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Antenna array, radar system, vehicle and method

US9715014B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

Michael Schoor · Stuttgart, DE
Goetz Kuehnle · Hemmingen, DE
Volker Gross · Ditzingen, DE
Benedikt Loesch · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 15, 2015
Grant date	Jul 25, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 11, 2035

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01S2013/93271
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An antenna array, particularly for a radar system, having first antenna elements which are situated in a horizontal direction in a plane and which are developed to receive a first radio signal, having second antenna elements which are each situated above or below the horizontally situated first antenna elements and which are developed to receive the first radio signal, and having a processing device which is developed to calculate an azimuth angle and an angle of elevation of an object, that is located in front of the antenna array, from the radio signal received by the first antenna elements and from the radio signal received by the second antenna elements. Also described is a radar system, a vehicle and a method.

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