Motor vehicle with a radar mechanism and procedure for the operation of a radar mechanism

• US 9,304,196 B2
• Filed: 03/22/2011
• Issued: 04/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH (Valeo SE)
• Original Assignee: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH (Valeo SE)
• Inventors: Haberland, Udo
• Primary Examiner(s): Brainard, Timothy A
• Application Number:
  US13/053,402
• Publication Number:
  US 20110234449A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,841 Days
• Field of Search: 342/70
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/343 using sawtooth modulation
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/931 of land vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/9315 Monitoring blind spots
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/93272 in the back of the vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/93274 on the side of the vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/93275 in the bumper area

Abstract

The invention relates to a motor vehicle with a radar device (3, 4) which is designed for detecting an object (25) located in a detection zone (7, 8) of the radar device (3, 4), wherein the detection zone (7, 8) is defined by an elevation angle zone (δ₁, δ₂) and an azimuth angle zone (α), wherein the elevation angle zone (δ₁, δ₂) also covers at least such a partial angle zone (δ₁) which lies within an angle interval of 15° to 90° above a horizontal (33) defined with respect to the motor vehicle (1).

Claims

1. A first motor vehicle comprising:

a radar device for detecting a second motor vehicle located in a detection zone of the radar device,

wherein the detection zone is defined by an elevation angle zone and an azimuth angle zone,

wherein the elevation angle zone also covers at least a partial angle zone which lies within an angle interval of 15°

to 90°

above a horizontal defined with respect to the first motor vehicle,

wherein the elevation angle zone also covers a further partial angle zone,

wherein a power ratio of radar signals transmitted within the further partial angle zone and the partial angle zone lies in a value range of 10 dB to 20 dB, and

wherein the partial angle zone and the further partial angle zone are configured to allow simultaneous transmission of radar signals.

2. The first motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the partial angle zone is covered in an angle interval of 30°

to 60°

above the horizontal.

3. The first motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the further partial angle zone lies within an angle interval of −

10°

to 10°

with respect to the horizontal.

4. The first motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the azimuth angle covers at least a section of a dead angle zone.

5. The first motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the radar device comprises an antenna unit, the directional characteristic of which comprises, in the vertical direction, a main lobe which is horizontally aligned with an accuracy of 10°

and a side lobe which encloses with the main lobe an angle from an angle interval of 10°

to 90.

6. The first motor vehicle according to claim 5, wherein the side lobe of the directional characteristic can be activated or deactivated by switching on or off individual antenna elements of the antenna unit.

7. The first motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the radar device comprises a transmitting antenna unit for transmitting electromagnetic waves, the directional characteristic of which comprises in the vertical direction a main lobe which is horizontally aligned with an accuracy of 10°

and a side lobe which encloses with the main lobe an angle from an angle interval of 10°

to 90°

.

8. The first motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the radar device comprises a receiving antenna unit, the directional characteristic of which comprises, in the vertical direction, a main lobe which is horizontally aligned with an accuracy of 10°

, and a side lobe which encloses with the main lobe an angle from an angle interval of 10°

to 90°

.

9. The first motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the radar device has a receiving antenna unit, the directional characteristic of which comprises, in the vertical direction, a main lobe by which the entire elevation angle zone is covered.

10. A method for operating a radar device in a first motor vehicle, comprising:

detecting a second motor vehicle located in a detection zone of the radar device,

wherein the detection zone is defined by an elevation angle zone and an azimuth angle zone,

wherein the elevation angle zone also covers at least such a partial angle zone which lies within an angle interval of 15°

to 90°

above a horizontal defined with respect to the first motor vehicle,

wherein the elevation angle zone also covers a further partial angle zone,

wherein a power ratio of radar signals transmitted within the further partial angle zone and the partial angle zone lies in a value range of 10 dB to 20 dB, and

wherein the partial angle zone and the further partial angle zone are configured to allow simultaneous transmission of radar signals.