Infrared communication system, movable object, supply facility, and method for infrared communication in the same
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsRyusuke Ishikawa, Makoto Kawatsu
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Abstract
A supply facility supplies fluid to a movable object through a feed pipe connected with a connection port of the movable object. A feed connector of the feed pipe is rotatable around its axis when the feed pipe is connected with the connection port. At least one of the feed pipe of the supply facility and the movable object has multiple infrared communication elements. When the feed connector of the feed pipe is connected with the connection port of the movable object, at least one of the infrared communication elements is communicable with an infrared communication device on the other side via an infrared communication, regardless of the rotation phase.
Claims7
An infrared communication system configured to perform an infrared communication between a movable object having a connection port and a supply facility for supplying fluid to the movable object through a feed pipe connectable with the connection port, the infrared communication system comprising:
- a movable-object-side infrared communication device provided to the movable object;
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- a supply-facility-side infrared communication device provided to the feed pipe of the supply facility and configured to be located in a position in which the supply-facility-side infrared communication device is capable of communicating with the movable-object-side infrared communication device via an infrared communication when a feed connector of the feed pipe is connected with the connection port,
- wherein a rotation phase of the feed connector of the feed pipe is variable around an axial direction when the feed pipe is connected with the connection port,
- at least one of the movable-object-side infrared communication device and the supply-facility-side infrared communication device includes a plurality of infrared communication elements, and
- at least one of the plurality of infrared communication elements is in a communicable position in which the at least one of the plurality of infrared communication elements is capable of performing the infrared communication, regardless of the rotation phase.
A method for performing an infrared communication between a movable object and a supply facility, the supply facility being for supplying fluid to the movable object through a feed pipe of the supply facility, the feed pipe being connectable with a connection port of the movable object, a rotation phase of a feed connector of the feed pipe being variable around its axis when the feed pipe is connected with the connection port, the method comprising:
- detecting at least one of a plurality of infrared communication elements, which is provided to one of the feed connector of the feed pipe and the movable object and communicable with an infrared communication device on an opposite side of the at least one of the plurality of infrared communication elements when the feed pipe is connected with the connection port;
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- performing an infrared communication via the detected at least one of the plurality of infrared communication elements when the feed pipe is connected with the connection port, regardless of the rotation phase.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.