A method and apparatus with vehicle radar control is disclosed. An apparatus with vehicle radar control includes a radio frequency (RF) transceiver including a transmitting antenna array and a receiving antenna array, and at least one processor configured to collect environmental information of the vehicle, determine a radar mode of the vehicle based on the collected environmental information, generate one or more control signal configured to control one or more of the transmitting antenna array and the receiving antenna array based on the determined radar mode, and provide the generated one or more control signals to the RF transceiver, wherein one or more of the transmitting antenna array and the receiving antenna array operate according to the one or more generated control signals.

A wireless instrument area network node employs an internal force sensor arrangement to detect user-provided force on the node and initiate a node operation, such as wake the node from a sleep state or low power mode to a more power-hungry awake and processing state. The internal force sensor avoids the need to provide external buttons, a screen, and the like on the surface of the node that could lead to intrusion of fluids, gases, or other unwanted substances into the node. In some embodiments, the internal sensor may include a microswitch that has sufficient sensitivity to detect even a very small amount of deflection resulting from, for example, a hand touch. In some embodiments, the internal sensor may include a piezoelectric sensor that has similarly high deflection sensitivity. Multiple such deflection detectors may be at different angles to one another deployed to provide greater directional coverage for the deflection.

A patch antenna device configured to receive a radio communication signal includes a circuit board, a patch antenna, and a parasitic element. The circuit board has a signal processing circuit placed thereon. The patch antenna is stacked on the circuit board and has a quadrangular radiation element. The parasitic element is disposed above the patch antenna so as to improve antenna gain characteristics of the patch antenna and configured such that the length of the upper side of the parasitic element is shorter than the width in a plan view of the radiation element of the patch antenna and that the length between the upper and lower sides of the parasitic element is longer than the length between the upper and lower sides of the radiation element of the patch antenna.

A vehicular radar sensing system includes a radar sensor configured to be disposed at a vehicle. The radar sensor includes a plurality of antennas that include a plurality of transmitting antennas that transmit radio signals and a plurality of receiving antennas that receive radio signals. The radar sensor provides radar data to a processor that processes the provided radar data to detect an object present in the field of sensing of the radar sensor. At least some antennas of the plurality of antennas include waveguides having T-shaped slots, with each T-shaped slot having a longitudinal portion and a transverse portion that extends transverse from the longitudinal portion, and with a width of the transverse portion being less than a length of the longitudinal portion.

A radar sensor having at least one high-frequency component and at least one waveguide structure in the form of a plastic body provided with an electrically conductive surface layer. The radar sensor has at least one further plastic body provided with an electrically conductive surface layer, and the plastic bodies with their conductive surface layers are thermally bonded to one another.

An assortment of radar sensors in different variant embodiments. Each radar sensor has: a housing terminated by a radome, a circuit board that is equipped on the side facing away from the radome with at least one radio-frequency module, and an antenna structure on the side of the circuit board facing the radome. The housing is realized identically in all variant embodiments. The antenna structure has a planar antenna structure in at least one variant embodiment, and has a hollow conductor structure in at least one variant embodiment.

A telematics device includes a housing, and first and second circuit boards. An electronic control unit of the telematics device is arranged on the first circuit board. At least one antenna of the telematics device is arranged on the second circuit board. The first circuit board and the second circuit board are arranged together in the housing. The first circuit board and the second circuit board are coupled by means of at least one electrical connecting element.

A radar device for a vehicle, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a case; a first printed circuit board (PCB) that is accommodated in the case and has a plurality of antenna arrays and an integrated circuit (IC) chip that are formed thereon, wherein the IC chip is connected to the plurality of antenna arrays; and a radome that is coupled to the case and covers the first printed circuit board, wherein the radome includes: a cover facing the first printed circuit board; a first wall connected to the cover surface; and a second wall connected to the cover and facing the first wall, wherein the internal angle between the cover and the first wall and the internal angle between the cover and the second wall are formed to be greater than 90° and less than 180°.

A communication system includes at least one terminal device for acquiring at least information about a battery; and at least one management device. The management device communicates with the terminal device. One of the management device and the terminal device includes a multi-band communication device configured to perform communication using plural, different frequency bands. The other of the management device and the terminal device includes a specific communication device configured to perform communication using at least one frequency band among the plural, different frequency bands.

A monocone antenna is described for V2X wireless communications. To achieve ultrawide bandwidth, low-profile, omnidirectional radiation, an implementation comprises various components including a circular monocone, a capacitive feed, a ring with grounding vias, capacitive bars, and conductive cylinders. Another implementation comprises a monocone, a capacitive feed, a ground ring with grounding vias, a plurality of first meander lines, each having a first size, and a plurality of second meander lines each having a second size, wherein the second size is larger than the first size.