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US 12,746,794 B2Granted
Systems and methods for thermal management of vehicle sensor devices
AssigneeLG Innotek Co., Ltd.
InventorsKenneth J. Jackson, Dustin Yautz
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Abstract
A method for cooling a sensor of a vehicle, the method including receiving temperature data corresponding to the sensor from a temperature monitor; and in response to determining that a current temperature of the sensor being greater than a first threshold temperature, initiating a cleaning cycle and directing cleaning fluid to the sensor.
Claims16
A vehicle sensor system comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to:
- receive, from a temperature monitor, a temperature of a sensor of a vehicle, and
- in response to the temperature of the sensor being greater than a first threshold temperature when the vehicle is in a safe to clean mode,
- initiate a cleaning cycle to direct cleaning fluid to the sensor to cool down the sensor;
- wherein the processor is further configured to set different rules in relation to the safe to clean mode based on a type of the sensor and a location of the sensor inside or outside a vehicle.
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A method for a vehicle sensor system comprising a memory and a processor coupled to the memory, the method comprising:
- receiving, by the processor, a temperature of a sensor of a vehicle from a temperature monitor;
- determining, by the processor, whether the temperature of the sensor is greater than a first threshold temperature when the vehicle is in a safe to clean mode;
- and
- initiating, by the processor, a cleaning cycle to direct the cleaning fluid to the sensor to cool down the sensor,
- wherein the method further comprises setting, by the processor, different rules in relation to the safe to clean mode based on a type of the sensor and a location of the sensor inside or outside a vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.