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US 2023/0264656 A1Published application
Lamp de-icing system
AssigneeValeo North America, Inc.
InventorsMinesh Chaudhari, John Orisich
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Abstract
A lamp de-icing system comprising: one or more heating layers configured to heat one or more regions of a lens of a vehicle; one or more temperature sensors that detect an ambient temperature around the vehicle; one or more humidity sensors that detect an ambient relative humidity around the vehicle; and one or more proximity sensors that detect if precipitation is present on the lens of the vehicle.
Claims20
A lamp de-icing system comprising:
- one or more heating layers configured to heat one or more regions of a lens of a vehicle;
- one or more temperature sensors that detect an ambient temperature around the vehicle;
- one or more humidity sensors that detect an ambient relative humidity around the vehicle;
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- one or more proximity sensors that detect if precipitation is present on the lens of the vehicle.
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A method comprising:
- a. monitoring one or more temperature sensors and determining an ambient temperature;
- b. monitoring one or more humidity sensors and determining an ambient relative humidity;
- c. evaluating the ambient temperature;
- d. evaluating the ambient relative humidity;
- e. determining a likelihood that precipitation will form on a lens of a vehicle;
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- f. activating a lamp de-icing system in communication with a lens of the vehicle if the step of determining determines that it is likely that precipitation will form on the lens of the vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.