Sensor installation structure
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasayuki Yamaji
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Abstract
A sensor installation structure includes: an exterior panel provided at a side part of a vehicle; an installation surface arranged at a location recessed inward in the vehicle width direction from a general surface of the exterior panel; a connecting surface connecting between a peripheral edge of the installation surface and the general surface; and a surroundings information sensor that detects surroundings information of the vehicle and that is located inward in the vehicle width direction from the installation surface. The connecting surface, in elevating from the peripheral edge of the installation surface toward the general surface, slopes so as to extend outward in the surface direction when viewed from the installation surface.
Claims6
A sensor installation structure, comprising:
- an exterior panel provided at a side part of a vehicle, the exterior panel including:
- a fender panel;
- and
- an additional panel that is attached to an outward side, in a vehicle width direction, of the fender panel;
- an installation surface arranged at a location recessed inward in the vehicle width direction from a general surface of the exterior panel;
- a connecting surface connecting between a peripheral edge of the installation surface and the general surface;
- a surroundings information sensor that detects surroundings information of the vehicle and that is located inward in the vehicle width direction from the installation surface;
- and
- a fastening hole for fastening the surroundings information sensor is formed in a portion of the fender panel which portion is to be covered by the additional panel, wherein
- the connecting surface, in elevating from the peripheral edge of the installation surface toward the general surface, slopes so as to extend outward in a surface direction when viewed from the installation surface, wherein
- the installation surface and the connecting surface are formed in the additional panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.