Radar sensor including synchronized high frequency components
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsMarcel Mayer, Dirk Steinbuch, Michael Schoor
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Abstract
A radar sensor is described. The radar sensor includes at least two synchronously operating high frequency components, which each have at least one signal path in which the phase of the transmitted high frequency signal is varied by a temperature-dependent phase difference. In each high frequency component, a phase detector is connected in parallel to the signal path, which supplies a signal that assumes an extremum at a certain phase difference independently of the temperature, and a phase shifter is situated in the signal path, ith the aid of which the phase difference is settable in such a way that the signal of the phase detector assumes the extremum.
Claims9
A radar sensor, comprising:
- at least two synchronously operating high frequency components, in which each has at least one respective signal path in which a phase of a transmitted high frequency signal on the respective signal path varies along the respective signal path based on temperature, a respective phase shifter being situated in each of the respective signal paths;
- wherein in each of the high frequency components, a respective phase detector is connected at a first end of the respective signal path and is connected at a second, opposite end of the respective signal path, such that the respective phase detector is connected in parallel to the respective signal path, the respective phase detector configured to supply a signal, the supplied signal assuming an extremum in a voltage amplitude at a certain phase difference, the certain phase difference being a difference between a phase of the transmitted high frequency signal at the first end of the respective signal path and a phase of the transmitted high frequency signal at the second, opposite end of the respective signal path, and
- wherein in each of the high frequency components, the respective phase shifter is configured to set, using the respective phase detector, a phase difference between the phase of the transmitted high frequency signal at the first end of the respective signal path and the phase of the transmitted high frequency signal at the second, opposite of the respective signal path in such a way that the signal supplied by the respective phase detector assumes the extremum in the voltage amplitude.
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