Invention Grant
- Patent Title: HAPS cooperative flight system
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Application No.: US16966254Application Date: 2019-01-22
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Publication No.: US11308814B2Publication Date: 2022-04-19
- Inventor: Takafumi Fujii , Yoshichika Ota , Kenji Hoshino
- Applicant: SoftBank Corp.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SoftBank Corp.
- Current Assignee: SoftBank Corp.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Muirhead and Saturnelli, LLC
- Priority: JPJP2018-018968 20180206
- International Application: PCT/JP2019/001917 WO 20190122
- International Announcement: WO2019/155872 WO 20190815
- Main IPC: G08G5/00
- IPC: G08G5/00 ; H04B7/155

Abstract:
A system and a method for suppressing a deterioration of communication quality due to frequent occurrence of handovers at cell boundaries of a plurality of cells formed by a plurality of radio relay apparatuses that can move in an upper airspace, are provided. In the system, each of the plurality of radio relay apparatuses for performing a radio communication with a terminal apparatus comprises a radio relay station which is movably provided by flying in an upper airspace, forms a cell toward the ground or the sea, and performs a radio communication with a terminal apparatus located in the cell. Each of the plurality of radio relay apparatuses flies in cooperation with each other so as to maintain a positional relationship between the radio relay apparatuses by an autonomous control or external control.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200380874A1 HAPS COOPERATIVE FLIGHT SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2020-12-03
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