WO2001082636A1 - A system for enabling the use of mobile telephones to telephone to and from aircraft during flight - Google Patents

A system for enabling the use of mobile telephones to telephone to and from aircraft during flight Download PDF

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WO2001082636A1
WO2001082636A1 PCT/SE2001/000857 SE0100857W WO0182636A1 WO 2001082636 A1 WO2001082636 A1 WO 2001082636A1 SE 0100857 W SE0100857 W SE 0100857W WO 0182636 A1 WO0182636 A1 WO 0182636A1
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mobile telephones
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Per Wilhelm AHLSTRÖM
Jan Olof Ejheden
Sune FOGELSTRÖM
Jan Hubert Westlund
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Beamex Ab
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04B—TRANSMISSION
    • H04B7/00—Radio transmission systems, i.e. using radiation field
    • H04B7/14—Relay systems
    • H04B7/15—Active relay systems
    • H04B7/185—Space-based or airborne stations; Stations for satellite systems
    • H04B7/18502—Airborne stations
    • H04B7/18506—Communications with or from aircraft, i.e. aeronautical mobile service
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B64—AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COSMONAUTICS
    • B64D—EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT SUITS; PARACHUTES; ARRANGEMENTS OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSION TRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT
    • B64D45/00—Aircraft indicators or protectors not otherwise provided for
    • B64D45/0015—Devices specially adapted for the protection against criminal attack, e.g. anti-hijacking systems
    • B64D45/0063—Devices specially adapted for the protection against criminal attack, e.g. anti-hijacking systems by avoiding the use of electronic equipment during flight, e.g. of mobile phones or laptops
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B64—AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COSMONAUTICS
    • B64D—EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT SUITS; PARACHUTES; ARRANGEMENTS OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSION TRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT
    • B64D45/00—Aircraft indicators or protectors not otherwise provided for
    • B64D45/0015—Devices specially adapted for the protection against criminal attack, e.g. anti-hijacking systems
    • B64D45/0036—Devices specially adapted for the protection against criminal attack, e.g. anti-hijacking systems by disabling or restraining attackers
    • B64D45/0042—Devices specially adapted for the protection against criminal attack, e.g. anti-hijacking systems by disabling or restraining attackers by spraying or injecting chemicals
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B64—AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COSMONAUTICS
    • B64D—EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT SUITS; PARACHUTES; ARRANGEMENTS OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSION TRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT
    • B64D45/00—Aircraft indicators or protectors not otherwise provided for
    • B64D45/0015—Devices specially adapted for the protection against criminal attack, e.g. anti-hijacking systems
    • B64D45/0059—Devices specially adapted for the protection against criminal attack, e.g. anti-hijacking systems by communicating emergency situations to ground control or between crew members
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q1/00—Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
    • H01Q1/12—Supports; Mounting means
    • H01Q1/22—Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles
    • H01Q1/24—Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles with receiving set
    • H01Q1/241—Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles with receiving set used in mobile communications, e.g. GSM
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q1/00—Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
    • H01Q1/27—Adaptation for use in or on movable bodies
    • H01Q1/28—Adaptation for use in or on aircraft, missiles, satellites, or balloons
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W60/00—Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration
    • H04W60/06—De-registration or detaching
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W84/00—Network topologies
    • H04W84/005—Moving wireless networks
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W84/00—Network topologies
    • H04W84/02—Hierarchically pre-organised networks, e.g. paging networks, cellular networks, WLAN [Wireless Local Area Network] or WLL [Wireless Local Loop]
    • H04W84/04—Large scale networks; Deep hierarchical networks
    • H04W84/06—Airborne or Satellite Networks

