Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Single layer shared aperture beam forming network
- Patent Title (中): 单层共享孔径光束形成网络
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Application No.: US13849321Application Date: 2013-03-22
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Publication No.: US09395727B1Publication Date: 2016-07-19
- Inventor: Russell Smith , Jamal Izadian
- Applicant: Google Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google Inc.
- Current Assignee: Google Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
- Main IPC: G01S13/93
- IPC: G01S13/93 ; G05D1/02 ; H01Q3/34

Abstract:
A radio detection and ranging (RADAR) system that emits radio signals from a transmit antenna and receives reflected signals with a receive array of antenna elements. The signals received at the receive array are conveyed through a plurality of waveguide couplers. The plurality of waveguide couplers receives signals from each antenna element at a plurality of antenna ports and outputs signals from a plurality of output ports. The waveguide couplers convey signals such that the output ports receive signals from associated sub-array sets of the antenna ports. The waveguide couplers have an overlapping arrangement such that a given sub-array set of antenna ports overlaps with a neighboring sub-array set of antenna ports by including at least half of the antenna ports in the neighboring sub-array set.
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