification number assigned to a selected one of the plurality of steered-object communication devices to independently pair the steered-object communication device with the steering-side control unit to selectively transmit a steering signal and a data request signal along with the identification number of the selected steered object communication device to the selected steered-object communication device at a predetermined transmission time after transmitting the pairing-setup signal to steer and obtain data from the sensor corresponding to the selected steered-object communication device at predetermined intervals.

2. A plurality of steered-object communication devices mounted on a steered-object and communicating with a steering communication device for steering the steered-object, the steered-object communication device comprising:

a steered-object side control unit configured to judge whether a control signal received from the steering communication device is a steering signal or a pairing-setup signal for performing pairing-setup with a selected one of the plurality of steered-object communication devices,

wherein when the pairing-setup signal is received from the steering communication device, the steered-object side control unit is configured to transmit a pairing-setup answer signal along with an equipment ID of the selected steered-object communication device to the steering communication device,

wherein the plurality of steered-object communication devices are capable of independently pairing with the steering communication device, and

wherein when the steering signal is received as the control signal from the steering communication device, the steered-object side control unit is configured to transmit telemetry data from a sensor to the steering communication device.

3. A steering communication system steering a steered-object by communicating between a steering communication device operating a steered-object and a plurality of steered-object communication devices mounted on the steered-object, an arbitrary identification number being respectively assigned to each of the plurality of steered-object communication devices, the steering communication system comprising:

a steering-side control unit arranged in the steering communication device; and

a steered-object side control unit arranged in the steered-object communication device and in communication with a corresponding sensor,

wherein the steering-side control unit is configured to transmit a pairing-setup control signal and an identification number assigned to a selected one of the plurality of steered-object communication devices to independently pair the steered-object communication device with the steering-side control unit to selectively transmit a steering signal and a data request signal at a predetermined transmission time after transmitting the pairing-setup signal to steer and obtain data from the sensor corresponding to the selected steered-object communication device at predetermined intervals, and

the steered-object side control unit corresponding to the identification number is configured to transmit a pairing-setup answer signal and an identification number, to the steering communication device, and when a steering signal is received from the steering communication device, the steered-object side control unit is configured to transmit telemetry data from the sensor to the steering communication device.