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  • the present invention relates to a system for enabling the use of mobile telephones to telephone to and from aircraft during flight.
  • one object of the present invention is to allow/enable mobile telephone calls to be made on aircraft in flight.
  • a system for enabling private mobile telephones to be used to make calls to and from aircraft during flight is characterised in that there is fixedly installed in the passenger space of an aircraft an antemia loop for establishing automatically short-range contact between passenger-carried mobile telephones that have been taken on board and the standard telecommunications equipment of the aircraft, said short range contact involving:
  • Figure 1 is a schematic illustration of the invention applied in an aircraft
  • Figure 2 illustrates a mobile telephone.
  • the passenger space 1 1 of the aircraft has installed therein a permanent or fixed antenna loop 2 which enables aircraft passengers to use their private mobile telephones to receive and to send messages whilst the aircraft is in the air.
  • the antenna loop 2 functions to establish short-range contact (within about 10m) between a first antenna element, e.g. the antenna element 25, from among a number of antenna elements 21-28 in the loop, and a second antenna in a mobile telephone from among a number of mobile telephones belonging to passengers on the aircraft.
  • This contact may consist of so-called Blue Tooth for instance, wherewith contact is also established with the aircraft ' s standard telecommunications equipment 3.
  • Such telephones are referred to as permitted telephones, whereas telephones that lack such second antenna are referred to as non-permitted mobile telephones.
  • the established short-range contact involves disconnecting the standard transmission/receiving antenna of respective passenger-carried mobile telephones for as long as the mobile telephone is within communicative reach of the fixed antenna loop, and includes the possibility of utilising the standard telecommunications equipment 3 of the aircraft with its external antenna and adapter unit 30 for adaptation to the system in accordance with which the aircraft equipment operates.
  • Connected to the fixed antemia loop is equipment for detecting activation of non-permitted mobile telephones, and for sending to aircraft personnel a warning signal that indicates the presence of a non-permitted mobile telephone on the aircraft.
  • Figure 2 shows a mobile telephone MT that includes a first antenna 32 which is normally the standard antenna used in call connections and a second antenna 34 which is used when the standard transmitter/receiver antemia 32 is disconnected through said established short- range contact.

Abstract

A system for enabling private mobile telephones to be used for telephoning to and from aircraft during flight includes an antenna loop (2) which is permanently installed in the passenger space (11) of an aircraft for establishing automatically short-range contact between passenger carried mobile telephones and the standard telecommunications equipment (3) of the aircraft. This short-range contact includes disconnection of the standard transmitter/receiver antenna of the passenger-carried mobile telephones for as long as telephones are within communicative reach of the permanent antenna loop (2), and the possibility of using the standard telecommunications equipment (3, 31) in the aircraft the passage-carried private mobile telephones that have been taken temporally onto the aircraft.

