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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2007
Gunther Schaaf, Kornwestheim, DE;
Nils Janke, Ludwigsburg, DE;
Gunther Schaaf, Kornwestheim, DE;
Nils Janke, Ludwigsburg, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A sensor device includes an ultrasonic sensor and a sensor cover in the form of a foil, the ultrasonic sensor having an oscillatory sensor element, which is affixed inside a housing, having an end face, of the ultrasonic sensor, the ultrasonic sensor being able to be accommodated in a recess or bore hole of an external vehicle component, and the sensor element and the housing being able to be covered by the sensor cover on the outside, the sensor cover being mountable directly on the ultrasonic sensor and forming an at least essentially planar surface whose outline is adapted to the outline of the end face of the housing and coincides in an essentially flush manner with the end face of the housing of the ultrasonic sensor, and the sensor cover reflecting light having a color spectrum in the range of chrome color and a reflection capacity in the range of polished chrome.