Communication system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10484049-B2
Application number	US-201615760911-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 19, 2016
Priority date	Sep 17, 2015
Publication date	Nov 19, 2019
Grant date	Nov 19, 2019

Abstract

A ship network communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention that enables data transmission and reception wirelessly in a ship regardless of the thickness of a bulkhead comprises: a first communication device, attached to a first bulkhead from among a plurality of bulkheads dividing a hull into a plurality of spaces, to receive transmission data transmitted from a transmitting terminal; and a second communication device, attached to a second bulkhead from among the bulkheads, to receive the transmission data from a first Ethernet communication module through near field communication and to transfer the received transmission data to a receiving terminal, wherein the first communication device and the second communication device perform near field communication using the first bulkhead and the second bulkhead as a communication medium.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A signal transmission and reception apparatus that performs communication by inducing an electromagnetic field in a conductive object and by using the object as a medium, the apparatus comprising;
an external communication module configured to exchange data with an external communication terminal using at least one first communication scheme of a wired communication and a wireless communication; and
a magnetic field communication module configured to induce the electromagnetic field within the object and to carry the data in the induced electromagnetic field, as a signal and thereby transmit the data;
wherein the conductive object comprises a plurality of metal bulkheads that is physically separate from each other and in contact with each other; and
wherein the magnetic field communication module is supplied with power and induces the electromagnetic field in the plurality of metal bulkheads and a counterpart device, and carries the data in the electromagnetic field and thereby transmits the data.

2. A signal transmission and reception apparatus that performs communication by inducing an electromagnetic field in a conductive object and by using the object as a medium, the apparatus comprising:
an external communication module configured to exchange data with an external communication terminal using at least one first communication scheme of a wired communication and a wireless communication; and
a magnetic field communication module configured to induce the electromagnetic field within the object and to carry the data in the induced electromagnetic field as a signal and thereby transmit the data wherein, in response to receiving a signal transmitted from a counterpart terminal from the conductive object, the magnetic field communication module modulates the data through a pulse code modulation (PCM) scheme and transmits the data to the external communication module.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the magnetic field communication module comprises a nine coils associated with a magnetic resonance scheme that are provided in a 3-by-3 matrix form.

4. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the magnetic field communication module has a resonant frequency capable of being adjusted to be different based on a material and a thickness of the object.

5. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the conductive object comprises a metal bulkhead, and the magnetic field communication module is supplied with power and induces the electromagnetic field in, an inside of the metal bulkhead and a counterpart device, and carries, in the electromagnetic field, the data that is provided in an electrical signal form from the external communication module and thereby transmits the data.

6. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the external communication module comprises an Ethernet communication module, and the Ethernet communication module converts the data to an electrical signal form using one of a frequency shift keying (FSK) modulation scheme and a phase shift keying (PSK) modulation scheme, and provides the data to the magnetic field communication module.

7. A signal transmission and reception apparatus that performs communication by inducing an electromagnetic field in a conductive object and by using the object as a medium, the apparatus comprising:
an external communication module configured to exchange data with an external communication terminal using at least one first communication scheme of a wired communication and a wireless communication; and
a magnetic field communication module configured to induce the electromagnetic field within the object and to carry the data in the induced electromagnetic field as a signal and thereby transmit the data wherein:
the conductive object comprises a metal bulkhead;
the magnetic field communication module is supplied with power and induces the electromagnetic field in an inside of the metal bulkhead and a counterpart device, and carries, in the electromagnetic field, the data that is provided in an electrical signal form from the external communication module and thereby transmits the data;
the conductive object comprises a plurality of metal bulkheads that is physically separate from each other and in contact with each other; and
the magnetic field communication module is supplied with the power and induces the electromagnetic field in the plurality of metal bulkheads and the counterpart device, and carries the data in the electromagnetic field and thereby transmits the data.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the magnetic field communication module comprises a nine coils associated with a magnetic resonance scheme that are provided in a 3-by-3 matrix form.

9. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the magnetic field communication module has a resonant frequency capable of being adjusted to be different based on a material and a thickness of the object.

10. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the magnetic field communication module modulates the data provided from the external communication module through a phase modulation (PM) scheme and carries the data, in the induced electromagnetic field and thereby transmits the data.

11. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the magnetic field communication module has a resonant frequency capable of being adjusted to be different based on a material and a thickness of the object.

Assignees

• Ulsan Nat Inst Science & Tech Unist

Inventors

• Bien Franklin Don

Classifications

• B63B71/00

  Designing vessels; Predicting their performance · CPC title

• H04B14/00

  Transmission systems not characterised by the medium used for transmission (details thereof H04B1/00) · CPC title

• H04L29/06

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04B5/02

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04B5/0031 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic