Vehicle object-detection sensor assembly
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsSegundo Baldovino, Haiping Hong, Venkatesh Krishnan, Andre Sykula, Sunil Patil
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Abstract
A computer includes a processor and a memory storing processor-executable instructions. The processor is programmed to receive data indicating a contaminant on a sensor window of a vehicle; determine a combination of an air pressure setting of an air source and a liquid pressure setting of a liquid source to remove the contaminant from the sensor window; and set the air source to the air pressure setting and the liquid source to the liquid pressure setting.
Claims18
A computer comprising a processor and a memory storing processor-executable instructions, the processor programmed to:
- receive data indicating a contaminant on a sensor window of a vehicle;
- determine a combination of an air pressure setting of an air source and a liquid pressure setting of a liquid source to remove the contaminant from the sensor window;
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- set the air source to the air pressure setting and the liquid source to the liquid pressure setting;
- wherein the sensor window has zones and the data includes a location of the contaminant on one or more zones of the sensor window, and the processor is further programmed to determine the combination based at least on the location of the contaminant on the sensor window on the one or more zones to concentrate pressurized liquid from the liquid source on the one or more zones on which a contaminant is located;
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- simultaneously operate the air source at the air pressure setting and the liquid source at the liquid pressure setting.
A method executable by a processor in a computer comprising:
- receiving data indicating a contaminant on a sensor window;
- determining a combination of an air pressure setting of an air source and a liquid pressure setting of a liquid source to remove the contaminant from the sensor window;
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- setting the air source to the air pressure setting and the liquid source to the liquid pressure setting;
- determining the combination based at least on the location of the contaminant on one or more zones of the sensor window to concentrate pressurized liquid from the liquid source to the one or more zones on which a contaminant is located;
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- simultaneously operating the air source at the air pressure setting and the liquid source at the liquid pressure setting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.