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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022

Filed:

May. 01, 2017
Applicant:

Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);

Inventors:

David Patrick Magee, Allen, TX (US);

Stephen John Fedigan, Plano, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 41/107 (2006.01); H01L 41/09 (2006.01); G02B 27/00 (2006.01); G02B 13/16 (2006.01); G02B 13/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 27/0006 (2013.01); G02B 13/06 (2013.01); G02B 13/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed examples include lens cleaning systems, drivers and operating methods, including a transducer mechanically coupled to a lens, a driver to provide an oscillating drive signal to the transducer and a controller to control the drive signal frequency to vibrate the lens at frequencies in a range of interest. The controller determines a measured resonant frequency of the lens cleaning system in the range of interest according to a transducer feedback signal and selectively performs a lens cleaning operation if the measured resonant frequency differs from a baseline resonant frequency of the lens cleaning system for a clean lens.


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