DEVICE FOR MONITORING PERIPHERY OF VEHICLE

• Main Author: ASAYAMA YOSHIAKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 11.05.2001
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASURING; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS; MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEARDIMENSIONS; PHYSICS; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; TESTING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for monitoring the periphery of a vehicle surely monitoring the periphery of driver's own vehicle without any influence of the surrounding environment around the vehicle or interference with a periphery monitoring device of another vehicle. SOLUTION: This periphery monitoring device is provided with a first optical monitoring means 4 monitoring the forward area of a vehicle 1, a first radar monitoring means 2 having a monitoring area overlapping that of the first optical monitoring means 4, a second optical monitoring means 8 monitoring a backward area of the vehicle 1, a second radar monitoring means 6 having a monitoring area overlapping that of the second optical monitoring means 8, third and fourth optical monitoring means 10, 13 monitoring both sides of the vehicle respectively, third and fourth radar monitoring means 16, 18 having monitoring areas overlapping those of the third and fourth optical monitoring means 10, 13 individually, and a controlling means 20 controlling the respective monitoring means. The first, second, third and fourth radar monitoring means 2, 6, 16, 18 are constituted of distance detecting means of varied detection system different from each other.