Abstract:
An arrangement including a main wave guide flanked by two auxiliary wave guides, all being arranged parallel to one another. Each lateral wall of the main wave guide is formed with a slot, the slots providing openings between the main wave guide and the auxiliary wave guide. The length of each slot is equal to the wave length in air of the wave which is propagated in the main wave guide. One end of one auxiliary wave guide absorbs an incident wave traveling in one direction, and one end of the other auxiliary wave guide reflects an incident wave traveling in the same direction. At its other end, each auxiliary wave guide may have a crystal for receiving energy flowing in the opposite direction toward that other end. The wave guide arrangement may form part of a detection means including a source of microwaves for providing signals traveling along the main wave guide in said one direction, an aerial for transmitting and also for providing signals traveling along the wave guide in the opposite direction, an amplifier chain connected to each of the crystals, and a phase comparator connected to the amplifier chains.
Abstract:
A transmitting and receiving head for a Doppler effect radar detector comprising a rectangular waveguide into which a transmitting and a receiving aerial are coupled and which contains a crystal mixer between the two aerials, energy fed to one end of the waveguide being radiated by the transmitting aerial and passing through an obturator which allows a controlled leakage to reach the mixer for mixing with the energy delivered to the other end of the waveguide by the receiving aerial.
Abstract:
A method and system for identifying a vehicle. An interrogation station transmits a frequency modulated continuous microwave to a vehicle having responder equipment which modulates the received microwave in accordance with an identifying binary code which is decoded at the interrogation station which receives the reflected modulated microwave. The modulation may be further frequency modulated at two different frequencies or may be modulated to give decoded pulses having different widths.
Abstract:
A vehicle presence detector circuit for the control of coloured light traffic signals in which the output of a Doppler radar system, representing the speed of vehicles, operates a relay when the speed drops below a threshold value and the relay is only reset when the speed signal exceeds a higher threshold value.