Koito Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

Honda Access Corporation

Akinobu Kubota

Yasuhiro Ichikawa

Kazuki Kawamura

Masaaki Sato

Masayuki Kondo

Masaru Sakai

Junji Baba

Hikaru Nagai

Hiroaki Kimura

Takayuki Kato

Naoki Tatara

Shigeyuki Watanabe

Toshihiro Okamura

Takayoshi Mochizuki

Takao Muramatsu

Kazuhiro Suzuki

Yuichi Watano

Toshihisa Hayami

Yuichi Nakazawa

Yoshiaki Fushimi

Takahiro Matsunaga

Yusuke Funami

Takahiro Mitsunari

Takumi Yonezawa

Yoshio Ito

Kazuki Hikawa

Takanori Haraki

Taishi Hachiya

An electromagnetic valve includes a flow path forming portion, and a solenoid housing. The flow path forming portion includes a first component and a second component. The solenoid housing, the first component, and the second component are arranged in this order in the axial direction. The first component is provided with a connection portion. The solenoid housing and the second component are provided with supporting portions. Each of the supporting portions includes a first lock portion. When a first end portion and a second end portion are defined on at least one of sides of the first component that is present in a cross section passing through the connection portion, the first lock portion is located on a first end portion side, and a space through which the connection portion passes is provided from the first lock portion to a second end portion side.

Electromagnetic valve

A camera unit is configured to capture an image of an outside area of a vehicle. A translucent cover covers the camera unit. A first air cleaner is configured to jet gas toward an area on the translucent cover located within an angle of view of the camera unit. The first cleaner is located above the area in an up-down direction of the vehicle.

Image capturing device and lamp device

A vehicle cleaner system includes a cleaner unit discharges a cleaning fluid toward a cleaning target mounted on a vehicle; a motor pump supplies the cleaning fluid to the cleaner unit; a normally closed type solenoid valve provided between the cleaner unit and the motor pump and switches between permission and non-permission of movement of the cleaning fluid from the motor pump to the cleaner unit; and a cleaner control unit controls the motor pump and the solenoid valve. The cleaner control unit sets an operation stop time period for stopping an operation of at least one of the motor pump and the solenoid valve, and after the cleaning fluid is discharged to the cleaning target, stops the operation of at least one of the motor pump and the solenoid valve during the operation stop time period based on a predetermined condition.

Vehicle cleaner system

A vehicle cleaner unit is configured to clean a cleaning object mounted near a bumper or a grille of a vehicle. The vehicle cleaner unit includes a blower configured to be attached to a rear surface of the bumper or the grille. The bumper or the grille is provided with an air outlet for jetting air blown from the blower toward the cleaning object.

Vehicle cleaner unit and vehicle cleaner system

A camera module shoots a satisfactory image by suppressing the adherence of water droplets to a part in a light transmitting cover through which imaging light is transmitted. Provided are an outer casing comprising a housing having an opening and a light transmitting cover for closing the opening; and a camera module arranged inside the outer casing. A part of the light transmitting cover is provided as a transmission window through which imaging light incident on the camera module is transmitted and a restriction part for restricting the inflow of water droplets toward the transmission window is provided to the light transmitting cover.

Imaging device for vehicle, lighting device for vehicle and foreign substance removal system for vehicle

A vehicle cleaner system are mounted on an autonomous driving vehicle including a vehicle control unit capable of selectively executing an autonomous driving mode and a manual driving mode. The vehicle cleaner system includes: a cleaner unit configured to clean an external sensor; and a cleaner control unit configured to control the cleaner unit. When the vehicle control unit switches from the manual driving mode to the autonomous driving mode, the vehicle control unit is configured such that, after the cleaner control unit causes the cleaner unit to clean the external sensor or after a diagnosis is performed to ascertain whether or not the external sensor needs to be cleaned, the manual driving mode is switched to the autonomous driving mode.

Of the moving directions of the piston, the direction in which high-pressure air is delivered is a delivery direction, and the direction in the opposite direction from the delivery direction is a force accumulation direction. The piston is moved in the force accumulation direction by the moving mechanism, and moved in the delivery direction by the biasing force of the biasing spring in response to the release of the moving force exerted by the moving mechanism. The cylinder is provided with: a piston supporting portion that supports the piston; and a connection protrusion that has a delivery path for delivering the high-pressure air to the nozzle. The inner surface of an end of the piston supporting portion in the delivery direction is formed as a closed surface. The delivery path is located further toward the force accumulation direction than the closed surface is.

