US 12,273,853 B2
Arrangement and method for addressing and locating equipment
Andrew Muirhead, Norderstedt (DE); Craig Depner, Washington, WA (US); and Cornelis Broers, Hamburg (DE)
Assigned to LUFTHANSA TECHNIK AG, Hamburg (DE)
Appl. No. 17/798,564
Filed by Lufthansa Technik AG, Hamburg (DE)
PCT Filed Feb. 17, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/053890
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 10, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/165321, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 26, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20158070 (EP), filed on Feb. 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0113189 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. H04B 7/00 (2006.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04W 8/26 (2009.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 64/006 (2013.01) [H04B 7/082 (2013.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04W 8/26 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An arrangement for addressing a plurality of equipment, the arrangement comprising the plurality of equipment, wherein:
each one of the equipment is non-varyingly logically linked to a corresponding transceiver having a unique identifier and a plurality of transceiver antennae with non-identically oriented antenna lobes, wherein the corresponding transceiver is configured to transmit a signal comprising the unique identifier associated with the transceiver via each of the transceiver antennae individually and to receive any signal of a neighboring transceiver attributing it to the actually receiving transceiver antennae in order to determine pattern information pairs, and
a central instance is configured to collect the pattern information pairs from the transceivers and to compare the pattern information pairs with a stored pattern of the equipment to identify each transceivers' position in the stored pattern.