Littelfuse, Inc.

Mindaugas Ketlerius

Mangirdas Rasiulis

Juergen Scheele

Darius Belazaras

Paulius Alisauskas

Efrem Fesshaie

Paulius Kabisius

Liutauras Soliskis

A rain and temperature sensing module including a housing having a cover plate formed of a transparent material, a printed circuit board disposed within the housing and having a light emitter, a light receiver, and a temperature sensing element disposed thereon, a transparent compound disposed within the housing and covering the light emitter, the light receiver, and the temperature sensing element, the transparent compound filling a space between the printed circuit board and the cover plate, wherein the transparent compound has a refractive index that is substantially equal to a refractive index of the cover plate, and wherein the transparent compound provides a thermally conductive medium between the cover plate and the temperature sensing element.

Automobile rain and temperature sensor module comprising a compound providing a thermally conductive medium between the cover of a housing and a temperature sensing element

Automobile rain and temperature sensor module with transparent compound contacts the transparent cover plate of a housing and particularly encases the light emitter and light receiver disposed within

An optical rain sensor including a plurality of light detecting elements and a plurality of peripheral light emitting elements disposed on a printed circuit board (PCB) and surrounding a central light emitting element disposed on the PCB, wherein, in a first mode of operation, the central light emitting element is configured to emit light beams toward the plurality of light detecting elements, and wherein, in a second mode of operation, each of the peripheral light emitting elements is configured to emit light beams toward the plurality of light detecting elements.

Optical rain sensor

An automobile antenna assembly including a housing adapted for installation on a roof of an automobile, the housing having a base portion and a fin portion extending from the base portion, a radio antenna disposed within the fin portion, and a photo radiation intensity sensor disposed within the base portion, the photo radiation intensity sensor including a first light detecting element located on a first side of the fin portion and a second light detecting element located on a second side of the fin portion opposite the first side, wherein at least a portion of the base portion is translucent for allowing light to be received by the first and second light detecting elements, the fin portion providing a light barrier between the first light detecting element and the second light detecting element.

Automobile antenna assembly with integrated photo radiation intensity sensor

An optical rain sensor for detecting rainfall on a transparent substrate, the optical rain sensor including a housing disposed on a surface of the transparent substrate, a plurality of photo elements disposed within the housing, each photo element capable of being selectively activated to emit light and deactivated to receive light, and a controller operatively connected to the plurality of photo elements and configured to alternatingly drive the plurality of photo elements between a first mode of operation and a second mode of operation, wherein, in the first mode of operation, at least a first photo element is activated and at least a second photo element is deactivated and, in the second mode of operation, at least the second photo element is activated and at least the first photo element is deactivated.

Optical rain sensor with dynamic optical configuration control comprising a plurality of photo elements each capable of being selectively activated to emit light and deactivated to receive light

An integrated rain and solar radiation sensing module including at least two light emitting elements, a plurality of input lenses, wherein at least two of the plurality of input lenses are configured to receive and collimate light emitted by each of the light emitting elements, a plurality of output lenses numbering at least twice as many as the plurality of input lenses, wherein each output lens is configured to receive and focus light that is collimated by at least one of the plurality of input lenses and reflected off of a transparent substrate, and a plurality of light receiving elements, wherein each light receiving element configured to receive focused light from at least one of the output lenses and to convert the received light into an electrical output signal proportional to the received light.

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Kaunas, Lithuania

Mindaugas Ketlerius