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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 01, 1996
Osamu Eguchi, Kuwana, JP;
Yoshiyuki Kago, Nishio, JP;
Nippondenso Co., Ltd., Kariya, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides an automobile toll system which may determine accurately whether a device mounted on a vehicle has a mismatch even when a small automobile is running just behind a large automobile and therefore blocked from communicating with the toll system. In the system, a vehicle type discriminator determines the type of a vehicle passing therethrough based on its shape and weight and transmits determination data to a lane controller. A controller for a reading antenna continuously transmits vehicle type data retrieved from a response signal from the vehicle-mounted device when vehicles stay in the antenna communication area. The lane controller compares type discrimination data and vehicle type data for each vehicle in the order of vehicles leaving the communication area to recognize a mismatch if the data are different.