SENSOR ASSEMBLY FOR DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS IN MOTOR VEHICLES

• US 20120092499A1
• Filed: 02/25/2010
• Published: 04/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Klar, Michael, Zeller, Gerald, Lucas, Bernhard
• Granted Patent: US 9,229,104 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/148
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/867 Combination of radar systems with cameras
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/931 of land vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/403 in azimuth, i.e. in the horizontal plane

Abstract

A sensor assembly is described for driver assistance systems in motor vehicles, having a radar sensor and a video camera, in which the radar sensor and the video camera are integrated into a common housing.

Claims

1-4. -4. (canceled)

5. A sensor assembly for a driver assistance system in a motor vehicle, comprising:

a radar sensor; and

a video camera;

wherein the radar sensor and the video camera are integrated into a common housing.

6. The sensor assembly of claim 5, wherein a radar lens of the radar sensor and an objective of the video camera are mounted in a housing cover of the housing so that their optical axes are oriented parallel to one another.

7. The sensor assembly of claim 6, wherein a circuit board that is equipped with an RF part and antenna elements of the radar sensor is mounted fixedly on a separating wall inside the housing.

8. The sensor assembly of claim 5, wherein a circuit board that is equipped with an RF part and antenna elements of the radar sensor is mounted fixedly on a separating wall inside the housing.

9. The sensor assembly of claim 5, wherein the housing accommodates an electronic circuit for the fusion of location data of the radar sensor and the video camera.