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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018
Filed:
May. 21, 2015
Applicant:
Lufthansa Systems Gmbh & Co. KG, Raunheim, DE;
Inventors:
Peter Hommel, Bad Homburg, DE;
Jörg Liebe, Wiesbaden, DE;
Assignee:
Lufthansa Systems GmbH & Co. KG, Raunheim, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/10 (2006.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/18506 (2013.01); H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04W 64/003 (2013.01); H04W 72/046 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01);
Abstract
A device for air-to-ground communication between an aircraft and a ground station, said aircraft and said ground station each having antennas for directional radio data transmission. The data transmission is performed in a frequency band from 60 GHz to 90 GHz and the antenna of the ground station transmits and receives data exclusively in a range of angles α of at least 5 degrees in the upward direction relative to the horizontal plane.