Radio communication device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9231730-B2
Application number	US-201113823428-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 2, 2011
Priority date	Sep 30, 2010
Publication date	Jan 5, 2016
Grant date	Jan 5, 2016

Abstract

A radio communication device includes a first antenna, a second antenna, a phase varying section that varies a phase of a first RF signal received by or transmitted from the first antenna, and a phase control section that causes the phase varying section to vary a phase amount, which is a varied amount of the phase of the first RF signal received by or transmitted from the first antenna. Thus, it is possible to prevent the size of a device configuration from increasing and avoid the lowering of a reception electric field level in a localized area.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A radio communication device comprising:
a first antenna;
a second antenna;
a phase varying means which varies a phase of a radio frequency (RF) signal received by or transmitted from the first antenna; and
a phase control means which causes the phase varying means to vary the phase of the RF signal received by or transmitted from the first antenna by a variable phase amount,
wherein the radio communication device is configured to receive packet data having the same content sequentially via the first antenna and the second antenna,
wherein the phase control means causes the phase varying means to vary the phase amount repetitively in fixed cycles, and
wherein when a cycle in which the phase control means causes the phase varying means to vary the variable phase amount repetitively is T 1 and a time length of data transmitted and received in a state in which the data is incorporated in the RF signal is T 3 , the phase control means causes the phase varying means to vary the variable phase amount such that a relationship T 1 greater than T 3 is satisfied.

2. The radio communication device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a synthesizing means which synthesizes the RF signal containing the packet data received by the first antenna and the RF signal containing the packet data received by the second antenna;
a demodulation means which demodulates the RF signal synthesized by the synthesizing means to generate the packet data; and
an error detection means which detects whether or not the packet data generated by the demodulation means contains an error, and
wherein when the error detection means detects that the packet data contains an error, the packet data containing the error is discarded and the error detection means detects whether or not packet data generated by the demodulation means subsequently to the packet data containing the error contains an error.

3. The radio communication device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a synthesizing means which synthesizes the RF signal containing the packet data received by the first antenna and the RF signal containing the packet data received by the second antenna;
a demodulation means which demodulates the RF signal synthesized by the synthesizing means to sequentially generate the packet data; and
a reception level detection means which detects a reception level indicated by an electric power intensity of the synthesized RF signal, in reception of the packet data generated by the demodulation means,
wherein packet data corresponding to a highest reception level detected by the reception level detection means is selected as received data.

4. The radio communication device according to claim 1 , wherein the phase varying means is configured to vary the variable phase amount in response to a voltage input to a control signal input terminal of the phase varying means; and wherein a voltage changing cyclically or randomly which is output from a control signal output terminal of the phase control means is input to the control signal input terminal.

5. The radio communication device according to claim 4 , wherein a control signal of the phase control means has a square waveform; and wherein the control signal having the square waveform is input to the control signal input terminal of the phase varying means via a filter.

6. The radio communication device according to claim 1 , wherein each of the first antenna and the second antenna extends in one direction, and the first antenna and the second antenna are arranged such that the extending direction of the first antenna and the extending direction of the second antenna are orthogonal to each other.

Assignees

• Yoshikawa Yoshishige
• Ogawa Koichi
• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yoshikawa Yoshishige
• Ogawa Koichi

Classifications

• H04B7/084

  Equal gain combining, only phase adjustments (antenna beam scanning or forming by phase or amplitude control H01Q3/26, e.g. phased arrays) · CPC title

• H04B7/0682 Primary

  using phase diversity (e.g. phase sweeping) · CPC title

• H04L1/0036 Primary

  arrangements specific to the receiver · CPC title