How it works:

• The laser radar emits a laser toward a preceding vehicle.
• The laser radar detects light reflected from the vehicle ahead.
• It converts the light into electrical signals.
• It calculates the vehicle’s position including distance and angle.

Benefits and Features

• Wider scanning range and less false detection
  • Rotating a polygon mirror with different surface incline angles allows two-dimensional laser scanning at a wide horizontal angle – ± 18 degrees at most.
• Long life and small size
  • DENSO-developed laser diode and reduced sensor window size mean the laser radar is smaller and lasts longer.
• Measurement over long distances to preceding vehicles
  • The DENSO-developed laser diode produces the world’s largest laser power – 34 watts, allowing measurement of longer distances.
• Precise measurement of the distance to preceding vehicles
  • Large scale integrated (LSI) circuit, with newly developed time measurement capabilities, achieves a time measurement of 0.5 nanoseconds (5×10^-10 seconds). This means the laser radar, using the LSI circuit, can detect, with an error rate of only a few centimeters, the distance to a vehicle 100 meters ahead.