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US 2018/0320884 A1Published application
Vehicle light assembly sensing moisture with light reflection
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsStuart C. Salter, Paul Kenneth Dellock, Aaron Bradley Johnson, Stephen Kenneth Helwig, Pietro Buttolo
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Abstract
A vehicle light assembly including a housing, a light source, a lens disposed in front of the light source, a light sensor disposed in the housing outside of light output from the light source directed at the lens for sensing light reflected off the lens caused by moisture, and a heater disposed on the lens for reducing the moisture when moisture is sensed.
Claims20
A vehicle light assembly comprising:
- a housing;
- a light source disposed in the housing;
- a lens disposed in front of the light source;
- a sensor disposed in the housing for sensing light emitted by the light source and reflected from moisture on the lens;
- and
- a heater disposed on the lens and activated based on the sensed light for reducing the moisture.
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A vehicle light assembly comprising:
- a housing;
- a light source disposed in the housing;
- a lens disposed in front of the light source;
- a light sensor disposed in the housing outside of a beam of light output directed from the light source towards the lens for sensing light from the light output reflected from moisture on the lens;
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- a heater disposed on the lens for reducing the moisture.
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A vehicle headlight assembly comprising:
- a housing;
- a light source disposed in the housing;
- a lens disposed in front of the light source, wherein the light source directs light output in a beam towards the lens;
- a light sensor disposed in the housing outside of the beam of light output from the light source directed at the lens for sensing light from the light output reflected from moisture on the lens;
- and
- a heater disposed on the lens for reducing the moisture.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.