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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1998
Behr GmbH & Co., Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a sensor for detecting the direction and intensity of solar insolation, particularly, for controlling an air conditioning system, having at least two sensor elements that, are assigned to the left-hand and right-hand sides of the vehicle, respectively, and are arranged on a respective face whose surfaces are, at least partially, subject to the solar insolation entering the vehicle from the left-hand and right-hand sides, respectively. To provide an improved sensor that is particularly cost effective and can be fitted simply into a vehicle to control an air conditioning system, the sensor elements are designed as temperature sensors and are each connected in a heat conducting manner to their associated surfaces, which surfaces absorb, at least, most of the solar insolation which is incident thereon.