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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2021
Valeo Vision, Bobigny, FR;
Pierre Renaud, Bobigny, FR;
Pierre Albou, Bobigny, FR;
Valeo Vision, Bobigny, FR;
Abstract
The invention relates to a vehicle assembly for a vehicle, the vehicle assembly including a radar sensor having a field of vision and configured to transmit radar waves over a range of wavelengths in the field of vision, and a lens arranged opposite the radar sensor, with the lens being a gradient-index lens and includes a sublayer and a layer of patterns forming a subwavelength-structured dielectric element with a repetition period of the patterns that is less than quarter of a wavelength of the range, and the layer of patterns has a local refractive index which is calculated as a function of a local density of the patterns in the layer.