Adaptive Carrier Frequency Sensor Bus for Automotive Power Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Automotive systems face challenges in simultaneously improving power delivery and data transmission over dual-purpose buses, as enhancing one aspect typically degrades the other.
Innovation Solution
The use of modulation techniques at adaptively selected carrier frequencies for data transmission, allowing for enhanced data rates and reduced power consumption, while also enabling efficient power and data transfer over a system bus by identifying suitable channels and dynamically adjusting carrier frequencies to mitigate noise and distortion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Power
If power delivery is improved over the dual-purpose bus, then power supply capability is enhanced, but data transmission quality deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the dual-purpose bus into distinct power delivery paths and data transmission paths by using different frequency ranges. Power is delivered through lower frequency components while data is transmitted through higher frequency components, allowing both functions to operate simultaneously without mutual interference. This frequency-based segmentation resolves the contradiction by physically separating the two functions in the frequency domain.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a frequency dimension to separate power and data functions that share the same physical bus. By assigning different frequency ranges to power delivery and data transmission, the system transforms a one-dimensional conflict (shared bus) into a multi-dimensional solution (frequency-separated channels), enabling both functions to coexist without degradation.
2Reliability
If data transmission quality is improved over the dual-purpose bus, then communication reliability is enhanced, but power delivery capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the dual-purpose bus into distinct power delivery paths and data transmission paths by using different frequency ranges. Power is delivered through lower frequency components while data is transmitted through higher frequency components, allowing both functions to operate simultaneously without mutual interference. This frequency-based segmentation resolves the contradiction by physically separating the two functions in the frequency domain.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a frequency dimension to separate power and data functions that share the same physical bus. By assigning different frequency ranges to power delivery and data transmission, the system transforms a one-dimensional conflict (shared bus) into a multi-dimensional solution (frequency-separated channels), enabling both functions to coexist without degradation.
3Productivity
If modulation techniques are used for data transmission, then data rates are enhanced, but power consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the frequency parameter of the carrier signal adaptively based on channel conditions. By selecting optimal carrier frequencies from available channels, the system achieves high data transmission rates through modulation while consuming minimal power. The adaptive frequency selection ensures that transmission occurs on the most efficient channel, balancing data rate and power consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic carrier frequency selection where the system continuously monitors channel conditions and adapts the carrier frequency in real-time. This dynamic approach allows the system to achieve high data rates when channel conditions permit while consuming less power when conditions are poorer, resolving the contradiction between transmission rate and power consumption through adaptive behavior.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This approach effectively balances data transmission rates and power consumption, ensuring reliable communication and operation of automotive systems by adaptively selecting channels and carrier frequencies, thereby improving overall system performance.
Implementation Method 1
The modulation component is configured to modulate a modulated data signal from the generated data using an adaptively selected carrier frequency and a modulation technique
Data Source
AI summary
A sensor system utilizing adaptively selected carrier frequencies is disclosed. The system includes a system bus, a bus master, and a sensor. The system bus is configured to transfer power and data. The bus master is coupled to the system bus and is configured to provide power to the bus and receive data from the bus. The sensor is coupled to the system bus and is configured to transfer data on the bus using an adaptively selected carrier frequency.