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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2022
Magna Electronics Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Norbert Kunze, Diez, DE;
Magna Electronics Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicular lidar sensor module includes a laser unit, a sensor unit, and a cover unit. The laser unit includes a housing, a laser printed circuit board, laser collimators and a first tension spring that urges the laser collimators against respective reference surfaces of the housing. Laser emitters are located at an end of respective laser collimators, which collimate light emitted by the respective laser emitters. The sensor unit includes a holder, receiver tubes, and a second tension spring that urges the receiver tubes against respective reference surfaces of the holder. The sensor unit includes sensors disposed at an end of the receiver tubes and attached at the holder via respective flexible attaching elements. With the flexible attaching elements attached at the holder, the sensors are aligned relative to the respective laser collimators via the respective flexible attaching elements and are fixed in their aligned positions.