Windshield heater grid
AssigneeTesla, Inc.
InventorsAditya Murthy, Matthew Oswald
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Abstract
A heating grid design for vehicle windshield can include heating element that extends substantially along boundaries of fields of views of vehicle cameras. The heating element can also be arranged to extend substantially vertically across central areas of the windshield and along an outer boundary of the windshield.
Claims14
A windshield for a vehicle having one or more cameras configured to sense through the windshield, each of the one or more cameras having a field of view on the windshield, the windshield comprising:
- an outer layer;
- an inner layer;
- an interlayer;
- and
- a heating element between the outer layer and the inner layer and positioned so as to extend substantially along a boundary of a portion of the field of view for the one or more cameras and portions of a boundary of the windshield.
The windshield of claim 4, wherein the heating element does not extend across a center of the main camera field of view and a center of the narrow camera field of view.
The windshield of claim 4, wherein the heating element does not extend horizontally across a center of the main camera field of view and a center of the narrow camera field of view.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.