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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2013.24.9.944

A Study on the Detection of the Rain Using Open-Ended Coaxial Cavity Resonator  

Lee, Yun-Min (Department of Electronic, Information & Communication Engineering., Konkuk University)
Kim, Jin-Kuk (Department of Electronic, Information & Communication Engineering., Konkuk University)
Hur, Jung (Department of Electronic, Information & Communication Engineering., Konkuk University)
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Abstract
This paper is a study of a rain sensor using an open-ended coaxial cavity resonator which senses the amount of rain drops linearly. It shows that it will be used as a sensor to sense the amount of rain dropped on the windshield of an automobile based on the principle of varied resonant frequency and the loss according to the amount and characteristics of an dielectric lied on the open side of a resonator. The input and output ports are built in the both sides of the resonator and the input and output coupling probes are formed like 'ㄱ' shape. The response of rain drops were simulated by the radius of inner conductor of 2 mm, 5 mm, and 10 mm respectively and it showed that the raindrop was sensed most linearly and sensitively when the radius of inner conductor is 5 mm, We have measured that the resonant frequency have varied from 3.55 GHz to 3 GHz and the Q value have varied from 42.38 to 24.3 according to the variation of rain drop amount on the fabricated resonator. Therefore, it shows that the designed resonator can be applied as a rain sensor that measures the amount of rain drops linearly by using the resonant frequency as a measurement parameter.
Keywords
Rain Sensor; Coaxial Line; Open-Ended Coaxial Cavity Resonator;
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