US 2018/0027367 A1 · COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

Abstract

A communication system 20 includes a short-range wireless communication device 45 installed in a vehicle 10. The short-range wireless communication device 45 is a device capable of performing short-range wireless communication with a portable communication terminal 46. The short-range wireless communication device 45 is provided in the vicinity of a surface 12c of an instrument panel 12. A first groove portion 35 and a second groove portion 36 are formed in the surface 12c of the instrument panel 12, in the vicinity of the short-range wireless communication device 45.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A communication system installed in a vehicle, the communication system comprising:

a short-range wireless communication device provided in a vicinity of a surface of an instrument panel of said vehicle and configured to perform short-range wireless communication with a portable communication terminal which is held by a user in front of the short-range wireless communication device, wherein
said instrument panel has a groove portion formed on the surface of said instrument panel, which is in a vicinity of said short-range wireless communication device.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/654,141Filed 19 Jul 2017

Priority

JP 2016-14284120 Jul 2016

Published

25 Jan 2018

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

H04W 4/80
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services using short range communication, e.g. near-field…
H04M 1/6091
By interfacing with the vehicle audio system: including a wireless interface
H04W 4/00
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks
H04W
Wireless communication networks

Communication system

Life of this patent

Communication system

Life of this patent

Abstract

Claims7