Communications: electrical – External condition vehicle-mounted indicator or alarm
Patent
1990-08-30
1992-07-07
Ng, Jin F.
Communications: electrical
External condition vehicle-mounted indicator or alarm
340905, 342 42, 342 51, 455 89, G08G 100
Patent
active
051286696
ABSTRACT:
Information is communicated by microwave radio between transponders (9,10) carried by vehicles (7,8) travelling on a road (1) and a station (22) adjacent the road. The communications from the transponders are effected by the transponders suitably modulating their reflections of beams of microwave energy transmitted by the station from aerials (B) mounted on a gantry (11) above the road, these aerials irradiating respective communication areas (28,29,30). In order to prevent communications from different transponders overlapping and hence interfering with each other the transponders are enabled for their communications by microwave energy from further aerials (A), which energy has a higher frequency to enable it to be beamed at relatively small respective activation areas (23-27) the sizes of which are such that they can each only contain one vehicle and hence one transponder at any given time. The further aerials are activated, one at a time, successively and cyclically, so that the transponders are necessarily enabled in succession, the activation rate being, moreover, sufficient to ensure that all transponders passing through the relevant stretch of road are in fact enabled. During each interval between the activation of each further aerial and the next the station transmits a command from the aerial(s) (B) associated with the further aerial (A) which has just been activated ordering any transponder which has just been enabled to communicate its presence. If it receives such a communication the station transmits an address code from the relevant aerial(s) (B) which is stored in the relevant transponder and used subsequently to selectively address that transponder for further communication.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4025791 (1977-05-01), Lennington et al.
patent: 4075632 (1978-02-01), Boldwin et al.
Dadds Alan F.
Holford Kenneth
Nugent David M.
Stocker Brian J.
Hofsass Jeffery A.
Ng Jin F.
Treacy David R.
U.S. Philips Corporation
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