Cleaning system for a vehicle component
AssigneeVolvo Car Corporation
InventorRaik Orbay
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Abstract
A cleaning system for removal of contaminants from a surface of a vehicle component exposed to a gas or fluid flow, the cleaning system comprising: an excitation device adapted to be attached to the vehicle component in the vicinity of the surface exposed to contaminants, wherein the excitation device is configured to cause the surface to mechanically vibrate by transferring a vibrational excitation to the surface; wherein the frequency of the vibrational excitation is controllable to be based on the configuration of the vehicle component as well as other modelled/measured parameters.
Claims12
A cleaning system for removal of contaminants from a surface of a lambda probe, temperature probe, or heat exchanger exposed to a gas or fluid flow, the cleaning system comprising:
- an excitation device adapted to be attached to the vehicle component in the vicinity of the surface exposed to contaminants, wherein the excitation device is configured to cause the surface to mechanically vibrate by transferring a vibrational excitation to the surface, wherein the excitation device is arrangeable isolated from the gas or fluid flow;
- wherein the frequency of the vibrational excitation is controllable to be based on the configuration of the vehicle component, wherein the frequency of the vibrational excitation is swept through a frequency range comprising a natural frequency of the lambda probe, temperature probe, or heat exchanger.
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