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US 11,130,460 B2Granted
Sensor protector
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKenji Furumoto, Takuto Kumashiro, Takashi Unno, Shinji Takeo, Koji Takeuchi
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Abstract
A sensor protector includes two stays and a thin-plate shaped separate sheet held by the stays. The stays are provided on a bracket. The bracket holds a sensor and is fixed at a predetermined position to an outside panel of the body of a vehicle covered with a bumper cover of the vehicle. The sheet extends such that, in the sensor attached state, the sheet divides/partitions a space around the sensor formed between the outside panel of the body and the bumper cover into an upper space which contains the entirety of the detection surface of the sensor and a lower space which does not contain the detection surface of the sensor.
Claims12
A sensor protector, comprising:
- a stay provided on a bracket which holds a sensor and is fixed at a predetermined position to an outside panel of a body of a vehicle, said panel being covered with a bumper cover of said vehicle, said stay being non-separable or separable from said bracket;
- and
- a thin-plate shaped sheet which is separable from said stay and is held by said stay, wherein
- in a sensor attached state which is a state in which said bracket has been fixed to said outside panel, said sheet extends in a front-back direction and a width direction of said body in an area below a detection surface of said sensor so as to partition a space around said sensor formed between said outside panel of said body and said bumper cover into an upper space which contains the entirety of said detection surface of said sensor and a lower space which does not contain said detection surface of said sensor;
- said stay includes a sheet holding part at a position of said stay located below a lower end part of the detection surface of said sensor in said sensor attached state, and said sheet holding part has an elastically deformable claw part and a slit into which said sheet is inserted;
- and
- said sheet has a hole with which said claw part can engage and is configured such that said sheet is held by said stay when said sheet is inserted into said slit and said claw part is engaged with said hole.
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A sensor protector, comprising:
- a stay provided on a bracket which holds a sensor and is fixed at a predetermined position to an outside panel of a body of a vehicle, said panel being covered with a bumper cover of said vehicle, said stay being non-separable or separable from said bracket;
- and
- a thin-plate shaped sheet which is separable from said stay and is held by said stay, wherein
- in a sensor attached state which is a state in which said bracket has been fixed to said outside panel, said sheet extends in a front-back direction and a width direction of said body in an area below a detection surface of said sensor so as to partition a space around said sensor formed between said outside panel of said body and said bumper cover into an upper space which contains the entirety of said detection surface of said sensor and a lower space which does not contain said detection surface of said sensor;
- and
- said sheet is formed from a plastic corrugated board, and said sheet has an outline shape which corresponds to a shape of an inner side surface of said bumper cover in plan view in said sensor attached state.
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A vehicle, comprising:
- a sensor protector, a sensor, a bracket, and a bumper cover, wherein
- the sensor protector comprises:
- a stay provided on the bracket which holds the sensor and is fixed at a predetermined position to an outside panel of a body of the vehicle, said panel being covered with the bumper cover of said vehicle, said stay being non-separable or separable from said bracket;
- and
- a thin-plate shaped sheet which is separable from said stay and is held by said stay;
- in a sensor attached state which is a state in which said bracket has been fixed to said outside panel, said sheet extends in a front-back direction and a width direction of said body in an area below a detection surface of said sensor so as to partition a space around said sensor formed between said outside panel of said body and said bumper cover into an upper space which contains the entirety of said detection surface of said sensor and a lower space which does not contain said detection surface of said sensor;
- said stay includes a sheet holding part at a position of said stay located below a lower end part of the detection surface of said sensor in said sensor attached state, and said sheet holding part has an elastically deformable claw part and a slit into which said sheet is inserted;
- and
- said sheet has a hole with which said claw part can engage and is configured such that said sheet is held by said stay when said sheet is inserted into said slit and said claw part is engaged with said hole.
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A vehicle, comprising:
- a sensor protector, a sensor, a bracket, and a bumper cover, wherein
- the sensor protector comprises:
- a stay provided on the bracket which holds the sensor and is fixed at a predetermined position to an outside panel of a body of the vehicle, said panel being covered with the bumper cover of said vehicle, said stay being non-separable or separable from said bracket;
- and
- a thin-plate shaped sheet which is separable from said stay and is held by said stay;
- in a sensor attached state which is a state in which said bracket has been fixed to said outside panel, said sheet extends in a front-back direction and a width direction of said body in an area below a detection surface of said sensor so as to partition a space around said sensor formed between said outside panel of said body and said bumper cover into an upper space which contains the entirety of said detection surface of said sensor and a lower space which does not contain said detection surface of said sensor;
- and
- said sheet is formed from a plastic corrugated board, and said sheet has an outline shape which corresponds to a shape of an inner side surface of said bumper cover in plan view in said sensor attached state.
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