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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2021
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Venkatesh Krishnan, Canton, MI (US);
Michael Robertson, Jr., Garden City, MI (US);
Rashaun Phinisee, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Raghuraman Surineedi, Dearborn, MI (US);
Segundo Baldovino, Novi, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A sensor assembly includes a base, a sensor body mounted to the base and rotatable around an axis relative to the base, a sensor window fixed relative to the sensor body, a sensing apparatus inside the sensor body and having a field of view through the sensor window, a vapor chamber fixed relative to the sensor body, and a heat pipe extending from the sensor body to the vapor chamber. The vapor chamber is spaced radially outward from the sensor body relative to the axis and has a curved shape extending circumferentially around the axis.