Koito Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

Hiroaki Kimura

Yasuhiro Ichikawa

Akinobu Kubota

Junji Baba

Masaru Sakai

Hiromasa Takada

Hitoshi Hirose

Wataru Mizutani

Riichiro Miura

A vehicular washing device includes: a nozzle (); a flow passage forming body () of which an internal space is a flow passage of a fluid; and a valve () that has a pressing tube part () with an axial direction coinciding with a flow direction of the fluid, is elastically deformable in a direction in which the diameter of the pressing tube part changes, and opens and closes the flow passage according to the state of deformation. A first flow passage () and a second flow passage () are formed as the flow passage on opposite sides of the pressing tube part. A shaft () with which the pressing tube part is capable of coming into close contact is located inside the valve. The valve deforms elastically according to the magnitude of the pressure of the first flow passage or the pressure of the second flow passage relative to an atmospheric pressure.

Vehicular washing device

A foreign matter removal device that removes foreign matters adhering to a lens () included in an in-vehicle camera (), including a camera bracket () that attaches the in-vehicle camera () to a rear bumper panel () of a vehicle in a state in which the lens () is exposed toward the outside of the rear bumper panel () of the vehicle, a high-pressure air generation unit disposed inside the rear bumper panel () and configured to generate high-pressure air, and a nozzle unit provided with a nozzle () that injects the high-pressure air toward the lens (), wherein a through-hole () is formed in the camera bracket (), and the high-pressure air generated by the high-pressure air generation unit passes from the inside to the outside of the rear bumper panel () through the through-hole (), and is injected from the nozzle () toward the lens ().

Foreign matter removal device and vehicle equipped with foreign matter removal device

A foreign matter removal device of the present invention is a foreign matter removal device that removes foreign matters adhering to a lens () included in an in-vehicle camera (), including a camera bracket () that attaches the in-vehicle camera () to a rear bumper panel () of a vehicle in a state in which the lens () is exposed toward the outside of the rear bumper panel () of the vehicle, a high-pressure air generation unit disposed inside the rear bumper panel () and configured to generate high-pressure air, and a nozzle unit provided with a nozzle () that injects the high-pressure air toward the lens (), wherein a through-hole () is formed in the camera bracket (), and the high-pressure air generated by the high-pressure air generation unit passes from the inside to the outside of the rear bumper panel () through the through-hole (), and is injected from the nozzle () toward the lens ().

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 a vehicle. The foreign matter removal device includes a generation unit configured to generate high-pressure air and a nozzle unit () having a nozzle () configured to inject the high-pressure air toward the lens () and an attachment part () formed integrally with the nozzle () and attachable to a housing () of the in-vehicle camera (). A tip end of the nozzle () is positioned with respect to the lens () in a state where the attachment part () is attached to the housing ().

Foreign matter removal device and vehicle provided with same

There is provided a structure for mounting a headlamp cleaner including pistons having a nozzle cover and an injection nozzle at the front ends, and a cylinder for moving the pistons back and forth from a bumper. The cylinder is mounted in the bumper via a bracket having mating pieces which mate with a mounting hole provided in the bumper and positioning projections which are inserted into the mounting hole and used for positioning the bracket with respect to the planar horizontal direction.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Hiroaki Kimura