Vehicle-installed sensor cleaning apparatus
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorRyo SATO
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Abstract
A vehicle-installed sensor cleaning apparatus is applied to an own vehicle installed with a vehicle-installed sensor. The vehicle-installed sensor cleaning apparatus executes an automatic cleaning process to clean a detection part of the vehicle-installed sensor by a cleaning liquid when an automatic cleaning condition becomes satisfied. The vehicle-installed sensor cleaning apparatus obtains information on a present position of the own vehicle as vehicle information and performs a changing process to change the automatic cleaning condition, depending on the vehicle information.
Claims16
A vehicle-installed sensor cleaning apparatus applied to an own vehicle installed with a vehicle-installed sensor, comprising an electronic control unit configured to execute an automatic cleaning process to clean a detection part of the vehicle-installed sensor by a cleaning liquid when an automatic cleaning condition becomes satisfied, wherein:
- the electronic control unit is configured to:
- obtain information on a present position of the own vehicle as vehicle information;
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- perform a changing process to change the automatic cleaning condition, depending on the vehicle information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.