Surrounding circumstance monitoring apparatus
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYusuke KATAOKA
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Abstract
A surrounding circumstance monitoring apparatus (3) has a housing (31) forming a housing space (31s) therein; and a monitoring unit (32) in the hosing space that monitors a surrounding circumstance of a vehicle, the housing has two housing parts (311, 312) that are bonded to each other via flanges (311f, 312f), a first flange part (311f1, 312f1) protruding upwardly from an upper surface (31U) of the housing is inclined with respect to the upper surface and/or a second flange part (312f2, 312f2) protruding downwardly from a bottom surface (31L) of the housing is inclined with respect to the bottom surface.
Claims6
A surrounding circumstance monitoring apparatus comprising:
- a housing that is configured to form a housing space therein;
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- a monitoring unit that is housed into the hosing space and that is configured to monitor a surrounding circumstance of a vehicle,
- the housing having two housing parts that are bonded to each other via flanges to form the housing space therein, the flanges being formed at housing parts respectively to protrude outwardly from the housing,
- a first flange part that is one portion of the flanges and that protrudes upwardly from an upper surface of the housing being inclined with respect to the upper surface and/or a second flange part that is one portion of the flanges and that protrudes downwardly from a bottom surface of the housing being inclined with respect to the bottom surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.