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Radar apparatus

US11448725B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD. · JP

Inventors

Kenta IWASA · Tokyo, JP
Hidekuni Yomo · Tokyo, JP

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 26, 2019
Grant date	Sep 20, 2022
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 28, 2040

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01S2013/0245
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

To provide an improved radar apparatus capable of expanding the aperture length per antenna element and the aperture length of the virtual reception array antenna. One of a transmission array antenna and a reception array antenna includes a first antenna element group having m-pieces of antenna elements arranged at a first interval Dt along a first axis direction (m is an integer of 1 or larger), and the other one of the transmission array antenna and the reception array antenna includes a second antenna element group having (n+1)-pieces of antenna elements arranged at a second interval Dr(n) along the first axis direction (n is an integer of 1 or larger).

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