Patent classifications
H01Q13/0233
Method for determining presence of an object via a vehicular radar system with shaped antennas
A method for determining presence of an object via a vehicular radar sensing system includes providing a radar sensor having a plurality of antennas, which includes a plurality of transmitting antennas and a plurality of receiving antennas. The plurality of antennas includes a plurality of sets of antennas, each set having a V shape or an X shape, and with each of the shaped sets of antennas having an apex. A signal feed is provided to the apex of each of the shaped sets of antennas. A radar beam is transmitted via the plurality of transmitting antennas and side lobes of the transmitted radar beam are reduced via the plurality of shaped sets of antennas. An output of the receiving antennas is communicated to a processor, and the processor determines presence of one or more objects exterior the vehicle and within the field of sensing of the radar sensor.
Cavity slotted-waveguide antenna array, a method of manufacturing a cavity slotted-waveguide antenna array, and a radar antenna module comprising cavity slotted-waveguide antenna arrays
A cavity slotted-waveguide antenna array has several waveguide columns disposed in parallel in a housing. Several of the waveguide columns being provided with cavity slots on the front side of the housing. The housing includes a front part secured to a rear part, with a rear portion of the waveguide columns being formed in the rear part, and with a front portion of the waveguide columns being formed in said front part. The waveguide columns can have a rectangular cross-section, with the columns defined by two opposing wide inner surfaces, a narrow inner back surface, and a narrow inner front surface, with the plurality of cavity slots extending from the front side of the housing to said narrow inner front surface. A signal probe is disposed in the columns. Conductive parallel plate blinds are conductively secured to the front side of the housing.
CONTINUOUS RESONANCE TRAP REFRACTOR BASED ASSEMBLY
A tapered core waveguide which may be configured as a spectral component splitter, a spectral component combiner, and various combinations thereof including a reflective mode of operation. The tapered core waveguide has an aperture and cladding, and is dimensioned such that radiant energy admitted into the core via the aperture and having at least two spectral components would be emitted via the cladding at a location dependent on its frequency and/or its polarization, and that a plurality of spectral components injected to the core via the cladding will be mixed and emitted via the aperture.
Waveguide system comprising a scattering device for generating a second non-fundamental wave mode from a first non-fundamental wave mode
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, a system that facilitates directing a first electromagnetic wave to a device positioned along a transmission medium, the device facilitating a perturbation of the first electromagnetic wave, and the first electromagnetic wave having a first field intensity near an outer surface of the transmission medium, and generating, by the device, a second electromagnetic wave having a second field intensity near the outer surface of the transmission medium that is lower than the first field intensity of the first electromagnetic wave. Other embodiments are disclosed.
THREE-DIMENSIONAL HORN AIR WAVEGUIDE ANTENNA MADE WITH FORMED AND BRAZED METAL SHEETS
A three-dimensional (3D) horn air waveguide antenna assembly and its method of manufacture include a bottom stamped metal layer defining a set of electrical connection ports and a plurality of top stamped metal layers arranged atop the bottom stamped metal layer with a brazing material deposited between each stamped metal layer, the plurality of top stamped metal layers defining a channel area proximate to the bottom stamped metal layer, a horn air waveguide antenna area that widens from a bottom portion to a top portion, and a slot area fluidly connecting the channel and horn air waveguide antenna areas.
Cooling in a waveguide arrangement
The present disclosure relates to a waveguide arrangement including a mounting printed circuit board, PCB, and at least a first waveguide layer. Each waveguide layer comprises at least a first waveguide conducting tube, each waveguide conducting tube having an electrically conducting inner wall. The PCB includes a signal interface for each waveguide conducting tube. The waveguide arrangement further includes at least a first coupling layer that is positioned between the PCB and the first waveguide conducting tube such that at least the first waveguide conducting tube of the first waveguide layer is connected to the corresponding signal interface via the first coupling layer.
HORN ANTENNA FOR MILLIMETER WAVE
A horn antenna for a millimeter wave comprises: a horn radiator including a radiation part having an opening formed therein to radiate a feed signal, and a multi-layer PCB coupling part coupled to lower and side portions of the radiation part to provide a feed signal; and a multi-layer PCB coupled to a lower portion of the multi-layer PCB coupling part to provide a feed signal, wherein a slot and a groove connected to the slot and extending in a direction parallel to the multi-layer PCB are formed in the multi-layer PCB coupling part, wherein a feed line vertically overlapping the slot and the groove is formed on a first layer substrate, which is the uppermost layer of the multi-layer PCB, wherein the opening extends in a direction parallel to the multi-layer PCB, and wherein a ‘¬’-shaped waveguide extending from the slot is formed in the horn radiator.
Slot antenna assembly with tapered feedlines and shaped aperture
A slot antenna includes a substrate having a first side and a second side, a first conductive layer on the first side of the substrate, and a second conductive layer on the second side of the substrate. A first aperture is in the first conductive layer, a second aperture is in the first conductive layer, a first slotline is in the first conductive layer and in communication with the first aperture, and a second slotline is in the first conductive layer and in communication with the second aperture. A third aperture can be in the second conductive layer. A plurality of vias can be in the substrate and surrounding at least a portion of a region including the first aperture, the second aperture, the first slotline, and the second slotline, each of the vias extending through the substrate from the first conductive layer to the second conductive layer.
BEAM FORMING PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA SYSTEM FOR MILLIMETER WAVE COMMUNICATION
An antenna system includes a first substrate, a plurality of chips, a system board having an upper and lower surface, and a beam forming phased array that includes a plurality of radiating waveguide antenna cells for millimeter wave communication. Each radiating waveguide antenna cell includes a plurality of pins where a first pin is connected with a body of a corresponding radiating waveguide antenna cell and the body corresponds to ground for the pins. A first end of the radiating waveguide antenna cells is mounted on the first substrate, where the upper surface of the system board comprises a plurality of electrically conductive connection points to connect the first end of the plurality of radiating waveguide antenna cells to the ground.
Radiofrequency exciter of a receiving and transmitting antenna
A compact radiofrequency driver includes at least one axial port intended to be connected to a radiating antenna, at least one output intended to collect received signals and at least one input intended to transmit signals, comprising first and second septum polarizers and a frequency filter, the second polarizer being connected, via its common port, to a first rectangular port of the first polarizer and the frequency filter being connected to the second rectangular port of the first polarizer and being configured to filter a reception or transmission frequency band, these two bands being different, and wherein at least one of the polarizers is configured to convert a circularly polarized signal received on said axial port of the driver into a linearly polarized signal in a reception frequency band and in that at least a second polarizer is configured to convert a linearly polarized signal transmitted to the driver by the input into a circularly polarized signal in a transmission frequency band.