Patent ID: 8258997
Filing Date: 2012-09-04
Classification: G01S

Abstract:
1. A radar device for detecting and/or tracking aerial targets fitted to an aircraft, comprising at least: means for emitting microwave-frequency signals; means for receiving signals reflected by a target; computation means; a plurality of antenna systems disposed around the aircraft, an antenna system comprising a set of emission antennas coupled to the emission means and a set of reception antennas coupled to the reception means, each antenna system being dedicated to the coverage of a given angular sector Ω, wherein for a given antenna system, the computation means forming the antenna beam on reception by computational beamforming (CBF) on the basis of the signals received by the reception antennas and the antenna beam on emission is pointed by an electronic scanning system in a number greater than or equal to two directions inside the given angular sector Ω, said antenna system comprising at least: the phase shifters are phase shifters with two states; the orientation of the beam is obtained by binary combination of two microwave-frequency paths of different lengths upstream of power amplifiers; and a phase shifter comprises a delay line and a switch in parallel.