Radar sensor having interference signal compensation

• US 8,860,606 B2
• Filed: 04/19/2010
• Issued: 10/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Himmelstoss, Armin, Klar, Michael, Forstner, Johann-Peter, Binzer, Thomas, Walter, Thomas, Miosga, Klaus-Dieter, Brueggemann, Oliver, Fischer, Alexander, Hauk, Joachim, Steinbuch, Dirk, Jaeger, Herbert, Kolmhofer, Erich, Seiz, Juergen
• Primary Examiner(s): BYTHROW, PETER M
• Application Number:
  US13/259,463
• Publication Number:
  US 20120326919A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,639 Days
• Field of Search: 342159-164, 342/175, 342/198
• US Class Current: 342/159
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/931 of land vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/032 Constructional details for solid-state radar subsystems
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/036 involving a transfer mixer
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/038 Feedthrough nulling circuits

Abstract

Radar sensor having a mixer for mixing a received signal with a reference signal and having a device for compensating interference signals which would overload the mixer, wherein the device for compensating the interference signals has an adjustable reflection point at the reference input of the mixer.

Claims

1. A radar sensor comprising:

a mixer for mixing a received signal with a reference signal; and

a device to compensate for interference signals which would overdrive the mixer, wherein the reference signal is fed to a reference input of the mixer via a coupler, and wherein the device to compensate has an adjustable reflection point at the reference input of the mixer for the reference signal.

2. The radar sensor as recited in claim 1, wherein the adjustable reflection point has an adjustable bypass line.

3. The radar sensor as recited in claim 2, wherein the adjustable bypass line has a plurality of parallel paths of different lengths, each having an interruption point which is to be opened during operation of the radar sensor.

4. The radar sensor as recited in claim 1, wherein the adjustable reflection point has an adjustable branch line connecting the reference input of the mixer to ground.

5. The radar sensor as recited in claim 4, wherein the branch line has a plurality of paths of different lengths, each having an interruption point to be opened during operation of the radar sensor.

6. The radar sensor as recited in claim 5, wherein the interruption point is a laser fuse.

7. The radar sensor as recited in claim 1, wherein the mixer is part of an MMIC.

8. The radar sensor as recited in claim 1, wherein the mixer is a transfer mixer.

9. The radar sensor as recited in claim 1, wherein the mixer is an active mixer.

10. The radar sensor as recited in claim 1, wherein the radar sensor has a monostatic design.