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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Steven Greendale, Newport Pagnell, GB;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
701300 ; 701301 ; 340904 ;
Abstract
A vehicle obstruction avoidance system particularly for reversing a vehicle towards obstructions not visible in the wing mirrors. A radar head is mounted on the rear bumper, the head including a scanner and sensor. The total range of interest is only a few meters and provides very little time for processing echoes from all range cells in the range. The invention provides a system in which only one range cell is processed with each pulse transmission and the range cell is stepped on for the next pulse.