Foreign body removal device and drive device for foreign body removal device

A vehicle cleaner system includes: a cleaner unit configured to be mounted on a vehicle and to discharge a cleaning liquid to an external sensor that acquires information outside the vehicle so as to clean the external sensor; and a cleaner control unit configured to control the cleaner unit. The cleaner control unit is configured to acquire vehicle speed information related to a traveling speed of the vehicle, and control the cleaner unit such that at least one of a discharge amount of the cleaning liquid, a discharge amount of the cleaning liquid per unit time, the number of times of discharge of the cleaning liquid, the number of times of discharge of the cleaning liquid per unit time, and a discharge time of the cleaning liquid varies according to the vehicle speed information.

Vehicle cleaner system, vehicle system, cleaning method performed by vehicle cleaner system, and vehicle cleaner control device

A vehicular cleaner system () for cleaning a to-be-cleaned object (), wherein: the vehicular cleaner system () is provided with a tank () that accommodates a cleaning liquid, a pump () that pressure-feeds the cleaning liquid inside the tank (), a high-pressure-air generation unit () that generates high-pressure air, a first ejection port that sprays the cleaning liquid toward a cleaning surface of the to-be-cleaned object (), a second ejection port that sprays the high-pressure air toward the cleaning surface, and a controller () and vehicle ECU () that control the spraying of the cleaning liquid and the spraying of the high-pressure air; and the controller () and the vehicle ECU () perform control so as to initiate the spraying of the high-pressure air from the second ejection port after spraying of the cleaning liquid from the first ejection port has been initiated.

Vehicular cleaner system, vehicle having vehicular cleaner system, vehicular cleaner and vehicle having vehicular cleaner

A vehicle cleaner system that includes a single pump and a plurality of cleaners which are connected to the single pump and clean different cleaning target objects with a cleaning medium is disclosed. The cleaning target objects include a sensor which detects information on outside of a vehicle and a cleaner control unit which operates the plurality of cleaners in accordance with input of a signal. The cleaner control unit is capable of operating the plurality of cleaners such that cleaning methods of the plurality of cleaners are different from each other.

Vehicle cleaner system and vehicle including vehicle cleaner system

A foreign matter removal device () is configured to remove foreign matters on a lens () of an in-vehicle camera () attached to a vehicle so that the lens () of the in-vehicle camera () is exposed toward an outside of a body panel of the vehicle. The foreign matter removal device includes a single-cylinder type reciprocating pump () configured to generate high-pressure air and a nozzle () configured to inject the high-pressure air toward the lens (). A volume of an internal space of the pump is 10 cmor less. Exhaust time (t) per cycle required for exhausting the air in the internal space is 0.03 seconds or less.

Foreign material removing device and vehicle provided with this foreign material removing device

A cleaner for cleaning an object to be cleaned includes a generation unit configured to generate high-pressure air, a nozzle configured to inject the high-pressure air toward a cleaning surface of the object to be cleaned, and a control unit configured to control an injection of the high-pressure air. Even when foreign objects do not adhere to the cleaning surface, the control unit executes an operation mode in which the high-pressure air is generated and injected when a predetermined condition is satisfied.

Cleaner, sensor with cleaner, and vehicle including cleaner or sensor with cleaner

A vehicle cleaner system includes: a cleaner unit mounted on a vehicle and configured to clean an external sensor acquiring information on outside of the vehicle; an advanced notification information acquiring unit configured to acquire expressway advanced notification information notifying that the vehicle has arrived within a predetermined distance from an entrance of an expressway; and a cleaner control unit configured to, when the advanced notification information acquiring unit has acquired the expressway advanced notification information, control the cleaner unit to clean the external sensor or diagnose whether or not the external sensor needs to be cleaned by the cleaner unit.

Vehicle cleaner system and vehicle system

This vehicle cleaner unit, for cleaning a to-be-cleaned object mounted on the vehicle, is provided with: a single motor; a single pump comprising a cylinder which extends in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle cleaner unit and into which air is introduced, and a piston which can carry out linear motion in the longitudinal direction inside of the cylinder and which blows air to outside of the vehicle cleaning unit at high pressure; a biasing spring which biases the piston to a first side in the longitudinal direction; and a single worm mechanism which transmits rotary motion of the motor to cause the piston to carry out linear motion to the second side opposite of the first side. The rotation axis of the motor and the longitudinal direction are parallel, and the motor and the pump are positioned on the same side of the worm mechanism in the longitudinal direction.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Akinobu Kubota