EP0000447A1 - Radar reflector - Google Patents
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- The invention relates to radar reflectors comprising at least six corner reflectors divided outwardly of a major axis and more particularly but not solely to such reflectors for use on sea vessels.
- Radar reflectors are employed to improve the radar echoing properties of objects or land formations with a view to improving the detection of such objects or formation by radar scanning equipment. Radar reflectors of this type to be fully efficient should reflect radar waves back parallel to their initial direction.
- Known radar reflections such as the standard octahedral provide a polar reflection which exhibits a considerable reduction in response between reflector lobes and which exhibits a particularly poor response when healed.
- Similar disadvantages occur with the AGA reflector as described in British Patent Number 681 666 in which reflectors are disposed along a single common helical path. In many applications it is advantageous if the reflector is capable of providing reflection of radar signals in any direction and in applications such as in sea vessels it is advantageous if this capability is not badly affected upon heeling of the vessel.
- Corner reflectors, constructed of three sheets of reflective material which are mutually perpendicular, i.e., orthogonal re-entrant trihedrals, are known to provide effective reflection over a range of angles of incidence, with the signal strength decreasing as the obliquity increases, forming a lobe.
- This invention has been arrived at by consideration of the above mentioned requirements and seeks to provide a radar reflector which provides effective reflection of signals received from any direction in a horizontal plane.
- According to the invention there is provided a radar reflector comprising at least six corner reflectors directed outwardly of and disposed helically about a major axis of the reflector along two successive helical paths one of which paths is sinistrorse and the other of which paths is dextrorse.
- The location of the reflectors along two successive helical paths of opposite hand results in a simple and particularly good response characteristic over a desired azimuth and provides a reflector that is still effective when heeled. The corner reflectors are preferably evenly distributed to cover the full 3600 of horizon.
- In one advantageous form of the invention ten corner reflectors are employed.
- A reflector in accordance with the invention may be formed from a strip of radar reflective sheet material folded in alternate directions along fold axes spaced apart on the strip and extending transversely across the strip with two consecutive ones of the fold axes disposed intermediately being substantially parallel and the remaining folds being alternately convergent and divergent in a direction from one edge to the opposite edge of the strip the folds dividing the strip into sections adjacent sections being disposed at right angles and a separator plate being provided between and at right angles to each pair of adjacent sections to form therewith two corner reflectors. The separator plates may be rectangular but rectangular plates having one point cut off are to be preferred, the plate being positioned such that the edge where the point has been removed is remote from the adjecent sections. This cut away avoids interaction with reflections from other ones of the corner reflectors.
- The edge of the strip and/or the cut away point of the separator plates can be profiled such that they have an edge profile conforming to part of the internal surface of a cylindrical housing to permit slidable and secure location of the reflector within the housing.
- In order that the invention and its various other preferred features may be understood more easily, two embodiments thereof will now be described, by way of example only, with reference to the drawings, in which:-
- Figure 1 is an elevational view of a radar reflector constructed in accordance with the invention,
- Figure 2 shows a blank strip for bending to form the reflector of Figure 1 illustrating the bending axes,
- Figure 3 shows horizontal projections of two adjacent sections of the target radar reflector of Figure 1 illustrating angle of twist,
- Figures 4a and 4b are circular and elliptical sections of a stepped helix,
- Figures 5a and 5b are schematic elevational views of opposite sides of a stepped helix,
- Figure 6a is a schematic elevational view of a corner reflector,
- Figure 6b is a schematic plan view of the corner reflector of Figure 6a,
- Figures 7a and 7b are schematic tilted corner views in plan and perspective respectively.
- Figure 8 is a polar diagram showing schematically the construction viewed from above.
- Figure 9 is a predicted polar diagram showing the response of the radar reflector, and
- Figure 10 is a side view of a demountable reflector constructed in accordance with the invention and folded into a flat condition.
- In the drawings Figure 1 shows a particularly advantageous form of the invention hauled up to the cross tree of a mast. The radar reflector indicated generally at 10 is formed of a
strip 10a of radar reflective material e.g. 18 s.w.g. sheet duraluminium or stainless steel. The strip is folded along axes lla, 12a, 12b which extend transversely across the strip in concertina fashion. The folds divide the strip into a series ofsections - A flat strip suitable for folding to form in this case triangular divisions is shown in Figure 2. The chain lines indicate axes at which the fold is to be forwards and the dot and chain lines indicate axes at which the fold is to be backwards. It will be apparent from the drawing that the fold axes in this case are all of the same length.
- The fold axes (12 12b) defining the
centre section 12 of the strip are parallel, the centre section being of parallelogram form. The other fold axes (lla) are alternately convergent in a direction from one edge to the opposite edge of the strip and divide the strip intotriangular sections 11 andend sections 13 of basically trapezium form which end sections are cut away to one side of an axis extending at right angles to their adjacent fold axis to leave only the portion with the shorter side at the edge of the strip. - The folded strip forms a spine having seven sections adjacent ones of which are disposed at right angles. Each pair of adjacent surfaces of the sections is provided with a
sheet metal divider 14 which is affixed thereto by for example rivetting or welding at right angles to both surfaces to form a pair ofcorner reflectors 14a, 14b in the form of orthogonal re-entrant trihedrals which are capable of acting as elementary reflectors. - The radar reflector can be hung from one end from a point adjacent the axis at which the end section is cut away or can be hoisted by a similar connection at each end as shown in Figure 1. The reflector hangs normally by its own weight with the surfaces of the sections inclined, alternately at 4So above and below the horizontal.
