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US 12,576,793 B2Granted
Vehicle
AssigneeIsuzu Motors Limited
InventorsRyo Tatemura, Masato Eguchi
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Abstract
A vehicle includes: a vehicle cabin where the driver sits, a sensor that is arranged below an outside mirror of the vehicle cabin and detects a region behind the vehicle; a sensor arm that is provided separately form the mirror arm supporting the outside mirror and is a support member that supports the sensor; and a support mechanism that pivotally supports the sensor arm relative to the vehicle cabin.
Claims7
A vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle cabin where a driver sits;
- a sensor that is arranged below an outside mirror of the vehicle cabin and detects a region behind a vehicle;
- a support member that is provided separately from a mirror arm supporting the outside mirror and supports the sensor;
- and
- a support mechanism that pivotally supports the support member relative to the vehicle cabin, wherein
- the vehicle is configured to be equipped with mounted equipment at a rear of the vehicle, and
- a protruding length Rp of the sensor protruding from a side surface of the vehicle cabin satisfies:
- Rp≥Δd−C tan θ, where
- Δd is a protruding length of the mounted equipment from a side surface of the vehicle cabin,
- C is a distance from the sensor to the mounted equipment in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and
- θ is an angle between (i) a line connecting the sensor and a rearmost point on a vehicle side within a detection target region at the side of the vehicle and (ii) a line that is parallel to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.
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