• Patent Title: Radar device and method of operating a radar device
  • Application No.: US14778097
    Application Date: 2013-03-21
  • Publication No.: US10031210B2
    Publication Date: 2018-07-24
  • Inventor: Hao LiYi Yin
  • Applicant: Hao LiYi Yin
  • Applicant Address: US TX Austin
  • Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
  • Current Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
  • Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
  • Agent Charlene R. Jacobsen
  • International Application: PCT/IB2013/052238 WO 20130321
  • International Announcement: WO2014/147445 WO 20140925
  • Main IPC: G01S7/03
  • IPC: G01S7/03 G01S13/34 G01S13/93
Radar device and method of operating a radar device
Abstract:
A radar device includes a RF signal source, two or more antenna interface units, a feed network, and a control unit. The RF signal source is arranged to provide a RF signal; each of the antenna interface units includes an antenna port and one of the following: an amplifier and a mixer; the feed network includes two or more buffers, each buffer has an active and an inactive state; the control unit is arranged to generate or receive a selection signal which specifies none, one, or more of the antenna interface units as active antenna interface units and the remaining antenna interface units as inactive antenna interface units; the control unit is arranged to activate and deactivate the buffers in dependence on the selection signal so as to feed the RF signal to the none, one, or more active antenna interface units and not to the inactive antenna interface units.
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