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US 12,109,981 B2Granted
Vehicle-mounted sensor cleaning device and vehicle-mounted sensor cleaning system
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsSoya Torii, Kento Hashimoto
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Abstract
A vehicle-mounted sensor cleaning device includes first and second air jetting devices configured to remove adhered material (such as raindrops and mist particles) that has adhered to detector faces of sensors configured to detect information regarding surroundings of a vehicle, and a control ECU configured to operate air pumps of the first and second air jetting devices when a wiper device of the vehicle has been actuated.
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A vehicle-mounted sensor cleaning device, comprising:
- an adhered material removal section configured to remove material that has adhered to a detector face of a vehicle-mounted sensor configured to detect information regarding a vehicle periphery;
- and
- a controller configured to actuate the adhered material removal section when a wiper device of the vehicle has been actuated, wherein
- the controller actuates the adhered material removal section intermittently in a case in which the wiper device has been actuated in either of a continuous wiping mode or an intermittent wiping mode.
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A vehicle-mounted sensor cleaning device, comprising:
- an adhered material removal section configured to remove material that has adhered to a detector face of a vehicle-mounted sensor configured to detect information regarding a vehicle periphery;
- and
- a controller configured to actuate the adhered material removal section when a wiper device of the vehicle has been actuated, wherein
- the controller actuates the adhered material removal section for a fixed time period either each time a wiper of the wiper device performs a single reciprocal wiping action, or each time the wiper performs the reciprocal wiping action an integer multiple of two or more times.
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A vehicle-mounted sensor cleaning device, comprising:
- an adhered material removal section configured to remove material that has adhered to a detector face of a vehicle-mounted sensor configured to detect information regarding a vehicle periphery;
- and
- a controller configured to actuate the adhered material removal section when a wiper device of the vehicle has been actuated, wherein
- the adhered material removal section is an air jetting device configured to jet air toward the detector face of the vehicle-mounted sensor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.