SHORT-DISTANCE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE

• US 20130203355A1
• Filed: 10/19/2011
• Published: 08/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ootani, Masao
• Application Number:
  US13/878,290
• Publication Number:
  US 20130203355A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0726 the arrangement including a circuit for tuning the resonance frequency of an antenna on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/26 using coils
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

Provided is a contactless communication R/W device that has low power consumption and a wide communication area in contactless communication that performs delivery of electronic data with a contactless communication device. The contactless communication R/W device includes an antenna coil, a resonance frequency setting section which sets a resonance frequency, and a coupling degree detecting section which detects a coupling degree corresponding to the resonance frequency of a counterpart antenna coil. The contactless communication R/W device transmits, in a first period before the start of communication, a carrier wave at a first level, and detects the coupling degree while changing the resonance frequency, and then, in a second period, the antenna coil transmits a carrier wave at a second level that is larger than the first level.

Claims

1. A short-distance wireless communication device, comprising:

an antenna coil;

a coupling degree detecting section which is configured to detect a coupling degree of the antenna coil corresponding to a frequency; and

a resonance frequency setting section which is configured to set a resonance frequency of the antenna coil, wherein

short-distance wireless communication device is configured to perform a communication using a carrier wave of a predetermined frequency with a different antenna coil which is opposed to the antenna coil,

in a first period, the antenna coil transmits a carrier wave at a first level, and also the coupling degree detecting section detects a frequency for which the coupling degree is higher than a predetermined coupling degree, and sets the detected frequency as the resonance frequency in the resonance frequency setting section, and

in a second period, the antenna coil transmits the carrier wave at a second level that is larger than the first level.

2. The short-distance wireless communication device according to claim 1, wherein

in the second period, the short-distance wireless communication device performs data communication using the carrier wave with another short-distance wireless communication device which is provided with the different antenna coil.

3. The short-distance wireless communication device according to claim 1, wherein

when a response level to the carrier wave transmitted at the first level is smaller than a third level in the first period, the coupling degree detecting section determines that the coupling degree is higher than the predetermined coupling degree, and

the third level is smaller than the first level.

4. The short-distance wireless communication device according to claim 3, wherein

when the response level to the carrier wave transmitted at the first level is smaller than the third level in the first period, the short-distance wireless communication device performs data communication using the carrier wave with another short-distance wireless communication device which is provided with the different antenna coil in the second period, and

when the response level to the carrier wave transmitted at the first level is larger than the third level in the first period, the short-distance wireless communication device does not perform the data communication.

5. The short-distance wireless communication device according to claim 4, further comprising

a display part, wherein

the display part displays that there is not a contactless card or a short-distance wireless communication device which is provided with a contactless card function in a communication area when the response level to the carrier wave transmitted at the first level is larger than the third level in the first period.

6. The short-distance wireless communication device according to claim 3, wherein

the resonance frequency setting section sets a plurality of resonance frequencies in the first period, and

the coupling degree detecting section determines a resonance frequency as the frequency for which the coupling degree is higher than the predetermined coupling degree, the resonance frequency being a frequency for which the response level to the carrier wave transmitted at the first level is smaller than the third level and for which the level of the carrier wave is the smallest among levels of carrier waves corresponding to the plurality of resonance frequencies.

7. The short-distance wireless communication device according to claim 1, wherein

the resonance frequency setting section sets a plurality of resonance frequencies in the first period, and

in the first period, the antenna coil transmits the carrier wave at the first level while changing the resonance frequency of the antenna coil in the resonance frequency setting section among the plurality of resonance frequencies, and also the coupling degree detecting section detects a frequency for which the coupling degree is higher than the predetermined coupling degree, and sets the detected frequency as the resonance frequency in the resonance frequency setting section for the second period.