Radio communication system
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsToshihiro Ezaki, Masaaki Higashida
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Abstract
A radio communication system is disclosed. This system includes a wireless base station placed at an upper section of a communicating zone in a mobile unit such as an aircraft, multiple seat-rows arranged along a longitudinal direction in the communicating zone, and wireless terminals placed at each one of seats of the seat rows. Radio communication is done between the wireless base station and the wireless terminals. The wireless base station is placed on the ceiling at the forefront or at the extreme end of the communicating zone relative to the longitudinal direction of the seat rows.
Claims12
A radio communication system comprising:
- a mobile unit having a passenger compartment constituting a communicating apace;
- a plurality of seat rows arranged along a longitudinal direction in the communicating space, each of said seat rows having a plurality of passenger seats, one of said seat rows constituting a front-most seat row of the passenger compartment with no seat row disposed forwardly thereof in the passenger compartment, and another one of the seat rows constituting a rear-most seat row of the passenger compartment with no seat vow deposed rearwardly thereof in the passenger compartment;
- a wireless terminal disposed at a back of each of the seats of each of the seat rows other than the seats of the rear-most seat row, the wireless terminals at the backs of the seats of the seat row immediately forward of the rear-most seat row constituting rear-most wireless terminals of the passenger compartment;
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- a wireless base station disposed in an upper section of the communicating space;
- wherein each of the wireless terminals is configured for radio communication with the wireless base station;
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- wherein the wireless base station is disposed forward of the front-most seat row of the passenger compartment or rearward of the rear-most wireless terminals of the passenger compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.