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US 10,093,284 B2Granted
Vehicle camera cleaning system
AssigneeThunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited
InventorsJen-Chieh Hsiao, Tai-Te Wu, Yen-An Chen
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AssigneeThunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited
InventorsJen-Chieh Hsiao, Tai-Te Wu, Yen-An Chen
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Various techniques described herein relate to vehicle camera cleaning systems used for cleaning foreign matter off of a camera lens, including, for example, a water flow nozzle arranged to eject water flow, an air nozzle arranged to eject air, and a central controller used to control the water flow nozzle and air nozzle. In certain embodiments, a plurality of sensing devices are used for sensing the conditions of the camera lens, such as an infrared water drop sensor, a temperature sensor, a camera sensing sensor, and the like. The central controller may determine whether there are water drops, ice, snow, or other foreign matter on the lens based on signals received from the plurality of sensing devices, and may control the air nozzle and the water flow nozzle to clean the camera lens based on the foreign matter present.
A vehicle camera cleaning system, comprising:
A method of using a vehicle camera cleaning system to clean a camera lens in the vehicle, the camera cleaning system comprising an air-emitting device arranged proximate to the camera lens, the an air-emitting device being configured to emit air onto the camera lens, a water drop sensor configured to generate water drop sensor information based on an amount of infrared rays received by the water drop sensor, the infrared rays being reflected the by the camera lens, and a processing device including one or more processors, the processing device being configured to implement the method, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.