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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2023
Aptiv Technologies Ag, Schaffhausen, CH;
Stephen C. Antaya, West Kingston, RI (US);
M. Jarod Scherer, Wakefield, RI (US);
Claudia Schulz, Nuremberg, DE;
Michael E. Wheaton, W. Warwick, RI (US);
ANTAYA TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, Warwick, RI (US);
Abstract
A sensor device includes an emitter configured to emit radiation a detector configured to detect radiation reflected from an object and a cover having an interior surface facing the emitter or detector and allowing the radiation to pass through the cover. The sensor device also includes a heater with a wire-like trace directly deposited on the interior surface of the cover formed of a fluid comprising an electrically conductive material that was deposited onto a portion of the cover and cured. The heater has an electrically conductive connector pad formed with the heater by directly depositing and curing the fluid comprising the electrically conductive material directly on the interior surface of the cover simultaneously with forming the heater. The heater is positioned and arranged to sufficiently heat the cover while not blocking an area through which radiation must pass for proper operation of the emitter and the detector.