- The maximum reflecting capability of a corner reflector occurs along an axis extending equiangularly between the faces of the corner and this axis may be termed the directional axis of the reflector. When the reflector is hung as previously described the directional axes are inclined above or below the horizontal at a constant angle.
- The folding of the strip to form the spine results in an effective twist or change in azimuth of each fold relative to its adjacent one. Figure 3 shows only two adjacent sections to facilitate illustration of the twist which occurs. It will be seen that bisectors of the two sections are disposed at horizontal angles 2 γo to each other. It has been discovered that if the twist is arranged such that the reflectors on adjacent folds are directed with an azimuthal displacement of about 36° then a most efficient "all round" reflection coverage results. The reflected signal strength at a lobe width of 36°, i.e. + 18° from the directional axis, is sufficiently low that overlap of the lobes of different ones of the reflective corners at this level have been found to introduce an acceptably narrow deterioration of the polar response of the radar target reflector due to phase cancellation. Accordingly ten elemental reflectors evenly disposed around a polar axis have been found to give a particularly good polar response. To provide this displacement the angle "γo" should be about 18°. It will be appreciated that in view of the twist the solid angles of the elemental reflectors all diverge radially from two helical axes one of which is sinistrorse and the other of which is dextrorse.
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sections 11 need not be triangular but can be of truncated triangular form that is of trapezium shape. - There now follows a mathematical analysis of the construction.
- The circle in Figure 4a represents a right section of a cylinder in which are contained the stepped helices of a reflector. The trapezium shown is the projection of an actual trapezium of construction on to the circular plane which is normally horizontal. All intersections, dimensions and angles in this plane will bear a zero suffix. The actual trapezium of construction is at 45 deg to the circular plane. Its plane will be an ellipse. 0, W and W' are in both planes because they are on the axis of rotation.
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- Problem: Given ro, γo and x
- (i) Calculate po, q , so, t etc, then
- (ii) Calculate p, q, s, t etc in the tilted plane formed by a 45 deg rotation about axis WW'.
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- q = qo √2
- s = so √2 (see Figure 5a)
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- Definition of the unit trapezium is now complete.
- The position of the separator plates must now be defined. In the circular plane of Figure 4a each is defined by the line UoOoYo. U is at the apex of the two reflecting corners. (Note however U = U , because both are in the circular and tilted planes). Oo is on the cylinder axis (midway) between the intersections of the axis with adjacent trapezia. Yo is located arbitrarily on the UoOo axis at some point within the cylinder envelope.
- Because QS is tilted at angle ε from the horizontal, so the plane of the separator plate will be tilted at angle ε from the vertical. Thus the separator plate will be situated on the tilted plane QSNP at UX where X is on PN (see Figure 4b). On the next PN fold above XYZ, P'N' say, there will be another point X' where the plane of the separator intersects P'N'. However, P'N' will not be in the vertical plane of PN, but another, also vertical but rotated through the twist angle. In fact UX = UX' by symmetry.
- Now calculate the dimensions of the individual reflectors. They are QXX' which has edges UQ, UX, UX' and SXX' which has edges US, UX, UX'.
- Of these edges UQ - US (bisected chord of an ellipse, and so constructed )
- and UX = UX' (see above)
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- A hypotenuse length can now be calculated using the smallest of the edges (15) or (18) and multiplying by √2.
- It has been assumed this far that the stepped helix has been constructed of trapezia with sides QP and SN straight and parallel. In fact they could be extended to the wall of the enclosing cylinder when they would assume an elliptical curvature.
- It can be simply shown that the smaller semi-diameter is on the axis WW' and is r , the radius of cylinder. The major semi diameter is then √2 r .
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- Thus, in Figure 4a direction US is inclined upwards at ε deg " UQ " downwards at ε deg " UOo" " horizontally Each lobe will therefore be inclined at a characteristic elevation, between 0 and ε deg, up or down as appropriate, as determined by its azimuth between the face and edge of the corner (see Figure 6a).
