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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2017
Peloton Technology, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Thomas J. Birnbaum, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
James T. O'Keeffe, Newark, CA (US);
Charles A. Price, Los Altos, CA (US);
Joshua P. Switkes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Peloton Technology, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A transceiver antenna assembly for installation in a vehicle side-view mirror to enable communication with nearby vehicles, in which each transceiver antenna may have one or two antenna arrays implemented on a single printed circuit board, protected by an antenna housing used to mount the transceiver antenna inside the mirror assembly. Each antenna array in a dual-channel transceiver antenna may transmit and receive data over one of two DSRC channels. One channel may be used to transmit and receive vehicle data only and the other channel may be used to transmit and receive both vehicle data and audio/video (A/V) data. Each antenna array is connected to a radio in the vehicle that processes received signals and prepares signals for transmission. Such a transceiver antenna assembly, when mounted within the side view mirror assembly of a truck, may be especially useful for communication in truck platooning.