Radar device and method for operating a radar device

US6940447B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Klaus Voigtlaender · Schallstadt, DE
• Guido Villino · Leonberg, DE
• Christian Passmann · Wiernsheim, DE
• Thomas Meier · Cherbourg, FR
• Dirk Schmid · Simmozheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 10, 2001
• Grant date: Sep 6, 2005
• Expiry date: Oct 10, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01S2013/0272
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A radar device having means for generating a carrier-frequency signal, means for shaping pulses, means for generating modulated radar pulses from the carrier-frequency signal, means for emitting modulated signals as radar pulses, means for receiving radar pulses and means for processing the received radar pulses. The means for receiving the radar pulses have an array including a plurality of antennas, the means for processing the radar pulses have means for dividing the signal power over at least two different reception branches. Means are provided for generating different directional characteristics in the various reception branches.