- Recall that the lobe azimuth is at tan
Recall that the lobe azimuth is at tan
provided the plane of edge-to-face-centre is in the plane of the incident radiation (ss Figure 6b). But it is not, S tilted upwards ε deg about axis FU (and Q is tilted down), see Figure 7a. - If S is the projection of S in the horizontal plane, note
- (i) FUS being 90 deg, FUS0 < 90 deg,
- (ii) the angle between the lobe peak and the fold US (LUS in Figure 7b), which was formerly tan
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- Considering the construction of Figures 1 and 2, which I call an ambiorse construction, with the sinistrorse folds Nos: 1, 2 and 3 on top, and No: 1 topmost. The spine before folding is shown in Figure 2. Let us start at fold No: 3 for (ultimate) simplicity. Fold No: 3 defines the azimuth datum, 0°, in the horizontal projection shown in Figure 8, where the construction is viewed from above. Each fold is tangential to the circle, radius xo which is the locus of the corners U. The face of the plate shown in Figure 2 is defined as its 'front' face, and the odd-numbered folds (which are shown as chain lines in Figure 2 and dotted in Figure 8, and which have reference numerals encircled in Figures 2 and 8) are produced by folding the plate forwards for example see fold No: 3, i.e. the front is the face on which the
corners - Adjacent folds are folded in opposite senses (Figure 2), i.e. the plate is folded from top to bottom alternately forwards and backwards, with odd-numbered folds forwards (encircled) and even-numbered folds backwards.
- Going from ("start" in Figure 8) Fold No: 3 to Fold No: 2 up the sinistrorse helix causes a right-hand turn through the twist angle 2γo= 35.8° in this example). Similarly going from Fold No: 2 to Fold No: 1 causes the same 35.8° right-handed turn. These are shown in Figure 8.
- Fold No: 4 is parallel to Fold No: 3, and is of opposite sense. It is the uppermost of the three (Nos: 4, 5 and 6) dextrorse folds forming the bottom half of the whole construction. Going from Fold No: 4 to Fold No: 5 down the dextrorse helix causes a right-hand turn through the twist angle, and similarly again from Fold No: 5 to Fold No: 6 ("Finish").
- The horizontal projection of each pair of corners for each fold is shown in Figure 8 following the construction described above. In the following Table 1 are shown the fold azimuths (left and right, when viewing from behind the reflector, i.e. towards the central axis). Hence the lobe azimuths (left and right) for each fold are given, being K degrees (see Eqn. 22) into each corner from each fold azimuth. The lobe azimuths for the dextrorse helix are exactly at 180° to those for the enantiomorphic sinistrorse helix. The lobe azimuths are shown around Figure 8.
- Thus the whole 360 degrees of azimuth are covered by 12 corners with two overlapping pairs, one corner of each of which can be eliminated as they are at opposite ends of the construction (1L and 6L, bracketted in the Table), leaving 10 lobes.
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- That is to say, the 10 corners are disposed substantially evenly around the azimuth, as indicated in Figure 9.
- An alternative collapsible version of a reflector in accordance with the invention is shown in Figure 10. In this
embodiment sections portions 21 are of similar shaping to theportions 11 and theportion 22 is of similar shaping to theportion 12 of Figure 2. The hinges permit the strip to be folded backwards and forwards in concerting fashion into a small space. The opposite edges of theportion 22 which are hingedly connected toadjacent portions 21 are substantially parallel. The hingedly connected edges of theother portions 21 are alternately divergent and convergent in a direction from one edge to the other edge of the sectional strip. - Each of the
portions separator plate 24 which are hingedly connected to their respective portion alternately to opposite faces of the plate. The separator plates are shaped and positioned so as to be movable into a position at right angles to their respective portion and to permit the adjacent portion to be hinged into contact therewith at which position the adjacent portions are mutually at right angles. A clip 25 is provided which engages the edge of the separator plate and secures the plate in position. The two adjacent portions and the separator plate form a pair of orthogonal re-entrant trihedrals in the same form as Figure 1. - It will be appreciated that this version of the reflector can be folded down for storage in a confined space yet is quickly reassembled for use.
- It is believed that the constructions described fully meet the stringent performance requirements of the Department of Trade Marine Radar Reflector Performance Specification 1977. In particular, since the response for the vertical plane is also extremely good the vertical angle response, so important to maintain reflection during heeling in rough seas, meets the requirement that the vertical coverage, ± 15° to the horizontal, shall not remain below -6dB relative to the 10m2 value over any single angle of more than 1.5°.
- It will be appreciated that more or less reflective corners could be employed and that provided at least six are distributed around a 360 arc, a useful construction may be obtained. Reflectors employing more than 10 reflective corners in which overlapping of lobes at higher signal strengths occurs may well provide useful constructions and such constructions are at present being analysed as their usefulness is influenced by their response at different heeling angles as well as by several other complex factors.
- Although the spine and dividers of the described reflector are formed from a single sheet of material the invention is not restricted to such a construction and any other radar reflective material can be employed. For example, the whole could be moulded in plastics e.g. by injection moulding. Such a moulding could be effected with a moulding material containing particles of radar reflective material so that these particles are embedded in the moulded reflector. Another possibility is the provision of facings of radar reflective material on a plastics moulded construction e.g. by metal plating or metalization. A radar reflector as previously described may be encapsulated or hermetically sealed in a container of for example glass reinforced plastics material.
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US6742903B2 (en) | 2001-07-25 | 2004-06-01 | Francis X. Canning | Arrangement of corner reflectors for a nearly omnidirectional return |
US8928468B2 (en) | 2011-02-10 | 2015-01-06 | Audi Ag | Method and system for line-of-sight-independent data transmission |
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