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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2020
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Derek Adams, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Daniel Glenn Johnson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher William Labadie, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ryan McMichael, Mountain View, CA (US);
Daniel Miller, San Jose, CA (US);
Peter Thomas Mitros, San Carlos, CA (US);
Anubhav Thakur, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joseph Patrick Warga, San Francisco, CA (US);
Austin In-Jei Yi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
A sensor pod system includes one or more sensor pods with a plurality of sensors configured to collect data from an environment. A sensor pod may include a housing and extend from a portion of a body of a vehicle. The sensor pod housing may have energy absorbing structures configured to absorb and dissipate energy during an impact in order to protect a pedestrian. The sensor pod may have deformable portions of the housing configured to absorb and dissipate energy during the impact. The sensor pod may have deformable fasteners coupling a sensor to the sensor pod configured to deform to absorb and dissipate energy during the impact.