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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2019
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Masaru Sakai, Shizuoka, JP;
Kazuki Kawamura, Shizuoka, JP;
Akinobu Kubota, Shizuoka, JP;
Masaaki Sato, Shizuoka, JP;
KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle cleaner system includes: a cleaner unit mounted on a vehicle and configured to clean an external sensor acquiring information on outside of the vehicle; an advanced notification information acquiring unit configured to acquire expressway advanced notification information notifying that the vehicle has arrived within a predetermined distance from an entrance of an expressway; and a cleaner control unit configured to, when the advanced notification information acquiring unit has acquired the expressway advanced notification information, control the cleaner unit to clean the external sensor or diagnose whether or not the external sensor needs to be cleaned by the cleaner unit.