Vehicle antenna unit

US8838383B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG · DE
• ADC Automotive Distance Control Systems GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Ulrich Stählin · Eschborn, DE
• Marc Menzel · Weimar, DE
• Martin Schürmeier · Regensburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 28, 2010
• Grant date: Sep 16, 2014
• Expiry date: May 28, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/12
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A vehicle antenna unit for participation in vehicle-to-surroundings communication in accordance with the DSRC or ITS-G5 standard having an adhoc network antenna for sending and receiving in the region of 5.9 GHz, having a satellite antenna for receiving satellite locating signals and having driver elements, which are set up to send, bit by bit, and/or to receive data with the adhoc network antenna and the satellite antenna, and having a computation unit for conditioning the data. In order to allow the vehicle to participate in the vehicle-to-surroundings communication, the computation unit is set up to evaluate the satellite locating signals and for the purpose of independent participation by the vehicle antenna unit in the vehicle-to-surroundings communication.