Description

A system for enabling the use of mobile telephones to telephone to and from aircraft during flight
FIELD OF INVENTION
The present invention relates to a system for enabling the use of mobile telephones to telephone to and from aircraft during flight.
DESCRIPTION OF THE BACKGROUND ART
Safety precautions prohibit the use of mobile telephones onboard aircraft, because it is not considered that the risk of such use causing navigational errors has yet been completely eliminated.
In the case of people who are accustomed to work with their mobile telephones it is, naturally, a setback not to be able to make those contacts that may be necessary during the flight, which may take several hours to complete. Accordingly, one object of the present invention is to allow/enable mobile telephone calls to be made on aircraft in flight.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A system for enabling private mobile telephones to be used to make calls to and from aircraft during flight is characterised in that there is fixedly installed in the passenger space of an aircraft an antemia loop for establishing automatically short-range contact between passenger-carried mobile telephones that have been taken on board and the standard telecommunications equipment of the aircraft, said short range contact involving:
disconnection of the standard transmitter/receiver antenna of the passenger-carried mobile telephones (permitted) for as long as these telephones are within communicative reach of the fixed or permanent antenna loop;
enabling the standard telecommunications equipment in the aircraft to be used via the private passenger-carried mobiles temporarily on board; and sending to the aircrew a signal that warns when non-permitted mobile telephones are taken on board and activated.; thereby enabling permitted mobile telephones to be used during flight, without risk of interfering with necessary traffic-technical telecommunication between the plane and world around.
These and other characteristic features of the inventive system will be apparent from the accompanying claims.
PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION
The invention will now be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a schematic illustration of the invention applied in an aircraft, and Figure 2 illustrates a mobile telephone.
The passenger space 1 1 of the aircraft has installed therein a permanent or fixed antenna loop 2 which enables aircraft passengers to use their private mobile telephones to receive and to send messages whilst the aircraft is in the air.
The antenna loop 2 functions to establish short-range contact (within about 10m) between a first antenna element, e.g. the antenna element 25, from among a number of antenna elements 21-28 in the loop, and a second antenna in a mobile telephone from among a number of mobile telephones belonging to passengers on the aircraft. This contact may consist of so-called Blue Tooth for instance, wherewith contact is also established with the aircraft's standard telecommunications equipment 3.- Such telephones are referred to as permitted telephones, whereas telephones that lack such second antenna are referred to as non-permitted mobile telephones.
The established short-range contact involves disconnecting the standard transmission/receiving antenna of respective passenger-carried mobile telephones for as long as the mobile telephone is within communicative reach of the fixed antenna loop, and includes the possibility of utilising the standard telecommunications equipment 3 of the aircraft with its external antenna and adapter unit 30 for adaptation to the system in accordance with which the aircraft equipment operates. Connected to the fixed antemia loop is equipment for detecting activation of non-permitted mobile telephones, and for sending to aircraft personnel a warning signal that indicates the presence of a non-permitted mobile telephone on the aircraft.
In this way, permitted mobile telephones can be used whilst the aircraft is airbome, without interfering with necessary traffic-technical telecommunications and the world around.
Figure 2 shows a mobile telephone MT that includes a first antenna 32 which is normally the standard antenna used in call connections and a second antenna 34 which is used when the standard transmitter/receiver antemia 32 is disconnected through said established short- range contact.
When the telephone is in a call-receiving operational mode (activated), this is detected immediately by the antemia loop 2, as before mentioned, and an electric contact 33 is switched from an upper position 331 , in wich the antemia 32 is disengaged, to a bottom position 332, in which the antemia 34 is engaged. When the short-range contact is broken, the electric contact, or switch, returns to its normal position, or state, and the antenna 32 again becomes active.

Claims

1. A system for enabling private mobile telephones to be used for telephoning to and from aircraft during flight, characterised in that there is fixedly installed in the passenger space (1 1 ) of an aircraft an antenna loop (2) for establishing automatically short-range contact between passenger carried mobile telephones that have been taken on board and the standard telecommunications equipment (3) of the aircraft, said short range contact involving disconnection of the standard transmitter/receiver antenna of the passenger-carried mobile telephones (permitted) for as long as these telephones are within communicative reach of the fixed or permanent antenna loop (2), enabling the standard telecommunications equipment (3,31 ) in the aircraft to be used via the private passenger-carried mobile telephones that have been taken temporally onto the aircraft; and sending to the aircrew a signal that warns when non-permitted mobile telephones have been taken on board the aircraft and activated., thereby enabling permitted mobile telephones to be used during flight, without risk of interfering with necessary traffic- technical telecommunication between the plane and world around.
2. A system according to Claim 1 , characterised in that disconnection of the standard transmitter/receiver antenna (32) of the passenger mobile telephones (MT) pertains to permitted mobile telephones that also include a further antenna (34) that forms a link in the short-range contact.
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FR2775409A1 (en) * 1998-02-25 1999-08-27 Patrice Longhi Detection system for sensing operation of mobile phones in protected area
DE19832633A1 (en) * 1998-07-09 2000-01-20 Linke Sodji Christina Security system for protection of technical arrangement, especially passenger airplane, against influence of high-frequency signals of mobile electronic instrument or mobile telephone

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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WO2004064003A1 (en) * 2003-01-08 2004-07-29 Envirotainer Ab An electronic device detects and deactivates proximy electronic equipment of an area having restrictions for the use

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