- Patent Title: Millimeter-wave dielectric lens antenna and speed sensor using same
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Application No.: US14654703Application Date: 2013-12-13
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Publication No.: US09766330B2Publication Date: 2017-09-19
- Inventor: Hideyuki Nagaishi , Takafumi Matsumura
- Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Hitachinaka-shi
- Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hitachinaka-shi
- Agency: Crowell & Moring LLP
- Priority: JP2013-025107 20130213
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/083417 WO 20131213
- International Announcement: WO2014/125716 WO 20140821
- Main IPC: G01S13/93
- IPC: G01S13/93 ; G01S13/60 ; H01Q1/38 ; H01Q1/42 ; H01Q15/08 ; H01Q19/09 ; G01S7/03 ; G01S7/02 ; G01S13/87

Abstract:
A speed sensor which aligns a normal direction of one patch antenna which is disposed on a mounted board, and an optical axis of a dielectric lens uses a frame for inclining a sensor module, in order to obtain a component cos θ in a traveling direction when the speed sensor is installed on a horizontally vertical surface of an automobile or a railway car. When beams are condensed by using the one patch antenna and the cannonball-shaped dielectric lens, the dielectric lens is inclined and a bottom surface portion of the lens is cut with a plane parallel with a surface of the antenna-mounted board. The one patch antenna is configured by one patch and a GND electrode and the gain center of radiation characteristics is a normal direction of the antenna board. However, the radiation characteristics have a substantially hemisphere surface wave shape.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150346334A1 Millimeter-Wave Dielectric Lens Antenna and Speed Sensor Using Same Public/Granted day:2015-12-03
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