Vehicular radar assembly
AssigneeVeoneer US, Inc.
InventorsKaren Kocharyan, Kai Yang, Andrew Oftedal
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Abstract
An assembly for a detection system for a vehicle in an environment has a radar sensor positioned around a central boresight axis. The radar sensor includes an RF board with at least one antenna and a support bracket configured to secure the detection system to the vehicle. The support bracket has sloped walls forming a radiation aperture between the RF board and the environment. The sloped walls have distal ends distal to the radar sensor. A plurality of sloped flaps extend from the distal ends and slope inwardly from the distal ends towards the boresight axis to intercept radiation within the radiation aperture.
Claims17
An assembly for a detection system for a vehicle in an environment comprising:
- a radar sensor positioned around a central boresight axis, the radar sensor comprising an RF board with at least one antenna;
- and
- a support bracket configured to secure the detection system to the vehicle, the support bracket comprising:
- sloped walls forming a radiation aperture between the RF board and the environment, the sloped walls including distal ends distal to the radar sensor;
- and
- a plurality of sloped flaps extending from the distal ends and sloping inwardly from the distal ends towards the boresight axis to intercept radiation within the radiation aperture, the sloped flaps forming a functional aperture that is smaller than the radiation aperture, wherein the detection system detects objects within a field of view defined by the functional aperture.
An assembly for a detection system for a vehicle in an environment comprising:
- a radar sensor positioned around a central boresight axis, the radar sensor comprising an RF board with at least one antenna;
- and
- a support bracket configured to secure the detection system to the vehicle, the support bracket having sloped walls forming a radiation aperture between the RF board and the environment, the sloped walls including distal ends distal to the radar sensor and proximate ends proximate to the radar sensor,
- wherein:
- the sloped walls are configured to attach sloped flaps between the proximate and distal ends such that the sloped flaps extend inwardly from the distal ends towards the boresight axis to intercept radiation within the radiation aperture and form a functional aperture, the functional aperture smaller than the radiation aperture;
- and
- the detection system is configured to detect objects within a field of view defined by the functional aperture.
An assembly for a detection system for a vehicle in an environment comprising:
- a support bracket configured to secure the detection system to the vehicle, the support bracket having sloped walls forming a radiation aperture between a cavity for an RF board and the environment, the sloped walls having distal ends distal to the cavity;
- and
- a plurality of sloped flaps extending from the distal ends and sloping inwardly from the distal ends towards a boresight axis, the sloped flaps forming a functional aperture that is smaller than the radiation aperture, wherein the detection system detects objects within a field of view defined by the functional aperture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.