Echovista Gmbh

Oliver Simon Matthews

Mincheol Shin

Ole Gustav Johannessen

Steffen Walter

Lars Najorka

An optical monitoring system serves to monitor surroundings, having a monitoring apparatus, the visual or scanning field of which is captured by a lens, and a protection panel () which protects the lens from precipitation and covers at least the visual or scanning field of the monitoring apparatus. In order to avoid the signal quality of the monitoring apparatus being impaired by precipitation on the protection panel, it is proposed that the protection panel () is acoustically coupled to at least one ultrasonic transducer (). The optical monitoring system can be included into the control system of a vehicle for autonomous driving, wherein, overall, it is possible to obtain increased safety of the control system.

Optical monitoring device

A device () for eliminating deposits and/or precipitation on a substrate () comprises at least one transducer () captively connected to the substrate () by a connection layer (), wherein the connection layer () is arranged between the substrate () and the transducer (). The invention provides for the connection layer () to comprise a connection material () and a filling material (). Furthermore, an optical system for environment monitoring comprising an optical monitoring device comprising a lens and/or an observation window and the above device is provided, wherein the lens or the observation window is formed by the substrate.

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