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Communication for a data transmission for a moving vehicle to a stationary beacon

US5564069A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 27, 1995
Grant dateOct 8, 1996
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Expiry dateFeb 27, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04B7/26
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a communication system for data transmission from a moving vehicle to a stationary beacon (1) which has a transceiver in which a signal is broadcast by the beacon (1) and received by an antenna (5, 5') of an on-board unit (4) of the vehicle and after a modulation with a data signal is transmitted back again to the beacon (1), where the data are extracted from the returned signal, the reliability of transmission for the data is increased by providing that the on-board unit (4) has at least two modulators (6, 6'), with which independently of one another the received signal is modulatable with the data signal and can be transmitted back in different ways. The transmission in different ways of the signals modulated independently of one another can be done by means of spatial separation of the antennas (5, 5') and/or by means of polarizing the broadcast signals differently from one another.

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