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Sami A Alkharabsheh

Venkatesh Krishnan

Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam

Segundo Baldovino

Prashant Dubey

Mark Edward Nichols

Raghuraman Surineedi

Sunil Reddy Patil

A vehicle includes a rear window having hydrophobic portion, and a non-hydrophobic portion below the hydrophobic portion. A rear wiper system is mounted adjacent to a top of the rear window and includes a pivotable nozzle and a blower to direct an airstream through the nozzle onto the rear window.

Vehicle rear wiper system

A sensor apparatus includes an upper chamber, a lower chamber adjacent the upper chamber, a sensor contacting and below the lower chamber, and a valve in communication with the upper and lower chambers and openable in response to a temperature at the valve being above a threshold. The upper chamber may include a dome-shaped upper panel.

Sensor apparatus with cooling structure

An apparatus includes a first chamber, a sensor disposed in the first chamber, a second chamber adjacent the first chamber, a filter permitting airflow between the first and second chambers, a chimney connected to the filter and disposed in the second chamber, and a fan positioned to circulate air from the first chamber to the second chamber.

Cooling sensor apparatus

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