公开(公告)号：US20220229172A1

公开(公告)日：2022-07-21

申请号：US17576657

申请日：2022-01-14

Applicant: THALES

Inventor： Pascal CORNIC ,  Yoan VEYRAC ,  Renan LE GALL

IPC: G01S13/89 ,  H01Q19/06 ,  H01Q19/10 ,  H03F3/24 ,  H01Q13/02

Abstract: An active antenna radar able to produce an image with high angular resolution over a wide angular coverage, the antenna includes a number N of transmission channels and a number M of reception channels, each transmission channel and reception channel comprising an elementary antenna: each elementary antenna comprises a lens or a reflector associated with an array of elementary sources, the sources being configured to illuminate the lens or the reflector and at least the apertures being substantially arranged in the focal plane of the lens or centred around the focal point of the reflector; each elementary transmission or reception source being able to form or receive, respectively, a beam focused in a given direction, the directions being different from one transmission or reception source to another of one and the same elementary antenna; each elementary transmission or reception source being connected to a power amplifier or to a low-noise amplifier, respectively, and to switching means allowing the source to be supplied or not to be supplied with power or the signals from the source to be received or not to be received, respectively.

公开(公告)号：US20240027578A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-25

申请号：US18357075

申请日：2023-07-21

Applicant: THALES

Inventor： Yoan VEYRAC ,  Pascal CORNIC ,  Renan LE GALL ,  Gonzague BERTIN DE LA HAUTIERE

IPC: G01S7/35 ,  G01S13/89 ,  G01S7/03

CPC classification number: G01S7/352 ,  G01S13/89 ,  G01S7/03

Abstract: The invention relates to a radar system comprising:



a frequency synthesizer, configured to generate a modulated local signal (Sf0+Δf0);
at least one frequency multiplier, configured to supply an intermediate-frequency local signal (Sf_inter+Δf_inter) to each emission channel (8) and to each reception channel, the intermediate-frequency local signal (Sf_inter+Δf_inter) being a fractional multiple of the modulated local signal (Sf0+Δf0);
a plurality of emission frequency transposition components, the emission frequency transposition components being synchronized with one another by the modulated local wave (Sf0+Δf0);
a plurality of reception frequency transposition components, the reception frequency transposition components being synchronized with one another by the modulated local signal (Sf0+Δf0), the reception channels being configured to demodulate the intermediate-frequency reception signal (Sf_inter_Rx+Δf_inter_Rx) using the intermediate-frequency local signal (Sf_inter+Δf_inter).

公开(公告)号：US20230417893A1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-28

申请号：US18247868

申请日：2021-09-14

Applicant: THALES

Inventor： Pascal CORNIC ,  Yves AUDIC ,  Renan LE GALL ,  Yoan VEYRAC

IPC: G01S13/42

CPC classification number: G01S13/426 ,  G01S2013/0254

Abstract: A Doppler radar with ambiguous electronic scanning, using an active antenna comprising an array of elementary transmission antennas and an array of elementary reception antennas with the same angular opening. The arrays have the same radiation plane. The transmission array is ambiguous with a number of ambiguous lobes within said angular opening of said elementary antennas greater than or equal to 2. The reception array comprises at least one ambiguous lobe within said angular opening. The arrays are arranged so that the product of the transmission and reception radiating patterns only produces a single main beam within the field defined by said angular opening. The coverage of said angular field by said radar obtainable by:



forming at the transmission antenna radiating patterns that are focused within a field limited to the transmission ambiguity field;
simultaneously forming several reception radiating patterns focused at reception in the ambiguous transmission directions.

公开(公告)号：US20230194698A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-22

申请号：US17920718

申请日：2021-04-16

Applicant: THALES

Inventor： Pascal CORNIC ,  Renan LE GALL ,  Yves AUDIC

IPC: G01S13/89 ,  G01S7/35 ,  G01S13/58

CPC classification number: G01S13/89 ,  G01S7/356 ,  G01S13/584 ,  G01S7/354

Abstract: An imaging method using a doppler radar wherein the pointing direction in transmission (dei) is modified from recurrence to recurrence; each detection block of duration T comprises a periodic repetition of a number C of pointing cycles, each of these cycles comprising a number P of recurrences, the set of these P recurrences covering the De pointing directions (dei) of the set; the order of the pointings is modified in a pseudo-random manner from pointing cycle to pointing cycle during a same detection block so as to create an irregular time interval between two pointings in a same direction; at least one beam is formed in reception on each recurrence in a direction included in the transmission-focused angular domain in the pointing direction corresponding to the recurrence.

公开(公告)号：US20220390592A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-08

申请号：US17762370

申请日：2020-09-24

Applicant: THALES

Inventor： Pascal CORNIC ,  Renan LE GALL ,  Rodolphe COTTRON ,  Yoan VEYRAC

IPC: G01S13/89

Abstract: A radar imaging method using an active antenna comprising N transmission channels and M reception channels, transmitting in bursts of pointing cycles, is disclosed. The antenna covers a given angular range during a detection time unit of duration T, said time unit corresponds to a burst in which the N transmission channels are focused successively in a number De of pointing directions (di) such that: the pointing direction on transmission (di) is modified from recurrence to recurrence; each time unit of duration T comprising a periodic repetition of a number C of identical pointing cycles, each of these cycles comprising a number P of recurrences, the set of these P recurrences covers the De pointing directions (di); at least one beam is formed in reception on each recurrence in a direction included in the angular range focused on transmission in the pointing direction corresponding to said recurrence.

公开(公告)号：US20220146657A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-12

申请号：US17525851

申请日：2021-11-12

Applicant: THALES

Inventor： Yoan VEYRAC ,  Pascal CORNIC ,  Renan LE GALL ,  Gonzague BERTIN DE LA HAUTIERE

IPC: G01S13/42 ,  H01Q3/36 ,  G01S13/91 ,  G01S13/89

Abstract: The invention relates to a MIMO imaging radar system. The system comprises transmission channels (Ve1, VeM), reception channels (Vr1, VrN), and co-located radiating elements (ERe1, EReM, ERr1, ERrN) forming a two-dimensional antenna array. Each radiating element (ERe1, EReM, ERr1, ERrN) has a predefined instantaneous field of coverage. Each radiating element is formed by a plurality of p radiating sub-elements (SeElt1, SsEltp) distributed in at least one of the two dimensions of the antenna array. The radar comprises a plurality of electronic steering modules (MDe1, . . . , MDrN). Each electronic steering module is connected to one radiating element. Each steering module is configured to apply a steering command (Cmd) between all the radiating sub-elements (SeElt1, SsEltp) of a given radiating element. The steering command (Cmd) is identical from one radiating element to the next, so as to move the field of coverage of each radiating element in the same direction.