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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2021
Paccar Inc, Bellevue, WA (US);
Scott M. Conway, Flower Mound, TX (US);
G. Thomas Checketts, Denton, TX (US);
PACCAR Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
Examples of the present disclosure relate to techniques for headlamp heater control. In examples, a headlight assembly comprises a heater, which is used to prevent or remove condensation/precipitation on a lens of the headlamp assembly. Given it may be difficult for an individual to know when to manually turn the headlamp heater on, an electronic control unit (ECU) may evaluate a set of rules to determine when to automatically enable or disable the headlamp heater. The rules may be associated with atmospheric conditions outside the vehicle, the state of the vehicle (e.g., whether windshield wipers are turned on, whether windshield defog is enabled, whether a mirror heater is turned on, etc.), and/or user input received by an ECU of the vehicle, among other examples.