Sensor element for opening of doors and gates

• US 8,223,085 B2
• Filed: 11/06/2006
• Issued: 07/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bircher Reglomat AG (Giorgio Behr, PhD)
• Original Assignee: Bircher Reglomat AG (Giorgio Behr, PhD)
• Inventors: Mezger, Klaus, Audergon, Léon
• Primary Examiner(s): DUONG, DIEU HIEN
• Application Number:
  US12/094,781
• Publication Number:
  US 20090313897A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,080 Days
• Field of Search: 343/835, 343/815, 343/817, 343/818, 343/819, 343/833, 343/834, 343/836, 343/837, 340/522, 49/25
• US Class Current: 343/819
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/73 responsive to movement or presence of persons or objects
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/132 Doors
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 19/26 the primary active element being end-fed and elongated

Abstract

A sensor element for opening of doors and gates, with the aim being to allow production of a detection field for identification of people and/or static objects by means of an antenna element, the antenna element is intended to have a flat antenna unit, with a pin-like antenna projecting at least approximately vertically from the flat antenna unit.

Claims

1. A sensor element for opening doors and gates comprising:

an antenna means for producing a sensing field for detecting people and/or static objects, the antenna means has a flat antenna unit, at least one pin like antenna which projects from the flat antenna unit in a substantially perpendicular direction with respect to the flat antenna unit, a plurality of individual row arrangements, each comprising a reflector, an underlying antenna and an underlying director are provided on the flat antenna unit as projecting pins, and wherein the sensing field for a determinable field characteristic can be focused using a plurality row arrangement of a plurality of reflectors, antennas and directors above one another, wherein a distance between individual arrangements is able to be changed and set.

2. The sensor element as claimed in claim 1, wherein the reflectors and the directors are connected to ground.

3. The sensor element as claimed in claim 2, wherein at least one receiving antenna comprising a plurality of pins is formed beside an arrangement of the antenna.

4. The sensor element as claimed in claim 3, wherein the receiving antenna is analogously formed from correspondingly identical pins of the same dimensions, length and diameter as the adjacent arrangement of the reflector, antenna and director, the arrangement of the receiving antenna with its pins, which project approximately perpendicularly from the flat antenna unit, being analogously formed beside the arrangement of the reflector, antenna and director.

5. The sensor element as claimed in claim 4, wherein a broadening of the sensing field can be determined using the number of individual vertical arrangements of rows comprising respective antennas.

6. The sensor element as claimed in claim 5, wherein an opening angle (φ

) and thus a length of the sensing field can be set and determined using the distances between the arrangements and lengths of the reflectors with respect to the antennas and distances between the reflectors and the antennas.

7. The sensor element as claimed in claim 6, wherein a width of the sensing field can be set using the corresponding arrangement of a plurality of rows of the reflector, the underlying antenna and the underlying director.

8. The sensor element as claimed in claim 1, wherein corresponding changing-over between individual adjacent arrangements of the reflector, antenna and director can be switched or changed over with selectable distances and selectable lengths of the individual pins, and different widths of the sensing field can be set.

9. The sensor element as claimed in claim 1, wherein the antenna is in the form of an asymmetrical λ

/4 dipole.

10. The sensor element as claimed in claim 1, wherein the flat antenna unit containing the reflector, antenna and director has one or more receiving antennas in the form of pins.

11. The sensor element as claimed in claim 10, wherein the flat antenna unit reflector and/or the antenna and/or the director is/are oriented at a selectable angle of greater than or less than 90°

to the flat antenna unit.

12. The sensor element as claimed in claim 1, wherein the flat antenna unit is dimensioned for a frequency range of 10 to 100 GHz.

13. The sensor element as claimed in claim 1, wherein the flat antenna unit is dimensioned for a frequency range of 10 to 30 GHz.

14. The sensor element as claimed in claim 1, wherein the flat antenna unit is dimensioned for a frequency range of 24 GHz.