Mobile object and method for preventing foreign matter from adhering to mobile object
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsSatoshi Toyoshima, Shiro Oda, Takeshi Matsui
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Abstract
A mobile object is configured to move autonomously. The mobile object includes a sending out unit configured to send out air within the mobile object, a flow path configured to allow the air sent out by the sending out unit to flow, and a sensor configured to detect information around the mobile object, and disposed forward in a blowing out direction of the air blown out from the flow path.
Claims5
A mobile object configured to move autonomously, the mobile object comprising:
- a sending out unit configured to send out air within the mobile object;
- a flow path configured to allow the air sent out by the sending out unit to flow;
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- a sensor configured to detect information around the mobile object and disposed forward in a blowing out direction of the air blown out from the flow path, wherein the sensor includes a curved surface portion on a sensor surface or on a portion connected to the sensor surface, and the flow path is connected to the curved surface portion.
A method for preventing foreign matter from adhering to a mobile object, the mobile object including a sensor with a curved surface portion on a sensor surface or on a portion connected to the sensor surface, the sensor configured to detect information around the mobile object, a sending out unit configured to send out air within the mobile object, and a flow path configured to allow the air sent out by the sending out unit to flow, the flow path being connected to the curved surface portion, and the mobile object being configured to move autonomously based on distance information detected by the sensor, the method comprising blowing the air onto the sensor from an outlet of the flow path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.