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US 10,516,813 B2Granted
Sensor assembly
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsVenkatesh Krishnan, Rashaun Phinisee, Andre Sykula
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Abstract
A sensor assembly includes a housing having an airfoil shape and including a pressure surface and a suction surface, a sensor attached to the housing and disposed on the suction surface, and a nozzle attached to the housing and directed toward the sensor. A vehicle may include an exterior panel, and the sensor assembly may be attached to the exterior panel.
Claims20
A sensor assembly comprising:
- a housing having an airfoil shape, wherein an airfoil shape is defined as having an exterior pressure surface and an exterior suction surface and when moving in a direction of travel producing a force perpendicular to the direction of travel resulting from comparatively lower pressure experienced by the exterior suction surface than experienced by the exterior pressure surface, wherein the housing includes an attachment end, and both surfaces are elongated together away from the attachment end;
- a sensor attached to the housing, disposed on the exterior suction surface, and spaced from the exterior pressure surface;
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- a nozzle attached to the housing and directed toward the sensor.
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A vehicle comprising:
- an exterior panel;
- a housing elongated from the exterior panel, the housing having an airfoil shape, wherein an airfoil shape is defined as having an exterior pressure surface and an exterior suction surface and when moving in a direction of travel producing a force perpendicular to the direction of travel resulting from comparatively lower pressure experienced by the exterior suction surface than experienced by the exterior pressure surface, both surfaces elongated together away from the exterior panel;
- a sensor attached to the housing and disposed on the exterior suction surface and spaced from the exterior pressure surface;
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- a nozzle attached to the housing and directed toward the sensor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.