1. A radar apparatus configured to detect a target, the radar apparatus comprising:
a plurality of antennas;
a detection signal generating unit configured to generate detection signals of the target on the basis of transmission and reception waves of the antennas; and
a detection signal processing unit configured to perform frequency analysis on the detection signals of the target, which are generated by the detection signal generating unit to extract signal components of the target, and to perform a predetermined process on the signal components to calculate at least one of a distance to the target, a relative speed to the target, and an orientation of the target,
wherein the detection signal generating unit includes a filter unit configured to give changes to the detection signals corresponding to the antennas, respectively, in a frequency bandwidth higher than Nyquist frequency which is a half a sampling frequency, and
wherein the detection signal processing unit is configured to acquire the signal components from the detection signals corresponding to the antennas, respectively, to which the filter unit gives the changes to determine whether the signal components are generated by replication due to the Nyquist frequency.
2. The radar apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the filter unit gives changes to at least one of a strength of each of the detection signals and a phase of each of the detection signals.
3. The radar apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the filter unit includes a plurality of filters corresponding to the antennas, respectively, and one of the filters has a different characteristic from another of the filters.
4. The radar apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the detection signal processing unit determines that the signal components are generated by the replication due to the Nyquist frequency when the signal components having different levels are detected at one frequency value.
5. The radar apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the detection signal processing unit determines that the signal components are generated by the replication due to the Nyquist frequency when a level difference between the signal components at the same frequency is a predetermined value or more
6. The radar apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the detection signal processing unit determines that the signal components are generated by the replication due to the Nyquist frequency when a phase difference between the signal components at one frequency is a predetermined value or more.
7. A method of detecting a target with a radar apparatus equipped with a plurality of antennas, the method comprising:
a detection signal generating step of generating detection signals of the target on the basis of transmission and reception waves of the antennas; and
a detection signal processing step of performing frequency analysis on the detection signals of the target, which are generated in the detection signal generating step to extract signal components of the target, and performing a predetermined process on the signal components to calculate at least one of a distance to the target, a relative speed to the target, and an orientation of the target,
wherein the detection signal generating step includes a filtering step of giving changes to the detection signals corresponding to the antennas, respectively, in a frequency bandwidth higher than Nyquist frequency which is a half a sampling frequency, and
wherein the detection signal processing step acquires the signal components from the detection signals corresponding to the antennas, respectively, to which the filtering step gives the changes to determine whether the signal components are generated by replication due to the Nyquist frequency.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An air conditioning apparatus for controlling the temperature of a vehicle cabin, comprising:
(a) an air compressor driven from the vehicle motor
(b) a heat exchanger to dump waste heat from the compressed air
(c) a reservoir to store compressed air
(d) a compressed air powered motor used to drive a refrigerant pump compressor in a refrigerating cycle
(e) a vent for the waste compressed air
(f) a conventional refrigerating cycle equipment comprising a refrigerant pump compressor, heat exchangers, expansion valve and blower unit for providing cooled air to the vehicle interior
(g) an electronic or mechanical control unit.
2. An air conditioning apparatus according to claim 1 which recovers energy during vehicle braking in the form of stored compressed air.
3. An air conditioning apparatus according to claim 1 which utilises stored compressed air to operate the air conditioning system independently of the vehicle’s primary motor.
4. An air conditioning apparatus according to claim 1 with a control unit which controls the amount of power drawn from the vehicle motor by the air compressor in an inverse relation to the amount of power demanded by the driver to accelerate the vehicle.
5. An air conditioning apparatus according to claim 1 with a control unit which controls the amount of load placed on the vehicle motor by the air compressor in direct relation to the deceleration of the vehicle.
6. An air conditioning apparatus according to claim 1 with a control unit which controls the amount of compressed air used to operate the compressed air motor for powering the refrigerating cycle compressor.
7. An air conditioning apparatus according to claim 1 which uses vented compressed air to supplement the efficiency of the refrigerating cycle heat exchanger.
8. An air conditioning apparatus according to claim 1 which utilises the compressed air reservoir to provide supplemental emergency air bag inflation for crash protection.