Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Koito Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

Kenji Furumoto

Takuto Kumashiro

Koji Takeuchi

Hiroshi Tomita

Yoshihiro Katsurada

Eisuke Ikeno

Shinji Takeo

Takashi Unno

A vehicle lamp in which a millimeter wave radar is disposed on an outer surface side of an outer lens covering a lamp chamber. The vehicle lamp includes: a holding bracket configured to hold the millimeter wave radar; and a radar cover configured to cover the millimeter wave radar. The holding bracket is fixed to the outer lens in a state of holding the millimeter wave radar, and the radar cover is fixed to the holding bracket in a state of covering the millimeter wave radar.

Vehicular lamp

A sensor protector includes two stays and a thin-plate shaped separate sheet held by the stays. The stays are provided on a bracket. The bracket holds a sensor and is fixed at a predetermined position to an outside panel of the body of a vehicle covered with a bumper cover of the vehicle. The sheet extends such that, in the sensor attached state, the sheet divides/partitions a space around the sensor formed between the outside panel of the body and the bumper cover into an upper space which contains the entirety of the detection surface of the sensor and a lower space which does not contain the detection surface of the sensor.

Sensor protector

A sensor protector configured including a mount, a plate shaped cover, and an electromagnetic wave shield is provided. The mount is mounted at a bracket configured to fix a sensor, provided at an inner side of a bumper cover, to a body of a vehicle. The plate shaped cover that extends from a lower portion of the mount toward the bumper cover with an end portion of the cover, at an outer side in a vehicle front-rear direction, separated from the bumper cover, and covers a lower portion of the sensor as viewed from a lower side of the vehicle. The electromagnetic wave shield is provided to at least a portion of the cover.

Sensor protector and vehicle equipped therewith

There is provided a sensor protector including: mounting portions that are mounted to a bracket for fixing a sensor, which is provided at a vehicle inner side of a bumper cover, to a body of a vehicle; a covering portion that is plate-shaped, that extends from lower portions of the mounting portions toward the bumper cover, and that covers a lower portion of the sensor; and a weak portion that is provided at the covering portion and makes the covering portion elastically deformable.

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Toyota, Japan

Kenji Furumoto