WIRELESS SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM AND WIRELESS DEVICE

• US 20180368085A1
• Filed: 04/24/2018
• Published: 12/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2017
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
• Original Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
• Inventors: FUJIWARA, Taku, MARUYAMA, Yuichi
• Application Number:
  US15/960,804
• Publication Number:
  US 20180368085A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/80 involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/103 with adaptive polling, i.e. dynamically adapting the polling rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/001 Synchronization between nodes
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/00 Systems for electrical power generation, transmission, distribution or end-user application management characterised by the use of communication or information technologies, or communication or information technology specific aspects supporting them

Abstract

A first device of a wireless synchronization system includes: a first sensor for measuring a physical quantity related to power consumed by wireless communication process of a first communication circuit; and a first control circuit outputting a first synchronization signal at a timing that the magnitude relation between the physical quantity measured by the first sensor with respect to one of transmitting process and receiving process in the wireless communication process and a predetermined threshold value changes. A second device includes a second control circuit outputting a second synchronization signal at a timing that the magnitude relation between the physical quantity measured by the second sensor with respect to the other one of the transmitting and receiving processes in the wireless communication process in a second communication circuit and a predetermined threshold value changes.

Claims

1. A wireless synchronization system comprising a first device and a second device,

wherein the first device includes:

a first communication circuit for performing wireless communication with the second device;

a first sensor for measuring a physical quantity related to power consumed by wireless communication process of the first communication circuit;

a first control circuit outputting a first synchronization signal at a timing that the magnitude relation between the physical quantity measured by the first sensor with respect to one of transmitting process and receiving process in the wireless communication process and a predetermined threshold value changes; and

a first equipment operating according to a first synchronization signal output by the first control circuit, and

wherein the second device includes;

a second communication circuit for performing wireless communication with the first device;

a second sensor for measuring a physical quantity related to power consumed by wireless communication process of the second communication circuit;

a second control circuit outputting a second synchronization signal at a timing that the magnitude relation between the physical quantity measured by the second sensor with respect to the other one of the transmitting process and the receiving process in the wireless communication process in the second communication circuit and a predetermined threshold value changes; and

a second equipment operating according to the second synchronization signal output by the second control circuit.

2. A wireless device comprising:

a communication circuit for performing wireless communication with an external device;

a sensor for measuring a physical quantity related to power consumed by wireless communication process of the communication circuit; and

a control circuit outputting a synchronization signal for synchronizing an equipment and the external device to the equipment,

wherein the control circuit is configured to output a synchronization signal to the equipment at a timing that the magnitude relation between the physical quantity measured by the sensor with respect to one of receiving process and transmitting process in the wireless communication process and a predetermined threshold value changes.

3. The wireless device according to claim 2,

wherein the communication circuit receives a polling packet from the external device and transmits a response to the external device, and

wherein the control circuit is configured to output a synchronization signal to the equipment at a timing that the magnitude relation between the physical quantity related to power consumed by process of transmitting the response and measured by the sensor and a predetermined threshold value changes.

4. The wireless device according to claim 2,

wherein the communication circuit transmits a polling packet to the external device and receives a response to the polling packet from the external device, and

wherein the control circuit is configured to output a synchronization signal to the equipment at a timing that the magnitude relation between the physical quantity related to power consumed by process of receiving the response and measured by the sensor and a predetermined threshold value changes.

5. The wireless device according to claim 2, wherein the size of a packet transmitted/received between the communication circuit and the external device is fixed length.

6. The wireless device according to claim 2,

wherein the equipment and the external device are configured to operate in predetermined cycles, and

wherein the control circuit is configured to output the synchronization signal to the equipment at integral multiple of the predetermined cycle.

7. The wireless device according to claim 2, wherein the control circuit is configured to operate in a first mode of outputting the synchronization signal to the equipment and, after that, in a second mode of outputting no synchronization signal to the equipment.

8. The wireless device according to claim 7, wherein the control circuit is configured to switch the first and second modes in accordance with a predetermined pattern.

9. A wireless synchronization system comprising a first device and a second device,

wherein the first device includes:

a first equipment which operates in a predetermined cycle;

a first sensor for detecting the phase of the first equipment in the predetermined cycle; and

a first communication circuit for wirelessly transmitting a packet including the phase detected by the first sensor to the second device, and

wherein the second device includes;

a second equipment which operates in the predetermined cycle;

a second sensor for detecting the phase of the second equipment in the predetermined cycle;

a second communication circuit for receiving the packet from the first device; and

a control device synchronizing the phase of the second equipment with the phase of the first equipment on the basis of the phase detected by the second sensor and the phase included in the received packet.