Sensor protector
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKenji FURUMOTO, Takuto KUMASHIRO, Takashi UNNO, Shinji TAKEO, Koji TAKEUCHI
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Abstract
A sensor protector includes two stays and a thin-plate shaped separate sheet held by the stays. The stays are provided on a bracket. The bracket holds a sensor and is fixed at a predetermined position to an outside panel of the body of a vehicle covered with a bumper cover of the vehicle. The sheet extends such that, in the sensor attached state, the sheet divides/partitions a space around the sensor formed between the outside panel of the body and the bumper cover into an upper space which contains the entirety of the detection surface of the sensor and a lower space which does not contain the detection surface of the sensor.
Claims14
A sensor protector comprising:
- a stay provided on a bracket which holds a sensor and is fixed at a predetermined position to an outside panel of a body of a vehicle, said panel being covered with a bumper cover of said vehicle, said stay being non-separable or separable from said bracket;
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- a thin-plate shaped sheet which is separable from said stay and is held by said stay, wherein
- in a sensor attached state which is a state in which said bracket has been fixed to said outside panel, said sheet extends in a front-back direction and a width direction of said body in an area below a detection surface of said sensor so as to partition a space around said sensor formed between said outside panel of said body and said bumper cover into an upper space which contains the entirety of said detection surface of said sensor and a lower space which does not contain said detection surface of said sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.