Mobile unit detection system
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTetsuo Yamagata, Hajime Tabata
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Abstract
A mobile unit detection system or information system in which the existence of a car or other mobile unit which must be paid attention to can be detected only upon receiving a necessary signal. The mobile unit detection system or information system detects a mobile unit through communication between the car and the mobile unit. The car includes a device for judging the operating condition of the car and transmitting a detection signal based on the result. The mobile unit may transmit a response signal upon receiving the detection signal so that the car is able to detect the existence of the mobile unit.
Claims17
An information system for vehicles located on opposite lanes from each other for exchanging information between a first vehicle intending to make a turn crossing over the opposite lane and a second vehicle proceeding straight ahead on the opposite lane, comprising:
- means mountable to the first vehicle for transmitting a detection signal upon commencing preparation for the turn;
- means mountable to the second vehicle for transmitting a response signal upon receiving said detection signal;
- means mountable to the first vehicle for judging whether said response signal is received and notifying a driver of the first vehicle of the existence of the second vehicle;
- means mountable to the first vehicle for transmitting an information execution signal to the second vehicle based on the judgment of the means for judging;
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- means mountable to the second vehicle for informing a driver of the second vehicle of the existence of the first vehicle upon receipt of said information execution signal from the first vehicle.
A mobile unit detection system by which a vehicle can detect the existence of a mobile unit through communication between the vehicle and the mobile unit, comprising:
- judgment means mountable to the vehicle for judging an operating condition of the vehicle;
- means mountable to the vehicle for issuing a detection signal based on said operating condition judged by said judgment-means;
- means for issuing a response signal mountable to the mobile unit upon receiving said detection signal;
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- means mounted on the vehicle for detecting the existence of the mobile unit upon the receipt of said response signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.