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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Rainer Pientka, Renchen, DE;
Manfred Burkart, Iffezheim, DE;
Assignee:
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 5/16 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 5/16 ;
Abstract
A sensor device is described for detecting wetting of a windshield that has only one transmitter with which two measuring zones of the sensor device can be implemented on a wettable outside of the windshield. A light guidance body injecting transmitter radiation into the windshield has structures with which the transmitter radiation emitted by the transmitter is collected and parallelized in two different directions.