Optical sensing device
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsKazuhisa ONDA, Mitsuhiro KIYONO
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Abstract
An optical sensing device includes an optical unit and an accommodating unit. The accommodation unit includes an optical window portion which transmits the projected beam from the accommodation chamber to the detection area and transmits the reflected beam from the detection area to the accommodation chamber. The accommodation unit includes a holding portion which holds the optical window portion from a side of an outer periphery. The accommodation unit further includes an optical partition member which is arranged to partition between the optical unit and the optical window portion.
Claims11
An optical sensing device, which scans a projected beam toward an outside detection area and detests a reflected beam from the detection area with respect to the projected beam, the optical sensing device comprising:
- an optical unit including a light projecting portion that projects the projected beam, and a light receiving portion that receives the reflected beam of which a footprint of an optical path overlaps with that of the projected beam;
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- an accommodation unit which forms an accommodation chamber accommodating the optical unit therein, wherein
- the accommodation unit includes:
- an optical window portion which transmits the projected beam from the accommodation chamber to the detection area and transmits the reflected beam from the detection area to the accommodation chamber;
- a holding portion which holds the optical window portion from a side of an outer periphery;
- and
- an optical partition member, in which a reflectance rate to the projected beam is lower than that of the holding portion on a side of the optical window portion and an absorptance rate to the projected beam is higher than that of the holding portion on a side of the optical window portion, is arranged to partition between the optical unit and the optical window portion, wherein
- the light receiving portion includes a light-receiving lens system guiding the reflected beam which is formed with a large diameter protruding toward a side of the optical window portion more than a light-projecting lens system guiding the projected beam in the light projecting portion, and wherein
- the optical partition member includes a deflection structure which is deflected to a side of the optical window portion 16 at a location next to the light-receiving lens system more than a location next to the light-projecting lens system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.