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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2001
Klaus Winter, Schwieberdingen, DE;
Hermann Mayer, Vaihingen, DE;
Bernhard Lucas, Besigheim, DE;
Wolfgang Peveling, Backnang, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A motor vehicle radar system having at least one sensor-radiation transparent body for focusing the sensor beam and/or at least one radome without intentional focusing in the beam path, at least one arrangement made of electrical printed circuit traces being arranged in the area of the sensor-radiation transparent body and/or the radome, the arrangement being suitable at least for heating the sensor-radiation transparent body and/or the radome, electrical power being able to be supplied to the electrical printed circuit traces, power control of the supplied electrical power being carried out as a function of operating states and ambient conditions, such that the surface temperature (TL) of the sensor-radiation transparent body and/or the radome does not exceed preestablished temperature values.