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US 12,600,322 B2Granted
Cleaner system
AssigneeKoito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorsTatsuya Inoue, Shota Yonemaru, Kazuhiro Suzuki
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Abstract
A cleaner system includes a cleaner including a nozzle having a jetting port for jetting a cleaning medium to a surface to be cleaned of a sensor mounted on a vehicle, and a control unit configured to control an operation of the cleaner. The nozzle is rotatable or slidingly movable in an operation state of the cleaner. The control unit is configured to change a movable range of the nozzle according to a travelling condition of the vehicle.
Claims13
A cleaner system comprising:
- a cleaner including a nozzle having a jetting port for jetting a cleaning medium to a surface to be cleaned of a sensor mounted on a vehicle;
- and
- a control unit configured to control an operation of the cleaner, wherein
- the nozzle is rotatable or slidingly movable in an operation state of the cleaner, and
- the control unit is configured to change a movable range of the nozzle according to a travelling condition of the vehicle.
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A cleaner system comprising:
- a cleaner including a nozzle having a jetting port for jetting a cleaning medium to a surface to be cleaned of a sensor capable of detecting an object;
- and
- a control unit configured to control an operation of the cleaner, wherein
- the nozzle is rotatable or slidingly movable in an operation state of the cleaner, and
- the control unit controls a movement of the nozzle so as to clean an area corresponding to the object on the surface to be cleaned in a predetermined mode different from a normal mode,
- wherein the predetermined mode includes causing a movable range of the nozzle to be different from the normal mode,
- wherein the surface to be cleaned includes a plurality of areas, and
- wherein the control unit changes the movable range so as to jet the cleaning medium toward only an area corresponding to a position of the object among the plurality of areas.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.