Patent ID: 7202811

Claim:
A radar sensor which emits microwave radiation and receives partial radiation reflected at objects within a sensor detection range, the radar sensor comprising: a plurality of antennas for transmitting and receiving, the plurality of antennas including outer antennas and inner antennas, a transmission power of the outer antennas being lower than a transmission power of the inner antennas; a dielectric lens situated in front of the antennas to parallelize and bundle transmit and receive radiation; and couplers for reducing the transmission power of the outer antennas compared to the transmission power of the inner antennas, wherein: the couplers include Wilkinson power splitters, a power loss of an output received by the antennas and output at intermediate-frequency outputs is substantially the same for all receive channels, the antennas are patch antennas, the same antennas are used for transmitting and receiving, the Wilkinson power splitters are provided in supply lines to the outer antennas at a branching of the intermediate frequency outputs in such a way that two symmetrical connections of the Wilkinson power splitters are connected to the outer antennas and to a transmitted signal source, and a nonsymmetrical connection of the Wilkinson power splitters is connected to mixer diodes.